I also appreciate all the feedback and I am looking to improve the experience when playing on desktop!
You can follow the @quordle Twitter for updates as well!
With a 1792px width (Macbook Pro 16) I have to scroll vertically to see all the games while there is plenty of unused horizontal space
But after a practice round, I didn't need to scroll anyway because I got today's puzzle in 3/4/5/7, so whoohoo!
Are the colors in dark mode different to Wordle? I find it harder to remember which gray means unguessed and which means no matches.
The keyboard doesn't display correctly with split colors on Firefox Android, but the numbers at the end do.
Lastly, the share is too large. I tend to just cut off the actual boards and just post the numbers.
Three things:
1. Love it! Thank you!
2. Could there be a better contrast between keyboard letters and the game board? They’re a bit too similar. I use dark mode, but it seems there is the same lack of definition in light mode as well.
3. Is there any way the whole game could be visible on mobile (e.g. iPhone12 Max) so the last few rows of the game board don’t need to be scrolled?
I do kind of wish you got one more guess, though, especially if you get stuck, like I did today, having 4 Greens but 5 possibilities for the final letter.
I think a big part of what makes Wordle compelling is the ritualistic daily nature so not seeing how this would beat it out.
Daily Quordle #22
7⃣ 6⃣
9⃣ 4⃣
vs.
Daily Quordle #23
7⃣ 6⃣
9⃣ 4⃣ quordle.com ⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜ ⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
Maybe you could add a link if you want to expand to the second one. But it's just too long for sharing.
I built a multiplayer version as a weekend project, would love to know what you think!
I made one with a 5x5 square of letters, containing five words down and five across: https://squareword.org/
A bit like a combination of crosswords and Wordle, as vertical words can be used for additional clues.
Given a list of words, see if there exists a valid 5x5 square of words.
One thing, I don't like that plurals are possible answers. The original let you guess plurals but no answers were plurals.
Basically the idea is there is a boggle board generated and all N-letter word paths found. The paths are made available to click on (there are a few UI approaches to this). Once a path is selected you enter Wordle mode for that path. Every guess must still be a real word, but the neat part is if you even nail a single letter, it appears on the Boggle board. And that letter immediately appears as solved on any other path that overlaps it. You can jump/revisit paths at any time.
Goal is to complete the board (unsure if there will be guess limit, letters that are not on any path of course are automatically visible/correct on game start). The completion sharing will be a matrix of numbers instead of colors showing how many guesses of that space across any path were made until the first right letter was achieved. Boggle board size configurable as is the min/max word letters (5x5 w/ only 5-letter words by default).
There are some neat strategies here of path choice/switching and guessing wrong words intentionally in overlapping paths. Will dev if I ever get the time, but feel free to steal the idea and make it.
My feeling is that as long as I get 4 + number of boards guesses I'll always be able to solve it but maybe I'm being overly optimistic.
Early on friends complained it was too hard. In my experience after a few games it gets pretty easy.
TUBES
FLING
CHAMP
WORDY
With those, I've always completed all four...
Then I said, how can I guarantee as a human, I win, in 6 moves almost 100% of the time?
"Quick Brown Fox", as in, use as many possible letters in the alphabet, comprised of 5 letter words, given that we have only 5 words to play with. That gives us 25 characters to use.
I came up with
BLOCK VENTS JUMPY DWARF GHAZI
this leaves out Q and X, which is fine. Using this as a template basically boils Wordle down to a anagram game, so kind of defeats the purpose.
But in this case, i was able to resolve all 4 at one time using my above combination. I guessed, correctly all 4 with PLUMB GLEAN VALID IMPLY. I then realized, you get even more chances on Quordle, but I didn't need it!
You have 9 guesses. This takes up 5 of them, then you need to be correct for each of the 4 words.
side note: I've gotten most of them, but today's ruined my streak.
I used grep to help with the searching.
This is like when I discovered calcudoku 12x12s and now sudokus are dumb and boring. Just a lot better.
May the NYT acquire you for the level-up option.
If you're going to put your own spin on Wordle, have at it, many others have, but at least demonstrate some creativity.
> It all started on January 29, 2022 when I saw an article mentioning Dordle by Guilherme S. Töws and we all started playing it as a group. It was a blast to play something more difficult than Wordle
