[tylerchr]

My wife took one look at this and said “It’s not Wordle if it’s all binary—it’s Digitle.”

[layer8]

Well… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_(computer_architecture)

[selcuka]

5 bits would be a weird size for a word.

[flysand7]

Knuth's "Art of Programming" had a hypothetical machine with 5-bit words.

[layer8]

I don’t think the parent’s argument would change if he had made an 8-bit Wordle.

[badc0ffee]

Baudotle

[HPsquared]

Reminds me of the idea of analogue cheese - fake cheese. It's analogue cheese until you get some on your fingers, when it becomes digital cheese.

[gowld]

It's not Wordle because because it's only 5 bits. There are no remotely common 5-bit word systems.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_(computer_architecture)#T...