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Hi everyone I am the creator of Quordle and I am glad that people are enjoying playing it :)

I also appreciate all the feedback and I am looking to improve the experience when playing on desktop!

You can follow the @quordle Twitter for updates as well!



One suggestion: could you put the four games side-by-side when the horizontal space allows it?

With a 1792px width (Macbook Pro 16) I have to scroll vertically to see all the games while there is plenty of unused horizontal space


I agree. If there's empty space on the screen, you shouldn't need to scroll.

But after a practice round, I didn't need to scroll anyway because I got today's puzzle in 3/4/5/7, so whoohoo!


Yeah I came here to say same thing. I find it hard to concentrate when bottom two boards are cutoff.


First, loving this version, it's just the right amount of difficulty. It's slowly overtaking Wordle in my group.

Are the colors in dark mode different to Wordle? I find it harder to remember which gray means unguessed and which means no matches.

The keyboard doesn't display correctly with split colors on Firefox Android, but the numbers at the end do.

Lastly, the share is too large. I tend to just cut off the actual boards and just post the numbers.


It's really cool! one small request: Can you switch the colors for "guessed, not in word" and "not guessed yet" letters on the keyboard? It's opposite from the original and makes it confusing.


I am working on tweaking the keyboard to be more clear so stay tuned for updates very soon around this!


I am loving this.

One thing, the position of the backspace and enter keys is the opposite of wordle and that's confusing, esp if you play both.


Getting rid of the google tracker would be nice. I was disappointed to see the New York Times added one to the original game after they moved it.


Use adblock?


I do, which is how I immediately noticed it was there when I went to the site. I'm just not a big fan of the "I've got mine so screw everyone else" mentality and I'm happy to suggest making simple changes that will improve things for others.


One of today’s words appeared recently. I don’t know how many 5-letter words there are, but I feel like the optimal time between appearances should be a bit longer. (Not to mention this word is an alternative spelling, which may be frustrating to some.)


This is really neat. That's all I wanted to say. Thank you for building it.


Need to fully visually eliminate letter choices that are no longer available to the remaining quadrant, when the others that are solved.


Hey my partner plays a lot of quordle and had the following feedback:

Three things:

1. Love it! Thank you!

2. Could there be a better contrast between keyboard letters and the game board? They’re a bit too similar. I use dark mode, but it seems there is the same lack of definition in light mode as well.

3. Is there any way the whole game could be visible on mobile (e.g. iPhone12 Max) so the last few rows of the game board don’t need to be scrolled?


If you need CSS help or help with the responsive design, let me know! I'd be happy to help. Switched from Wordle after NYT to Quordle and definitely prefer the challenge of Quordle.


Amazing work. I'll be adding it to my daily routine.


Which word dictionary did you use? I tried coding my own but was surprised as how messy all the dictionaries are.


Not OP but for my Wordle clone I used this, with some minimal manual pruning to my taste:

http://wordlist.aspell.net/


I like it, but too often there are words that you never use!


I'm getting some weird words in practice such as "FETID" and "SHALT". Is it reasonable to increase the cutoff of word usage for the dictionary?


Those are great words


What about POESY?


It rings around

A delightful sound


I love this. Thank you for this.




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