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beardyw01/17/20251 replyview on HN

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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jamesjessian01/18/2025

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.

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