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Of all the variants I've come across so far, I think this one has the most staying power. I think I might prefer it to the original.

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.

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Would be cool to rollover the unused guesses from the solved ones to the remaining ones.

If you sometimes fail, I feel the balance (for you) is right =)

I could see something like this beating out the original. Wordle has to be 1x/day because there are only a couple thousand common 5-letter words (around 2300, if I recall correctly). It would turn repetitive. This game has O(N^4) combinations, so it can be played over and over.

I agree that Quordle is compelling but not sure I see your argument for how Wordle would get repetitive. 2300 is six years worth of words. They could shuffle the word list every 4 years and it’d be fine.

I think a big part of what makes Wordle compelling is the ritualistic daily nature so not seeing how this would beat it out.

I also which it shared it simply as

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.

That's an interesting idea! It could be cool to have a share link that could rebuild the emoji grid.

4 states x 5 letters x 9 guesses is only 180 possible stoplight strings (of green/yellow/gray/black), if I'm doing my math right? So you could just pick 180 emoji and use four of them :)

I thought about this as well, but sadly, last I checked some decently popular apps (Twitter, WhatsApp, some others) don't support emojis in URL paths, only in domain names. So the emoji technique could work for message threads in some apps, but it would look pretty strange in others.

(I've been helping @DungZeekFu a bit with Quordle and am curious for any ideas around this though!)

Maybe make it so the emoji are shared without a URL, and anyone can paste the emoji into some place on the site to recreate the grids?

Well, you need 180 characters, so are there 90 good usable characters, or 60, or 45 that will work?

I’m not suggesting doing a full UTF mapping onto base64, but just 1..180 mod 3 => char base64[3] would give you 182 board positions in three URL characters.

*192, mobile typo, sorry

base64 would be pretty neat! I also wonder what non-emoji unicode characters are commonly supported in paths... If say, CJK character sets were supported by most apps, single-character paths would even work.

I completely agree (on the staying power). This is the only variant that's gripped me as much as the original.

I built a multiplayer version as a weekend project, would love to know what you think!

https://wordleague.xyz/

BTW, I should say I have gotten it 2 out of the 3 times I've played it so far, so it's probably enough guesses, just today I really wished there was one more.

The number of guesses are fine IMO. While I needed one more guess, I also had made an unnecessary guess by mistake.

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