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Binary Wordle
- patrakov 1y agoStep 1: Guess 00000. Step 2: Replace all grey cells with 1s.
- petra303 1y agoYea, you don’t need more than two chances.
- arjvik 1y agoCame here to present my strategy for solving it in two tries, and realized it was far more complicated! (started with 00011)
- jesse__ 1y agoI think it's actually possible to win on the second guess with any initial input. Or at least I did it a handful of times..
- vikingerik 1y agoThis should be correct. For any cell that isn't green after your first guess, there's only one other possibility for its value.
- selcuka 1y agoYes. Yellow and grey mean exactly the same thing in this game: Flip it.
- IAmBroom 1y agoHoping that you are being sarcastic...
- dskloet 1y agoIt's not guaranteed you will always win in 2 steps because occasionally you will win in 1 step.
- Supermancho 1y agoIsn't 1 within the bounds of 2?
- Sohcahtoa82 1y agoThere's a difference between "in 2 steps" and "within 2 steps".
- Supermancho 1y agoSplitting hairs seems like grammar policing. I can even see action 1 and null action if I squint hard enough.
- paxys 1y agoStep 1: Guess anything Step 2: Flip all the non green cells.
- underlines 1y agoafaik, guessing anything not 00000 or 11111 at first step will lead to an optimum strategy of 3 steps. because you introduce possible "right digit at wrong place" as a third state. guessing 00000 or 11111 removes that third state and leaves you with simple substitution of wrong cells, which leads to an optimal 2 step strategy. but obviously the shortest strategy is just guessing it right on the first try :D lol
- heckelson 1y agoAnd for a second, I was proud that I solved mine in 3 steps...
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- 0xAFFFF 1y agoThis is obviously improper. The valid strategy for this game unfolds as follows. Step 1: Guess 11111. Step 2: Replace all grey cells with 0s. Thank you for your careful consideration.
- nmeofthestate 1y agoIf you start with 0's you save a small amount of electricity. 1's use up more electricity - any electronic engineer will agree.
- justsid 1y agoNot to ruin a joke, but does it actually make a difference for SRAM? It’s two inverters in a loop, despite not being the same size they are active components. But I’m also a software guy so I could be totally wrong.
- dskloet 1y agoI think displaying black or white pixels makes a bigger difference.
- bdcs 1y ago> does it actually make a difference for SRAM? I have no idea in practice. But for the thermodynamic limit of actually making a difference, any irreversible change requires heat to be generated, e.g. initializing to zero, truncating, or bitshifts with discarded information. In contrast, addition/subtraction/multiplication/bitshifts without over-/under- flow will not necessarily generate heat. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landauer%27s_principle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landauer%27s_principle PS. you can also use mass-energy equivalence to extend this to calculate the lower limit of mass for a given quantity of information. TL;DR: The internet weighs 50g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaUzu-iksi8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaUzu-iksi8
- stavros 1y agoI got zero right: https://imgz.org/i6yJQnf4.png https://imgz.org/i6yJQnf4.png
- gus_massa 1y agoI solved it in one attempt! https://imgur.com/a/jklkc7F https://imgur.com/a/jklkc7F Spoiler alert: There is a nice video by Captain Disillusion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ou7KSmfC3lA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ou7KSmfC3lA (the relevant part is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ou7KSmfC3lA&t=275s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ou7KSmfC3lA&t=275s )
- Sesse__ 1y agoI intended this strategy, but 00000 happened to be correct, so I didn't even need a step 2.
- a3w 1y agoI think I saw a two. There is no such thing as a two, Bender!
- layer8 1y agoThere may be FileNotFound, though. https://thedailywtf.com/articles/what_is_truth_0x3f_ https://thedailywtf.com/articles/what_is_truth_0x3f_
- freedomben 1y agoThere should be a 1 in 1,000 chance that a two slips in to one of the puzzles, and then can't be reproduced.
- thehours 1y agoFeedback: I'm unable to input with keyboard after typing anything but '0' until a full refresh (and selecting the input area with mouse).
- Jtsummers 1y agoYou may not need the refresh, with Safari I have to select the game board again after focus is moved by clicking "play again".
- itishappy 1y agoIs it possible to get yellow cells?
- Jtsummers 1y agoUse a mix of 0s and 1s, if the answer is "00110" and you put in "11000" you'll have 4 yellow and 1 green. If you use only 0s or only 1s for your first guess, you'll just get green and grey, no yellow.
- itishappy 1y agoHuh, surprisingly difficult to get. Took me 8 or so attempts.
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- neuroelectron 1y agoI see what you did there
- odo1242 1y agoI somehow got lucky and guessed the answer in just one try lol
- rossant 1y agoHow lucky of you. You had one chance out of 100000.
- dhsysusbsjsi 1y agoI guessed 00000 and won first go!
- Bimos 1y agoSame here.
- thinkingemote 1y agohmm. I guessed something different (010001 maybe, I cant remember) and won first go too. I looked in the comments hoping to find the joke. I guess I'm 1 of the 10 people who don't understand binary jokes.
- cnity 1y agoGood one! I'm the other of the 10.
- thih9 1y agoFor context, the original joke is: > There are 10 kinds of people in this world — those who understand binary and those who don’t. There are other versions too[1][2][3]. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7036594 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7036594 [2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7040175 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7040175 [3]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25854900 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25854900
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- kylec 1y agoGot it in one on my second game! Felt pretty good till I realized that's like 1/32 chance.
- selcuka 1y agoThe probability of getting it right at least once in your first 2 attempts is even higher (6.15%).
- kcaseg 1y agoBit masking : the game
- mulmen 1y agoGot it in 10.
- Black616Angel 1y agoI was a bit sad, when it didn't display my number of tries as a 10.
- mccolin 1y agoThere’s 10 types of people in this world: those that get that joke and those that don’t.
- makerofthings 1y agoThere are 2 kinds of people in this world, those that can extrapolate from incomplete data.
- taneq 1y agoAnd fence post errors.
- rodnim 1y agoAnd those who know this joke is actually in base 3. :)
- sidcool 1y agoIt should be solvable in no more than 2 moves.
- UnreachableCode 1y agoDon’t you mean 10 moves?
- amanverasia 1y agoThe only reason I logged into my account is to give you an upvote!
- nikkaelle 1y agoFeature request: a "share" button, à la base-26 Wordle.
- schindlabua 1y agoHilariously dumb
- anon84873628 1y agoMade me chuckle out loud.
- abotsis 1y agoYea, it’s too easy. Maybe if it were a “guess the number” but in binary? Hints are just “too high” or “too low”? …though now that I’m playing it in my head that’s too easy too. (Start at MSB and shift right if too high and add bits if too low)… Maybe if you reduced the number of guesses to 5 that’d add enough chance to make it fun?
- TheDong 1y agoIt's not supposed to be fun or hard, it's supposed to be funny. It's absurdist humor.
- umvi 1y agoBinary is too easy, but hex can be tricky. I made a hex-based wordle puzzle for my programming game where you have to guess an 8-digit hex string in as few as 6-12 guesses using wordle mechanics... called the level "dwordle" :) (video from like 3 years ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/Unity2D/comments/sq4anb/i_added_a_worldleesque_mechanic_to_my_programming/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Unity2D/comments/sq4anb/i_added_a_w...)
- charly187 1y agoSomeone should make a base-26 version! It would probably be super popular!
- asimovDev 1y agohttps://horsle.glitch.me https://horsle.glitch.me reminds me of this
- Aissen 1y agoI love that someone went all the way to write and publish this joke. Keep hacking!
- gowld 1y ago1 minute and 2 1-sentence prompts: https://g.co/gemini/share/a14f3f1b1c1c https://g.co/gemini/share/a14f3f1b1c1c Gemini self-improved version (added the "Hint" and "What could it mean?" features): https://g.co/gemini/share/05c8cce3b2ff https://g.co/gemini/share/05c8cce3b2ff
- Aissen 1y agoNice, it seems the share links don't show the prompts (or I missed it); could you share them please?
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- citizenfishy 1y agoIsn't this just Mastermind?
- zaik 1y agoNo, this is much simpler.
- jansan 1y agoMore like Minionmind.
- maaaaattttt 1y agoApologies for opening a tangeant on a tangeant, but am I the only one who thinks there are 2 levels of playing master mind (and therefore wordle)? Easy level, you let the player know exactly which spots are correctly placed and which ones are there but incorrectly placed. Hard level, you let the player know only that some are correctly placed and some are there but incorrectly placed without identifiying which ones. I personnaly don't enjoy the easy level when playing mastermind, but I do enjoy the hard version which is much more investigative and in my opinion triggers the same brain process as when I'm debugging code.
- madcaptenor 1y agoI don’t think I’ve ever seen Wordle implemented in what you call “hard level”. But there’s no reason it couldn’t be.
- tylerchr 1y agoMy wife took one look at this and said “It’s not Wordle if it’s all binary—it’s Digitle.”
- HPsquared 1y agoReminds me of the idea of analogue cheese - fake cheese. It's analogue cheese until you get some on your fingers, when it becomes digital cheese.
- layer8 1y agoWell… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_(computer_architecture) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_(computer_architecture)
- gowld 1y agoIt's not Wordle because because it's only 5 bits. There are no remotely common 5-bit word systems. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_(computer_architecture)#Table_of_word_sizes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_(computer_architecture)#T...
- soneca 1y agoI guessed my first game in the first attempt! (10011)
- celticninja 1y agoIsn't it always possible to get this on guess 2?
- oneeyedpigeon 1y agoYes. I think that's the joke.
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- october8140 1y agoGot it. Second try.
- sarmadgulzar 1y agoSo, this can be solved in at least one and at most two attempts.
- AmsterErdo 1y agoI think I don't get it... since it's binary, it can always be guessed in two attempts?
- awwaiid 1y agoYes. You can still try to get it in one attempt.
- gamerDude 1y agoIt took me 10 tries...
- James-Livesey 1y agoIf anyone's in need of a hexadecimal version... https://jamesl.me/hexle/ https://jamesl.me/hexle/ I similarly made a binary one before this version, but unsurprisingly, a lot of people said they found it too easy!
- charlie-83 1y agoThe hint actually makes it harder since I was required to guess a 0 and a F each time
- alloysmila 1y agoonly two attempts are ever needed :-(
- clocker 1y agoNice game. I got the answer in 1 try in my first attempt! https://imgur.com/a/W4OjObH https://imgur.com/a/W4OjObH
- lazerman 1y agoThe number of guesses should be written in binary too!
- lo_zamoyski 1y agoWhy 5 rows? Just have two.
- NoSalt 1y agoI did it in two attempts ... read it and weep, suckas!
- ratbum 1y agoEat shit! https://photos.app.goo.gl/t3cEcgKLYe7e7Dfx7 https://photos.app.goo.gl/t3cEcgKLYe7e7Dfx7
- HenryBemis 1y agoSo.... 1st line, all zeros. It shows me where the zeros are. Well.. that's it. Any non-zero is a 1. So.. finished on the second line. Am I the only one?
- igitur 1y agoI'm waiting for the NY Times to sue this one too.[1] [1] https://apnews.com/article/new-york-times-wordle-clones-takedown-dmca-35d32b7548f7312ea74a2065b2cd31a6 https://apnews.com/article/new-york-times-wordle-clones-take...
- bitwrangler 1y agoI like the UI and cute idea, nice animation. great way to learn xor $FF haha.
- meindnoch 1y agoIt's not wordle. It's bytle.
- eludwig 1y agoCloser to a nibble!
- NooneAtAll3 1y agobittle?
- drdec 1y agoWith this game, there is no try. There is do or do not.
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- seabass 1y agoI love that not only are the inputs binary, but so are the results.
- NotAnOtter 1y agoThis delivers on the title but I wonder if you could tweak it to make it an actual game without wildly overcomplicating it. Maybe make the string much longer, like 10 bits, and the game only matches on substrings longer than 3. 000...000 would generally return no matches. That's still probably solvable with superpermutations but wordle is "solvable" with a dictionary, so don't let perfect be the enemy of "better than 2 guess bordle"
- nicwolff 1y agoI, uh, got it in two. Is it creepy that the answer is my ZIP code?
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- NooneAtAll3 1y agorecently I encountered a game that had "wordle, but with numbers" as one of its puzzles https://semenar.itch.io/lost-in-space https://semenar.itch.io/lost-in-space
- zck 1y agoI also made some number-based wordle-variants, which I call "numberdle". I found that it was hard to come up with good ways of guessing because wordle has the restriction that most combinations are invalid. You won't ever have to guess xwqqf, because that's not an English word. And more importantly, guessing some letters gives you information about the other letters. If you find out three letters, and have the target as _a_ts, you can use that to figure out the other two letters. But if you need to guess a number, and you know it's _5_34, having three correct digits don't help you figure it out. So I made some variants where guessed values do help you figure out the correct answer. In rationerdle (https://zck.org/numberdle/?variant=rationerdle https://zck.org/numberdle/?variant=rationerdle), you have to guess a rational number x/y, where both x and y are between 1 and 99, inclusive. It displays the rational number you actually guessed, and whether x and y separately are too high or too low. In factordle (https://zck.org/numberdle/?variant=factordle https://zck.org/numberdle/?variant=factordle), the player has to guess the factors of a target number. In formuladle (https://zck.org/numberdle/?variant=formuladle https://zck.org/numberdle/?variant=formuladle), there is a graphed straight line, and the player has to guess the mx+b formula that graphs that line. I would like to make more, but didn't have any other great ideas when I ran out of interest.
- bentt 1y agoIf this kind of troll app is what we can expect from our vibe coded future, then I'm all for it.
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