Wordle Game Show In the Works At NBC (hollywoodreporter.com) 17
NBC is developing a game show based on the New York Times' Wordle puzzle, with Today anchor Savannah Guthrie set to host and Jimmy Fallon executive producing through his company, Electric Hot Dog. The Times is also a production partner. From the Hollywood Reporter: Wordle, which the Times acquired in 2022 and logs billions of plays from the paper's games site annually, gives players six tries to guess a five-letter word, revealing only if letters are in the right place (via a green background) or part of the word but in the wrong place (with a gold background). Should it go forward, the Wordle show would join another Fallon-produced game show, Password, on NBC's unscripted roster. The Tonight Show emcee also executive produces and hosts the network's On Brand, a competition series that revolves around advertising and marketing.
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I'm pretty sure there are many chess games that are played over and over again, even though chess has a space that would allow to never repeat a game for a few millennia. Repeating a game someone else played doesn't take the fun out of it.
Sigh. (Score:2)
Well, if it's anything like the two shows I saw being shown in America based on Scrabble and Trivial Pursuit....
They were so awful I honestly continued to watch them only to see just how more contrived they could possibly be.
I mean... you'd think there'd actually be gameplay elements in two of the world's most popular board games to make a show that actually feels like they're playing it, right?
Just do Lingo reruns instead? (Score:2)
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Rather watch paint dry.... (Score:2)
Wordle Solver (Score:2)
I'm guessing using a Wordle solver would be cheating?
https://github.com/moltencrux/wordlesmash [github.com]
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Hah I also made a pyqt6 Wordle solver! Mine uses /usr/share/dict/american-english for the words. Here's a screenshot [i.ibb.co]. I haven't published it anywhere.
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Looks cool! I'd like to take a look. I've been working on profile management recently so that you can create custom word lists. You can specify a list of solution candidates as well as a list of strategic picks, and then generate decision trees based on those lists. A neat trick I've found is that since NYT wordle has not repeated any solutions, you can remove all historical solutions from the candidate list. There are only ~700 words remaining, so almost all my recent attempts solve it on the third try. Co
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Oh nice, I hadn't considered that strategy. Mine's pretty simple, I just brute force check all the 5 letter words. This was the first time I used the multiprocessing module to start a new python process for each core to do the brute forcing.
I couldn't find you on Github (I avoid Microsoft sites anyway...) but here's my code, consider it GPL3 :)
https://filebin.net/9p60fqn4rv... [filebin.net]
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Great, thanks! I'll check it out. I've opened up discussions on the the project page. Definitely not an MS fan myself, but not sure if others like gitlab would be a suitable replacement.
You mean like "Lingo" was? (Score:3)
You mean https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org] ?
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And according to that wikipedia page, Lingo is currently on NBC's lineup.
That's the "creative" media for you.
What's next? (Score:2)
A show based on the NYT's mini crossword puzzle?
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