Subject: Not failed yet, but have an abiding hatred of repeated letters.
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Posted on: 2022-01-25 16:29:36 UTC

I am very pleased with the colour-blind mode; the green(?) and yellow(?) are pretty much indistinguishable, particularly on the keyboard, but orange(?) and blue(...?...) are lovely.

It would be remiss of me not to link to Absurdle, aka Evil Wordle. Absurdle runs on exactly the same word-lists and gameplay as Wordle, except it hasn't got a word in mind. Rather, at each step it whittles down the field of all possible answers to pick the response that will give you the least information. Heaven help you if you let it get its claws into a terminal Y; you'll be there forever.

(There's a writeup of how Absurdle works here, though be warned that it includes the canonical 4-guess game with no warning. qntm is the website that some of you may remember from waaaaay back as the host of How To Destroy The Earth - to which there is a much later but still waaay back follow-up, To Destroy The Earth.)

hS

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