There’s another post on the front page today talking about how the author’s wordle clone wasn’t approved for the App Store.

All I could think the entire time reading it was that the web was the ideal place for their app, and then this manifested itself almost immediately.

So thanks to whoever created this for keeping the web unique, interesting, and aligned with its original principles.

Just waiting for the Browser Extension that shows "*dle posts per day that make the top 30 on HN".

That will be the Event Horizon of compsci I have waited these 30+ years for.

Okay, this is literally just Mastermind. DnD stats are just arbitrary numbers between 1 and 30

I think the intent is to guess monsters. My friend is really into dnd, being a dungeon master, etc. and could easily tell certain monsters from their stats alone.

In this game and others in the Wordle family, for each square in the guess, you get green, yellow, or black feedback specifically for it. In Mastermind, you'd only get told the total number of greens and the total number of yellows per line, not exactly which squares they came from.

Depends on which version of mastermind.

In the one I had as a kid, you'd get which guesses were correct etc, just like here.

I mean yeah, Wordle is basically just Mastermind too, but with a new spin. But while I haven't met a single person in real life that knew Mastermind, everyone and their dog seem to be playing Wordle. Popular games (and all other media) are almost always very closely inspired by older, less popular games/media. Nothing wrong with that.

They’re usually correlated. It’s… unusual to have a monster with a 25 Dex and a 2 Str

Indeed. For today’s, it was useful to know that for critters usually don’t dump Wis in the same way as other mental stats, because it represents environmental awareness. You recognize the build type (e.g. animal, caster, monstrous race) and try to fill in from there.

Feedback: I was hoping the monster list would decrease as you eliminate possibilities.

Monster list should show stats.

Also the screen unexpectedly zooms if I tap the same number a few times.

I play d&d twice weekly. Interesting idea, but insanely difficult. I don't see this one being a daily puzzle for me.

Do we have a list of all wordle clones? I feel a very strong urge to 'gotta catch em all'

Here's a large list:

https://aloneonahill.com/blog/wordle-alternatives/

It does feel a lil bit like the "second coming" of Flappy Bird. Makes me wonder what a Flappy Wordle would look like :-p

Sounds like an opportunity for a Dashboardle. Choose from a directory of wordle clones to favorite, and the Dashbordle will cycle you through each of your daily puzzles. No need to visit each of them individually and no forgetting any.

Is there a Pokemordle yet?

Behold!: https://squirdle.fireblend.com/

My favorite at this moment is Worldle, the geographic analogue: https://worldle.teuteuf.fr/

Funny, when the Wordle word was KNOLL, I guessed GNOLL first. Would have been a good for this.

My strategy so far was spending first 5 tries to go through every number 1-30, and remaining three tries to guess number arrangement. Any better ideas?

I think you could improve this strategy by starting at common stats, and moving outwards from there (i.e. start with 10-14, then 7, 8, 9, 15, and 16, etc.)

To go further, your modifier from stats only increases on even numbers, so most of the time that's what you can expect a stat to be. 8,10,12,14,16,18 for example covers the expected range that every L1 player character is likely to fall in. That also let's you estimate the CR of a monster by seeing if the stats tend toward a negative modifier or a positive one.

To go further, stats have interconnections between them. The physical stats (STR DEX CON) are likely to sit within a few points of each other, same goes for mental stats (INT WIS CHA). The physical section is also likely to be higher because most of the creatures on this list were designed for combat and will have stats reflecting that. The exception is WIS, which is used to determine initiative order in combat and is usually high regardless of creature level.

Assume a monster will have multiple of the same number.

Has someone made Wordle 2048 yet?