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I prefer mine, because they contain three vowels - and there are likely to be at least two in any word.
So I almost always get at least one yellow, and up to four!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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I read somewhere that RATES is a good word for a starter because not only is 'S' one of the most common letters, having it as the last letter is even better because 'S' is often the last letter of a word (and not just for plurals).
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I generally start with 'TEARY', then have 'BOILS' and 'CHUNK' to cover 15 letters in three goes if I need to (like today, where I got 1 yellow from the first word, two from the second, then 'CHUNK' let me down, with nothing right. But it's given me good information previously...
Java, Basic, who cares - it's all a bunch of tree-hugging hippy cr*p
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Very nice. But I miss the BS and ENTER keys on the keyboard.
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Just use your keyboard's DEL and ENTER keys. You can also use the computer's physical keyboard to enter letters.
/ravi
modified 7-Mar-22 11:43am.
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Thanks for sharing, Ravi. This is awesome.
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Careful. I recall reading that the NY Times paid some millions for this, and I have to assume it was to acquire the rights.
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Must have been for the URL, then. I bookmarked it before the transfer and now see that it redirects.
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Greg Utas wrote: Careful. I recall reading that the NY Times paid some millions for this, and I have to assume it was to acquire the rights. They paid USD 700K for it.
I haven't used any code from the original. I reimplemented the behavior of the game from scratch (and added a bunch of new features). I did use Wordle's word list and have credited the authors.
/ravi
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They have 2, actually.
/ravi
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Never tried Wordle until now. Thanks for posting!
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Nice landing page.
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I play it online at wordle.com
I had been playing that way for weeks before I realized that others were playing a single game a day divvied out by the NYT - and I wondered why.
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I plan to submit the puzzle around noon GMT (even though the sun won't be up yet).
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In most languages, at least in my experience, the things that you can and can't do with it are pretty clear.
With C++, this isn't really the case. Because of things like metaprogramming, and the sheer flexibility of it, it's often not a case of whether or not you can do a thing, but rather how you can coax, tease, finagle, or otherwise cajole the compiler into doing what you're asking of it.
And therein lies the rub. I sometimes find myself running into things that I know *should* be solvable in C++, but how to do it requires (often) days of banging on a narrow section of code to get it to do what I need.
I love the mental challenge of it, but I hate the frustration that often comes with that. Sometimes I don't want a challenge - I just want the thing to work. And even when it does the code is often write only code.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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I find the same frustration level in WPF.
The learning curve is so steep, the language so flexible and powerful that I fight problems for hours or sometimes days at a time to straighten things out.
Like you sometimes I just want it to work.
The less you need, the more you have.
Even a blind squirrel gets a nut...occasionally.
JaxCoder.com
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I've reached that level with WPF. I'll be going along just swimmingly, and all of a sudden the easiest thing just. doesn't. work. I have the most trouble with bindings, largely because the XAML syntax is brutal.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Bindings are very powerful but they can really be a PITA. Chasing a bad binding is akin to a bad pointer.
The less you need, the more you have.
Even a blind squirrel gets a nut...occasionally.
JaxCoder.com
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I lay blame for that on the academics who've had control of the language design for so long. There are any number of features that would be useful in the language, but they have this abhorence of limiting conditions of application that it's impossible to add new things. And don't get me started on the run-time library.
It may be silly season at times in C# land, but at least we get useful stuff now and then.
Software Zen: delete this;
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I will give C++ this though - I can do things at compile time with it that can't be done in any other language that I'm aware of. The trick is knowing how to do it.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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+1
It makes it so easy to do things at compile time.
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