Don't Wordle

embedding-shape

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

rylando

Well this sure makes Wordle feel a lot easier!

massimodeluisa

Ahahhaha funny! xD

MDTHLN

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

grocery_stores

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.

hollylawly

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

theanonymousone

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

flexie

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

lugao

It is too hard to be fun :P

huhtenberg

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 :-/

burnt-resistor

The goal isn't explained clearly and simply enough.

netsharc

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?

luciana1u

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

Folcon

Is the word list complete? I tried WEIRD and it rejected it as not a word

intrasight

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

Angostura

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

mda

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

phren0logy

Be happ-ole? (Insert whistling)

lucideer

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?

amiga386

12935 -> TIZZY (5625) -> OXBOW (2674) -> GRUFF (858) -> MAMMA (195) and I'll let you guess the rest but my next choice left 43 words, and I survived with only 4 words possible. The rules not letting use a letter you know isn't in the target word drastically cuts your choices, your best bet is to use as few unique letters per word as you can, and as uncommon letters as you can, but as all normal words need vowels you'll be forced into only picking a vowel from the target word soon enough. Try to find letters that are in the word as late as possible so you're not locked into having to use them. Once you are forced to use letters from the target word, avoid placing them in the right place. Sadly there's a rule not letting you use a known letter more than once in a word (once A is known, you can't write ALPHA), and a rule for not letting you put a known letter in a place you know it doesn't go (so after MAMMA, you can't have HALVE because you know there's not an A in second place, nor ALPHA because you know there's not an A in fifth place).