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Re:Quordle: Four Wordles in One by DungZeekFu on Thursday February 17, 2022 @12:56PM (#30376318)
Hi everyone I am the creator of Quordle and I am glad that people are enjoying playing it :)

I also appreciate all the feedback and I am looking to improve the experience when playing on desktop!

You can follow the @quordle Twitter for updates as well!

Re:Quordle: Four Wordles in One by wil93 on Thursday February 17, 2022 @02:40PM (#30377660)
One suggestion: could you put the four games side-by-side when the horizontal space allows it?

With a 1792px width (Macbook Pro 16) I have to scroll vertically to see all the games while there is plenty of unused horizontal space

Re:Quordle: Four Wordles in One by loudmax on Thursday February 17, 2022 @03:29PM (#30378224)
I agree. If there's empty space on the screen, you shouldn't need to scroll.

But after a practice round, I didn't need to scroll anyway because I got today's puzzle in 3/4/5/7, so whoohoo!

Re:Quordle: Four Wordles in One by gdfgjhs on Thursday February 17, 2022 @02:58PM (#30377897)
Yeah I came here to say same thing. I find it hard to concentrate when bottom two boards are cutoff.
Re:Quordle: Four Wordles in One by aardshark on Thursday February 17, 2022 @02:44PM (#30377713)
First, loving this version, it's just the right amount of difficulty. It's slowly overtaking Wordle in my group.

Are the colors in dark mode different to Wordle? I find it harder to remember which gray means unguessed and which means no matches.

The keyboard doesn't display correctly with split colors on Firefox Android, but the numbers at the end do.

Lastly, the share is too large. I tend to just cut off the actual boards and just post the numbers.

Re:Quordle: Four Wordles in One by akersten on Thursday February 17, 2022 @01:28PM (#30376724)
It's really cool! one small request: Can you switch the colors for "guessed, not in word" and "not guessed yet" letters on the keyboard? It's opposite from the original and makes it confusing.
Re:Quordle: Four Wordles in One by DungZeekFu on Thursday February 17, 2022 @01:46PM (#30376961)
I am working on tweaking the keyboard to be more clear so stay tuned for updates very soon around this!
Re:Quordle: Four Wordles in One by gulabjamuns on Sunday February 20, 2022 @11:35PM (#30412018)
I am loving this.

One thing, the position of the backspace and enter keys is the opposite of wordle and that's confusing, esp if you play both.

Re:Quordle: Four Wordles in One by autoexec on Thursday February 17, 2022 @02:57PM (#30377887)
Getting rid of the google tracker would be nice. I was disappointed to see the New York Times added one to the original game after they moved it.
Re:Quordle: Four Wordles in One by fourseventy on Thursday February 17, 2022 @04:02PM (#30378624)
Use adblock?
Re:Quordle: Four Wordles in One by autoexec on Thursday February 17, 2022 @04:44PM (#30379096)
I do, which is how I immediately noticed it was there when I went to the site. I'm just not a big fan of the "I've got mine so screw everyone else" mentality and I'm happy to suggest making simple changes that will improve things for others.
Re:Quordle: Four Wordles in One by falseprofit on Sunday February 27, 2022 @09:55AM (#30488977)
One of today’s words appeared recently. I don’t know how many 5-letter words there are, but I feel like the optimal time between appearances should be a bit longer. (Not to mention this word is an alternative spelling, which may be frustrating to some.)
Re:Quordle: Four Wordles in One by sveno on Thursday February 17, 2022 @02:02PM (#30377161)
This is really neat. That's all I wanted to say. Thank you for building it.
Re:Quordle: Four Wordles in One by Reichhardt on Friday February 18, 2022 @10:18AM (#30386793)
Need to fully visually eliminate letter choices that are no longer available to the remaining quadrant, when the others that are solved.
Re:Quordle: Four Wordles in One by djrobstep on Thursday February 17, 2022 @03:46PM (#30378433)
Hey my partner plays a lot of quordle and had the following feedback:

Three things:

1. Love it! Thank you!

2. Could there be a better contrast between keyboard letters and the game board? They’re a bit too similar. I use dark mode, but it seems there is the same lack of definition in light mode as well.

3. Is there any way the whole game could be visible on mobile (e.g. iPhone12 Max) so the last few rows of the game board don’t need to be scrolled?

Re:Quordle: Four Wordles in One by dkonofalski on Thursday February 17, 2022 @04:15PM (#30378775)
If you need CSS help or help with the responsive design, let me know! I'd be happy to help. Switched from Wordle after NYT to Quordle and definitely prefer the challenge of Quordle.
Re:Quordle: Four Wordles in One by cjkarr on Thursday February 17, 2022 @02:42PM (#30377692)
Amazing work. I'll be adding it to my daily routine.
Re:Quordle: Four Wordles in One by TuringNYC on Thursday February 17, 2022 @03:51PM (#30378477)
Which word dictionary did you use? I tried coding my own but was surprised as how messy all the dictionaries are.
Re:Quordle: Four Wordles in One by jjnoakes on Thursday February 17, 2022 @09:11PM (#30381372)
Not OP but for my Wordle clone I used this, with some minimal manual pruning to my taste:

http://wordlist.aspell.net/

Re:Quordle: Four Wordles in One by turkey99 on Saturday February 19, 2022 @07:36PM (#30401994)
I like it, but too often there are words that you never use!
Re:Quordle: Four Wordles in One by willis936 on Thursday February 17, 2022 @05:07PM (#30379325)
I'm getting some weird words in practice such as "FETID" and "SHALT". Is it reasonable to increase the cutoff of word usage for the dictionary?
Re:Quordle: Four Wordles in One by homonculus1 on Thursday February 17, 2022 @05:15PM (#30379405)
Those are great words
Re:Quordle: Four Wordles in One by willis936 on Thursday February 17, 2022 @05:22PM (#30379487)
What about POESY?
Re:Quordle: Four Wordles in One by sbarre on Thursday February 17, 2022 @06:33PM (#30380206)
It rings around

A delightful sound

Re:Quordle: Four Wordles in One by altairprime on Thursday February 17, 2022 @02:31PM (#30377534)
I love this. Thank you for this.