Reverse engineering Wordle
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Reverse engineering Wordle
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Re: Reverse engineering Wordle
#2A word of warning for anyone inspecting the Wordle source code: the answers for each day are stored in a list ordered by day. If you search for today's answer, the next word in the list will be tomorrow's answer, etc. Be careful not to ruin the fun by seeing tomorrow's answer in advance!
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#3I figured that was possible; from the UX it was pretty clear it’s all client side.
What I would find cool is derivation of the best strategy at any time. Just like blackjack, there should be a “best” move at all times , and it would be cool to measure yourself against that
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#4This was good while my wife and I were in the same time zone: we compared guesses and how we got there. Now that she's a day ahead, we can't do that right now (we found this out when she accidentally did a spoiler).
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#5I guess I wasn't the only person who tried to reverse engineer wordle because they were stuck on the final try.
I thought I would do a programmatic soltion because that was the only win I will be able to get. I did find it interesting that they had all the 5 letter words in the frontend logic.
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#6This is brilliant
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#7> It seems like many of the variables are given names that are not descriptive at all to make it a bit more difficult to read.
The code is just minimized for prod..
The article as written makes it sound like the developer(s) intentionally wrote their code cryptically, whereas minimization for deployment is fairly standard practice
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#8how long before this is ported to IOS and becomes the #1 grossing game? I'm thinking ketchapp is already on it.
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#9I just hope the wordle developers manage to cash in on their going-viral jackpot without losing it to copycats or spoiling the experience for players.
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#10I figured that was possible; from the UX it was pretty clear it’s all client side. What I would find cool is derivation of the best strategy at any time. Just like blackjack, there should be a “best” move at all times , and it would be cool to measure yourself against that
I think there’s been a few of those on hacker news. Let me dig one up