TrifThis year's April Fools joke was a big success 🎉
I've been implementing experimental Wordle variants for my Discord bot for the past few April Fools' Days. This time, I changed the solutions to be 1-8 letters long instead of the usual 5.
Similar variants have been done before, but my twist on it is that you don't know how long the word is. And, in spirit of the day, I thought it'd be amusing to just let players figure this out the hard way, not knowing that the rules had changed at all 😄
Once players got over the initial surprise though, many kept playing all day. In total, 83 games were played across 3 servers – pretty good!
Seeing people have fun with something I programmed always makes my day. I made this project pretty spontaneously back in 2022, wondering if it would last longer than a day. But it turns out that little daily co-op games are a great social experience, and many of my friends still play together daily.
I've been implementing experimental Wordle variants for my Discord bot for the past few April Fools' Days. This time, I changed the solutions to be 1-8 letters long instead of the usual 5.
Similar variants have been done before, but my twist on it is that you don't know how long the word is. And, in spirit of the day, I thought it'd be amusing to just let players figure this out the hard way, not knowing that the rules had changed at all 😄
Once players got over the initial surprise though, many kept playing all day. In total, 83 games were played across 3 servers – pretty good!
Seeing people have fun with something I programmed always makes my day. I made this project pretty spontaneously back in 2022, wondering if it would last longer than a day. But it turns out that little daily co-op games are a great social experience, and many of my friends still play together daily.
