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Re:Quordle: Four Wordles in One by altairprime on Friday February 18, 2022 @03:13PM (#30390454)
Well, you need 180 characters, so are there 90 good usable characters, or 60, or 45 that will work?

I’m not suggesting doing a full UTF mapping onto base64, but just 1..180 mod 3 => char base64[3] would give you 182 board positions in three URL characters.

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Re:Quordle: Four Wordles in One by altairprime on Friday February 18, 2022 @05:21PM (#30391896)
*192, mobile typo, sorry
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Re:Quordle: Four Wordles in One by reissbaker on Friday February 18, 2022 @08:58PM (#30393723)
base64 would be pretty neat! I also wonder what non-emoji unicode characters are commonly supported in paths... If say, CJK character sets were supported by most apps, single-character paths would even work.
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