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Doctor Whordle Debugging
Is there is anyone out there who has played Doctor Whordle and doesn't mind risking losing their game history?
I tried to do something clever which involved displaying a message next time anyone opened up the game (to explain I'd moved from five to six letter words). Unfortunately this change runs slightly differently in the deployment environment than in the development environment. The upshot is that I can't view Doctor Whordle at all in the browser I normally play in. I've changed the code so the message no longer messes around with the local storage in the browser, but I've no way of checking if this has fixed the problem. It looks fine on every device where I've not played the game before, but I've only that one where I was keeping state and it still won't display at all on that.
So if there is anyone out there who's prepared to take the risk, can you open up Doctor Whordle - refresh the page if it isn't showing you a six letter word to guess and tell me if still works or if I seem to have broken it for existing players.
https://louiseadennis.github.io/doctor-whordle/
I tried to do something clever which involved displaying a message next time anyone opened up the game (to explain I'd moved from five to six letter words). Unfortunately this change runs slightly differently in the deployment environment than in the development environment. The upshot is that I can't view Doctor Whordle at all in the browser I normally play in. I've changed the code so the message no longer messes around with the local storage in the browser, but I've no way of checking if this has fixed the problem. It looks fine on every device where I've not played the game before, but I've only that one where I was keeping state and it still won't display at all on that.
So if there is anyone out there who's prepared to take the risk, can you open up Doctor Whordle - refresh the page if it isn't showing you a six letter word to guess and tell me if still works or if I seem to have broken it for existing players.
https://louiseadennis.github.io/doctor-whordle/
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My husband is holding off. He's in a meeting so hadn't jumped on it right away.
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Chrome(not Chrome, Edge sorry - the one where you should have a history) and see if you still have your game history - complete the word (succeed for fail as you wish - fail is obviously quicker) and see if the stats modal when it pops up still records your previous games.no subject
I haven't started looking at the random mode yet (I am actually still at work).
The i and ! are working correctly now. Two typos: "Exclamation" has only one 'm' (I'm pretty sure that's correct for both American and British English; it's on the front page and in your change notes), and in the help popup, Wordle is spelled "Worlde".
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The Random Word is being rerolled correctly whether I start a new game right away (using the button below the game table) or I finish the game, go to the Word of the Day, and start the Random Word from there.
Gameplay is as seamless as usual, though I object to "moved" being judged as not a word. :) (I know - tenses and plurals are often not considered valid words for this kind of game.)
Display looks great and is consistent. Do you want me to test in Firefox and Opera as well?
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You may want to give 6-letter words another attempt. Adding a letter does increase the difficulty of the puzzle.
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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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After I made the suggestion, I thought of a number of ways that more guesses would either be easier or harder, so yes, I agree with you, staying at 6 guesses is better.
I'll take a look on Monday (when I'm on my work computer where I have FF and Opera installed). I may also throw the other analyst on my team at it - I'm training him up and this might be a nice fun exercise in analytical thinking.
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