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Re:Show HN: My 70 year old grandma is learning to code and m... by Kiro on Sunday August 11, 2024 @01:51PM (#41217991)
> About the game: somewhat fun but if you don't know the word, that's it. No really any way to figure out in a rewarding way.

What does this mean? You could say the same thing about Wordle.

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Re:Show HN: My 70 year old grandma is learning to code and m... by tarl0s on Sunday August 11, 2024 @02:24PM (#41218285)
I guessed many words I didn't know on Wordle (not a native English speaker), if you are able to reduce enough the letters search space there's going to be only a few options that e.g. make sense phonetically.
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Re:Show HN: My 70 year old grandma is learning to code and m... by Kiro on Sunday August 11, 2024 @02:50PM (#41218462)
I actually misread the original comment but I guess my question is still somewhat relevant so leaving it as it is. You're right that it's easier to just bruteforce it in Wordle.
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Re:Show HN: My 70 year old grandma is learning to code and m... by sverhagen on Sunday August 11, 2024 @03:25PM (#41218687)
This was my problem too. If there was a scoring system, it might make sense to buy letters against your score, to help you forward once you're stuck. I got stuck. What the heck goes between Volatile and Vole?
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Re:Show HN: My 70 year old grandma is learning to code and m... by lupire on Sunday August 11, 2024 @04:11PM (#41219004)
Hint: it is a common word that is NOT on this list of 10000 words!

https://www.mit.edu/~ecprice/wordlist.10000

It is on this list of 20000 words:

https://gist.github.com/eyturner/3d56f6a194f411af9f29df4c9d4...

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