Hello HN! I'm a big fan of Wordle and I originally got this idea from seeing people gripe about Wordle suddenly being "harder" than usual. Wondering if this was true, I set out to snoop around the NYT's publicly available data, which gave me some pretty cool insights. I've put some of them on this simple site made with React and Claude.<p>There's a grand total of 7 visualizations, with some fun little touches here and there. My favorite is probably "Clairvoyant Guesses," which shows some (to put it nicely) suspicious day-to-day guessing patterns. There's also a fun little easter egg when you type "cat" and then enter a word into the "Find Word:" box. Let me know if you have any suggestions, and any feedback at all :)<p>Github Repo: <a href="https://github.com/crtez/is_wordle_harder_or_am_i_just_stupid">https://github.com/crtez/is_wordle_harder_or_am_i_just_stupi...</a>
This is really neat!<p>I tried looking up the word that I always use to start and it wasn't in the data, which is odd because I know I had a 1-guess win, and I'm fairly sure it would have been with the word I use every day. That said I checked with another list of Wordle words and can't see it there. Maybe it was before the switch to the NYT.