Seven Things We Learned Analyzing 515M Wordles

Re:Seven Things We Learned Analyzing 515M Wordles by xutopia on Sunday December 17, 2023 @06:02PM (#38677296)

A lot of my friends and I are going about it in "ultra hard mode". It consists in having to use the guessed letters (that's normal hard mode) and always using the last day's word as your start word. It makes it really fun and really challenging.

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Re:Seven Things We Learned Analyzing 515M Wordles by fells on Sunday December 17, 2023 @06:13PM (#38677383)

This is how I play as well, because in my mind it makes it basically just a long, never-evending game of Wordle, which I find slightly amusing.

Though the number of days where I forget the previous day's word is probably too damn high.

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Re:Seven Things We Learned Analyzing 515M Wordles by eyelidlessness on Monday December 18, 2023 @12:28AM (#38679528)

This is tempting, if only because I might be more likely to remember the day’s word for more than a few minutes.

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Re:Seven Things We Learned Analyzing 515M Wordles by matsemann on Monday December 18, 2023 @02:09AM (#38679956)

What I don't like about "hard mode" is that it removes one level of strategy. If I for instance realize the word could be CRATE, CRAVE, CRANE, CRAZE, it feels "harder" to figure out a word with T,V,N,Z to guarantee a guess in two, instead of just trying all four since I need to use the already found letters.

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