Don't Wordle
76 points by Hbruz0 2 hours ago | 28 comments

Angostura 11 minutes ago
If you enjoy clicking things you can spend hours in their cookie consent boxes untickinv the several hundred individual ‘legitimate interest’ tick boxes for individual vendors
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gear54rus 6 minutes ago
Ublock seems to work with this one.
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netsharc 15 minutes ago
I'd enjoy it if the rules with some graphics are displayed near the game, for newbies.

e.g. show a word with some green letters and that they have to be in the same spot in the other word. e.g. FUBAR with green B -> __B__

FUBAR with yellow R -> RRRR_ (with gray background and white R to signify "has to be placed somewhere here")

And for the gray letters, I guess.. show them next to the _____ in a trash can?

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flexie 23 minutes ago
We are asked to allow hundreds of cookies, not just a few, to play the game.
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rylando 33 minutes ago
Well this sure makes Wordle feel a lot easier!
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whoisnjogu 25 minutes ago
and I still can't believe it took me more than 3 guesses
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hollylawly 26 minutes ago
Of course the one time I get it in 2 guesses is in this version
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bonzini 8 minutes ago
Got to the sixth attempt, 2 words remaining, of course I picked the right one.
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huhtenberg 17 minutes ago
Some of the suggested plays for yellow EA and green H after the first guess:

    ALMEH
    BEKAH
    BELAH
    DEASH
    OBEAH
    SELAH
Not much fun to play with a dictionary like this :-/
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theanonymousone 24 minutes ago
I hope NYT lawyers don't come for you. They did for many other variants of this. Maybe reconsider the name?
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lugao 20 minutes ago
Do they go after people using similar names or just any game with similar mechanics?
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grocery_stores 27 minutes ago
One thing I find odd about the rules: it forces you to respect what you've learned via green or yellow tiles, but not gray tiles. The spirit of the rules suggests once you've learned a letter is not in the word, you shouldn't be able to reuse that letter. Perhaps that would simply make the game too difficult, though.
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kevsim 26 minutes ago
It didn't let me guess things that had already been eliminated with gray tiles.
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pbronez 12 minutes ago
It does - you can type them but it rejects the word when you submit it.

I think this DOES make it way harder than regular wordle.

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ChrisRR 25 minutes ago
Isn't that rule 3?
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embedding-shape 33 minutes ago
This is amazing, and incredible difficult (or I'm terrible), after ~10 minutes I can't even get in a third guess!
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intrasight 12 minutes ago
What does "you have already eliminated the letter T" mean?
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codechicago277 6 minutes ago
You already guessed a word that had a “T” in it, and the game confirmed that “T” is not in the word. So you can’t guess another word with a “T”.
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astura 7 minutes ago
The word doesn't contain the letter T.

It means you previously guessed a word with T in it and it wasn't marked at green (correct spot) or yellow (word contains letter in different spot).

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MDTHLN 28 minutes ago
This is quite fun, but I can’t believe the amount of cookies it wants to set!
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whstl 27 minutes ago
I had my ad blocker turned off temporarily and it was a strange experience.
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Folcon 13 minutes ago
Is the word list complete?

I tried WEIRD and it rejected it as not a word

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luciana1u 14 minutes ago
finally a game that respects that I already know all five-letter words and would rather be told not to use them
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lugao 22 minutes ago
It is too hard to be fun :P
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mda 6 minutes ago
I see that terrible cookie permission window (62 legitimate interest) and I close the window,
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burnt-resistor 16 minutes ago
The goal isn't explained clearly and simply enough.
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pasc1878 6 minutes ago
The goal is to get mony from clicks in "legitimate interest"

What is legitimate here. You and the site why does any third party have an interest?

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massimodeluisa 30 minutes ago
Ahahhaha funny! xD
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GNR_Radio 23 minutes ago
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