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This is very frustrating. It's like Wordle but without any of the nice or enjoyable elements.
by jstx1 5y ago
This is very frustrating. It's like Wordle but without any of the nice or enjoyable elements.
- sxv 5y agoI enjoyed it fwiw.
- capitainenemo 5y agoWhat frustrated me was the guessing. By equation 3 I had everything narrowed down except the 1s place in the answer which was same as number in the equation. So, I spent the next 3 guesses trying the remaining digits, and eventually losing with 2 more digits left to try.
- lalaland1125 5y agoThe trick is making guesses that you know are incorrect to rule out multiple digits at once.
- somethingAlex 5y agoWhat do you mean by incorrect? The equation has to be valid, according to the rules. At some point I ended up with 2 + <x> + 8 = 1<y> where x = y because of math. I had 5 guesses left and 8 possibilities. That's just gambling without the money at that point.
- capitainenemo 5y agoI guess he means construct an entirely different equation without using 2, 8 and 1 (you had same issue as me BTW). I don't really enjoy that at all personally, but it is a thing one could do. I don't guess impossible words in Wordle either :)
- somethingAlex 5y agoYeah I feel the same way. I want wordle to be about guessing words, not constructing some max entropy string within the constraints.
- bmm6o 5y agoSometimes it's what you need to do. If you know _IGHT, guessing the solution is not the best strategy since you get so little information each turn. You're much better off with FILMS or BLOWN, even if you know they can't be the solution.
- macintux 5y agoHard mode in Wordle precludes that option; after weeks in that mode in Wordle it would never occur to me to put an entirely bogus set of numbers into this.
- bmm6o 5y agoI haven't played hard mode, but i imagine part of an optimal strategy is trying not to paint yourself into a corner like that. Just the other day, i had SHA_E and knew there were more possible solutions than i had turns left. I guessed MILKY to try 3 possibilities at once.
- elondaits 5y agoI use that same strategy in Wordle. Most often my first word is SOARE and the second is MINTY… unless I got like three matches in the first word, it’s better to get extra data quickly.
- econnors 5y agoyou can make guesses that you know won't be the correct answer but eliminate the other choices (i.e. don't include 2, 8, or 1 in your guesses)
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- mminer237 5y agoHe means guess something like: 56+34=90 Then you can see which number turns purple or use 8 if none do.
- piggybox 5y agoThen you try to use those 8 possibilities (if not all) in the next round to eliminate some or most of them to quickly narrow down the scope of guessing
- aardvark179 5y agoYou can test every digit and symbol in 2 guesses. Once you’ve done that it normally takes another 1 or 2 guesses to get the answer.
- donaldihunter 5y agoYes, notably there is no hard mode. Elimination seems necessary in order to have a chance of completing in 6 tries.
- cookie_monsta 5y agoI am enjoying this one much more: https://www.mathler.com/ https://www.mathler.com/
- jonny_eh 5y agoYou just described nearly every clone.
- tluyben2 5y agoI liked it but I don’t like the 1+2 != 2+1 ; I understand why it is but that is just annoying throwing away one go that you cannot really know. Which is different from Wordle, game play wise.
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