At first I tried to solve starting with 'raise'. This led me down a path were I got words that fit '_ o _ _ y' which fits way too many words. I managed to solve it in 6 words by following a different strategy: Open up with 'lysin', this gives zero hits and then I played more standard which was easy because I didn't end up in a situation where I can't distinguish between options.
It’s probably not as-adversarial-as-possible in the sense of maximizing the minimum number of guesses to win. From playing in an ad hoc way I found TINES->BOARD->LUMPY->CLUCK->FLUFF which wins in 5 moves. I feel like an even harder variant would “herd” you towards cases where you’re forced to guess consonants one or two at a time.
I also ended up in the '_ o _ _ y' scenario, which for me terminated at JOLLY, but I wonder if there's something about applying "standard" Wordle strategies to the adversarial version that seems to lead people down this road.
Cool! How does it handle סופית letters like ך /ח? Like totally separate letters?
For the non-Hebrew speakers, Hebrew has some letters that change form when placed at the end of the word. The Hebrew keyboard has these forms in their own key, but colloquially they're the same letter.
And it does seem to treat them like totally different letters. They are the same though I'm not sure what will be more fun to play. Note that Hebrew has fewer letters to begin with (22 not counting those).
OP here. We actually count them as the same letter for “yellow” boxes, only the keyboard separates them into different keys (this is explained in the help screen).
I can modify my swedish one to do danish. Do you know of any good word lists? For all valid words I can use /usr/share/dict/danish. But do you know of any list that only has good clue words? I'm looking for something like https://scrabbleforening.wordpress.com/ordlister/ord-med-4-b... but for five letters
I think this won't work so well in Hebrew.
As an example, SPOILER ALERT, Today's word starts in ב, and when I try to think of words starting in ב, I'm constantly thinking of words where "ב" acts as the "in-" prefix for a word. I think in English this never happens as unlike Hebrew, I can't think of a letter than can act as a meaningful prefix.
*SPOILER for today's Wordle*
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Eventually, today's word is בהחלט in which ב can be considered as a prefix since ב-החלט -- "in decisiveness".
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"I think in English this never happens as unlike Hebrew, I can't think of a letter than can act as a meaningful prefix."
a on its own can be a few different prefixes: https://www.etymonline.com/word/a-?ref=etymonline_crossrefer... Many of the examples cited in that will strike a modern English speaker as simply being the word, such as "amethyst" which was news to me, but we have moral -> amoral, sexual -> asexual, and a few others.
I certainly agree I've never thought of this in the context of a word game, as opposed to the s suffix which is almost mandatory in Boggle, for instance.
True. "A" does play a similar role. The thing with "A" is that there are relatively few words where it could be applied, while in Hebrew, almost every noun and verb I can think of can have a "ב" prefix.
True, but in English I think this is more of a suffix thing, for example you can have words like "soft"->"softly", "poll->polls". I think this effect is much more subtle when this happens with a suffix rather than a prefix.
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https://qntm.org/files/wordle/index.html
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At first I tried to solve starting with 'raise'. This led me down a path were I got words that fit '_ o _ _ y' which fits way too many words. I managed to solve it in 6 words by following a different strategy: Open up with 'lysin', this gives zero hits and then I played more standard which was easy because I didn't end up in a situation where I can't distinguish between options.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29864418
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For the non-Hebrew speakers, Hebrew has some letters that change form when placed at the end of the word. The Hebrew keyboard has these forms in their own key, but colloquially they're the same letter.
And it does seem to treat them like totally different letters. They are the same though I'm not sure what will be more fun to play. Note that Hebrew has fewer letters to begin with (22 not counting those).
I only know the very little hebrew that I learned a looong time ago while volunteering in a kibbutz, but I managed to guess today's word in 5 guesses: https://twitter.com/kseistrup/status/1483869736014393352
Hope you like it :)
*SPOILER for today's Wordle* *** *** Eventually, today's word is בהחלט in which ב can be considered as a prefix since ב-החלט -- "in decisiveness". ** ** *****
a on its own can be a few different prefixes: https://www.etymonline.com/word/a-?ref=etymonline_crossrefer... Many of the examples cited in that will strike a modern English speaker as simply being the word, such as "amethyst" which was news to me, but we have moral -> amoral, sexual -> asexual, and a few others.
I certainly agree I've never thought of this in the context of a word game, as opposed to the s suffix which is almost mandatory in Boggle, for instance.
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