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Quordle: Four Wordles in One
- purplemulberry 5y agoI’m loving Quordle and the practice mode. Unfortunately practice mode has ‘stuck’ I can’t clear the board from two days ago. Any suggestions?
- SubiculumCode 5y agoMy favorite variant yet.
- cableshaft 5y agoOf all the variants I've come across so far, I think this one has the most staying power. I think I might prefer it to the original. I do kind of wish you got one more guess, though, especially if you get stuck, like I did today, having 4 Greens but 5 possibilities for the final letter.
- brk 5y agoWould be cool to rollover the unused guesses from the solved ones to the remaining ones.
- yhoneycomb 5y agoI also which it shared it simply as Daily Quordle #22 7⃣ 6⃣ 9⃣ 4⃣ vs. Daily Quordle #23 7⃣ 6⃣ 9⃣ 4⃣ quordle.com ⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜ ⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ Maybe you could add a link if you want to expand to the second one. But it's just too long for sharing.
- DungZeekFu 5y agoThat's an interesting idea! It could be cool to have a share link that could rebuild the emoji grid.
- altairprime 5y ago4 states x 5 letters x 9 guesses is only 180 possible stoplight strings (of green/yellow/gray/black), if I'm doing my math right? So you could just pick 180 emoji and use four of them :)
- reissbaker 5y agoI thought about this as well, but sadly, last I checked some decently popular apps (Twitter, WhatsApp, some others) don't support emojis in URL paths, only in domain names. So the emoji technique could work for message threads in some apps, but it would look pretty strange in others. (I've been helping @DungZeekFu a bit with Quordle and am curious for any ideas around this though!)
- jjnoakes 5y agoMaybe make it so the emoji are shared without a URL, and anyone can paste the emoji into some place on the site to recreate the grids?
- altairprime 5y agoWell, you need 180 characters, so are there 90 good usable characters, or 60, or 45 that will work? I’m not suggesting doing a full UTF mapping onto base64, but just 1..180 mod 3 => char base64[3] would give you 182 board positions in three URL characters.
- altairprime 5y ago*192, mobile typo, sorry
- reissbaker 5y agobase64 would be pretty neat! I also wonder what non-emoji unicode characters are commonly supported in paths... If say, CJK character sets were supported by most apps, single-character paths would even work.
- layer8 5y agoThe number of guesses are fine IMO. While I needed one more guess, I also had made an unnecessary guess by mistake.
- treve 5y agoIf you sometimes fail, I feel the balance (for you) is right =)
- sveno 5y agoI could see something like this beating out the original. Wordle has to be 1x/day because there are only a couple thousand common 5-letter words (around 2300, if I recall correctly). It would turn repetitive. This game has O(N^4) combinations, so it can be played over and over.
- MattRix 5y agoI agree that Quordle is compelling but not sure I see your argument for how Wordle would get repetitive. 2300 is six years worth of words. They could shuffle the word list every 4 years and it’d be fine. I think a big part of what makes Wordle compelling is the ritualistic daily nature so not seeing how this would beat it out.
- cableshaft 5y agoBTW, I should say I have gotten it 2 out of the 3 times I've played it so far, so it's probably enough guesses, just today I really wished there was one more.
- philefstat 5y agoI completely agree (on the staying power). This is the only variant that's gripped me as much as the original. I built a multiplayer version as a weekend project, would love to know what you think! https://wordleague.xyz/ https://wordleague.xyz/
- jermeh 5y agoI like this one quite a bit. I find Wordle fun, but a bit plain sometimes. Quordle really makes me think out of the box to optimize across the grids. side note: I've gotten most of them, but today's ruined my streak.
- jetbooster 5y agoI feel like todays words were designed specifically to ruin the day of the 'ROATE' users
- Packofbezens 5y agoAgree, 'STARE' is my go-to in regular wordle and this one stumped me at first. Still managed a 4/5/7/6 solve :)
- Vaskerville 5y agoWhy stop at four?
- manwe150 5y agoNext up: 10K wordle. You have unlimited guesses and must avoid guessing any word not in the final list of 10000 solution words. Your score is the number of right guesses before you miss a guess.
- missedthecue 5y agoThey didnt! https://octordle.com/ https://octordle.com/
- zto 5y agoIt would be wonderful if this style of game had the option to render all the letters in lowercase, my brain just seems to treat different case symbols as representing different letters.
- core-utility 5y agoThis was surprisingly more achievable than I thought it would be, and provides a nice challenge with some strategy.
- lupire 5y agoNeeds work to fit above the fold on small screens. Show fewer rows of guesses, especially early.
- saurik 5y agoJust wait until you try Octordle! https://octordle.com/ https://octordle.com/
- emp_ 5y ago16 :) http://www.sedecordle.com/?mode=daily http://www.sedecordle.com/?mode=daily
- neogodless 5y agoGuessed in 2,4,5,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19
- MarioMan 5y agoUp to 2315 https://polydle.github.io/ https://polydle.github.io/
- CSMastermind 5y agoThat was actually really fun. I wonder at what point it stops scaling. My feeling is that as long as I get 4 + number of boards guesses I'll always be able to solve it but maybe I'm being overly optimistic.
- kmc059000 5y agoI run octordle, and I think you're right. I went with boards + 5 which felt like the sweet spot. Presently the win rate is 55% which seems good. Early on friends complained it was too hard. In my experience after a few games it gets pretty easy.
- SubiculumCode 5y agointeresting. but its a pain to scroll. I wish this went wide screen.
- mpettitt 5y agoThe keyboard only shows the top four boards though!
- fullshark 5y agoI thought this was a troll game until I played it and enjoyed it thoroughly! Good job.
- GoodJokes 5y ago
- oliwary 5y agoFun! I made one with a 5x5 square of letters, containing five words down and five across: https://squareword.org/ https://squareword.org/ A bit like a combination of crosswords and Wordle, as vertical words can be used for additional clues.
- NAHWheatCracker 5y agoThis is really neat and polished!
- aidenn0 5y agoNice, but seems to use a fairly restrictive word list compared to other games; might make it more attractive to some people as I have friends who say that "ZA" sums up everything wrong with scrabble in one word...
- oliwary 5y agoThanks for the feedback! Do you mean in the square itself or the possible guess words? Tried to calibrate the square itself for a good balance between challenge and reasonably common words.
- layer8 5y agoNot the GP, but “April” isn’t in the word list.
- aidenn0 5y agoMany (most?) word games forbid any words that are always capitalized. As either a month or a first name, April is capitalized.
- aidenn0 5y agoPossible guess words. "unlid" and "mirly" are (possibly over-optimized) good second guesses in wordle.
- tobr 5y agoPhew, 7/9/4/5. Got the last one with a pretty wild guess at the end. This was the most fun Wordle variation I’ve come across so far, will definitely come back to play tomorrow.
- xmprt 5y agoThis game is pretty cool but it doesn't play well on desktops because you have to scroll to see all four words. In my opinion it would be better to have all four side by side instead of trying to fit a mobile design for desktop websites.
- jonny_eh 5y agoShould use a responsive layout.
- globular-toast 5y agoI zoomed out.
- imglorp 5y ago4,6,7,9
- kodablah 5y agoThis is getting close to by idea of "Borgle = Boggle + Wordle". Basically the idea is there is a boggle board generated and all N-letter word paths found. The paths are made available to click on (there are a few UI approaches to this). Once a path is selected you enter Wordle mode for that path. Every guess must still be a real word, but the neat part is if you even nail a single letter, it appears on the Boggle board. And that letter immediately appears as solved on any other path that overlaps it. You can jump/revisit paths at any time. Goal is to complete the board (unsure if there will be guess limit, letters that are not on any path of course are automatically visible/correct on game start). The completion sharing will be a matrix of numbers instead of colors showing how many guesses of that space across any path were made until the first right letter was achieved. Boggle board size configurable as is the min/max word letters (5x5 w/ only 5-letter words by default). There are some neat strategies here of path choice/switching and guessing wrong words intentionally in overlapping paths. Will dev if I ever get the time, but feel free to steal the idea and make it.
- calrueb 5y agoGoing to echo all the other positive comments. This is the most fun variation I have played. On my first try I failed to complete it, then went and did a practice round with some smarter initial word choices and won (barely!)
- legohead 5y agoSuggestion: I play and share Dordles via screenshots. I'd like to do the same with this but I don't want to use two screenshots (have to scroll down). Can you have an option to sit these side by side?
- layer8 5y agoOr a “hard mode” where the four words are multiplexed. :)
- calvinmorrison 5y agoAs many of you I took a jab at a wordle solver. That wasn't so hard. Then I said, how can I guarantee as a human, I win, in 6 moves almost 100% of the time? "Quick Brown Fox", as in, use as many possible letters in the alphabet, comprised of 5 letter words, given that we have only 5 words to play with. That gives us 25 characters to use. I came up with BLOCK VENTS JUMPY DWARF GHAZI this leaves out Q and X, which is fine. Using this as a template basically boils Wordle down to a anagram game, so kind of defeats the purpose. But in this case, i was able to resolve all 4 at one time using my above combination. I guessed, correctly all 4 with PLUMB GLEAN VALID IMPLY. I then realized, you get even more chances on Quordle, but I didn't need it!
- DungZeekFu 5y agoTrue, if you are only shooting to solve it in 9 then it can be easy with the right strategy. But many in our friend group are no longer satisfied with 9 and want 7 or fewer guesses :)
- david_allison 5y agoDoesn't work effectively for Quordle. You have 9 guesses. This takes up 5 of them, then you need to be correct for each of the 4 words.
- AtlasBarfed 5y agoThis is the best one so far! This is like when I discovered calcudoku 12x12s and now sudokus are dumb and boring. Just a lot better. May the NYT acquire you for the level-up option.
- przefur 5y agoA nice implementation, I really enjoy the practice tab. As many suggested already, it plays poorly on desktops/laptops, I have to scroll to see all four words, would be nice to see horizontally arranged windows.
- DungZeekFu 5y agoHi everyone I am the creator of Quordle and I am glad that people are enjoying playing it :) I also appreciate all the feedback and I am looking to improve the experience when playing on desktop! You can follow the @quordle Twitter for updates as well!
- akersten 5y agoIt's really cool! one small request: Can you switch the colors for "guessed, not in word" and "not guessed yet" letters on the keyboard? It's opposite from the original and makes it confusing.
- DungZeekFu 5y agoI am working on tweaking the keyboard to be more clear so stay tuned for updates very soon around this!
- gulabjamuns 5y agoI am loving this. One thing, the position of the backspace and enter keys is the opposite of wordle and that's confusing, esp if you play both.
- sveno 5y agoThis is really neat. That's all I wanted to say. Thank you for building it.
- altairprime 5y agoI love this. Thank you for this.
- wil93 5y agoOne suggestion: could you put the four games side-by-side when the horizontal space allows it? With a 1792px width (Macbook Pro 16) I have to scroll vertically to see all the games while there is plenty of unused horizontal space
- NextHendrix 5y agoI'd like to see a cross between this and Absurdle
- VikingCoder 5y agoMaybe this takes the fun out of it, but with Quordle, I've had great success with: TUBES FLING CHAMP WORDY With those, I've always completed all four...
- gary_chambers 5y agoI see you played the same meta-game that I did. It took me a few tries, but I ended up with: WHISK, FRONT, GLADE, BUMPY. Probably not in the spirit of the game, but once you have 20 distinct letters, it is normally quite easy to find the solution.
- mwigdahl 5y agoMine are SHIRT, WOMEN, BLACK, PUDGY. I like that order as it hits most of the high-frequency letters up front to enable the odd early snipe.
- CSMastermind 5y agoWell if we're sharing mine are: SPINE, WORLD, THUMB, and JACKY.
- Akronymus 5y agoI just start with ANISE and go from there.
- bonniemuffin 5y agoMine are ANGST, PERKY, CHILD and JUMBO. It's interesting how many sets of 4 words with disjoint letters are out there. It took me quite a while to come up with my set, somehow I didn't realize there would be so many other sets that work equally well.
- tshaddox 5y agoI have less fun with that sort of strategy (I like hard mode in Wordle). But in this variant I find it exceedingly difficult if I don't employ this sort of strategy.
- not2b 5y agoI was so close, solved three and was down to two choices for the fourth (I knew four letters but there were two words and I guessed the wrong one). I used grep to help with the searching.
- throwawaynay 5y agojust when I thought we couldn't imagine more wordle variants!nice :D
- mattcantstop 5y agoWhat I have loved about this iteration of the idea is that I often don't solve the problem. That makes it more fun to me. I like the difficult level.
- amptorn 5y agoThis feels like a cheap ripoff of Dordle: https://zaratustra.itch.io/dordle https://zaratustra.itch.io/dordle If you're going to put your own spin on Wordle, have at it, many others have, but at least demonstrate some creativity.
- dkonofalski 5y agoAre you sure Dordle came out first? It's only a few weeks old, according to your link.
- amptorn 5y agoYes? Per the "History of Quordle": https://www.quordle.com/#?overlay=tutorial https://www.quordle.com/#?overlay=tutorial > It all started on January 29, 2022 when I saw an article mentioning Dordle by Guilherme S. Töws and we all started playing it as a group. It was a blast to play something more difficult than Wordle
- dkonofalski 5y agoAhhh. So 2 words instead of 4. You're going to be really disappointed by Octordle and Septurdle, then.
- amptorn 5y agoOctordle directly stole Dordle's code, so, yeah, not a fan.
- dkonofalski 5y agoNo he didn't. It's on github.
- amptorn 5y agoNo, the creator of Dordle has not put his code on GitHub.
- gundmc 5y agoNeat, but I think the keyboard coloring could use tweaking. It wasn't immediately obvious to me which were unguessed letters and which were guessed but unmatched.
- tshaddox 5y agoI like this one. I've been playing it a lot the last few days. Is it just me, or is it immensely more difficult than Wordle? I think I only get all 4 correct maybe 25% of the time.
- prawn 5y agoI find it easier. My Wordle streak is 50+ (no fails yet and only one six). I was sent Quordle yesterday and got a streak of 30+ before I started trying to get the quartet in six lines which is a good challenge.
- willis936 5y agoAfter a few practices to get me out of hard-mode-wordle mode I have found that spending the first 4 guesses on an exhaustive search of letters (picking words with letters in common positions) seems to be universally the best opening. Pursuing individual words before 3 guesses is not optimal.
- treebeard24 5y ago
- cbfrench 5y agoI spent way too much time playing this this afternoon. Practice mode is dangerous. Thanks, I think. ;)
- lindwhi 5y agoCan you put this one in the app store?
- theyeenzbeanz 5y agoThis is a nice refresh and a good challenge, especially after NYT unsurprisingly riddled wordle with trackers.
- Quad4 5y agoPlayed for the first time and eventually got them all but there's nothing that says "solved" or "well done" or let's you share your achievement... What's that about?