Don't Wordle

(dontwordle.com)

94 points | by Hbruz0 1 hour ago

21 comments

  • amiga386 11 minutes ago
    12935 -> TIZZY (5625) -> OXBOW (2674) -> GRUFF (858) -> MAMMA (195) and I'll let you guess the rest but the next choice left 43 words, and I survived with only 4 words possible.

    The rules not letting use a letter you know isn't in the target word drastically cuts your choices, your best bet is to use as few unique letters per word as you can, and as uncommon letters as you can, but as all normal words need vowels you'll be forced into only picking a vowel from the target word soon enough. Try to find letters that are in the word as late as possible so you're not locked into having to use them.

    Once you are forced to use letters from the target word, avoid placing them in the right place. Sadly there's a rule not letting you use a known letter more than once in a word (once A is known, you can't write ALPHA), and a rule for not letting you put a known letter in a place you know it doesn't go (so after MAMMA, you can't have HALVE because you know there's not an A in second place, nor ALPHA because you know there's not an A in fifth place).

  • Angostura 35 minutes ago
    If you enjoy clicking things you can spend hours in their cookie consent boxes untickinv the several hundred individual ‘legitimate interest’ tick boxes for individual vendors
    • gear54rus 30 minutes ago
      Ublock seems to work with this one.
  • flexie 48 minutes ago
    We are asked to allow hundreds of cookies, not just a few, to play the game.
    • Madmallard 15 minutes ago
      yes top of hacker news and loaded with tracking information and a popular game so likely to garner lots of attention
      • inigyou 5 minutes ago
        What website isn't?

        The most shocking part is that Americans care about appearing to follow GDPR, for some reason. For example, HN blatantly doesn't comply and doesn't plan to.

  • rylando 57 minutes ago
    Well this sure makes Wordle feel a lot easier!
    • whoisnjogu 50 minutes ago
      and I still can't believe it took me more than 3 guesses
  • grocery_stores 51 minutes ago
    One thing I find odd about the rules: it forces you to respect what you've learned via green or yellow tiles, but not gray tiles. The spirit of the rules suggests once you've learned a letter is not in the word, you shouldn't be able to reuse that letter. Perhaps that would simply make the game too difficult, though.
    • kevsim 50 minutes ago
      It didn't let me guess things that had already been eliminated with gray tiles.
    • pbronez 37 minutes ago
      It does - you can type them but it rejects the word when you submit it.

      I think this DOES make it way harder than regular wordle.

    • ChrisRR 49 minutes ago
      Isn't that rule 3?
  • hollylawly 51 minutes ago
    Of course the one time I get it in 2 guesses is in this version
    • bonzini 32 minutes ago
      Got to the sixth attempt, 2 words remaining, of course I picked the right one.
      • stavros 24 minutes ago
        I picked the right one out of twelve.
        • amiga386 0 minutes ago
          Having 12 options possible on the last guess is actually very good.
  • lucideer 19 minutes ago
    I tried playing this as if its wordle & got it in 2 guesses. How do they do this ??? That's next to impossible in wordle & the probalities seem like they should be the same?
  • huhtenberg 42 minutes ago
    Some of the suggested plays for yellow EA and green H after the first guess:

        ALMEH
        BEKAH
        BELAH
        DEASH
        OBEAH
        SELAH
    
    Not much fun to play with a dictionary like this :-/
  • netsharc 40 minutes 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?

  • MDTHLN 53 minutes ago
    This is quite fun, but I can’t believe the amount of cookies it wants to set!
    • whstl 51 minutes ago
      I had my ad blocker turned off temporarily and it was a strange experience.
  • theanonymousone 49 minutes ago
    I hope NYT lawyers don't come for you. They did for many other variants of this. Maybe reconsider the name?
    • lugao 45 minutes ago
      Do they go after people using similar names or just any game with similar mechanics?
  • embedding-shape 57 minutes ago
    This is amazing, and incredible difficult (or I'm terrible), after ~10 minutes I can't even get in a third guess!
  • intrasight 37 minutes ago
    What does "you have already eliminated the letter T" mean?
    • codechicago277 31 minutes ago
      You already guessed a word that had a “T” in it, and the game confirmed that “T” is not in the word. So you can’t guess another word with a “T”.
    • astura 32 minutes ago
      The word doesn't contain the letter T.

      It means you previously guessed a word with T in it and it wasn't marked at green (correct spot) or yellow (word contains letter in different spot).

  • Folcon 38 minutes ago
    Is the word list complete?

    I tried WEIRD and it rejected it as not a word

    • zabzonk 24 minutes ago
      that "i before e except after c" rule often gets taken too seriously
      • bigfishrunning 15 minutes ago
        i think it's kind of beautiful that weird is a weird word
      • LuminousWzrd 18 minutes ago
        Oh I've messed that one up before
  • lugao 46 minutes ago
    It is too hard to be fun :P
  • luciana1u 38 minutes ago
    finally a game that respects that I already know all five-letter words and would rather be told not to use them
  • mda 30 minutes ago
    I see that terrible cookie permission window (62 legitimate interest) and I close the window,
  • phren0logy 23 minutes ago
    Be happ-ole? (Insert whistling)
  • massimodeluisa 54 minutes ago
    Ahahhaha funny! xD
  • GNR_Radio 48 minutes ago
    [dead]
  • burnt-resistor 40 minutes ago
    The goal isn't explained clearly and simply enough.
    • pasc1878 30 minutes ago
      The goal is to get mony from clicks in "legitimate interest"

      What is legitimate here. You and the site why does any third party have an interest?