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Squabble.me – Multiplayer Wordle Royale

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Fyi: The guy who made this streamed the whole coding process on twitch:

https://m.twitch.tv/ottomated

Love this guy, he's single-handedly making the Live experience better on YT. Great coder.

Does he have a YouTube channel?

He does, but didn't upload in months

Turns out that playing Wordle against the clock makes it significantly less fun for me.

Same for me. I imagine if you do this you'll learn lots of useful word combos for Wordle but it will take the thought process out. I enjoy just taking 30 seconds to a min to think about what my next guess might be.

Also, the dictionary is not the same as Wordle.

I personally like how social it is. It's fun to play while video chatting. From what I understand about the health mechanic, it's based on the speed of the other people playing as well.

Haven’t played it yet, but I was thinking the same thing while I was watching the developer play it when it was about completed at the end of his twitch stream..

Seems super stressful to play this so fast..

I disagree. The time pressure makes it better because now you have to actually think of words quickly. It takes more skill.

I don't know that this is really a disagreement. You prefer a more skill-based experience; grandparent prefers a more relaxed experience. Both of these are reasonable preferences.

The time pressure sucks if you're not a native (or at least a very good) english speaker. Sometimes I even think of a word that doesn't exist.

I'm literally English. I just suck at thinking.

Same here. I like how relaxing Wordle is.

Pretty irritating that it doesn't tell you the word after the game is over.

Pretty fun!

I think some game mechanics could be adjusted though - most games I've played ended up with no-one guessing the word, and the winner being the person who made the fewest guesses.

Hi,

Can you fix the colors please? I have colour deficiency (red/green) and the yellow/green look almost identical to me.

The original worlde colours work very well.

There's a colorblind mode in the settings.

Thank you

Compared to a couple of hours ago, most games that I try to join have some guest idling around without typing the word "ready". Seems like those should be kicked out if they don't do so within 20 seconds or so? Otherwise the games never seem to start.

Oh thank god.

Is there a multi-player cooperative version? I'll find out soon enough. If not: please add, I'll pay you.

(I don't currently have the bandwidth to make my own. Sorry.)

I've been searching hi & low for online activities to do with my mom.

Turn-based games like Words with Friends are now beyond her kin. Especially all that freemium and social and achievement crap. Holy shit, I just want to play scrabble with my mom. But it has to be real-time, so I can keep talking to her, nudges, get her unstuck.

Mom is also really into Wheel of Fortune. Family tradition. We used to sit around, competitive, talking trash. I've tried to find Watch Party versions of any game show. Nadda.

Such a missed business opportunity. Especially with all additional social isolation.

It'd be good to show the word on game over.

Are there Wordle speedrunners already? Cause some folks just absolutely demolished me in all the games I joined as I was always last. I was feeling good about myself after building a three day streak of winning while playing solo.

You can watch the replay of others on the site. I've been using 2 words to get all the vowels down, but apparently there's a french word that gets 4/5 vowels in the first word. Then you just narrow down more letters with each guess and put them all together in the last 2 tries. At least that has been my strategy.

I don't know about everybody else, but I computed a decision tree, and I "solve wordle" by entering guesses and scanning down the tree to find how to respond to hints. If I was going to compete (and I won't, because it would feel unsporting) then I'd write a script that would scan the tree for me.

Competing shouldn't mean writing a script though. To me competing implies doing it with sportsmanship.

Yes, that is what I said. You'll find that the internet is full of people who don't care what you think, and fairness is either enforced (cat and mouse) or nonexistent (top-tier play is bots).

Already someone cheating? On reply, they write the same four words (reply, might, found, backs), then there is a pause (while inputing the results on a solver?) and then the right answer. Why bother?

I have no doubt that people will use bots on this, but what you're describing doesn't actually sound like anyone is cheating. Because of the way the game scores, there's not really an advantage to taking your time, so it quickly becomes obvious that the best strategy is to use the same first 3-4 words on every game, and then pause to try and get the actual answer.

For a non-native speaker, this is quite stressful. I imagine my Wordle games take longer than for English-native speakers, but it's still very enjoyable. This... I won't try again.

Great game! Only issue - it doesn't seem to adjust the size to keep the keyboard visible (1440x900 here), I was forced to hit cmd - a few times to make everything visible.

This is the best wordle variation i've seen yet! Would love to see stats added for registered accounts. Win rate, word solve time, knock-outs, etc.

I click "Guest" and it demands I sign up or login with SSO platforms I don't have accounts with.

This is no good, absurd.

The GUEST naming is rather weird, which GUEST is me? One idea would be to use YOU and random generated names for the other guests.

Whoops, there goes my day. If there'd been team Wordle when I was a kid I would have been a lot more sporty.

I don't understand, I just randomly get 70 hp deducted when I reach the third guess and wait 10+ seconds?

I think if someone gets the word right, everyone else loses HP. It is a battle royale after all.

I just got a word 'FE*ME' that I wasn't able to solve. Thoughts?

Femme is from French, it means “woman”. I believe it is used in English to say “a very feminine woman”.

Femme fatale is the first thing that comes to mind.

FEMME

As in femme-fatale?

Awesome, very addicting! Love how smooth it works.

Why am I able to get competitive on anything? ^^

Love the name of it.. has a great ring.

Anyone have a code I can join in?

It has a "FIND GAME" option if you'd like to play with random people.

Any plans for mobile support?

Incredibly fun. Well done!

Good to play with a team!

squabble is not using the same wordlist as wordle it looks like?

Yeah it seems to be more permissive

the game isnt accepting input. =/

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