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NoboruWatayayesterday at 2:42 PM5 repliesview on HN

Fun game, though four years after Wordle I think we can move on from naming every browser puzzle game "something-le" :)

Slight spoiler alert: The last event it gave me was Ireland winning the Six Nations grand slam, which has in fact happened multiple times. In the event it didn't matter as the earliest time it happened was later than the next latest event but in another scenario I think it could have resulted in confusion and possibly a false negative. Or is it smart enough to know only to have an event like that where its place is not ambiguous?


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Asposyesterday at 4:53 PM

"Ireland Wins Six Nations Grand Slam" is such an obscure, hyper-local event which should be a part of localization I guess. I understood every word, but not the whole sentence.

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shermantanktopyesterday at 2:50 PM

The -le genre is more specific - they are fixed-round guessing games, with cumulative clues accruing. It’s a great genre (which of course already existed) but if adding -le helps make more of them, that’s cool with me.

I play Heardle (guess the song from the first seconds) and Chordle (guess the chord spelling). Don’t play Wordle anymore, I got tired of it.

zahlmantoday at 12:02 AM

> I think we can move on from naming every browser puzzle game "something-le"

https://dles.aukspot.com/ begs to differ.

avoutosyesterday at 3:43 PM

The last event states Ireland "returns to rugby glory" suggesting it had won the grand slam before, but also there was a decent amount of time since the last win (return suggests a hiatus). This would exclude the original 1948 win.

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carabineryesterday at 6:43 PM

What, you don't know the classic game of Timd?