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What's the game's reason for having two lists instead of just one?
by b3morales 5y ago
What's the game's reason for having two lists instead of just one?
- ghaff 5y agoI assume the logic is that they shouldn't have "unusual" words as answers but shouldn't gatekeep too much about what words you enter as that would be frustrating.
- function_seven 5y agoA lot of valid 5-letter words are so obscure as to make the game not fun when you inevitably lose. If the answer to a day's Wordle was QIBLA or AALII or RAHUI, I'd probably stop playing. Here's the full list of valid guesses. There are a lot of words here that most people don't know. https://gist.github.com/cfreshman/cdcdf777450c5b5301e439061d29694c https://gist.github.com/cfreshman/cdcdf777450c5b5301e439061d...
- bee_rider 5y agoAt least in the first version of the game, the 'solutions' list was actually just a sequential list of what the answer would be for each given day. So, calling them 'possible solutions' on my part was actually a little misleading (sorry), there's no probability going on or anything like that. Not sure if NYT changed it. The value is that we all get the same answer, so which makes it more fun to compare our results (this does mean that you can just cheat and look up the answer, and it might have been possible to obscure the list somehow, but probably getting into an escalating war with cheaters was not a priority for such a simple little free game).