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Cake day: May 9th, 2024

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  • My biggest hurdle to making the switch is that it takes effort.

    Thats pretty understandable honestly. If my old netbook wasn’t so bogged down from Windows, there’s a chance I wouldn’t have switched to Linux. In a way, I’m glad for it, but it woulda been easier if it just came with Linux preinstalled <3

    The biggest thing I remember was driver support being awful. I guess it’s a lot better now?

    In my experience drivers have been pretty solid… except for NVIDIA. People seem to either have 0 issues or tons. Fingers crossed the upcoming Nova+NVK driver combo brings a more consistent and stable experience for all :)













  • The other logic I’ve started trying to apply is using words that repeat letters.

    That too. I did this a couple games ago when the word was CARRY. I had ⬛️🟥⬛️⬛️🟥 and was able to use MAMMY DADDY NANNY SASSY. I think these are the most optimal types of words because it lets you bypass the requirement of needing yellows to pad space, and as a consequence the yellows don’t bully you into a corner as quickly. I guess thinking in terms of information, it does good at keeping the set of possible words as big as possible. (In normal Wordle, you want to pick a word which halves the set.)


  • Antiwordle #1148
      12 guesses
    
    ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
    ⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛
    ⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛
    ⬛⬛🟨🟨🟨
    ⬛🟨🟨🟨🟨
    🟨🟨🟨🟨⬛
    ⬛🟨🟨🟨🟨
    ⬛🟨🟨🟨🟥
    🟥⬛🟥🟨🟥
    🟥🟥🟥⬛🟥
    🟥🟥🟥⬛🟥
    🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥
    

    Yellows (and reds) seem good because they slow down how fast you go through gray letters. I’m not so sure the best starting word is the most obscure word. Good ones seem to reveal a pattern of “rhymes,” which is what I was going for with the ⬛️🟨🟨🟨🟨 pattern. Unfortunately I already used quite a few letters by that point :(

    Disclaimer: I played this round alongside my dad so I did have an advantage in knowing where some letters were. More realistically I’d have gotten 9 or something :)