compsciler/notwordle

Notwordle

Guess the word in 10 tries. After each guess, the color of the tiles will change to show how close your guess was to the word.

Unfortunately, the typical Wordle letter tiles are broken, and you will need to rely on other clues on how your guess relates to the solution. Playing on PC is strongly recommended. (You might also want paper to write on!)

Meaning of clues to the right of each word, from left to right:

1. Scrabble score of your guess
2. Guess Scrabble score compared to solution Scrabble score
3. Alphabetical comparison of guess to solution (which comes first in dictionary)
4. Word frequency comparison of guess to solution (based on Google Books n-grams dataset)
5. Shortest word ladder length from guess to solution, altering one letter at a time (displays "-" if word ladder doesn't exist) For example, the length between SHINY and STING is 4 (number of letter changes): SHINY → SHINE → SWINE → SWING → STING.
6. Clue based original Wordle letter colors: displays green if there is at least one green in the guess, else yellow if there is at least one yellow in the guess, and gray otherwise. The number on the tile is how many letters of that color are present in the guess.

Play the daily game here!

This is one of the Wordle variants I have made. The other games and instructions for creating your own Wordle variant can be found here.

notwordle's Issues

Stopwatch time not saved

In Notwordle's speedrun mode, the stopwatch timer reading of a completed game is not saved in the browser. When returning to the game, the time is shown as 00:00;00. Environment: Win 11, Brave.

Stopwatch too slow

In Notwordle's speedrun mode, the stopwatch timer is running way too slow. I completed a game in about 06:50.00 but the timer reading was 02:35.99. Environment: Win 11, Brave, frame rate 59.94.

Random/Practice Mode

This is more of a feature request then an issue, but it would be nice to have the ability to play a random puzzle in addition to the daily. I know streamers who would enjoy playing this game on their stream, for example, but they just can't do that because people in chat spoil daily games instead of working together to solve the puzzle. The main reason, though, would be just to be able to enjoy this game more frequently :) Thanks in advance :)

Losing keystrokes when typing quickly

When entering letters quickly many of the letters are dropped, with only the last letter hit being recorded. It seems like the key is only being recorded on key-up (when the finger is lifted off of the key after having pressed it), which causes issues when typing a string of letters such that the previous key is still pressed down when the next key is pressed.

Although, because only one letter seems to register after a 'roll' of letters (i.e. if you spammed "adsf" by rolling your fingers across the board in a single motion, only the "f" would register) its as if the key is being "recorded" on key-down, but only "registered" on key-up, since multiple key-ups in a row do not seem to trigger multiple letters. This is just my suspicion though; I haven't looked at the code. However, I don't think this is something to do with react-wordle because I tested this on another site that uses react-wordle (polygonle) and it handles the key presses as you would expect.

Issue aside - Great job, I really enjoy the game! Definitely one of the more creative variants out there.