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Re:Guess the daily Wordle in one try using the tweet distrib... by theiasson on Friday January 28, 2022 @12:06AM (#30110882)
That's a real bummer. Is there any way the author can prevent this? Can he generate random indexes that don't repeat while keeping this random number generator code public?
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Re:Guess the daily Wordle in one try using the tweet distrib... by grenoire on Friday January 28, 2022 @04:21AM (#30112439)
The only way to address this would be validating the answers server-side. Any information you leak in the locally executed code can be discovered without much effort.

I think Wordle doesn't server-side validate because of volume, and also because it's a fun little game and cheating brings you nothing of value.

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