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Mathematics of the daily word game Waffle

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38 points belter | 3 comments | 17 Jan 25 19:07 UTC | HN request time: 0.577s | source
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ChrisArchitect ◴[17 Jan 25 19:22 UTC] No.42742213[source]▶
Is there a daily NYT word game called Waffle? I don't think so?

Wordle - NYT daily word game. https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html

Waffle - some other game. https://wafflegame.net/

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1. ilikepi ◴[17 Jan 25 19:27 UTC] No.42742259[source]▶
Weird...the NYT is referenced only in the Introduction, and never is it suggested that there is an affiliation between the New York Times and the game Waffle or its creator. They really only reference Wordle to note that Waffle has some very loose similarities, like the fact that they both use letter tiles and both use different colors to hint where those tiles go.

Makes me wonder if the title of the article was generated by an LLM.

EDIT: add context; fix typo

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2. dang ◴[17 Jan 25 19:44 UTC] No.42742438[source]▶
Hmm strange! Well, we've de-NYT'd the title above.
3. beardyw ◴[17 Jan 25 21:19 UTC] No.42743371[source]▶
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.