[HN Gopher] Squabble.me - Multiplayer Wordle Royale
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Squabble.me - Multiplayer Wordle Royale
Author : gundmc
Score : 95 points
Date : 2022-02-03 08:19 UTC (14 hours ago)
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| onion2k wrote:
| Turns out that playing Wordle against the clock makes it
| significantly less fun for me.
| dgellow wrote:
| Same here. I like how relaxing Wordle is.
| indigodaddy wrote:
| Haven't played it yet, but I was thinking the same thing while
| I was watching the developer play it when it was about
| completed at the end of his twitch stream..
|
| Seems super stressful to play this so fast..
| Graffur wrote:
| Same for me. I imagine if you do this you'll learn lots of
| useful word combos for Wordle but it will take the thought
| process out. I enjoy just taking 30 seconds to a min to think
| about what my next guess might be.
|
| Also, the dictionary is not the same as Wordle.
| charcircuit wrote:
| I disagree. The time pressure makes it better because now you
| have to actually think of words quickly. It takes more skill.
| Toutouxc wrote:
| The time pressure sucks if you're not a native (or at least a
| very good) english speaker. Sometimes I even think of a word
| that doesn't exist.
| onion2k wrote:
| I'm literally English. I just suck at thinking.
| amalcon wrote:
| I don't know that this is really a disagreement. You prefer a
| more skill-based experience; grandparent prefers a more
| relaxed experience. Both of these are reasonable preferences.
| knaik94 wrote:
| I personally like how social it is. It's fun to play while
| video chatting. From what I understand about the health
| mechanic, it's based on the speed of the other people playing
| as well.
| arijun wrote:
| Pretty irritating that it doesn't tell you the word after the
| game is over.
| anshumankmr wrote:
| Are there Wordle speedrunners already? Cause some folks just
| absolutely demolished me in all the games I joined as I was
| always last. I was feeling good about myself after building a
| three day streak of winning while playing solo.
| boothby wrote:
| I don't know about everybody else, but I computed a decision
| tree, and I "solve wordle" by entering guesses and scanning
| down the tree to find how to respond to hints. If I was going
| to compete (and I won't, because it would feel unsporting) then
| I'd write a script that would scan the tree for me.
| fouc wrote:
| Competing shouldn't mean writing a script though. To me
| competing implies doing it with sportsmanship.
| boothby wrote:
| Yes, that is what I said. You'll find that the internet is
| full of people who don't care what you think, and fairness
| is either enforced (cat and mouse) or nonexistent (top-tier
| play is bots).
| addandsubtract wrote:
| You can watch the replay of others on the site. I've been using
| 2 words to get all the vowels down, but apparently there's a
| french word that gets 4/5 vowels in the first word. Then you
| just narrow down more letters with each guess and put them all
| together in the last 2 tries. At least that has been my
| strategy.
| specialist wrote:
| Oh thank god.
|
| Is there a multi-player cooperative version? I'll find out soon
| enough. If not: please add, I'll pay you.
|
| (I don't currently have the bandwidth to make my own. Sorry.)
|
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|
| I've been searching hi & low for online activities to do with my
| mom.
|
| Turn-based games like Words with Friends are now beyond her kin.
| Especially all that freemium and social and achievement crap.
| Holy shit, I just want to play scrabble with my mom. But it has
| to be real-time, so I can keep talking to her, nudges, get her
| unstuck.
|
| Mom is also really into Wheel of Fortune. Family tradition. We
| used to sit around, competitive, talking trash. I've tried to
| find Watch Party versions of any game show. Nadda.
|
| Such a missed business opportunity. Especially with all
| additional social isolation.
| apvarun wrote:
| Good to play with a team!
| [deleted]
| indigodaddy wrote:
| Love the name of it.. has a great ring.
| scary-size wrote:
| Awesome, very addicting! Love how smooth it works.
| anshumankmr wrote:
| Anyone have a code I can join in?
| finite_jest wrote:
| It has a "FIND GAME" option if you'd like to play with random
| people.
| TotempaaltJ wrote:
| It'd be good to show the word on game over.
| fouc wrote:
| squabble is not using the same wordlist as wordle it looks like?
| zanzibar735 wrote:
| Pretty fun!
|
| I think some game mechanics could be adjusted though - most games
| I've played ended up with no-one guessing the word, and the
| winner being the person who made the fewest guesses.
| fouc wrote:
| Great game! Only issue - it doesn't seem to adjust the size to
| keep the keyboard visible (1440x900 here), I was forced to hit
| cmd - a few times to make everything visible.
| xdanger wrote:
| Already someone cheating? On reply, they write the same four
| words (reply, might, found, backs), then there is a pause (while
| inputing the results on a solver?) and then the right answer. Why
| bother?
| bryans wrote:
| I have no doubt that people will use bots on this, but what
| you're describing doesn't actually sound like anyone is
| cheating. Because of the way the game scores, there's not
| really an advantage to taking your time, so it quickly becomes
| obvious that the best strategy is to use the same first 3-4
| words on every game, and then pause to try and get the actual
| answer.
| [deleted]
| Andugal wrote:
| Why am I able to get competitive on anything? ^^
| smashah wrote:
| Hi,
|
| Can you fix the colors please? I have colour deficiency
| (red/green) and the yellow/green look almost identical to me.
|
| The original worlde colours work very well.
| soder wrote:
| There's a colorblind mode in the settings.
| smashah wrote:
| Thank you
| fladrif wrote:
| I just got a word 'FE*ME' that I wasn't able to solve. Thoughts?
| dgellow wrote:
| Femme is from French, it means "woman". I believe it is used in
| English to say "a very feminine woman".
| nicolas-siplis wrote:
| Femme fatale is the first thing that comes to mind.
| albert_e wrote:
| FEMME
|
| As in femme-fatale?
| TonyTrapp wrote:
| Compared to a couple of hours ago, most games that I try to join
| have some guest idling around without typing the word "ready".
| Seems like those should be kicked out if they don't do so within
| 20 seconds or so? Otherwise the games never seem to start.
| jdprgm wrote:
| This is the best wordle variation i've seen yet! Would love to
| see stats added for registered accounts. Win rate, word solve
| time, knock-outs, etc.
| skc wrote:
| Incredibly fun. Well done!
| lekevicius wrote:
| For a non-native speaker, this is quite stressful. I imagine my
| Wordle games take longer than for English-native speakers, but
| it's still very enjoyable. This... I won't try again.
| d--b wrote:
| Fyi: The guy who made this streamed the whole coding process on
| twitch:
|
| https://m.twitch.tv/ottomated
| joejohns wrote:
| Does he have a YouTube channel?
| okkdev wrote:
| He does, but didn't upload in months
| mdrzn wrote:
| Love this guy, he's single-handedly making the Live experience
| better on YT. Great coder.
| dash2 wrote:
| Whoops, there goes my day. If there'd been team Wordle when I was
| a kid I would have been a lot more sporty.
| indigodaddy wrote:
| Any plans for mobile support?
| Kkoala wrote:
| I don't understand, I just randomly get 70 hp deducted when I
| reach the third guess and wait 10+ seconds?
| bspammer wrote:
| I think if someone gets the word right, everyone else loses HP.
| It is a battle royale after all.
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