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Re:Every Possible Wordle Solution Visualized by fsckboy on Wednesday March 22, 2023 @12:25AM (#35256821)
what you say is somewhat correct, but this site says that these are the valid answers, not including the valid guesses, so DUCKY wouldn't be expected here.

personally, I'd prefer a tool that included all balid guesses and wouldn't lead me so precisely to answers. there's small c cheating and big C Cheating :)

the tweaks introduced by the Times, etc., yes.

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Re:Every Possible Wordle Solution Visualized by TylerE on Wednesday March 22, 2023 @12:38AM (#35256895)
Wordle has been trivially cheatable from day one using any of the gazillion scrabble solvers out there. Treat unknown positions as wildcards.
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Re:Every Possible Wordle Solution Visualized by samtho on Wednesday March 22, 2023 @01:53AM (#35257317)
At the risk of sounding like your fourth grade teacher, you’re only cheating yourself.

I would argue that using a dictionary is a tactic and one to better help you better play the game by introducing you to the idea of a decision tree. You can ask Wordlebot how you did and see how it approaches the problem with all the knowledge short of knowing the actual word.

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Re:Every Possible Wordle Solution Visualized by TylerE on Wednesday March 22, 2023 @02:24AM (#35257507)
Obviously. I’m not saying I do itZ I was just confused why GP thought being able to cheat at wordle is somehow new.
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Re:Every Possible Wordle Solution Visualized by fsckboy on Wednesday March 22, 2023 @02:43PM (#35265409)
i wasn't thinking it was new, so wasn't trying to say that, i was talking about what constitutes cheating by degrees.
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Re:Every Possible Wordle Solution Visualized by ghaff on Wednesday March 22, 2023 @08:15AM (#35259896)
I did use Word Hippo as a bit of a crutch sometimes when I was starting out and got stuck but haven't looked at it in many months.
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Re:Every Possible Wordle Solution Visualized by adrianmonk on Wednesday March 22, 2023 @03:01PM (#35265678)
It depends on whether you play for the love of puzzles or the love of words.

If the appeal is puzzle solving, then you may want to use a dictionary as part of exploring a puzzle solving technique.

If the appeal is words, then you may enjoy plumbing the depths of what words you know, why you know them, and how they are put together.

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