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Comment by mihaic | Hacker News Reader

Thank you. I don't think I was the only one that had reached Wordle fatigue.

Hoping not to overgeneralize, but it's a bit sad seeing so many bright minds engaged in dissecting and remixing something so plain, just because it's another hype wave for which we can all apply the specific problem solving skills we know.

The only change I'd perhaps recommend would be not hiding this thread itself.

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I don't find it sad at all. I find it fun and enjoyable that people have seen the power of a good simple fun game and that it wasn't hard to make something good and even better it still required more thinking about the gameplay than the implementation.

Many lessons to be learned here for any hacker, imo.

It is a shame. It's a game that's trivially optimisable but requires you to avoid doing so to have fun. It's a game that already existed, so must have become popular for another reason: because they came up for a way for people to brag about their intelligence in a socially acceptable way.

Ironically, it's disappointing to see how poor the vocabulary of some English-first-language speakers is & how readily they blame the game for using quite common words that they don't know.

I’ve written sudoku solvers yet sudoku remains fun.

As for the rest of your comment, you’re oddly antagonistic towards a group of strangers you know nothing about.

A sudoku solver isn't similar at all.

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