Re:Nerdle = Like Wordle but with Equations
by hvdijk on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @04:05PM
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It's all fun until you get something like FIGHT where the last four letters are right and have to just guess from LIGHT, MIGHT, RIGHT, SIGHT, TIGHT, WIGHT, anything I might have missed, and there's no way to use any strategy and you just have to randomly guess and hope you guess right.
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Re:Nerdle = Like Wordle but with Equations
by capitainenemo on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @04:37PM
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I can see that happening, although for some reason it hardly ever does with my usual guess strategies. I've only had one word result in a few candidates. The fact that it happened immediately and almost unavoidably in the nerdle made me think this really wasn't for me.
Re:Nerdle = Like Wordle but with Equations
by bee_rider on Wednesday February 09, 2022 @02:23AM
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This situation is technically possible, but I'd be surprised to already have 4/5 letters, and not have already tested R, S, L, or N (N from NIGHT). There are all one point scrabble letters after all. I could see myself needing to roll the dice on MIGHT, TIGHT, WIGHT.
Re:Nerdle = Like Wordle but with Equations
by scatters on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @04:29PM
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You can guess WARMS, which will either give you the answer (to input on the next try) or eliminate 4 of the possibilities, leaving only 2 to guess.
That's a best case of 2 additional guesses and worst case of 3 (expectation of 2 1/3) which is better than your strategy, which has a best case of 1, worst case 6, expectation 3 1/2.
Re:Nerdle = Like Wordle but with Equations
by PebblesRox on Wednesday February 09, 2022 @12:08AM
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That's true for regular mode, but WARMS would be an invalid guess in hard mode once the last four letters have been established as IGHT.