Binary Wordle

https://wordle.chengeric.com/

by eh8 • 1 year ago

262 129 1 year ago

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patrakov• 1 year ago

Step 1: Guess 00000.

Step 2: Replace all grey cells with 1s.

petra303• 1 year ago

Yea, you don’t need more than two chances.

bbassett• 1 year ago

and now we know how raid parity works

arjvik• 1 year ago

Came here to present my strategy for solving it in two tries, and realized it was far more complicated! (started with 00011)

jesse__• 1 year ago

I think it's actually possible to win on the second guess with any initial input. Or at least I did it a handful of times..

vikingerik• 1 year ago

This should be correct. For any cell that isn't green after your first guess, there's only one other possibility for its value.

selcuka3• 1 year ago

Yes. Yellow and grey mean exactly the same thing in this game: Flip it.

IAmBroom2• 1 year ago

Hoping that you are being sarcastic...

dskloet3• 1 year ago

It's not guaranteed you will always win in 2 steps because occasionally you will win in 1 step.

paxys2• 1 year ago

Step 1: Guess anything

Step 2: Flip all the non green cells.

underlines• 1 year ago

afaik, guessing anything not 00000 or 11111 at first step will lead to an optimum strategy of 3 steps. because you introduce possible "right digit at wrong place" as a third state.

guessing 00000 or 11111 removes that third state and leaves you with simple substitution of wrong cells, which leads to an optimal 2 step strategy.

but obviously the shortest strategy is just guessing it right on the first try :D lol

heckelson• 1 year ago

And for a second, I was proud that I solved mine in 3 steps...

0xAFFFF• 1 year ago

This is obviously improper. The valid strategy for this game unfolds as follows.

Step 1: Guess 11111.

Step 2: Replace all grey cells with 0s.

Thank you for your careful consideration.

nmeofthestate• 1 year ago

If you start with 0's you save a small amount of electricity. 1's use up more electricity - any electronic engineer will agree.

stavros• 1 year ago

I got zero right: https://imgz.org/i6yJQnf4.png

gus_massa• 1 year ago

I solved it in one attempt! https://imgur.com/a/jklkc7F

Spoiler alert: There is a nice video by Captain Disillusion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ou7KSmfC3lA (the relevant part is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ou7KSmfC3lA&t=275s )

a3w• 1 year ago

I think I saw a two.

There is no such thing as a two, Bender!

layer83• 1 year ago

There may be FileNotFound, though.

https://thedailywtf.com/articles/what_is_truth_0x3f_

freedomben• 1 year ago

There should be a 1 in 1,000 chance that a two slips in to one of the puzzles, and then can't be reproduced.

Sesse__• 1 year ago

I intended this strategy, but 00000 happened to be correct, so I didn't even need a step 2.

thehours• 1 year ago

Feedback: I'm unable to input with keyboard after typing anything but '0' until a full refresh (and selecting the input area with mouse).

Jtsummers3• 1 year ago

You may not need the refresh, with Safari I have to select the game board again after focus is moved by clicking "play again".

itishappy2• 1 year ago

Is it possible to get yellow cells?

Jtsummers3• 1 year ago

Use a mix of 0s and 1s, if the answer is "00110" and you put in "11000" you'll have 4 yellow and 1 green. If you use only 0s or only 1s for your first guess, you'll just get green and grey, no yellow.

itishappy2• 1 year ago

Huh, surprisingly difficult to get. Took me 8 or so attempts.

neuroelectron• 1 year ago

I see what you did there

odo1242• 1 year ago

I somehow got lucky and guessed the answer in just one try lol

rossant• 1 year ago

How lucky of you. You had one chance out of 100000.

dhsysusbsjsi• 1 year ago

I guessed 00000 and won first go!

Bimos• 1 year ago

Same here.

thinkingemote• 1 year ago

hmm. I guessed something different (010001 maybe, I cant remember) and won first go too. I looked in the comments hoping to find the joke. I guess I'm 1 of the 10 people who don't understand binary jokes.

cnity• 1 year ago

Good one! I'm the other of the 10.

thih9• 1 year ago

For context, the original joke is:

There are 10 kinds of people in this world — those who understand binary and those who don’t.

There are other versions too[1][2][3].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7036594

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7040175

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25854900

kylec• 1 year ago

Got it in one on my second game! Felt pretty good till I realized that's like 1/32 chance.

selcuka3• 1 year ago

The probability of getting it right at least once in your first 2 attempts is even higher (6.15%).

kcaseg• 1 year ago

Bit masking : the game

mulmen• 1 year ago

Got it in 10.

Black616Angel• 1 year ago

I was a bit sad, when it didn't display my number of tries as a 10.

mccolin• 1 year ago

There’s 10 types of people in this world: those that get that joke and those that don’t.

makerofthings• 1 year ago

There are 2 kinds of people in this world, those that can extrapolate from incomplete data.

rodnim• 1 year ago

And those who know this joke is actually in base 3. :)

sidcool• 1 year ago

It should be solvable in no more than 2 moves.

UnreachableCode• 1 year ago

Don’t you mean 10 moves?

amanverasia• 1 year ago

The only reason I logged into my account is to give you an upvote!

nikkaelle• 1 year ago

Feature request: a "share" button, à la base-26 Wordle.

schindlabua• 1 year ago

Hilariously dumb

anon84873628• 1 year ago

Made me chuckle out loud.

abotsis• 1 year ago

Yea, it’s too easy. Maybe if it were a “guess the number” but in binary? Hints are just “too high” or “too low”?

…though now that I’m playing it in my head that’s too easy too. (Start at MSB and shift right if too high and add bits if too low)…

Maybe if you reduced the number of guesses to 5 that’d add enough chance to make it fun?

TheDong• 1 year ago

It's not supposed to be fun or hard, it's supposed to be funny. It's absurdist humor.

umvi• 1 year ago

Binary is too easy, but hex can be tricky. I made a hex-based wordle puzzle for my programming game where you have to guess an 8-digit hex string in as few as 6-12 guesses using wordle mechanics... called the level "dwordle" :)

(video from like 3 years ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/Unity2D/comments/sq4anb/i_added_a_w...)

charly187• 1 year ago

Someone should make a base-26 version! It would probably be super popular!

asimovDev• 1 year ago

https://horsle.glitch.me reminds me of this

tetris11• 1 year ago

quite difficult, there aren't many horse anagrams

wongogue• 1 year ago

My trick is to use HORSE as the starting word.

Aissen2• 1 year ago

I love that someone went all the way to write and publish this joke. Keep hacking!

gowld2• 1 year ago

1 minute and 2 1-sentence prompts: https://g.co/gemini/share/a14f3f1b1c1c

Gemini self-improved version (added the "Hint" and "What could it mean?" features): https://g.co/gemini/share/05c8cce3b2ff

Aissen2• 1 year ago

Nice, it seems the share links don't show the prompts (or I missed it); could you share them please?

citizenfishy• 1 year ago

Isn't this just Mastermind?

zaik• 1 year ago

No, this is much simpler.

jansan• 1 year ago

More like Minionmind.

maaaaattttt• 1 year ago

Apologies for opening a tangeant on a tangeant, but am I the only one who thinks there are 2 levels of playing master mind (and therefore wordle)? Easy level, you let the player know exactly which spots are correctly placed and which ones are there but incorrectly placed. Hard level, you let the player know only that some are correctly placed and some are there but incorrectly placed without identifiying which ones. I personnaly don't enjoy the easy level when playing mastermind, but I do enjoy the hard version which is much more investigative and in my opinion triggers the same brain process as when I'm debugging code.

madcaptenor• 1 year ago

I don’t think I’ve ever seen Wordle implemented in what you call “hard level”. But there’s no reason it couldn’t be.

tylerchr• 1 year ago

My wife took one look at this and said “It’s not Wordle if it’s all binary—it’s Digitle.”

HPsquared• 1 year ago

Reminds me of the idea of analogue cheese - fake cheese. It's analogue cheese until you get some on your fingers, when it becomes digital cheese.

layer83• 1 year ago

Well… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_(computer_architecture)

selcuka3• 1 year ago

5 bits would be a weird size for a word.

gowld2• 1 year ago

It's not Wordle because because it's only 5 bits. There are no remotely common 5-bit word systems.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_(computer_architecture)#T...

soneca2• 1 year ago

I guessed my first game in the first attempt! (10011)

teekert• 1 year ago

What are the odds!

soneca2• 1 year ago

3.125% I believe :)

thrance• 1 year ago

1 in 32

eckesicle• 1 year ago

Me too!

drooopy• 1 year ago

Guessed my first game in 2 attempts.

celticninja• 1 year ago

Isn't it always possible to get this on guess 2?

oneeyedpigeon• 1 year ago

Yes. I think that's the joke.

october8140• 1 year ago

Got it. Second try.

sarmadgulzar• 1 year ago

So, this can be solved in at least one and at most two attempts.

AmsterErdo• 1 year ago

I think I don't get it... since it's binary, it can always be guessed in two attempts?

awwaiid• 1 year ago

Yes. You can still try to get it in one attempt.

brookst2• 1 year ago

Odds in one attempt: 1 in 32

Odds in two attempts: 1 in 1

gamerDude• 1 year ago

It took me 10 tries...

cookie_monsta• 1 year ago

The classics are classics for a reason

financypants• 1 year ago

That's pretty good, considering they give you 110 tries

joseph_scott• 1 year ago

williamdclt• 1 year ago

I _think_ it's humorous!

sashank_1509• 1 year ago

I’m glad I figured that out after my first attempt. I feel smart lol.

James-Livesey• 1 year ago

If anyone's in need of a hexadecimal version... https://jamesl.me/hexle/

I similarly made a binary one before this version, but unsurprisingly, a lot of people said they found it too easy!

charlie-83• 1 year ago

The hint actually makes it harder since I was required to guess a 0 and a F each time

alloysmila• 1 year ago

only two attempts are ever needed :-(

clocker2• 1 year ago

Nice game. I got the answer in 1 try in my first attempt!

https://imgur.com/a/W4OjObH

clocker2• 1 year ago

I made a game not exactly on the same line but related to decimal and binary numbers https://www.squashbyte.com/

Hope you like it!

lazerman• 1 year ago

The number of guesses should be written in binary too!

lo_zamoyski• 1 year ago

Why 5 rows? Just have two.

NoSalt• 1 year ago

I did it in two attempts ... read it and weep, suckas!

ratbum• 1 year ago

Eat shit! https://photos.app.goo.gl/t3cEcgKLYe7e7Dfx7

HenryBemis• 1 year ago

So....

1st line, all zeros. It shows me where the zeros are.

Well.. that's it. Any non-zero is a 1.

So.. finished on the second line.

Am I the only one?

IAmBroom2• 1 year ago

That didn't get it?

No, sadly.

morcus• 1 year ago

Yeah, it's definitely meant to be a joke.

You also don't need to start with all zeros, any input will allow you to finish on the second try.

igitur• 1 year ago

I'm waiting for the NY Times to sue this one too.[1]

[1] https://apnews.com/article/new-york-times-wordle-clones-take...

bitwrangler• 1 year ago

I like the UI and cute idea, nice animation. great way to learn xor $FF haha.

meindnoch• 1 year ago

It's not wordle. It's bytle.

eludwig• 1 year ago

Closer to a nibble!

NooneAtAll32• 1 year ago

bittle?

drdec• 1 year ago

With this game, there is no try. There is do or do not.

seabass• 1 year ago

I love that not only are the inputs binary, but so are the results.

NotAnOtter• 1 year ago

This delivers on the title but I wonder if you could tweak it to make it an actual game without wildly overcomplicating it.

Maybe make the string much longer, like 10 bits, and the game only matches on substrings longer than 3. 000...000 would generally return no matches.

That's still probably solvable with superpermutations but wordle is "solvable" with a dictionary, so don't let perfect be the enemy of "better than 2 guess bordle"

nicwolff• 1 year ago

I, uh, got it in two. Is it creepy that the answer is my ZIP code?

NooneAtAll32• 1 year ago

recently I encountered a game that had "wordle, but with numbers" as one of its puzzles

https://semenar.itch.io/lost-in-space

zck• 1 year ago

I also made some number-based wordle-variants, which I call "numberdle". I found that it was hard to come up with good ways of guessing because wordle has the restriction that most combinations are invalid. You won't ever have to guess xwqqf, because that's not an English word. And more importantly, guessing some letters gives you information about the other letters. If you find out three letters, and have the target as _a_ts, you can use that to figure out the other two letters.

But if you need to guess a number, and you know it's _5_34, having three correct digits don't help you figure it out.

So I made some variants where guessed values do help you figure out the correct answer.

In rationerdle (https://zck.org/numberdle/?variant=rationerdle), you have to guess a rational number x/y, where both x and y are between 1 and 99, inclusive. It displays the rational number you actually guessed, and whether x and y separately are too high or too low.

In factordle (https://zck.org/numberdle/?variant=factordle), the player has to guess the factors of a target number.

In formuladle (https://zck.org/numberdle/?variant=formuladle), there is a graphed straight line, and the player has to guess the mx+b formula that graphs that line.

I would like to make more, but didn't have any other great ideas when I ran out of interest.

bentt• 1 year ago

If this kind of troll app is what we can expect from our vibe coded future, then I'm all for it.

Binary Wordle

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