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It is also a fun little game to program/make a clone of

I made one simple web page with JS, HTML, and CSS, and now I can play it whenever I want (or show it off to my friends who introduced me to Wordle a few days ago).

Essentially Wordle is just Hangman with a neat twist.

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> Essentially Wordle is just Hangman with a neat twist.

I'd say the closer comparison is to Mastermind[0].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastermind_(board_game)

Wordle is basically a clone of Lingo, so that'd be the closest comparison available.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingo_(American_game_show)

I was thinking about Mastermind too. I played that one as a kid, but Wordle is a better version of the same idea:

- Mastermind is based on abstract codes, Wordle is words. Words are fun!

- Wordle is much easier to explain. I could explain it to somebody who hadn’t heard of it and we could be playing on pen and paper inside two minutes.

I initially thought it's just like Mastermind, but with Mastermind you are not told which colours (corresponding to letters) are right: you are just told there is one right in the right place and two right in the wrong places, for example.

I had the same exact idea. It turned into a fun weekend project[0] that allowed me to dust off my vanilla JS skills and dive deeper into Tailwind CSS and put my own spin on the concept by basically turning it back into an asymmetric multiplayer game.

I do commend Josh Wardle for implementing Wordle with native web components, I personally wouldn't have the patience.

[0] https://word.rodeo

it reminds me of the puzzles that had a starting word, an ending word, and you could only change one character at a time to make a new word to finally achieve the ending word, and mixed in with the game "master mind"

I believe they are called “word ladders” [0]. Coincidentally, I was listening to Genesis’s song “Supper’s Ready”, yesterday. It includes 2 word ladders in its lyrics.

  Mum to mud to mad to Dad

and

  Dad to dam to dum to Mum

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_ladder

that's the one!

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