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Re:Resurrecting the old Wordle for procrastinators by tibbar on Sunday February 13, 2022 @03:39PM (#30325422)
Oh, hmm. Perhaps the list has been changed multiple times? It was originally 12972 words (see https://www.poirrier.ca/notes/wordle-optimal/) and was 10638 words as of yesterday. Anyway, some of the words that have been removed are slurs/profanity.
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Re:Resurrecting the old Wordle for procrastinators by ThatPlayer on Sunday February 13, 2022 @03:58PM (#30325619)
I believe you're mixing it up. There are two arrays of words in the source code. One that contains all the solutions in order, and one that contains all the possible words without repeating any words in the solutions list

So the 10638 words are the set of all possible guesses minus the set of all the solutions.

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Re:Resurrecting the old Wordle for procrastinators by tibbar on Sunday February 13, 2022 @04:00PM (#30325643)
Oh… I think you’re right. Thanks.
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Re:Resurrecting the old Wordle for procrastinators by ThatPlayer on Sunday February 13, 2022 @08:08PM (#30327357)
The one you linked also describes the old word lists similarly: https://www.poirrier.ca/notes/wordle/#variant-cheat-mode
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Re:Resurrecting the old Wordle for procrastinators by jessikat on Sunday February 13, 2022 @04:34PM (#30325910)
It allowed cunts as a guess today :p
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