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The solution at the bottom of `VAR(--TEXT-COLOR)` is a good clue.

I can't back my argument up with big o notation or such, but I don't feel like this truly compares to a binary search.  Is it because I only do hard mode?

(My gut feel is unscientific, and thus my hypothesis is pretty dann dubious, but let me provide one more useless piece of anecdotal data: have you seen the wordle solver that lets you put in the final word, and it tries to guess it? I match or beat it 4 out of every 5 times. But maybe it's not the best solver?)

Maybe it's this: In hard mode, you HAVE to use the letters you've found, right?

On my first guess, I find there is an E somewhere.

Now, because I have to use that E IN MY SUBSEQUENT GUESSES, I only have four spaces per guess now, and I still don't know where the E goes.

Blah. I'm not very convincing. Maybe what it comes down to is letter combos. Like if you rule out H, you also rule out CH, SH, TH, PH, WH, and GH. Those are two-letter combos ruled out for the price of one letter. With those combos gone, the likelihood of each companion letter goes down, too! (Or if you find an H, you're statistically way more likely to have one of those combos than not. (I think.))

But E... E is ubiquitous. It can go just about anywhere, with any adjacent letter.

In short, I think this game can't be simplified to binary searches. Words have patterns that shortcut things faster than a 50/50 search on one letter. That's my hypothesis.

E is in half the words in the win list. It's a wasteful letter to guess on! Save it for a later guess! This is a hill I will die on.

I play hard mode on Wordle, and faux-hard mode here. I've yet to lose Wordle in 30+ days of playing, and my losses in Dordle are few, given that I've played SO MANY TIMES.

Thank you! And thanks for the colorblind mode.

no no, it can totally work if you use an OR. 

You can play, say CAR, which is a valid hard mode move for one side, OR you can play something that's a valid hard mode move like DOE for the other side. As long as your word is a hard mode move for one side or the other, it's allowed.

I've been playing this way and it's definitely possible to win. I've only lost a handful of times, in fact. 

hmm. I've never run into that, but I don't think I'd like that rule.

It'd be tricky, but could you do a hard mode where each guess must include all valid letters in one or both puzzles, like in original wordle? I always play that way, but it'd be fun to have it enforced.

For, you know, certain values of "fun."

Did you perchance try looking straight up? That riddle gets everybody. I need to work on it.

Thanks! Curiosity quelled. That's really interesting.

 I was curious what would happen if I reached a max int value, but the game finally stopped counting at a curious number.

Then I went to leave a comment, so I had to log in, and the game started again, at an earlier date - until it froze again at this one:

WHAT HAPPENS IN THE FUTURE AND HOW IS THIS GAME AFFECTING IT???