- Fun<p>- Simple<p>- One puzzle a day, and everyone plays the same one so you can share and compare scores<p>- No account creation, logins, ads, subscriptions, data mining<p>All the right ingredients for going viral. I just hope the last point stays unchanged.
The game's great but I'm puzzled why no one mentions that this is a verbatim copy of Lingo, a 1987 tv show that's been adapted in many countries. I used to watch this in France where it was very successful. Once people got too good at 5-letter words, they ran 6, then 7, and finally 8 letters.
What’s your optimal 5-letter starting word?<p>Mine is HOUSE. It has 3 vowels (including E which is the most frequent in the English language) and S which helps test for plurals.
The eligible word list is an array of 5 char words embedded in the script. After digging a bit it looks like it gets the word like this (pseudocode):<p>dayOffset = floor((today - 19 April 2021) / 864e5)<p>index = dayOffset % wordList.length<p>wordOfTheDay = wordList[index]<p>edit: It's literally just picking the next item in the array in sequence.
LOL, this sounds exactly like the Dutch tv game show 'Lingo' that's been on tv since 1989. Everything old is new again!<p><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingo_(Dutch_game_show)" rel="nofollow">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingo_(Dutch_game_show)</a>
This has become one of my favorites since I learned about it from NYT. It's more fun if you use the "hard mode" where your next word attempt has to include the right letters/spaces found in the prior try.
<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30004743" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30004743</a><p>Show HN: Wordlet - a Wordle Bookmarklet to add change day button (just in case you miss some days :P)
This is an easier version of Bulls & Cows [1] game I played in college during boring classes.<p>[1] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulls_and_Cows" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulls_and_Cows</a>
I’ve been able to play a handful of the past words with internet archive for anyone interested<p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220105234455/https://www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/" rel="nofollow">https://web.archive.org/web/20220105234455/https://www.power...</a>
I've been playing this as a road trip game since a friend introduced me to it in high school. Depending on the age of the people playing (and/or the fraction of concentration the driver needs to devote to driving) we also play with 3- or 4-letter words. 6 is a bit much for me to keep track of in my head.
If you want more than 1 Wordle a day, I forked his code and added a randomizer.<p>Same daily word, same dictionary of words, same code.<p>wordle.berknation.com
I tried this game the last couple of days and I don't get the appeal. There is some skill involved, but there is also a huge amount of luck. For example yesterday I had "ti_er". I guessed "timer" but the actual word was "tiger". That left me with a score of 5 instead of 4. Does that say anything about my skill level as a player? Honestly, this seems to mostly be a marketing success story about the sharing score functionality and how that led to virality on Twitter.
see also: Josh Wardle's talk on "Why April Fools' Day sucks and what we did about it at Reddit" – <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXzfvYoFQFo" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXzfvYoFQFo</a>
naturally, clones have emerged<p>here is one I found today, you can have multiple tries, and chose word length<p><a href="http://foldr.moe/hello-wordl/" rel="nofollow">http://foldr.moe/hello-wordl/</a><p>wonder what other innovations occur before we round back into scrabble