Show HN: Qwertle, yet another daily word game

Re:Show HN: Qwertle, yet another daily word game by grundoon on Thursday January 25, 2024 @06:21PM (#39136841)

Your game just told me "Ponzi" isn't a word. I feel like Wordle wouldn't have done that, and anyway at least it has the courtesy to say "not in word list" which is very different from the outright lie that your game just told me.

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Re:Show HN: Qwertle, yet another daily word game by tapland on Thursday January 25, 2024 @07:02PM (#39137196)

Yes it would: https://wordledictionary.com/results?find=_____&has=i,n,o,p,...

Ponzi is a surname, and not included in Wordle.

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Re:Show HN: Qwertle, yet another daily word game by b0r0phyll on Thursday January 25, 2024 @06:42PM (#39137033)

I can change the verbiage to say "not in word list", but FYI it's using the same word list as Wordle so Ponzi would not be accepted there either.

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Re:Show HN: Qwertle, yet another daily word game by jerpint on Thursday January 25, 2024 @06:37PM (#39136991)

I don’t think the game is trying to lie to you, rather the implementation hasn’t been polished yet, no need to be so harsh

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Re:Show HN: Qwertle, yet another daily word game by binarymax on Thursday January 25, 2024 @06:40PM (#39137025)

Lots of word game dictionaries don’t contain proper nouns. Ponzi is an interesting example because it’s now used as the definitive for what it is, so words like that are hit or miss. Other examples that might or might not be in dictionaries are Kleenex, Xerox, etc.

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Re:Show HN: Qwertle, yet another daily word game by Kiro on Thursday January 25, 2024 @06:37PM (#39136992)

Wordle doesn't accept "ponzi" either. It's also not a valid word in Scrabble.

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