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Nearly Cheating
- _ache_ 3y agoCould have been done in one command. `grep 'alter\|dwelt' answers.txt`.
- _ache_ 3y agoOh ! In fact, it's not the latest post and "Leon Cowle" already mentioned it. The last post about mastodon and Conlextions is, from my point of view, more interesting.
- spuz 3y agoI would find it largely unsatisfying to "solve" the Wordle in one guess by simply using the same word every day until it inevitably came up. When I play, I always pick a random word to start without really considering whether that word has already been a solution. It happened once that I guessed the correct word on the first try and it felt pretty incredible as the chances of this are so low.
- uptown 3y agoWe always start with a different word too. Randomizes the difficulty a bit more.
- eviks 3y agoHow is your approach different? The chances of the original approach are also low, and it similarly replaces a game of skill with a game of pure luck
- pc86 3y agoThe chance that he will "win" in one guess in the future is 100%. Not so when you choose random words.
- burke 3y agoI mean, the difference between these two is a mathematical technicality. For all practical purposes it’s the same thing.
- rscrawfo 3y agoThe chances that he wins on any given day are the same, but not that he will win within x days. Right?
- ghaff 3y agoNot really. There are legal (good) unusual starting words that it’s a good bet are not in the set of Wordle answers.
- brookst 3y agoIt’s human psychology. Imagine you guess the birthday of everyone you meet. Your odds of being right are the same no matter whether you always say “January 1” or if you pick a date that feels right for the person (assuming there is no astrological or other magical sensing). But getting Jan 1 right would feel like an inevitable event, like you’re testing statistics and, yep, they work. Getting a custom date right would feel like you made a smart choice. Even if you know it’s just the same statistics. At least I expect most people would feel that, or at least as many as enjoy gambling in games of chance.
- idiotsecant 3y agoI have the strongest urge to be pedantic and point out that birthdates are not normally distributed. But I get your point.
- Lukas_Skywalker 3y agoThey are indeed not normally distributed, but did you mean that they are not uniformly distributed?
- idiotsecant 3y agoThat's what happens when you give into the pedantry gremlin. He comes for you too.
- qaisjp 3y agoUno reverse card right there.
- butz 3y agoThe best part about any game is when you can discard the rules and play the game the way you want.
- smitty1e 3y agoI still play cribbage according to the rules, but like to do things like set my opponent's back peg to the rear by a few points, and count my hand in bizarre ways that still yield the proper results. There is playing the game, and there is playing the playing.
- taneq 3y agoI have friends who play Wordle in hard mode because it's called hard mode, but I don't because it's a much less interesting game. The strategic decision of whether to try for the answer or use a 'throwaway' word to gain more information adds a lot to the game.
- jrm4 3y agoHa, agreed. It's interesting that the first article I clicked about hard mode seems to suggest that it makes the game easier and (at the risk of being snotty) shows that the author REALLY DOESN'T get information theory.
- wrsh07 3y agoThe difficulty is different - in hard mode you can trap yourself such that whether you guess the answer is pure luck. The average number of guesses to solve is (trivially) higher because you've constrained the "guess space" more. But as you point out, having more choice is a different kind of difficulty. The game's creator called it hard because it will take you more guesses, not because each guess is harder
- cpeterso 3y agoIf you like Wordle, I recommend the iOS game “word/off”. You play against a friend, making up your own challenge words for each other. I find this much more interesting and fun. The game is free and has no ads.
- dewey 3y agoGot a link? Frustratingly the App Store search didn’t surface anything, but neither did Kagi.
- throwaway744678 3y agoPerhaps: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/word-off/id1610878606 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/word-off/id1610878606
- cpeterso 3y agoYes! That's it: "word/off" by Mandala Wellness.
- pseudosavant 3y agoI'll share a Wordle "solver" I recently created on Glitch: https://ps-wordle-solver.glitch.me/ https://ps-wordle-solver.glitch.me/ You tell it which letters it can't be, are somewhere, and are exactly where. It shows letter frequency, possible words, and words that use high frequency characters. I don't think I actually solve Wordle's in fewer guesses on average when using it, but it is expanding what words I'll consider. I consider it more of a training tool than a cheat tool since it is more fun to play without it.
- ghaff 3y agoI used to use Word Hippo quite a bit. These days only if I’m pretty stuck and just don’t want to fill a sheet of paper with manual permutations.
- okibry 3y agoDoes anyone use all previous result and dictionary to reverse logic what word will be choose to guess next round ?
- utopcell 3y ago> I recognize that some of you will read this and think I’ve crossed the line of Wordle ethics into outright cheating. You can keep your opinions to yourself. I will not. You sir are evil and you will rot in literary hell. I kid of course. This seemed like a fun way to spend some alone time with your server. We have shared the feeling of getting the worlde word on the first try and it is a nice one. We have been playing DREAM for more than a year, until we finally achieved it (the dream of getting the word on the first try that is).
- atleastoptimal 3y agoWhat advantage does clever shell hacking have over a simple python script?
- ivanjermakov 3y ago> The Times hasn’t screwed up the game the way I thought it would I don't know... they've changed word list multiple times breaking my TUI version of Wordle.