Binary Wordle - Readit News

Step 1: Guess 00000.

Step 2: Replace all grey cells with 1s.

0xAFFFF · 3 months ago

This is obviously improper. The valid strategy for this game unfolds as follows.

Step 1: Guess 11111.

Step 2: Replace all grey cells with 0s.

Thank you for your careful consideration.

If you start with 0's you save a small amount of electricity. 1's use up more electricity - any electronic engineer will agree.

heckelson · 3 months ago

And for a second, I was proud that I solved mine in 3 steps...

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paxys · 3 months ago

Step 1: Guess anything

Step 2: Flip all the non green cells.

underlines · 3 months ago

afaik, guessing anything not 00000 or 11111 at first step will lead to an optimum strategy of 3 steps. because you introduce possible "right digit at wrong place" as a third state.

guessing 00000 or 11111 removes that third state and leaves you with simple substitution of wrong cells, which leads to an optimal 2 step strategy.

but obviously the shortest strategy is just guessing it right on the first try :D lol

jesse__ · 3 months ago

I think it's actually possible to win on the second guess with any initial input. Or at least I did it a handful of times..

vikingerik · 3 months ago

This should be correct. For any cell that isn't green after your first guess, there's only one other possibility for its value.

dskloet · 3 months ago

It's not guaranteed you will always win in 2 steps because occasionally you will win in 1 step.

selcuka · 3 months ago

Yes. Yellow and grey mean exactly the same thing in this game: Flip it.

IAmBroom · 3 months ago

Hoping that you are being sarcastic...

petra303 · 3 months ago

Yea, you don’t need more than two chances.

bbassett · 3 months ago

and now we know how raid parity works

stavros · 3 months ago

I got zero right: https://imgz.org/i6yJQnf4.png

gus_massa · 3 months ago

I solved it in one attempt! https://imgur.com/a/jklkc7F

Spoiler alert: There is a nice video by Captain Disillusion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ou7KSmfC3lA (the relevant part is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ou7KSmfC3lA&t=275s )

a3w · 3 months ago

I think I saw a two.

There is no such thing as a two, Bender!

freedomben · 3 months ago

There should be a 1 in 1,000 chance that a two slips in to one of the puzzles, and then can't be reproduced.

layer8 · 3 months ago

There may be FileNotFound, though.

https://thedailywtf.com/articles/what_is_truth_0x3f_

Sesse__ · 3 months ago

I intended this strategy, but 00000 happened to be correct, so I didn't even need a step 2.

arjvik · 3 months ago

Came here to present my strategy for solving it in two tries, and realized it was far more complicated! (started with 00011)

AmsterErdo · 3 months ago

I think I don't get it... since it's binary, it can always be guessed in two attempts?

gamerDude · 3 months ago

It took me 10 tries...

cookie_monsta · 3 months ago

The classics are classics for a reason

financypants · 3 months ago

That's pretty good, considering they give you 110 tries

joseph_scott · 3 months ago

williamdclt · 3 months ago

I _think_ it's humorous!

awwaiid · 3 months ago

Yes. You can still try to get it in one attempt.

brookst · 3 months ago

Odds in one attempt: 1 in 32

Odds in two attempts: 1 in 1

sashank_1509 · 3 months ago

I’m glad I figured that out after my first attempt. I feel smart lol.

tylerchr · 3 months ago

My wife took one look at this and said “It’s not Wordle if it’s all binary—it’s Digitle.”

Well… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_(computer_architecture)

5 bits would be a weird size for a word.

HPsquared · 3 months ago

Reminds me of the idea of analogue cheese - fake cheese. It's analogue cheese until you get some on your fingers, when it becomes digital cheese.

gowld · 3 months ago

It's not Wordle because because it's only 5 bits. There are no remotely common 5-bit word systems.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_(computer_architecture)#T...

igitur · 3 months ago

I'm waiting for the NY Times to sue this one too.[1]

[1] https://apnews.com/article/new-york-times-wordle-clones-take...

umvi · 3 months ago

Binary is too easy, but hex can be tricky. I made a hex-based wordle puzzle for my programming game where you have to guess an 8-digit hex string in as few as 6-12 guesses using wordle mechanics... called the level "dwordle" :)

(video from like 3 years ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/Unity2D/comments/sq4anb/i_added_a_w...)

charly187 · 3 months ago

Someone should make a base-26 version! It would probably be super popular!

Aissen · 3 months ago

I love that someone went all the way to write and publish this joke. Keep hacking!

1 minute and 2 1-sentence prompts: https://g.co/gemini/share/a14f3f1b1c1c

Gemini self-improved version (added the "Hint" and "What could it mean?" features): https://g.co/gemini/share/05c8cce3b2ff

Nice, it seems the share links don't show the prompts (or I missed it); could you share them please?

patrakov · 3 months ago

asimovDev · 3 months ago

https://horsle.glitch.me reminds me of this

tetris11 · 3 months ago

quite difficult, there aren't many horse anagrams

wongogue · 3 months ago

My trick is to use HORSE as the starting word.

abotsis · 3 months ago

Yea, it’s too easy. Maybe if it were a “guess the number” but in binary? Hints are just “too high” or “too low”?

…though now that I’m playing it in my head that’s too easy too. (Start at MSB and shift right if too high and add bits if too low)…

Maybe if you reduced the number of guesses to 5 that’d add enough chance to make it fun?

TheDong · 3 months ago

It's not supposed to be fun or hard, it's supposed to be funny. It's absurdist humor.