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Re:Worldle by rplnt on Thursday February 17, 2022 @04:56AM (#30371360)
How is it deceptive? To me it's an extra tidbit of information that doesn't seem important. It's clearly linked with distance, so I know it's something to do with distance.
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Re:Worldle by Ansil849 on Thursday February 17, 2022 @04:24PM (#30378879)
> How is it deceptive?

When people talk about how far one country is from another, chances are extremely unlikely they are referring to how far their central points are from one another.

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Re:Worldle by rplnt on Friday February 18, 2022 @02:58AM (#30383218)
That's true, but it takes a moment to realize the intuitive first thought couldn't work in practice. So it must be something like the centers. Plus the exact distance doesn't matter in this game.
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