The new word won’t use any of the letter you’ve already ruled out (so if you guess “doors”, for example, the new word won’t have d, o, r, or s).

I know this isn’t exactly a new game, but I thought I’d share it because it is, as the name implies, absurd.

  • jarredpickles87@lemmy.world
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    Maybe it’s just me, but I don’t see how this is different from wordle other than unlimited guesses.

    Edit: I guess I see the difference. Wordle has a word you’re using process of elimination to find, whereas Absurdle uses your input to pick a word that’s furthest away from your guesses. But this then means you can use that against itself and make your first couple guesses all letters you don’t want to deal with.

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      I didn’t notice any difference either, until I realised that this is actually how I play wordle already. My first 2, normally 3 guesses are just covering the space of likely letters with no repeats.

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      After trying a few times, I guess you have more agency here than in Wordle since you can choose which way you want your guess to go but I’m not sure I dig it.

      My first three guess were XEROX / PUSHY / QUILT every time and that forced words that have A as the only vowels so far. Eventually I might eventually stumble on a word with a Q or U getting generated, but my guess is that will be rather rare.

      I can try to force hard words to guess but that just sounds forcing myself to deal with the most frustrating parts of Wordle.

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      For some reason, I appreciate that you’re not working towards one specific word from the start but slowly narrowing down the “available words” until one fits.

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    It’s fun for a couple of tries. But I found a set of 3 words that led to the same ends every time

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      Nah I’d say that the more words there are, the more information you’ll have to solve other words which makes things easy. I remember trying a 32-word one once and after my 3 starting guesses of choice it was just one word per guess. I think something like Quordle or Octordle (8/10 words) would be better.

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    Gets a bit repetitive unless you use the random guess feature. It being so strict in trying to avoid letters doesn’t help with that. It would be better if it had a bit more smarts and also tried to “keep its options open” by picking answers with many alternatives to switch to. As is it seems more interesting to think about than play.

    At least it doesn’t put ads literally over the keyboard like a certain other game