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Re:Show HN: Qwertle, yet another daily word game by nomilk on Thursday January 25, 2024 @06:51PM (#39137116)
Cool idea (and great name). I use 'STEAL' as my first word in wordle. Wondering what a good starting word would be in this variant. First thought: something distributed equidistantly across the keyboard, second thought: aim for edges so you can rule out movement in some directions and reduce search complexity.
Re:Show HN: Qwertle, yet another daily word game by b0r0phyll on Thursday January 25, 2024 @07:16PM (#39137316)
I always start with FRUIT, no idea if it's optimal but it works pretty well. Also, unlike Wordle, there's no downside to guessing words with repeated letters, so something like FLUFF could probably work too