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Even then, today’s word is pretty impossible to guess. The Wordle formula is too restrictive for a language like Hindi.

Written word-games aren’t a thing in Hindi (like Hangman for eg) but we do have a lot of stuff rhyme based games. Probably other ways to tackle this better.

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> Written word-games aren’t a thing in Hindi but we do have a lot of stuff rhyme based games

Interesting observation, and I can't help but wonder if this is loosely correlated to literacy. Since most of these games were developed to pass time by the masses, it only makes sense that they be verbal rather than written.

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