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I get the same feeling as everyone. There is no point in the game because even a single digit wrong is no clue at all. In my 1st and only attempt, I entered 1 +

I get the same feeling as everyone. There is no point in the game because even a single digit wrong is no clue at all. In my 1st and only attempt, I entered 1 + 2+ 8 = 11 and both pluses, the 2 the 1 and the 8 were right, with only the 2 in the wrong position. And yet that gave zero clue to what the other number was... and it turned out to be another 8, which made finding the solution really luck-based.

nextstep 5y ago
Ha! I played the exact same first game! https://pasteboard.co/NYP4YfnNj0kk.jpg https://pasteboard.co/NYP4YfnNj0kk.jpg
- FabHK 5y ago
  ? As in Worldle itself (except in hard mode), you don't need to match what you've deduced already . So, your second line could have been some equation with (most of) the digits 3,4,5,7,9 (and whatever you need to make it an equation). The colour of those then would have told you all you need to know to win.
  - myhf 5y ago
    So it's an interesting distinction that Wordle is generally solvable in "hard mode", but the same constraint makes Nerdle almost impossible.
    - rtpg 5y ago
      Worldle hard mode is solvable but it requires being very careful, and basically never typing in certain words. For example: bills,dills,fills,gills,hills,kills,mills,pills,sills,tills,wills If the answer is any of these words and you guess the wrong words once, you are unable to guarantee a win (outside of hard mode you could try guessing words to eliminate many letters at once) I find that constraint to be roughly, if not more, frustrating than commutativity (which doesn’t even apply to subtraction or division!)
- vultour 5y ago
  You could've won if you skipped 5, which was eliminated in the first guess.
hackeraccount 5y ago
that is so odd - I think I had the same situation as well. I'm not particularly numeric so I was briefly excited (I tried an available number and realized it fit!) but then figured out that there were multiple solution. And finally lost because I too didn't realize that I could re-use an 8. I'd feel bad but it could have been any of the choices I did take so ... maybe not so fun.
quietbritishjim 5y ago
As others have said, you can (and often should) make guesses that don't satisfy all the clues you've found so far. That way you can find / eliminate symbols much more quickly. It's funny there are so many people saying how much they hate it. All power to you. But personally I like it way more than Wordle. I basically like the solving part of Wordle but hate the thinking up words aspect. Nerdle fixes that, but the equation bit keeps it more interesting than a meaningless string of symbols. Similar to how I prefer the numbers round on Countdown [1] to the main letters game. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countdown_(game_show) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countdown_(game_show)
- billforsternz 5y ago
  I prefer the numbers round in Countdown as well, but much (much, much) prefer Wordle to Nerdle. Nerdle is an attempt to make a Wordle for numbers, but to me it just doesn't work. Today I quickly got 2+?+8=1?. Clearly ? can be any digit from 0 to 9. I had four tries left so a 40% chance of winning with no skill involved (I lost incidentally).
  - jjnoakes 5y ago
    Well first, the ? can't be 1, 2, or 8, right? And second, you could guess equations without 1, 2, or 8 to narrow down the missing digit in only two more guesses. Edit: Brain fart on the first part, but I think the second part would have helped within three more guesses.
    - billforsternz 5y ago
      I think the answer was 8, I can't quite remember. Your second point is definitely a good one though, didn't think of that.
    - adwf 5y ago
      Yes it could unfortunately. The solution repeated a number, making it almost impossible to guarantee a correct answer even if you had the majority down fairly early.
elcomet 5y ago
Why would you put three ones? Maybe you should have tried the other numbers

nextstep 5y ago

Ha! I played the exact same first game! https://pasteboard.co/NYP4YfnNj0kk.jpg https://pasteboard.co/NYP4YfnNj0kk.jpg

FabHK 5y ago
? As in Worldle itself (except in hard mode), you don't need to match what you've deduced already . So, your second line could have been some equation with (most of) the digits 3,4,5,7,9 (and whatever you need to make it an equation). The colour of those then would have told you all you need to know to win.
- myhf 5y ago
  So it's an interesting distinction that Wordle is generally solvable in "hard mode", but the same constraint makes Nerdle almost impossible.
  - rtpg 5y ago
    Worldle hard mode is solvable but it requires being very careful, and basically never typing in certain words. For example: bills,dills,fills,gills,hills,kills,mills,pills,sills,tills,wills If the answer is any of these words and you guess the wrong words once, you are unable to guarantee a win (outside of hard mode you could try guessing words to eliminate many letters at once) I find that constraint to be roughly, if not more, frustrating than commutativity (which doesn’t even apply to subtraction or division!)
vultour 5y ago
You could've won if you skipped 5, which was eliminated in the first guess.

hackeraccount 5y ago

that is so odd - I think I had the same situation as well. I'm not particularly numeric so I was briefly excited (I tried an available number and realized it fit!) but then figured out that there were multiple solution. And finally lost because I too didn't realize that I could re-use an 8. I'd feel bad but it could have been any of the choices I did take so ... maybe not so fun.

quietbritishjim 5y ago

As others have said, you can (and often should) make guesses that don't satisfy all the clues you've found so far. That way you can find / eliminate symbols much more quickly. It's funny there are so many people saying how much they hate it. All power to you. But personally I like it way more than Wordle. I basically like the solving part of Wordle but hate the thinking up words aspect. Nerdle fixes that, but the equation bit keeps it more interesting than a meaningless string of symbols. Similar to how I prefer the numbers round on Countdown [1] to the main letters game. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countdown_(game_show) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countdown_(game_show)

billforsternz 5y ago
I prefer the numbers round in Countdown as well, but much (much, much) prefer Wordle to Nerdle. Nerdle is an attempt to make a Wordle for numbers, but to me it just doesn't work. Today I quickly got 2+?+8=1?. Clearly ? can be any digit from 0 to 9. I had four tries left so a 40% chance of winning with no skill involved (I lost incidentally).
- jjnoakes 5y ago
  Well first, the ? can't be 1, 2, or 8, right? And second, you could guess equations without 1, 2, or 8 to narrow down the missing digit in only two more guesses. Edit: Brain fart on the first part, but I think the second part would have helped within three more guesses.
  - billforsternz 5y ago
    I think the answer was 8, I can't quite remember. Your second point is definitely a good one though, didn't think of that.
  - adwf 5y ago
    Yes it could unfortunately. The solution repeated a number, making it almost impossible to guarantee a correct answer even if you had the majority down fairly early.

elcomet 5y ago

Why would you put three ones? Maybe you should have tried the other numbers