Josh Wardle created Wordle as part of an ongoing quest to design online spaces

Re:Josh Wardle created Wordle as part of an ongoing quest to... by oliwary on Thursday March 17, 2022 @12:51PM (#30713240)

I think it is so cool how the popularity of Wordle has opened the door to so many games that expand on the concept. It is like it created a shared expectation for how games like this can work that has now been adapted and expanded by so many different creators. I don't think any of the variants would be as popular without the original being as culturally prevalent as it is.

If you want to try one more I made squareword (https://squareword.org) which features a 5x5 grid of letters, featuring five words down and five across. Like a combination of sudoku and Wordle.

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Re:Josh Wardle created Wordle as part of an ongoing quest to... by drusepth on Saturday March 19, 2022 @04:12AM (#30732105)

One small feedback on squareword: it'd be very nice to do some word pruning a la Wordle to exclude rarer words that the average person is unlikely to know (or have any exposure to), like today's first row, 4th column, and 5th column. IMO brute-forcing words until you get a word you've never even seen before isn't very fun.

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Re:Josh Wardle created Wordle as part of an ongoing quest to... by mikepurvis on Friday March 18, 2022 @09:04AM (#30721666)

Absolutely, yeah. Even just Quordle would be pretty incomprehensible to most normal people lacking the baseline expectations set by vanilla Wordle.

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Re:Josh Wardle created Wordle as part of an ongoing quest to... by aabbcc1241 on Thursday March 17, 2022 @08:37PM (#30717415)

This is a hard but fun one :)

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