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Posted by Hbruz0 19 hours ago

Don't Wordle(dontwordle.com)
336 points | 118 commentspage 3
netsharc 18 hours ago|
I'd enjoy it if the rules with some graphics are displayed near the game, for newbies.

e.g. show a word with some green letters and that they have to be in the same spot in the other word. e.g. FUBAR with green B -> __B__

FUBAR with yellow R -> RRRR_ (with gray background and white R to signify "has to be placed somewhere here")

And for the gray letters, I guess.. show them next to the _____ in a trash can?

nullzzz 15 hours ago||
The ads, the banners. Immediate exit.
theideaofcoffee 14 hours ago|
Do you even adblock, bro.
embedding-shape 18 hours ago||
This is amazing, and incredible difficult (or I'm terrible), after ~10 minutes I can't even get in a third guess!
theanonymousone 18 hours ago||
I hope NYT lawyers don't come for you. They did for many other variants of this. Maybe reconsider the name?
lugao 18 hours ago|
Do they go after people using similar names or just any game with similar mechanics?
xigoi 15 hours ago|||
IIUC, game mechanics are not copyrightable.
mh- 17 hours ago|||
Just the trademark, that I've seen.
catoc 13 hours ago||
I had to deny hundreds of tracking “partners” wanting to place cookies - without a ‘reject all’ option - before I could even access the website…

So Don’t Access Don’t Wordle

noahlt 16 hours ago||
This is a great demonstration of why Wordle’s Hard Mode is actually easier.
calfuris 7 hours ago||
It puts a floor on the player's skill. That's not the same as being easier. There are game states that are certainly winnable without hard mode rules but do not allow the player to force a win in hard mode.
stanmancan 15 hours ago||
My problem with hard mode is it leaves a lot up to luck. If it was 3 letters and ended in “at” it could be pat, mat, bat, hat, cat, rat, sat, etc. so all you can do is to pick one and hope for the best.
MDTHLN 18 hours ago||
This is quite fun, but I can’t believe the amount of cookies it wants to set!
whstl 18 hours ago|
I had my ad blocker turned off temporarily and it was a strange experience.
tfrancisl 16 hours ago||
Clicked expecting commentary on why playing NYTs wordle, and perhaps other games, was problematic for some reason. Found a game instead.
Folcon 18 hours ago||
Is the word list complete?

I tried WEIRD and it rejected it as not a word

zabzonk 18 hours ago|
that "i before e except after c" rule often gets taken too seriously
LuminousWzrd 18 hours ago|||
Oh I've messed that one up before
bigfishrunning 18 hours ago|||
i think it's kind of beautiful that weird is a weird word
hnlmorg 17 hours ago||
Isn’t there more exceptions to that rule than there are examples where it’s correct?
MarkusQ 17 hours ago|||
Yep, at least on most static word lists.

It's a fun exercise to try and improve the rule by extending it compared to just switching to "E before I".

xigoi 14 hours ago|||
Only if you forget the final part, “…when it sounds like ‘ee’”.
hnlmorg 11 hours ago||
That’s a recent addendum and is far from universally taught.
rhplus 14 hours ago|
I sense this is not winnable for all Wordle dictionary words. Is that provably the case?
dontwordle 12 hours ago|
There are actually a very large number of solutions for every word. I once wrote an algorithm to enumerate all possible solutions for a given word and I was surprised at the results.
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