Don't Wordle

(dontwordle.com)

87 points | by Hbruz0 2 hours ago ago

35 comments

  • Angostura 25 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

    • gear54rus 20 minutes ago

      Ublock seems to work with this one.

  • lucideer 9 minutes ago

    I tried playing this as if its wordle & got it in 2 guesses. How do they do this ??? That's next to impossible in wordle & the probalities seem like they should be the same?

  • rylando an hour ago

    Well this sure makes Wordle feel a lot easier!

    • whoisnjogu 40 minutes ago

      and I still can't believe it took me more than 3 guesses

  • flexie 38 minutes ago

    We are asked to allow hundreds of cookies, not just a few, to play the game.

    • Madmallard 5 minutes ago

      yes top of hacker news and loaded with tracking information and a popular game so likely to garner lots of attention

  • grocery_stores 41 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.

    • kevsim 40 minutes ago

      It didn't let me guess things that had already been eliminated with gray tiles.

    • pbronez 27 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.

    • ChrisRR 39 minutes ago

      Isn't that rule 3?

  • huhtenberg 32 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 :-/
  • netsharc 30 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?

  • MDTHLN 43 minutes ago

    This is quite fun, but I can’t believe the amount of cookies it wants to set!

    • whstl 41 minutes ago

      I had my ad blocker turned off temporarily and it was a strange experience.

  • hollylawly 41 minutes ago

    Of course the one time I get it in 2 guesses is in this version

    • bonzini 22 minutes ago

      Got to the sixth attempt, 2 words remaining, of course I picked the right one.

      • stavros 14 minutes ago

        I picked the right one out of twelve.

  • theanonymousone 39 minutes ago

    I hope NYT lawyers don't come for you. They did for many other variants of this. Maybe reconsider the name?

    • lugao 35 minutes ago

      Do they go after people using similar names or just any game with similar mechanics?

  • embedding-shape an hour ago

    This is amazing, and incredible difficult (or I'm terrible), after ~10 minutes I can't even get in a third guess!

  • intrasight 27 minutes ago

    What does "you have already eliminated the letter T" mean?

    • codechicago277 21 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”.

    • astura 22 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).

  • Folcon 28 minutes ago

    Is the word list complete?

    I tried WEIRD and it rejected it as not a word

    • zabzonk 14 minutes ago

      that "i before e except after c" rule often gets taken too seriously

      • bigfishrunning 5 minutes ago

        i think it's kind of beautiful that weird is a weird word

      • LuminousWzrd 8 minutes ago

        Oh I've messed that one up before

  • lugao 36 minutes ago

    It is too hard to be fun :P

  • luciana1u 28 minutes ago

    finally a game that respects that I already know all five-letter words and would rather be told not to use them

  • mda 20 minutes ago

    I see that terrible cookie permission window (62 legitimate interest) and I close the window,

  • phren0logy 13 minutes ago

    Be happ-ole? (Insert whistling)

  • burnt-resistor 30 minutes ago

    The goal isn't explained clearly and simply enough.

    • pasc1878 20 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?

  • massimodeluisa 44 minutes ago

    Ahahhaha funny! xD