Guessing a word with a repeating letter will cause all instances of that letter to turn yellow, even if the letter appears only once in the answer

Question

Guessing a word with a repeating letter will cause all instances of that letter to turn yellow, even if the letter appears only once in the answer

JamesL813 opened this issue 3 years ago · 3 comments

For example, if the answer is "apple" and I guess "panda", both "a"s will be yellow rather than just one instance. Also if the word is "apple" and I guess "aroma" the first "a" will be green and the second "a" will be yellow.

Both of these scenarios could lead people to believe there's more than one of a certain letter when there isn't

Answer 1 · 2022-02-03T19:31:59.000Z

Yes, I'm aware of this bug. Second case is obvious, but regarding the first one, what would official Wordle show in this case?

Answer 2 · 2022-02-03T19:36:33.000Z

It would highlight the first instance of the letter or the first n instances if the letter appears n times

Answer 3 · 2022-02-06T09:46:18.000Z

Will keep it there as a test case