Don't Wordle

(dontwordle.com)

102 points | by Hbruz0 1 hour ago

22 comments

  • amiga386 26 minutes ago
    12935 -> TIZZY (5625) -> OXBOW (2674) -> GRUFF (858) -> MAMMA (195) and I'll let you guess the rest but my 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 51 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 46 minutes ago
      Ublock seems to work with this one.
  • flexie 1 hour ago
    We are asked to allow hundreds of cookies, not just a few, to play the game.
    • Madmallard 31 minutes ago
      yes top of hacker news and loaded with tracking information and a popular game so likely to garner lots of attention
      • inigyou 21 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.

        • VonGallifrey 14 minutes ago
          > HN blatantly doesn't comply

          What about HN doesn't comply with GDPR? It does not seem to have tracking cookies.

  • tantalor 5 minutes ago
    (meta comment) the chit chat about cookies is off topic and pointless
  • rylando 1 hour ago
    Well this sure makes Wordle feel a lot easier!
    • whoisnjogu 1 hour ago
      and I still can't believe it took me more than 3 guesses
  • grocery_stores 1 hour 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 1 hour ago
      It didn't let me guess things that had already been eliminated with gray tiles.
    • pbronez 53 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 1 hour ago
      Isn't that rule 3?
  • hollylawly 1 hour ago
    Of course the one time I get it in 2 guesses is in this version
    • bonzini 48 minutes ago
      Got to the sixth attempt, 2 words remaining, of course I picked the right one.
      • stavros 40 minutes ago
        I picked the right one out of twelve.
        • amiga386 16 minutes ago
          Having 12 options possible on the last guess is actually very good.
          • stavros 13 minutes ago
            It was only my last guess because I lost :P I had three remaining.
  • huhtenberg 58 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 56 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?

  • lucideer 35 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?
  • theanonymousone 1 hour ago
    I hope NYT lawyers don't come for you. They did for many other variants of this. Maybe reconsider the name?
    • lugao 1 hour ago
      Do they go after people using similar names or just any game with similar mechanics?
  • embedding-shape 1 hour ago
    This is amazing, and incredible difficult (or I'm terrible), after ~10 minutes I can't even get in a third guess!
  • luciana1u 54 minutes ago
    finally a game that respects that I already know all five-letter words and would rather be told not to use them
  • intrasight 53 minutes ago
    What does "you have already eliminated the letter T" mean?
    • codechicago277 47 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 48 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).

  • lugao 1 hour ago
    It is too hard to be fun :P
  • Folcon 54 minutes ago
    Is the word list complete?

    I tried WEIRD and it rejected it as not a word

    • zabzonk 40 minutes ago
      that "i before e except after c" rule often gets taken too seriously
      • bigfishrunning 31 minutes ago
        i think it's kind of beautiful that weird is a weird word
      • LuminousWzrd 34 minutes ago
        Oh I've messed that one up before
  • MDTHLN 1 hour ago
    This is quite fun, but I can’t believe the amount of cookies it wants to set!
    • whstl 1 hour ago
      I had my ad blocker turned off temporarily and it was a strange experience.
  • mda 46 minutes ago
    I see that terrible cookie permission window (62 legitimate interest) and I close the window,
  • phren0logy 39 minutes ago
    Be happ-ole? (Insert whistling)
  • massimodeluisa 1 hour ago
    Ahahhaha funny! xD
  • GNR_Radio 1 hour ago
    [dead]
  • burnt-resistor 56 minutes ago
    The goal isn't explained clearly and simply enough.
    • pasc1878 46 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?