Wordle in Japanese

23 comments

1. Weeable 3
   6/6

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   hard. there are 71 hiragana including diacritics. my usual strategy of “guess 15 letters right away” doesn’t work

2. Weeable 3
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   Yeah what u/spazzydee said. Including dakuon and yōon I count at least 111 possible characters 😀

3. Weeable 3

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   thanks!

4. Might be better with four instead of five

5. Weeable 3

   2/6

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   pretty fun!!

6. Can’t ‘x’ out of the instructions?

   I’m on an iPhone.

7. Very interesting! I found it quite hard, but I would still keep playing.

   I couldn’t use my actual Japanese keyboard tho, I’d like to. I could only type “pure” sounds like た　ほ　きand not “impure” ones like が　で　or ぱ, and much less these にゃ　or しょ which I don’t remember the name of. I’m on iPhone.

   Oh and also using the Latin keyboard I couldn’t type っ as in がっこう. Normally it appears when you double a consonant other than n, but I couldn’t type it in.

   And one last suggestion. How about adding another color? Orange or whatever to indicate for instance when I input し and the answer has じ. I think that’s one way to address the difficulty without overtuning.

   Anyways, nice job 🙂

8. I have realized I don’t know as many 5 kana words as I thought I did.

   Weeable 3
   6/6

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9. ‘How to play’ popped up once then never again, I had to open it in another browser to read the instructions! You really need to put a ? or a i icon to display it again.

   Not having a lit of blocked out characters is a really big hindrance.

   Well done though! You have done the hard development work with the back end part, now just need better UI.

   At the end I got redirected to Jisho but there was nothing in the text box, and when I clicked back it was reset, so I have no idea what the words was! EDIT: The second time, the word appeared in Jisho, wonder how I messed it up the first time? The URL is clearly /search/word so that was strange.

   Edit again, hey no, I can replicate the bug! When I finish it the first time, the link to Jisho is href=”[https://jisho.org/search/](https://jisho.org/search/)” and that’s it! BUT…. after I reload the screen, it puts the word at the end. Weird. Maybe the value isn’t there until after you have completed it and reloaded.

10. Weeable 4
    3/6

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    I feel so powerful. Thank you

11. I thought the difficulty was just right, given that the N5-N3 vocab limits it to common words, but I could only play once so maybe I got lucky. Is it also a daily thing like wordle? Anyway, very cool! Thanks!

12. I did it! I’m so happy!. This was fun man!

13. This is awesome OP. I enjoyed bumbling my way through lol. Thank you for making it and sharing it. 🙂

14. Okay so I’m using an iphone and I used safari to open the link. Everything works fine until I type in the hiragana characters. When I type one hiragana character, there are two characters put in. For example when I type た, instead of reading just one “た” it takes “たた” as the input. Idk if this is something that only I experienced ? Anyways the concept seemed really exciting. If you fix it or find a way for me to fix it, let me know. Would love to play it! 🙂

15. Yes it will be daily 😀

16. So cool!!

17. I can’t seem to load a new word after winning? I probably don’t know enough about Wordle

18. How do I play this.
    Are there instructions?

19. Reckon you should go with 4 characters, not 5. The excessive 2 letter consonants in Japanese make this more practical IMO

20. Awesome! I was lucky and got 3/6. Great that you shared and thank you for posting.

21. This is great, thanks for this.

    My only feedback at the moment is that the share button didn’t work for me.

22. I cant tell you how much this lifted my spirits getting it right on the first try. Some days I feel like my studying is going nowhere and this really encouraged me! Thank you so much!! 💛

23. Weeable 27

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    I’m so happy, I didn’t think there was a chance in hell I would find the word because I suck at vocabulary. Thank you for this, it’s fun and useful!!