Comment by beardyw

5 months ago

And of course NYT only bought Wordle, so the likeness would be to Wordle, nothing to do with NYT at all.

I like Waffle a lot, and thought about the best strategy for creating the grids, which is probably just a lot of trial and error.

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jamesjessian  5 months ago

Oh, glad to hear that you like it :) I created Waffle.

Yes, it's sort of evolved over time really. Brute force with heuristics, I'd say. The word list is certainly important, along with a few other things that I like to think keep the level of quality above the inferior knock-offs.

  • beardyw  5 months ago

    Thanks for reaching out. I have done some word games for my own amusement and surprised myself how quickly I can try and reject permutations even in JavaScript. It has felt like the opportunity for a clever algorithm has been robbed!