[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":936},["ShallowReactive",2],{"project-31572258":3},{"id":4,"name":5,"line":6,"line_source":7,"title":8,"url":9,"domain":10,"maker":11,"posted_at":12,"year":13,"points":14,"comments":15,"rank_in_year":16,"shown_in_year":17,"top":18,"tier":19,"category":20,"subcategory":21,"format":22,"keywords":23,"reception":27,"sentiment":28,"stance_mix":29,"scored_comments":34,"aspects":35,"strip":44,"post_text":47,"what":48,"said":80,"maker_in_thread":217,"shape":226,"grid":230,"attempts":897,"same_week":898,"maker_shows":42,"maker_hidden":928,"reader_version":929,"card":930},"31572258","Don't Wordle","Can you lose at Wordle if you tried?","title","Show HN: Can you lose at Wordle if you tried?","https:\u002F\u002Fdontwordle.com\u002F","dontwordle.com","dontwordle",1654017925,2022,676,236,25,2570,1,"legend","games","word game","web_app",[24,21,25,26],"wordle","wordle variant","anti wordle","curious",-0.032,{"positive":30,"neutral":31,"mixed":32,"critical":33},19,75,3,27,124,{"execution":36,"idea":38,"design":41},{"positive":18,"critical":37},13,{"positive":39,"critical":40},11,4,{"positive":42,"critical":43},2,9,[32,45,40,32,46,40,42,42,18,32,32,45,45,45,45,18,18,42,42,32,18,32,40,40,42,18,18,18,40,40,40,46,42,40,32,45,45,45,45,46],0,5,null,{"problem":49,"audience":47,"pricing":47,"motivation":56,"time_to_build":47,"stack":60,"openness":77,"stage":78,"team_size":79},{"value":50,"source":51,"evidence":52},"Wordle is too easy to win; it asks if you can lose intentionally.","maker",[53],{"id":54,"by":11,"text":55},"31573961","Hello! I am the creator of Don’t Wordle. Really excited to see this took off today. I thought I would share some background about the game, some of the iterations I went through,…",{"value":57,"source":51,"evidence":58},"Wondered whether they could intentionally lose at Wordle.",[59],{"id":54,"by":11,"text":55},[61,65,69,73],{"value":62,"source":51,"evidence":63},"Create React App",[64],{"id":54,"by":11,"text":55},{"value":66,"source":51,"evidence":67},"AWS Route53",[68],{"id":54,"by":11,"text":55},{"value":70,"source":51,"evidence":71},"AWS CloudFront",[72],{"id":54,"by":11,"text":55},{"value":74,"source":51,"evidence":75},"AWS S3",[76],{"id":54,"by":11,"text":55},"unknown","launched","solo",{"praise":81,"objections":113,"requests":163,"questions":183,"alternatives":188},[82,102],{"value":83,"source":84,"evidence":85},"Hard and clever; fun twist on Wordle","commenter",[86,90,94,98],{"id":87,"by":88,"text":89},"31573045","zwieback","Fun, clever and hard! Failed miserably first attempt.",{"id":91,"by":92,"text":93},"31579719","mcv","This one is much harder than I expected, or even seems reasonable. I have no problem at all with Wordle, Worldle, Quordle, etc, but this one had me stumped for a long time. I…",{"id":95,"by":96,"text":97},"31574692","Minor49er","I got down to one of two possible words and managed to guess the right one. I like this twist on the original",{"id":99,"by":100,"text":101},"31574133","jtamsut","This is really well done.",{"value":103,"source":84,"evidence":104},"Valid words remaining counter is a great feature",[105,109],{"id":106,"by":107,"text":108},"31589733","kurupt213","The remaining word feature is huge. Good call.",{"id":110,"by":111,"text":112},"31589697","bryanmccann","I won today with no undos and I'm more proud of that than winning any wordle, heardle, semantle, or any of the rest. Came down to 2 words remaining, one more guess. Phew! Great…",[114,133,152],{"value":115,"source":84,"evidence":116},"Too hard and frustrating for many players",[117,121,125,129],{"id":118,"by":119,"text":120},"31576611","Aeolun","For me this “game” can be summarrized as: First guess. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. The application won’t let me do anything even mildly suboptimal, and it’s not fun at all (aside…",{"id":122,"by":123,"text":124},"31576228","memorable","Too difficult for me lmao.",{"id":126,"by":127,"text":128},"31577246","xylophoner","tried, got stuck on guess 2. frustrating, not fun for me",{"id":130,"by":131,"text":132},"31574449","jstummbillig","It's amazing to experience how this one design change completely ruins the game experience for me. And I really mean that: Totally unexpected before I actually gave it a go.…",{"value":134,"source":84,"evidence":135},"Mobile layout and keyboard issues",[136,140,144,148],{"id":137,"by":138,"text":139},"31576150","soylentgraham","Already love it, but can you fit it onto an iphone SE display please! Im scrolling and zooming all over the place (some of us like small phones :)",{"id":141,"by":142,"text":143},"31573303","necovek","It seems keyboard is unresponsive on FF mobile: is that just me?",{"id":145,"by":146,"text":147},"31589668","aabbcc1241","Tried on firefox mobile with javascript enabled, I tried to tape the in-page visual keyboard buttons but no response. Does it work on mobile without physical keyboard?",{"id":149,"by":150,"text":151},"31576412","Humphrey","Cant you make the vertical height on mobile about 50px less, so it does not scroll in full screen on an iPhone SE. Thanks!",{"value":153,"source":84,"evidence":154},"Possible word-count bug versus real Wordle word list",[155,159],{"id":156,"by":157,"text":158},"31574134","DungZeekFu","I seem to have found a bug (or the word list is drastically different from Wordle). The game says I have 3 possible words remaining, but every Wordle solver website says I only…",{"id":160,"by":161,"text":162},"31577063","mleonhard","SPOILER WARNING. There seems to be a bug. I guessed 'rhyme', 'build', 'tonal', and 'local'. Then it said that I must use an UNDO. It doesn't let me enter 'vocal' and 'focal' to…",[164,171,178],{"value":165,"source":84,"evidence":166},"Add a give up or reveal-word button",[167],{"id":168,"by":169,"text":170},"31574105","ajjenkins","It would be nice if there was a Give Up button. I got down to 30 possible words but could not for the life of me think of what they could be. I was craving that “Ohhhhh!!!!!”…",{"value":172,"source":84,"evidence":173},"Add an easy mode showing viable letters",[174],{"id":175,"by":176,"text":177},"31575523","pontus","It's a fun idea, but I found it super frustrating because it gets harder and harder to come up with consistent words. I'd personally like an \"easy setting\" where there's another…",{"value":179,"source":84,"evidence":180},"Fix mobile fit and keyboard responsiveness",[181,182],{"id":137,"by":138,"text":139},{"id":141,"by":142,"text":143},[184],{"value":185,"source":51,"evidence":186},"Can words exist with no valid solution in this game?",[187],{"id":54,"by":11,"text":55},[189,196,203,210],{"value":190,"source":84,"evidence":191},"Absurdle",[192],{"id":193,"by":194,"text":195},"31580830","TuringTest","Similar in spirit: Absurdle, [1] which tries to make you lse as hard as it can (instead of choosing a hidden word at first, it keeps track of all valid words compatible with your…",{"value":197,"source":84,"evidence":198},"Antiwordle",[199],{"id":200,"by":201,"text":202},"31574183","gjm11","Closely related (meaning: I think it might be exactly the same game): Antiwordle, https:\u002F\u002Fwww.antiwordle.com\u002F . [EDITED to add:] Not exactly the same; with Antiwordle the idea is…",{"value":204,"source":84,"evidence":205},"Survivle",[206],{"id":207,"by":208,"text":209},"31574247","banana_giraffe","Similar to https:\u002F\u002Flazyguyy.github.io\u002Fsurvivle\u002F I like this one better, the undo button is a nice touch.",{"value":211,"source":84,"evidence":212},"Eldrow (Jane Street puzzle)",[213],{"id":214,"by":215,"text":216},"31574787","giyanani","Jane street had a puzzle related to this, called eldrow [1], a few months ago. The gist is you’re trying to find the worst sequence of (hard mode) guesses possible for any word…",{"comments":39,"answered":40,"key":218},[219,220,223],{"id":54,"text":55},{"id":221,"text":222},"31574904","So you can do this, but it won't support TLS to my knowledge. At least in my testing, it will work to navigate to www.dontwordle.com (you will get redirected to…",{"id":224,"text":225},"31575285","I agree with your take. It's definitely a problem with the current game format. 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