[None] Deviation detected. (Mild spoiler - Wordle 284)
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Posted Mar 30, 2022, 4:35 AM UTC
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Explanation: My presence plays Wordle on the same discord servers I do, and we both play by the same house rule of "yesterday's answer is today's opener".
Since my bot uses a saved version of the answer list from way back, if there's a change on the website, the bot won't be affected by it. In essence, it's seeing the world before whichever Abidan working for the NYT tampered with Fate!
This is the first time it's happened since I wrote the bot and the experience of having my presence highlight such a change was reminiscent of the Cradle series and so I wanted to share the chuckle I had, with you all :)
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I wonder how many people play this personal house rule? I suggested it to a couple friends who insist on playing hard mode. I refuse hard mode because you can play perfectly and lose, whereas you have the ability to get yourself out of a mess on non-hard mode. But the starting word rule seems fun. I haven't done it myself. I'm a start with the same two words every day kinda guy. I want the streak, not the low average. :)
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It's one of those games where there's no prescription on how you play, since there's no real leaderboard system.
I know some people who will happily sit down with a list of 5 letter EN-US words when they get stuck and use it for help.
I personally am not above crunching out all possible remaining combinations via Google Sheets and then looking for real words amongst the noise :)
To each their own ^^
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I always play on hard mode and I've never lost. It is possible though. Today I had 4 letters in correct spots after 3 guesses. There were 4 possibilities for the last letter but only 3 guesses remaining. I got it on the next try by using my knowledge that the game admin prefers more common words to less common. I would definitely have been upset if I hadn't gotten it though.
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Huh. You've created/called out a clever conjunction between Cradle and Wordle. Clearly, such a thing is deserving of a reward. But what form should it take? Ah, I know.
Points.
The highest form of reward