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  amiga386
  12935 -> TIZZY (5625) -> OXBOW (2674) -> GRUFF (858) -> MAMMA (195) and I'll let you guess the rest but my next choice left 43 words, and I survived with only 4 words possible.The rules not letting use a letter you know isn't in the target word drastically cuts your choices, your best bet is to use as few unique letters per word as you can, and as uncommon letters as you can, but as all normal words need vowels you'll be forced into only picking a vowel from the target word soon enough. Try to find letters that are in the word as late as possible so you're not locked into having to use them.Once you are forced to use letters from the target word, avoid placing them in the right place. Sadly there's a rule not letting you use a known letter more than once in a word (once A is known, you can't write ALPHA), and a rule for not letting you put a known letter in a place you know it doesn't go (so after MAMMA, you can't have HALVE because you know there's not an A in second place, nor ALPHA because you know there's not an A in fifth place).
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  Angostura
  If you enjoy clicking things you can spend hours in their cookie consent boxes untickinv the several hundred individual ‘legitimate interest’ tick boxes for individual vendors
• dontwordle
  Wow I can't believe this showed up on the front page years later. That's fun! I am still new to using Google AdSense and am enjoying the wrath of HN on this thread! Hope everyone can still enjoy the game today. Thank you for the feedback!
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  flexie
  We are asked to allow hundreds of cookies, not just a few, to play the game.
• dang
  Related:Show HN: Can you lose at Wordle if you tried? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31572258 - May 2022 (236 comments)
• markkat
  Nice. I play Last Word daily.https://dragonfjord.com/lastword/It's the same goal, but everyone starts with the same word each day, which does not include any letters in the "last word".No undos in Last Word. My average is 8.7 letters. Really hoping to get it to 9.
• gpvos
  It took me a minute to find out that I needed to close the instructions to see the actual game. A Play button would have been nice.
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  hollylawly
  Of course the one time I get it in 2 guesses is in this version
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  rylando
  Well this sure makes Wordle feel a lot easier!
• catoc
  I had to deny hundreds of tracking “partners” wanting to place cookies - without a ‘reject all’ option - before I could even access the website…So Don’t Access Don’t Wordle
• NikolaNovak
  Like it, but would love a "No Undo" option, or at least, "don't force undo".My friends and I share our wordle results daily. Would like to add this, but so that if you guess in three or four tries, that's OK, that's just your score for the day. Right now game forces me to undo if I have reduced option space to fewer words than there are remaining guesses, and that's quite annoying for how we'd want to play :)
• Murfalo
  * 12974 QAJAQ 1979 PZAZZ 861 OBANG 449 URARI 232 FLAFF 58 DWALM 10 (totally didn't cheat: https://github.com/murfalo/dontwordle-assistant)
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  grocery_stores
  One thing I find odd about the rules: it forces you to respect what you've learned via green or yellow tiles, but not gray tiles. The spirit of the rules suggests once you've learned a letter is not in the word, you shouldn't be able to reuse that letter. Perhaps that would simply make the game too difficult, though.
• steinvakt2
  Cool. Surprisingly difficult. I made an art game inspired by wordle some years ago. My dad and I still play it daily. https://artle.eu
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  nullzzz
  The ads, the banners. Immediate exit.
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  lucideer
  I tried playing this as if its wordle & got it in 2 guesses. How do they do this ??? That's next to impossible in wordle & the probalities seem like they should be the same?
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  huhtenberg
  Some of the suggested plays for yellow EA and green H after the first guess: ALMEH BEKAH BELAH DEASH OBEAH SELAH Not much fun to play with a dictionary like this :-/
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  noahlt
  This is a great demonstration of why Wordle’s Hard Mode is actually easier.
• netsharc
  I'd enjoy it if the rules with some graphics are displayed near the game, for newbies.e.g. show a word with some green letters and that they have to be in the same spot in the other word. e.g. FUBAR with green B -> __B__FUBAR with yellow R -> RRRR_ (with gray background and white R to signify "has to be placed somewhere here")And for the gray letters, I guess.. show them next to the _____ in a trash can?
• rhplus
  I sense this is not winnable for all Wordle dictionary words. Is that provably the case?
• embedding-shape
  This is amazing, and incredible difficult (or I'm terrible), after ~10 minutes I can't even get in a third guess!
• tfrancisl
  Clicked expecting commentary on why playing NYTs wordle, and perhaps other games, was problematic for some reason. Found a game instead.
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  theanonymousone
  I hope NYT lawyers don't come for you. They did for many other variants of this. Maybe reconsider the name?
• jamesforestwest
  Funny idea, it turned out to be a bit more difficult than I thought
• mryingster
  Dang it. I accidentally got the word in two!!!
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  MDTHLN
  This is quite fun, but I can’t believe the amount of cookies it wants to set!
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  Folcon
  Is the word list complete?I tried WEIRD and it rejected it as not a word
• senfiaj
  You can use hints, after that I could find the right sequencetrash smash abash gnash quash clash
• luciana1u
  finally a game that respects that I already know all five-letter words and would rather be told not to use them
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  HelloUsername
  (Un)related; does anyone know where to play the non-NYT Wordle version?
• mda
  I see that terrible cookie permission window (62 legitimate interest) and I close the window,
• lugao
  It is too hard to be fun :P
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  intrasight
  What does "you have already eliminated the letter T" mean?
• thomastjeffery
  Unfortunately, my goto starter word is 4 green letters.It's pretty frustrating to immediately lose, and then have to undo to find out what the word was.
• doctorpangloss
  Legitimately a much better game than actual Wordle.
• wafflebot
  got it on 2nd turn. I am terrible at this.
• JoshTriplett
  Disappointing that this seems to only be a "daily" game, and not have a "just play" mode that uses random words. First thing that I look for with any game that presents itself as "daily" is "where's the non-daily mode".
• phren0logy
  Be happ-ole? (Insert whistling)
• massimodeluisa
  Ahahhaha funny! xD
• GNR_Radio
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  burnt-resistor
  The goal isn't explained clearly and simply enough.
• tantalor
  (meta comment) the chit chat about cookies is off topic and pointless