Mathematics of the daily word game Waffle
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Wordle - NYT daily word game. https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html
Waffle - some other game. https://wafflegame.net/
Makes me wonder if the title of the article was generated by an LLM.
EDIT: add context; fix typo
I like Waffle a lot, and thought about the best strategy for creating the grids, which is probably just a lot of trial and error.
Yes, it's sort of evolved over time really. Brute force with heuristics, I'd say. The word list is certainly important, along with a few other things that I like to think keep the level of quality above the inferior knock-offs.
I was about to point out the same thing. The title should read "NYT-like."
In daily mode, everyone gets a video scrambled into 4x4 pieces, in the same way, and needs to unscramble it. The operations available to unscramble a video are swapping a tile, and shifting the entire board. The lowest score every day is usually 12-14, but sometimes much lower.
Before I introduced the shifting function, surprisingly, every puzzle could only be solved in an either even or odd number of moves. Some days, all solutions would be 12-14-16 etc, while other days only 13-15-17 were possible. The arrows have changed this, as you can sometimes shave another move off if you use it smartly.
The host name includes “nyt”, but the web page doesn’t seem to be owned by the New York Times.
Thank you. I try to keep it neat and tidy, despite the ads. I spent more time on the drag and drop aesthetics than anything else before I first released it. The little things really do matter, after all.