Wordle: simple web word game

[mouser]

Been enjoying this:

https://www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/

There is only one new word each day, so you can't keep playing it.  Simple fun little brain puzzle word game you play in your web browser:
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[nogojoe]

Nice find Mouser, you are a hero got the word in five goes make you think a little. won't say what the word was it would spoil it for others

[Spyrith]

I had way too much fun with this, even though I failed. 10/10 will try again. A shame they only give 1 word a day, I think 2-3 would have been better and still kept the whole thing fun.

[BGM]

I got to the 5th try and decided to cheat and used my program called Ballistic to give me a list of words that would fit the spot....
hee hee

[mouser]

There is an advanced mode in options that requires each guess be consistent with the previous clues.. i think it makes it more interesting and challenging.

[Deozaan]

My strategy (by the end) was to guess words I knew were wrong, but used letters I hadn't yet tried. Then I used the clues given to piece together the solution.

I definitely would have failed if I had to use the given clues in subsequent guesses. And in my opinion, only being able to make 6 guesses and play once every 24 hours, I think that's too difficult of a restriction while keeping things fun. It would just make me feel frustrated.

But I am curious. Is it the same word for everyone every day? Those who have played it today, check the spoiler below to see how I did, and tell me if you got the same word:

SPOILER: Today's Solution

[mouser]

yep, same word for everyone. i take it that and the fact there is only one per day is part of the charm.
it's a neat little unintuitive lesson for game developers.  here's a simple way to have a kind of shared experience among all players.

[nogojoe]

Nice find Mouser, you are a hero got the word in five goes make you think a little. won't say what the word was it would spoil it for others

Heron was the word

[mouser]

I've been having a blast playing this every day and talking with a friend about strategies for purposefully trying to lose in hard mode.
"Hard Mode" may make it harder to think of words to guess, but it seems to us that it *mostly* makes it hard to lose since being restricted to previous clue consistency quickly narrows down word possibilities.  But it is still possible to lose with some creative use of double letters, etc.  One thing to consider when trying to lose is that hard mode says it restricts guesses to be consistent with clues, but it will actually let in some guesses that are inconsistent -- for example when you use a letter twice and you get the location right and then for the second use you get a "not in the word", you shouldnt be able to guess a word with that letter doubled up any more, but the game won't stop you from doing that repeatedly.

[hamradio]

It told me I was a genius today. Heheh.

[4wd]

Stop while I'm ahead 

[wraith808]

It definitely gets worse...



Almost didn't make todays... from guess 3 I had four out of 5 correct. I just flailed at that first letter...

[powerlanguage]

Hey all, I'm the creator of Wordle.

Glad to hear you all are enjoying it! Someone posted it to Reddit last week and I responded there sharing some of my thoughts around decisions I made when making the game: https://www.reddit.com/r/WebGames/comments/qwmnmt/wordle_a_daily_word_guessing_game

[mouser]

Awesome! Nice to meet you and thank you for stopping by.  We're loving wordle and I'm very curious to read more about your design thoughts on it.. Heading over to read now. 

[Target]

anyone get todays word?  I've got the last 4 letters but none of the remaining combinations are actually words...

EDIT: worked it out

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

I hadn't realized I could use letters twice

[4wd]

Interesting, obviously not the same word for everyone since the word I just got doesn't have repeated letters.

[tomos]

Interesting, obviously not the same word for everyone since the word I just got doesn't have repeated letters.

Same here (new word due here in twenty minutes or so).

Got today's word relatively quickly fwiw which consoled me after not getting the previous one at all.

[wraith808]

Interesting, obviously not the same word for everyone since the word I just got doesn't have repeated letters.

That's what I was thinking.

[4wd]

Brad Wyatt translated Wordle into a PowerShell module:
Play Wordle, the Puzzle Game Using PowerShell

[mouser]

Nice.  I'm still playing Wordle every day 

[wraith808]

I miss days a lot. I still don't see how anyone gets it in the first 3 guesses without any other clues.

[Target]

I miss days a lot. I still don't see how anyone gets it in the first 3 guesses without any other clues.

depends on the clues...I got it in 3 yesterday, but lately I've needed all 6 a couple of times

[Tuxman]

Well, there's Letterle as well, pretty much making Wordle obsolete.

[Target]

Well, there's Letterle as well, pretty much making Wordle obsolete.

doesn't seem like much of an alternative to me, just enter letters until you 'guess' the 'right one'....

[wraith808]

I miss days a lot. I still don't see how anyone gets it in the first 3 guesses without any other clues.

depends on the clues...I got it in 3 yesterday, but lately I've needed all 6 a couple of times

What clues? I mean, there are cues from where you place the letters, but no clues about the final word, are there? Or did I just miss something?

Well, there's Letterle as well, pretty much making Wordle obsolete.

doesn't seem like much of an alternative to me, just enter letters until you 'guess' the 'right one'....

Agreed.