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).
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
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.
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.
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?
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).
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
No reject all button means a closed tab.
Ublock seems to work with this one.
We are asked to allow hundreds of cookies, not just a few, to play the game.
yes top of hacker news and loaded with tracking information and a popular game so likely to garner lots of attention
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.
> HN blatantly doesn't comply
What about HN doesn't comply with GDPR? It does not seem to have tracking cookies.
Well this sure makes Wordle feel a lot easier!
and I still can't believe it took me more than 3 guesses
Of course the one time I get it in 2 guesses is in this version
Got to the sixth attempt, 2 words remaining, of course I picked the right one.
I picked the right one out of twelve.
Having 12 options possible on the last guess is actually very good.
It was only my last guess because I lost :P I had three remaining.
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.
It didn't let me guess things that had already been eliminated with gray tiles.
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.
Isn't that rule 3?
(meta comment) the chit chat about cookies is off topic and pointless
Some of the suggested plays for yellow EA and green H after the first guess:
Not much fun to play with a dictionary like this :-/And yet it didn’t accept JORTS :/
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?
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?
I hope NYT lawyers don't come for you. They did for many other variants of this. Maybe reconsider the name?
Do they go after people using similar names or just any game with similar mechanics?
This is amazing, and incredible difficult (or I'm terrible), after ~10 minutes I can't even get in a third guess!
finally a game that respects that I already know all five-letter words and would rather be told not to use them
What does "you have already eliminated the letter T" mean?
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”.
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).
It is too hard to be fun :P
This is quite fun, but I can’t believe the amount of cookies it wants to set!
I had my ad blocker turned off temporarily and it was a strange experience.
Is the word list complete?
I tried WEIRD and it rejected it as not a word
that "i before e except after c" rule often gets taken too seriously
i think it's kind of beautiful that weird is a weird word
Isn’t there more exceptions to that rule than there are examples where it’s correct?
Oh I've messed that one up before
I see that terrible cookie permission window (62 legitimate interest) and I close the window,
Be happ-ole? (Insert whistling)
Ahahhaha funny! xD
The goal isn't explained clearly and simply enough.
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?