I read about it on the BBC news site and have done 4 days now
(they give a word per day).
Twice at the 4-th try, once and the third and once at the
last, sixth (which was a word I did not know, I just guessed
what it could be then looked it up (was "shard")).
https://www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/
In article <stjsi1$v07$1@dont-email.me>, dp@tgi-sci.com says...
I read about it on the BBC news site and have done 4 days now
(they give a word per day).
Twice at the 4-th try, once and the third and once at the
last, sixth (which was a word I did not know, I just guessed
what it could be then looked it up (was "shard")).
https://www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/
So you do not know that "Shard" is the nickname of a London skyscraper?
(Or did you learn that from looking it up?)
I read about it on the BBC news site and have done 4 days now
(they give a word per day).
Twice at the 4-th try, once and the third and once at the
last, sixth (which was a word I did not know, I just guessed
what it could be then looked it up (was "shard")).
https://www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/
On 2/4/2022 11:50 AM, Dimiter_Popoff wrote:
I read about it on the BBC news site and have done 4 days now
(they give a word per day).
Twice at the 4-th try, once and the third and once at the
last, sixth (which was a word I did not know, I just guessed
what it could be then looked it up (was "shard")).
https://www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastermind_(board_game)>
A slightly different problem as each "character" (peg)
in the guess has no semantic ties to those around it
(whereas letters in a word, do!)
On 2/5/2022 2:00, Don Y wrote:
On 2/4/2022 11:50 AM, Dimiter_Popoff wrote:
I read about it on the BBC news site and have done 4 days now
(they give a word per day).
Twice at the 4-th try, once and the third and once at the
last, sixth (which was a word I did not know, I just guessed
what it could be then looked it up (was "shard")).
https://www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastermind_(board_game)>
A slightly different problem as each "character" (peg)
in the guess has no semantic ties to those around it
(whereas letters in a word, do!)
Have never seen that one.
But I am not the gamer type at all
you know, can't be drawn for too long on a game, it takes some
real problem to get me going.
IIRC you had designed/programmed some games some time ago?
My only game was that "bulls and cows" on a 6800 hex kit,
manually assembled on paper while I was learning the trade.
That wordle is globally the same I think, one word per day,
people can share phone screenshots of how they did it etc.,
let me see how long it will keep me (going to bed now with the
intention to do today's word).
On 2/5/2022 1:09, Mike Coon wrote:
In article <stjsi1$v07$1...@dont-email.me>, d...@tgi-sci.com says...
I read about it on the BBC news site and have done 4 days now
(they give a word per day).
Twice at the 4-th try, once and the third and once at the
last, sixth (which was a word I did not know, I just guessed
what it could be then looked it up (was "shard")).
https://www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/
So you do not know that "Shard" is the nickname of a London skyscraper?No, never been there. And I did not know that meaning until you
(Or did you learn that from looking it up?)
posted :-).
What I found was it meant some sort of piece of broken ceramics
or something like that. I don't think I had ever encountered the
word, if I did I had zero memory of that.
That wordle thing is pretty nice, I liked it. Reminded me of a
game we played at school, bulls and cows, but more varied. And it
is just one word per day so one cannot be bored too easily nor
waste much time with it.
On 2/5/2022 2:00, Don Y wrote:
On 2/4/2022 11:50 AM, Dimiter_Popoff wrote:
I read about it on the BBC news site and have done 4 days now
(they give a word per day).
Twice at the 4-th try, once and the third and once at the
last, sixth (which was a word I did not know, I just guessed
what it could be then looked it up (was "shard")).
https://www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastermind_(board_game)>
A slightly different problem as each "character" (peg)
in the guess has no semantic ties to those around it
(whereas letters in a word, do!)
Have never seen that one. But I am not the gamer type at all
you know, can't be drawn for too long on a game, it takes some
real problem to get me going.
IIRC you had designed/programmed some games some time ago?
My only game was that "bulls and cows" on a 6800 hex kit,
manually assembled on paper while I was learning the trade.
That wordle is globally the same I think, one word per day,
people can share phone screenshots of how they did it etc.,
let me see how long it will keep me (going to bed now with the
intention to do today's word).
On 2/4/2022 5:39 PM, Dimiter_Popoff wrote:
On 2/5/2022 2:00, Don Y wrote:
On 2/4/2022 11:50 AM, Dimiter_Popoff wrote:
I read about it on the BBC news site and have done 4 days now
(they give a word per day).
Twice at the 4-th try, once and the third and once at the
last, sixth (which was a word I did not know, I just guessed
what it could be then looked it up (was "shard")).
https://www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastermind_(board_game)>
A slightly different problem as each "character" (peg)
in the guess has no semantic ties to those around it
(whereas letters in a word, do!)
Have never seen that one.It was common (inexpensive) when we were kids. It doesn't require
any special equipment and, anyone with "decent" reasoning capability
can become proficient.
But I am not the gamer type at allYup. The advantage is that the games are short. And, once you
you know, can't be drawn for too long on a game, it takes some
real problem to get me going.
"learn" how to play (beat) it, they almost become trivial.
Sort of like playing solitaire -- a reasonably mindless distraction... unlike putting together a 5000 piece jigsaw puzzle!
IIRC you had designed/programmed some games some time ago?Those were "arcade pieces" (things you put money into in order
to play) and "gaming devices" ("gaming" being a euphemism for
*gambling* -- slot machines, pai gow poker, etc.) Each has
"profit" as a design motivation.
My only game was that "bulls and cows" on a 6800 hex kit,Mastermind is conceptually similar. But, an "excuse" for
manually assembled on paper while I was learning the trade.
someone to make a few dollars selling you a bunch of colored
plastic pieces!
That wordle is globally the same I think, one word per day,
people can share phone screenshots of how they did it etc.,
let me see how long it will keep me (going to bed now with the
intention to do today's word).
In article <stkh01$uhg$1@dont-email.me>, dp@tgi-sci.com says...
On 2/5/2022 2:00, Don Y wrote:
On 2/4/2022 11:50 AM, Dimiter_Popoff wrote:
I read about it on the BBC news site and have done 4 days now
(they give a word per day).
Twice at the 4-th try, once and the third and once at the
last, sixth (which was a word I did not know, I just guessed
what it could be then looked it up (was "shard")).
https://www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastermind_(board_game)>
A slightly different problem as each "character" (peg)
in the guess has no semantic ties to those around it
(whereas letters in a word, do!)
Have never seen that one. But I am not the gamer type at all
you know, can't be drawn for too long on a game, it takes some
real problem to get me going.
IIRC you had designed/programmed some games some time ago?
My only game was that "bulls and cows" on a 6800 hex kit,
manually assembled on paper while I was learning the trade.
That wordle is globally the same I think, one word per day,
people can share phone screenshots of how they did it etc.,
let me see how long it will keep me (going to bed now with the
intention to do today's word).
Agreed that programming a "game" is much more interesting than playing.
Especially true of zero-person games like Conway's Game of Life. I
enjoyed coding that on a rather slow machine. I can still run it but
don't know where my source code is.
Similarly true with puzzle (not game) or the "eight queens" problem. I
coded that to (try to) eliminate symmetrical answers ("fundamental" solutions) but got (IIRC) 14 patterns instead of 12. Non-fundamental
gives 92 patterns! Now we have web and wikipedia I can see other
people's algorithms...
In article <stkh01$uhg$1@dont-email.me>, dp@tgi-sci.com says...
On 2/5/2022 2:00, Don Y wrote:
On 2/4/2022 11:50 AM, Dimiter_Popoff wrote:
I read about it on the BBC news site and have done 4 days now
(they give a word per day).
Twice at the 4-th try, once and the third and once at the
last, sixth (which was a word I did not know, I just guessed
what it could be then looked it up (was "shard")).
https://www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastermind_(board_game)>
A slightly different problem as each "character" (peg)
in the guess has no semantic ties to those around it
(whereas letters in a word, do!)
Have never seen that one. But I am not the gamer type at all
you know, can't be drawn for too long on a game, it takes some
real problem to get me going.
IIRC you had designed/programmed some games some time ago?
My only game was that "bulls and cows" on a 6800 hex kit,
manually assembled on paper while I was learning the trade.
That wordle is globally the same I think, one word per day,
people can share phone screenshots of how they did it etc.,
let me see how long it will keep me (going to bed now with the
intention to do today's word).
Agreed that programming a "game" is much more interesting than playing.
Especially true of zero-person games like Conway's Game of Life. I
enjoyed coding that on a rather slow machine. I can still run it but
don't know where my source code is.
Similarly true with puzzle (not game) or the "eight queens" problem. I
coded that to (try to) eliminate symmetrical answers ("fundamental" solutions) but got (IIRC) 14 patterns instead of 12. Non-fundamental
gives 92 patterns! Now we have web and wikipedia I can see other
people's algorithms..
Especially true of zero-person games like Conway's Game of Life. I
enjoyed coding that on a rather slow machine. I can still run it but
don't know where my source code is.
I also have one of these "can run but lost the source" :).
Not exactly a game, a "knight walk" exercise I did for a friend
whose wife had to do it for some exam... I did it in Pascal,
I had this integer pascal on my first MDOS09 system, took about
half an hour of torture to the floppies and the 1 MHz 09 to compile...
My English was not bad at that time but - as it is now - clearly
imperfect, upon completion the question was meant to be
"Got it. Bored?" (80-s, ha-ha). I had written "Annoyed", thinking
it meant "bored", LOL.
Similarly true with puzzle (not game) or the "eight queens" problem. I
coded that to (try to) eliminate symmetrical answers ("fundamental"
solutions) but got (IIRC) 14 patterns instead of 12. Non-fundamental
gives 92 patterns! Now we have web and wikipedia I can see other
people's algorithms...
A few years ago I wanted to do a sort of a directory display
and just looked up the algorithms; works fine and the sources I wrote
are intact but for the life of me I can't remember what the algorithm
was called and how it worked. I think I do remember how algorithms
I have made up work though.
On 2/5/2022 6:51 AM, Dimiter_Popoff wrote:
.....
A few years ago I wanted to do a sort of a directory display
and just looked up the algorithms; works fine and the sources I wrote
are intact but for the life of me I can't remember what the algorithm
was called and how it worked. I think I do remember how algorithms
I have made up work though.
That's where comments are most useful! I learned the value of this
in one of my earliest software roles.
On 2/5/2022 17:56, Don Y wrote:
On 2/5/2022 6:51 AM, Dimiter_Popoff wrote:
.....
A few years ago I wanted to do a sort of a directory display
and just looked up the algorithms; works fine and the sources I wrote
are intact but for the life of me I can't remember what the algorithm
was called and how it worked. I think I do remember how algorithms
I have made up work though.
That's where comments are most useful! I learned the value of this
in one of my earliest software roles.
Oh the source is well commented, I can always look into it and
see what/how etc. This is valid for everything I have written
since say 1985.
But without looking I could not remember *a thing* about how
it worked. Unlike algorithms I have made up, one notable being
the event processing for the MCA DSP part; complex as it is I
still remember what it does, for details I'd have to look at
the sources of course, it is >10 years since I made it. And the
sort was just 4-5 years ago...
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