Thanks a lot, you've been a star and I was able to go to bed last night without fretting I'd completely broken people's game experience.
I have fixed the spelling errors as well.
Byrdle (which is a choral music themed wordle clone) did 6 letters with 7 guesses and I never lost it, and only had to use the 7th row twice, and the answer was not infrequently the name of a composer I had never heard of, so I think 6 letters and 7 guesses is actually a lot easier than 5 letters and 6 guesses - my hypothesis is that having six letters per guess lets you probe through the alphabet a lot faster, even if there are more places in the word each letter could go. Anyway, that's why you don't get an extra guess with 6 letters.
I'm not tracking any stats on the game, too much like hard work. So I'd be happy to see you test in other browsers if you have the energy to do so - I have fired up Firefox and run through it once, but I've not tried in Opera.
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Date: 2023-04-08 08:25 am (UTC)I have fixed the spelling errors as well.
Byrdle (which is a choral music themed wordle clone) did 6 letters with 7 guesses and I never lost it, and only had to use the 7th row twice, and the answer was not infrequently the name of a composer I had never heard of, so I think 6 letters and 7 guesses is actually a lot easier than 5 letters and 6 guesses - my hypothesis is that having six letters per guess lets you probe through the alphabet a lot faster, even if there are more places in the word each letter could go. Anyway, that's why you don't get an extra guess with 6 letters.
I'm not tracking any stats on the game, too much like hard work. So I'd be happy to see you test in other browsers if you have the energy to do so - I have fired up Firefox and run through it once, but I've not tried in Opera.