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thesilican / duotrigordle

Play 32 wordles simultaneously
https://duotrigordle.com/
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Feature Request: Auto Solves #101

Closed PittCaleb closed 9 months ago

PittCaleb commented 1 year ago

Since one user configurable setting allows the game to show the current state of the puzzle (i.e. letters in the proper location) I would love for it to auto-solve puzzles which have all 5 letters in place.

If I finally put an A into the 1st position and that solves ALOFT but board X was ACTED and now that is also solved without guessing, I would like it to auto-add a guess of ACTED (adding one to my guesses), sounding the notification (see other feature request) and eliminating the board from my screen if on that setting as well.

Esp when playing sequence, would be neat to just keep advancing over boards that need no "work"

Box-Bop commented 1 year ago

It's a tricky UX question. I personally kind of like the combination of quick wits on figuring out the word in addition to seeing how fast I can type them out.

thesilican commented 1 year ago

When it comes to quality of life features there's always a fine line between "making the game easier to play" and "the computer playing the game for you", the most extreme case of the latter being a bot that just auto-solves every board for you. I feel like auto solving trivial boards sort of crosses the line in terms of automation, so I don't plan on adding it to the normal game.

However, it does remind me of this minesweeper bot that handles trivial cases and leaves the remaining difficult patterns for the user to resolve. So it could be some kind of like "bot assist" mode where the computer helps you solve trivial cases, which might be interesting. Nonetheless it would have to be some kind of separate game mode.

thesilican commented 9 months ago

Added in January 14, 2024 update