Wordout fixed a bug that limited its daily word picks without a server
Wordout is a Wordle-style React Native game with three daily puzzles, and it picks each day's words client-side from the date rather than from a backend. The original seeding code could only reach about 2,047 of its 2,315 answers, and the Easy puzzle was limited to just two possible words because UTC midnight timestamps leave the low bits zero. The developer diagnosed this by replaying old code over ten years of dates and found Easy only ever produced indices 0 and 1024. Version 1.5.8 replaces it with a pure function of the day number and list length, giving distinct, fully reachable words per puzzle that match across devices. Answers for days already in progress were kept, with only later days using the new function.
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