Wordle

[Stirchley]

Anyone playing this new Internet game? It’s really rather good & it’s only one word per day so one doesn’t spend hours doing it. It’s gone viral for some reason.

I actually solved the word yesterday in not too great a time.

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[CringeFest]

are those letters in the bottom right the letters in the word? I'm already confused.

[Stirchley]

It is confusing at first. One gets a blank grid - 5 letters across & 6 attempts to solve it. Yellow tiles mean the letters you chose are part of the answer, but not in the order shown. Grey tiles means the letters don’t exist in the answer. Green tiles means the letter is correct & in the correct place. I’m not explaining it well & the cartoon is misleading.

This is today’s puzzle. I have chosen “relax” as my first guess. “R” and “A” are the only two letters in the answer, but not in the order shown. The 3 remaining letters are grey tiles so are not in the answer.

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[CringeFest]

yeah i went ahead and started playing and it's tough, i've guessed 3 of the letters but im having a hard time thinking of the word, especially since on of the letters is yellow...

[Stirchley]

yeah i went ahead and started playing and it's tough, i've guessed 3 of the letters but im having a hard time thinking of the word, especially since on of the letters is yellow...

I haven’t returned to the puzzle yet as I’m rushing. One does need paper & pencil I think.

First one I did I got - - ery. Having looked at the vowels (important) I knew a 2nd vowel had to be either “u” or “i”. Gave up & was kicking myself the next day as it’s obviously QUERY. :rolleyes:

[CringeFest]

yeah i went ahead and started playing and it's tough, i've guessed 3 of the letters but im having a hard time thinking of the word, especially since on of the letters is yellow...


wow! i got it on the fifth try! I can't believe it...

[CringeFest]

I haven’t returned to the puzzle yet as I’m rushing. One does need paper & pencil I think.

First one I did I got - - ery. Having looked at the vowels (important) I knew a 2nd vowel had to be either “u” or “i”. Gave up & was kicking myself the next day as it’s obviously QUERY. :rolleyes:


i think i was in part lucky because i guessed the right number of things in the right order, it doesn't hurt to use web pages like this, and yeah i used gedit (linux version of notepad) as you were insinuating in order to put down letters that turned up grey:


https://lists.bestwordclub.com/5letterwordssecondlettera.htm

[Flicker]

Been playing the old "Lost Words" for ages, on android. Been occasionally watching a cheesy tv game show that same principle. And suddenly it is omg omg a thing because.

[Stirchley]

i think i was in part lucky because i guessed the right number of things in the right order, it doesn't hurt to use web pages like this, and yeah i used gedit (linux version of notepad) as you were insinuating in order to put down letters that turned up grey:


https://lists.bestwordclub.com/5letterwordssecondlettera.htm

Don’t tell me the answer! Didn’t realize the guy who came up with this - his surname is Wardle - is a fellow Brit. Interesting.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-10393725/How-win-Wordle-Puzzle-experts-reveal-strategies-success.html

[CringeFest]

Don’t tell me the answer! Didn’t realize the guy who came up with this - his surname is Wardle - is a fellow Brit. Interesting.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-10393725/How-win-Wordle-Puzzle-experts-reveal-strategies-success.html


haha, sorry, but picture display actually helped me out because i had one of those letters as a yellow and i was able to figure out its actual place based on that and the clues i had.

[Stirchley]

wow! i got it on the fifth try! I can't believe it...

Finally - just got it on the 4th try, but I made heavy weather of it. Thank God there’s only a new word every 24 hours. :p

(I’m two for two now.)

[Takoma11]

I like it, and I've gotten all four I've tried (though I was down to my last guess yesterday!).

I like that there's only one per day. It's a quick 5 minute or less brain teaser.

I always start with the word "SPACE" and then "GROUT". Then I just play around with any letters that are correct.

I REALLY appreciate the little keyboard at the bottom showing what letters you already guessed.

EDIT: The only thing that catches me sometimes is that I forget you can use letters more than once!

[Stirchley]

I like it, and I've gotten all four I've tried (though I was down to my last guess yesterday!).

I like that there's only one per day. It's a quick 5 minute or less brain teaser.

I always start with the word "SPACE" and then "GROUT". Then I just play around with any letters that are correct.

I REALLY appreciate the little keyboard at the bottom showing what letters you already guessed.

EDIT: The only thing that catches me sometimes is that I forget you can use letters more than once!

5 minutes or less? Not me. Took me several times over at least an hour to figure out today’s. Yesterday’s even longer. I’m two for two & I would imagine it gets easier. I’m gonna try your 2 words tomorrow because I never know what word to start with.

I haven’t quite got the hang of the little keyboard at the bottom yet. I’m probably making things harder than they should be. As is my wont. :rolleyes:

Mesmerized would probably like this puzzle.

[Yoda]

Yes, Wordle is a great little game.

I'm part of a group of friends in a video game community that already has a history of becoming obsessed with things like this. One of us finds a game (or video series, sometimes), shares it with the others, and it takes over for awhile. This is the latest. I would've jumped all over it initially, as it's exactly the kind of thing I like, but I was moving and pretty busy, so I only started a few days ago. Really enjoyable.

[Takoma11]

5 minutes or less? Not me. Took me several times over at least an hour to figure out today’s. Yesterday’s even longer. I’m two for two & I would imagine it gets easier. I’m gonna try your 2 words tomorrow because I never know what word to start with.

I like my two words because they get most of the vowels and some common consonants in there. I know someone else always starts with POEMS. GUISE could also be a good starter, or ABOUT.

I do them quickly because I am impatient. Despite having an extensive vocabulary, I always bomb at games like Scrabble because I just play the first word I see.

[Stirchley]

I like my two words because they get most of the vowels and some common consonants in there. I know someone else always starts with POEMS. GUISE could also be a good starter, or ABOUT.

I do them quickly because I am impatient. Despite having an extensive vocabulary, I always bomb at games like Scrabble because I just play the first word I see.

People expect me to be a genius at Scrabble. I am far far below average.

Good words to try for tomorrow’s Wordle - you’ve given me some good ones. :p

Before I leave, did you know that some people actually search online for 5 letter words starting with “p” or whatever? This seems kinda cheating to me.

[Stirchley]

Yes, Wordle is a great little game.

I'm part of a group of friends in a video game community that already has a history of becoming obsessed with things like this. One of us finds a game (or video series, sometimes), shares it with the others, and it takes over for awhile. This is the latest. I would've jumped all over it initially, as it's exactly the kind of thing I like, but I was moving and pretty busy, so I only started a few days ago. Really enjoyable.

The strangest thing I did during this pandemic was to become obsessed with online solitaire. Never played it in my life, but I have had to delete the app as it was taking over my life. It was just so relaxing & comforting when the cards played out. So very bizarre.

[Takoma11]

People expect me to be a genius at Scrabble. I am far far below average.

Good words to try for tomorrow’s Wordle - you’ve given me some good ones. :p

*mediocre high five!*

I also really used to be into TextTwist, but I have no idea if it still exists.

[Stirchley]

*mediocre high five!*

I also really used to be into TextTwist, but I have no idea if it still exists.

Never heard of it. Not a games player by any means. Husband is not familiar with or good at any kind of game so nobody to play with. My late SIL & I were devoted players of cribbage when we lived in NYC. Brought my set to CT when I married, but nobody to play with. Still sitting in the cupboard collecting dust.

[pahaK]

EDIT: The only thing that catches me sometimes is that I forget you can use letters more than once!

What really bugs me is that they don't even mention it in "how to play" :mad: Spent like five extra minutes trying to figure a word from the remaining letters, and there was none. Then tried the first one that came to mind with a duplicate letter and that was it.

This doesn't seem too difficult, honestly, but I've done a lot of crosswords and stuff like that.

[Takoma11]

What really bugs me is that they don't even mention it in "how to play" :mad: Spent like five extra minutes trying to figure a word from the remaining letters, and there was none. Then tried the first one that came to mind with a duplicate letter and that was it.

This doesn't seem too difficult, honestly, but I've done a lot of crosswords and stuff like that.

I think that if you have a decent vocabulary and "see" words well (god that sounds snobby), it's not that hard of a game. I also appreciate that they don't seem to be using super obscure words.

[Yoda]

The strangest thing I did during this pandemic was to become obsessed with online solitaire. Never played it in my life, but I have had to delete the app as it was taking over my life. It was just so relaxing & comforting when the cards played out. So very bizarre.
It makes sense, achieving order is inherently satisfying and sometimes a game is just challenging enough to be engaging but easy enough to feel breezy, and that combination is great for killing time.

I loved (still love!) a very odd game called Regency Solitaire awhile back. I still play it sometimes. It's not really solitaire, you literally just have to find cards one higher or lower than the card at the top of your deck, and it's sitting on top of this weird Victorian/Jane Austen-like frame story. And there's little undo abilities and some cards require keys. REALLY simple but SO well done that it's hypnotic.

My obsession for the last year or so is a game called NERTS, which is competitive solitaire, if you can believe that.

EDIT: The only thing that catches me sometimes is that I forget you can use letters more than once!
This got me immediately, either my first or second day.

[Austruck]

Finally - just got it on the 4th try, but I made heavy weather of it. Thank God there’s only a new word every 24 hours. :p

(I’m two for two now.)

I tried this for the first time a few hours ago. Same word as you, I suppose. I got it on the third try and it seemed easy enough. Perhaps I just lucked out this first time through, though. We'll see tomorrow when I probably will botch up that word completely. :D

[Austruck]

The only thing that wasn't absolutely clear is that you, what? Just randomly guess a word with that many letters in it for the first try? Or did I miss something about how to do your first guess?

[Takoma11]

My obsession for the last year or so is a game called NERTS, which is competitive solitaire, if you can believe that.

You might enjoy Crapette: https://www.australia-casino.co/encyclopedia/the-crapette

[CringeFest]

People expect me to be a genius at Scrabble. I am far far below average.

Good words to try for tomorrow’s Wordle - you’ve given me some good ones. :p

Before I leave, did you know that some people actually search online for 5 letter words starting with “p” or whatever? This seems kinda cheating to me.


might be cheating and all, but i use that strategy when when my brain feels exhausted of possibilities, kinda like how i play videogames: i only look up the answer when i feel really trapped.


i just won my second wordle on the 4th guess, because i was struggling. I found out what 3 of the letters were, and one was in the right position, so i did a google search "5 letter words that end with _." Then, i saw one that british people like to use immediately (you can PM me for the word if you want) that conformed to the letters that i found to be correct, and voila, ya' brits! :p


Stirchley, do you like to play crossword puzzles? My family would play them, they're more open ended and difficult. I like wordle because it's easy enough for anyone with a computer to play.

[Yoda]

Yeah, I don't allow myself any outside reference at all once I start. Only thing I might do is open a text file or spreadsheet so I can rearrange the letters I know are there.

I did happen, before ever playing Wordle, to read a tweet from someone suggesting a couple of works that were particularly good to start with, which I can't forget, but it's anecdotal so who knows.

[Austruck]

Second day, did well but not as fast as the first day. I'm not going to Google anything, since that's way too easy then. It's only a few minutes a day so I don't see it as a possible time-suck going forward. :)

The tough part is staring at the screen with nothing but blanks staring back at you. So much depends on that first guess, I suspect.

[Yoda]

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[Chypmunk]

Well done - I woz rubbish today :(
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So rubbish I couldn't even paste it properly apparently :D

[Yoda]

I think the paste is fine, it's just that it doesn't work in Quick Reply.

[Chypmunk]

Yeah, edit and re-paste worked :)
Sadly, it didn't make me any faster today though :bawling:

Wonder if I could edit that though :devil:
Wordle 209 2/6

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Boy was I on fire today!!! :D
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[Yoda]

One day they'll pick the word I always start with and I'll look like a genius.

[Chypmunk]

One day they'll pick the word I always start with and I'll look like a genius.
Lol

I've just invented Reverse-Wordle.
Someone saves and posts their grid from the day before and given the target word for that day others have to try and work out exactly what words they used to get there :D

[pahaK]

I'm 5/6 two days in a row now. Today (or yesterday from my PoV) was annoying. I had four green boxes on my 2nd attempt, but it took me three more tries to guess the exact word.

[CringeFest]

I was reading this thread before playing this morning, and i felt like a un-intelligent cheat since you all refrain from using the google the way i did the last two games...so, today i only used google to see if words in my head were spelled they way i thought they were...


and what i discovered is...using a notepad makes the game harder anyways, it's better just to keep staring at the screen. Luckily, i got it on the 5th guess out of 6. I have not lost yet having played 3 times! They make it easy in the sense that they don't let you make up words to see if they are words and check if the letters are there like i tried. Now i'm not going to use google to find "5 letter words that are x", but i don't think it's cheating to see if a word in your head is spelled a certain way.



If ya'll are feeling particularly like challenging yourself, they do have a hard mode which you can turn on in the settings, this makes it so that if you guess a letter correctly, then you must use it in all your geusses...seems like that insure you win a higher % of the time.

[honeykid]

I only heard of this a couple of days ago. It was on a show over here presented by a middle aged, middle class, desperate attention seeker and/or frustrated performer who seems to constantly want to be 'down wiv da kidz' and the first thing I thought was this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5O7ZCvpItY

A programme which has been on a much bigger channel than the one he's on for at least a year. Which, in turn, was a remake of this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cPbt-DTvLI

Which I've since found out was a UK version of this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_iC26tnDqM

[Stirchley]

I like it, and I've gotten all four I've tried (though I was down to my last guess yesterday!).

I like that there's only one per day. It's a quick 5 minute or less brain teaser.

I always start with the word "SPACE" and then "GROUT". Then I just play around with any letters that are correct.

I REALLY appreciate the little keyboard at the bottom showing what letters you already guessed.

EDIT: The only thing that catches me sometimes is that I forget you can use letters more than once!

Yesterday’s took me forever until I doubled the “b”. Duh!

I like my two words because they get most of the vowels and some common consonants in there. I know someone else always starts with POEMS. GUISE could also be a good starter, or ABOUT.

I do them quickly because I am impatient. Despite having an extensive vocabulary, I always bomb at games like Scrabble because I just play the first word I see.

I’m using your words.

I think that if you have a decent vocabulary and "see" words well (god that sounds snobby), it's not that hard of a game. I also appreciate that they don't seem to be using super obscure words.

Funny you say this. Apparently, some Americans are angry on Twitter that “Brit words” are being used even though the creator is British. They were furious over “query”, which I don’t see as particularly British. Yesterday, the same thing. Furious because they don’t know what an “abbey” is. They only know Abby as a female name. WTH! They’ve never heard of an abbey!!

The only thing that wasn't absolutely clear is that you, what? Just randomly guess a word with that many letters in it for the first try? Or did I miss something about how to do your first guess?

No, you got it right. Read the posts above here from Takoma11. I use her starting words now.


Stirchley, do you like to play crossword puzzles? My family would play them, they're more open ended and difficult. I like wordle because it's easy enough for anyone with a computer to play.

I hate them. They are beyond my capabilities. Having said this, every day I do The NY Times mini crossword, which a child could do. I enjoy this.

[Stirchley]

Okay, to me, this is a flaw in the game. I got this word yesterday that meshed with the letters available at that moment, but I didn’t solve it because, apparently, this wasn’t the word they wanted.

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So then I got this word that meshed with the letters available at that moment, but that wasn’t the answer either.

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Finally got it when I doubled the “b”.

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My point is if you find a correct word the game should be over. Even if it’s not the word the creator has chosen for the day.

[Yoda]

I don't follow. What would the criteria be for success? It can't just be any dictionary word at any time, since you could "win" immediately. And lots of words will mesh when you've only determined a few of the letters, too.

The tension (and genius) of the game is that, when you've matched a few letters, you have to decide to risk an actual guess, versus using a word you don't expect to be right in order to find more letters (or nail down more locations).

[Stirchley]

Someone just tweeted me re the word “abbey” yesterday.

“I had to Google that **** XD

I'm from the US, no one really talks about that here”

:rolleyes:

[Stirchley]

I don't follow. What would the criteria be for success? It can't just be any dictionary word at any time, since you could "win" immediately. And lots of words will mesh when you've only determined a few of the letters, too.

The tension (and genius) of the game is that, when you've matched a few letters, you have to decide to risk an actual guess, versus using a word you don't expect to be right in order to find more letters (or nail down more locations).

True, but I would like to “win immediately. :p

[Yoda]

I would not have described QUERY as a British word, but then, that might be because I work in IT. Requests to databases are called "queries" so it's a lot more familiar for some people than it is for others.

[Stirchley]

I would not have described QUERY as a British word, but then, that might be because I work in IT. Requests to databases are called "queries" so it's a lot more familiar for some people than it is for others.

Exactly.

Turns out the creator actually lives in Brooklyn so maybe he’ll stick to Americanisms eventually. :p

[CringeFest]

Someone just tweeted me re the word “abbey” yesterday.

“I had to Google that **** XD

I'm from the US, no one really talks about that here”

:rolleyes:

EDIT: haha, i misspelled the word the first time i posted this as "abby", i thought that was funny...i'll stfu now...



That was the word i guessed yesterday, "abbey", referring to this comment:




might be cheating and all, but i use that strategy when when my brain feels exhausted of possibilities, kinda like how i play videogames: i only look up the answer when i feel really trapped.


i just won my second wordle on the 4th guess, because i was struggling. I found out what 3 of the letters were, and one was in the right position, so i did a google search "5 letter words that end with _." Then, i saw one that british people like to use immediately (you can PM me for the word if you want) that conformed to the letters that i found to be correct, and voila, ya' brits! :p


Stirchley, do you like to play crossword puzzles? My family would play them, they're more open ended and difficult. I like wordle because it's easy enough for anyone with a computer to play.



i had been reading 1984 by George Orwell and Daphne Du Maure over the past couple months, and this is a word that british people like to say. Honestly, just have fun with these games, nothing is being measured and there's no "cheating", it's all just based on how much you want to challenge yourself, as humans we're always going to grope for something we can use. Wordle is a fun game and it's better than crossword puzzles in the sense that it's easier. I needed google and british authors to solve that puzzle, it took me most of the guesses!

[Stirchley]

All right, 4 for 4.

Not bad today considering my first word contained none of the needed letters.

[CringeFest]

Looks like i might lose this one, folks...i'll let you know if i don't. It's better to use words that don't have repeating letters when you're trying to eliminate possibilities.





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[Chypmunk]

Genuinely got it at the second attempt today :D

Wordle 210 2/6

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[CringeFest]

HOLY CRAP...i won again, 4 in a row :D

[Chypmunk]

Probably best to spoiler-tag screenshots if posted for the current word, in case people look in here before playing and would rather not see any prior info. I'll upload mine tomorrow to prove I actually did it today in just the two attempts :)

[Chypmunk]

HOLY CRAP...i won again, 4 in a row :D
Congratulations :up:

[Takoma11]

Today's word was far too on the nose for me!! A friend was like "Guys, I genuinely guessed it on the second try. I'm hoping this is an omen that things will start looking up!"

My current three favorite "just trying to get letters" words are SPACE, GROUT, and LYING.

[CringeFest]

Probably best to spoiler-tag screenshots if posted for the current word, in case people look in here before playing and would rather not see any prior info. I'll upload mine tomorrow to prove I actually did it today in just the two attempts :)


didn't even think you could do that with an image for some reason, ty

[CringeFest]

Today's word was far too on the nose for me!! A friend was like "Guys, I genuinely guessed it on the second try. I'm hoping this is an omen that things will start looking up!"

My current three favorite "just trying to get letters" words are SPACE, GROUT, and LYING.


It's a big word now adays...





i was honestly thinking about it the whole time, but for some reason thought it ended with a k, which would make it too large for wordle...

[pahaK]

Today's word felt so easy. Had one green and three yellow after my first two words. Stats this far:
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[Chypmunk]

Screenshot of yesterdays mad guessing scramble for me :)
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So relieved I managed to get there in the end :D

[Chypmunk]

Knew today would be more of a struggle - got it on the 4th guess.

[Yoda]

Maaaan I almost had this in two.

Wordle 211 3/6

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[CringeFest]

First time i got it on the 4th try, 5/5 streak. I got lucky with the first guess, it really narrowed it down.





https://www.movieforums.com/community/attachment.php?attachmentid=84450

[pahaK]

My current starting words worked wonders today :D

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[Yoda]

Very nearly got it in three, ended up...

...picking the more common word (SPIRE). Oh well
Wordle 212 4/6

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[pahaK]

Very nearly got it in three, ended up...

...picking the more common word (SPIRE). Oh well
Wordle 212 4/6

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How do you make those squares? Tried to copy-paste them for my previous post, but after sending they turned to a bunch of weird characters.

[Chypmunk]

Have to admit I didn't really expect the third guess to be correct but hey - I'll take it :)

Wordle 212 3/6

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[Chypmunk]

How do you make those squares? Tried to copy-paste them for my previous post, but after sending they turned to a bunch of weird characters.
Have to use the Advanced Reply rather than Quick Reply.
(Or pasting them in when editing a post also worked for me the other day)

[pahaK]

Anyway, I guess it's late enough to post the actual screenshot now. I hope people don't mind my, eh, personalized starting words :D

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[Stirchley]

Very nearly got it in three, ended up...

...picking the more common word (SPIRE). Oh well
Wordle 212 4/6

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Same. Took me FOREVER to get shire even though I had all the letters bar one. And if shire isn’t a Britishism I don’t know what is. :rolleyes:

This is me so far.

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[Yoda]

I edited spoiler tags into that post. Important not to divulge the word until the day is over, since everybody has their own timing/routine for when they play it.

[pahaK]

I'm starting to think this is impossible to fail, and I'm not even a native speaker.

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EDIT:This was a little more difficult than yesterday, though, and I learned that those squares come from the share button on Wordle itself :D

Wordle 213 4/6

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[Stirchley]

I edited spoiler tags into that post. Important not to divulge the word until the day is over, since everybody has their own timing/routine for when they play it.

Sorry about that. I was thinking since Pahak disclosed the word - of course he used spoilers - it was okay to show it. Wasn’t thinking. Sort of how my day played out today. :rolleyes:

[Holden Pike]

I just downloaded this yesterday.

[Yoda]

Hmm, do they have an app? I know there's at least one prominent knockoff already.

Everyone I know just uses the website. They might have both, but it might be a different thing. Just a heads up.

[Takoma11]

I'm starting to think this is impossible to fail, and I'm not even a native speaker.

I think that's part of why it is so popular. You don't need a particularly strong vocabulary to succeed (by the last try).

For people who take this kind of thing more seriously, they can work on getting it in fewer and fewer rounds.

[pahaK]

I think that's part of why it is so popular. You don't need a particularly strong vocabulary to succeed (by the last try).

For people who take this kind of thing more seriously, they can work on getting it in fewer and fewer rounds.

I totally get the first part. It needs to be quite easy to become popular. The second part isn't necessarily correct, though. The problem is that there's no tactical approach that can consistently take you below a certain number of rounds (my wild guess is that the correct approach averages somewhere around four tries, maybe slightly less). It's not skill-based in the way codewords or crosswords are.

[Takoma11]

I totally get the first part. It needs to be quite easy to become popular. The second part isn't necessarily correct, though. The problem is that there's no tactical approach that can consistently take you below a certain number of rounds (my wild guess is that the correct approach averages somewhere around four tries, maybe slightly less). It's not skill-based in the way codewords or crosswords are.

I think it's about 75% luck and 25% skill. I think that 3-4 tries is probably what most skilled players will get on an average day.

But since it takes about 2 minutes to play, it's not a game I'm putting a lot of thought into. It's a fun little hit of success, then on with the day.

[CringeFest]

I totally get the first part. It needs to be quite easy to become popular. The second part isn't necessarily correct, though. The problem is that there's no tactical approach that can consistently take you below a certain number of rounds (my wild guess is that the correct approach averages somewhere around four tries, maybe slightly less). It's not skill-based in the way codewords or crosswords are.


i agree with that, the most skillful thing to do is start with words that don't have any repeating letters, yet you're still going to need luck and two guesses in order to gaurantee a win.


Here's a thought though: what's a 5 letter word recognized by wordle the contains the most vowels? That would probably help you solve the puzzle the fastest.


I still haven't lost yet but today i gave up after 2 or 3 guesses because i wanted to do something else.

[Takoma11]

Here's a thought though: what's a 5 letter word recognized by wordle the contains the most vowels? That would probably help you solve the puzzle the fastest.

I can only think of words with three vowels, like "aeons".

[pahaK]

Here's a thought though: what's a 5 letter word recognized by wordle the contains the most vowels? That would probably help you solve the puzzle the fastest.

I doubt that focusing on just vowels is any better than focusing on letter frequency.

[CringeFest]

I doubt that focusing on just vowels is any better than focusing on letter frequency.


i don't really know how to play the game with perfect strategy, however vowels are the necessary building blocks of english words so the more you can knock out in one guess the better.


a, e, i, o, u


so Takoma11 put forth "aeons", so then "fluid" would tell you a lot about the word to be guessed. Otherwise it is all just luck: hitting the word on the first or second try doesn't indicate any skill.

[CringeFest]

haha, i won again today thinking like a British person, sorry if my bragging offends but i didn't even use google at all:







https://www.movieforums.com/community/attachment.php?attachmentid=84491

[pahaK]

i don't really know how to play the game with perfect strategy, however vowels are the necessary building blocks of english words so the more you can knock out in one guess the better.


a, e, i, o, u


so Takoma11 put forth "aeons", so then "fluid" would tell you a lot about the word to be guessed. Otherwise it is all just luck: hitting the word on the first or second try doesn't indicate any skill.

It seems that someone has made math for this. According to this, the best strategy is to go by the frequency of letters:
https://towardsdatascience.com/a-frequency-analysis-on-wordle-9c5778283363

That article is about the first word only. After two words you'll have all five common vowels anyway so it doesn't matter. The conclusion is that in practice 3 vowel word is a better start than 4 vowel word.

[Takoma11]

Yeah, I basically play with a letter-frequency strategy, though my words might not be the best.

As I said, I just go SPACE, GROUT, and then LYING if I don't have enough letters to make a good guess. Then I basically always get the right word on my 4th round.

Though one day the word is going to be ADDED and I will definitely lose, LOL.

[pahaK]

The first time I played, I didn't pay any attention to my words. Last three (I think) I've started, SAINT, WHORE, and if needed, LUCKY. After that article in my previous post, I may change my start to SERAI, DONUT, and if needed, LYMPH. Honestly, though, I doubt that the slight improvement of my starter words would make much of a difference.

[CringeFest]

It seems that someone has made math for this. According to this, the best strategy is to go by the frequency of letters:
https://towardsdatascience.com/a-frequency-analysis-on-wordle-9c5778283363

That article is about the first word only. After two words you'll have all five common vowels anyway so it doesn't matter. The conclusion is that in practice 3 vowel word is a better start than 4 vowel word.


"In conclusion, I am not sure if the selection of words for Wordle is a completely random process."



i didn't read the whole thing, but the problem with it is that i don't think those obscure greek-based words talked about the possibilities they select for the right answer. I think they are trying to appeal to the average person, i suspect this because i haven't seen a single answer that i wasn't already familiar with. It also appears to be biased towards british english.

[pahaK]

"In conclusion, I am not sure if the selection of words for Wordle is a completely random process."



i didn't read the whole thing, but the problem with it is that i don't think those obscure greek-based words talked about the possibilities they select for the right answer. I think they are trying to appeal to the average person, i suspect this because i haven't seen a single answer that i wasn't already familiar with. It also appears to be biased towards british english.

Those "obscure greek-based words" aren't meant to be the solution. They're chosen only due to the letters that are in them (and their position within the word), based on the analysis of all five-letter words in English.

[CringeFest]

Those "obscure greek-based words" aren't meant to be the solution. They're chosen only due to the letters that are in them (and their position within the word), based on the analysis of all five-letter words in English.


what i was trying to say though is that the data scientist who wrote that included every 5 letter word in the international english dictionary, but it seems that there is a bias, wordle probably isn't randomizing the process to that degree.

[pahaK]

what i was trying to say though is that the data scientist who wrote that included every 5 letter word in the international english dictionary, but it seems that there is a bias, wordle probably isn't randomizing the process to that degree.

Well, it's quite obvious it doesn't (e.g. many of the words mentioned in the article aren't recognized by Wordle). The general spread of the letters should still be very close as there's no reason to assume Wordle has a bias towards certain letters. So, while Wordle operates on a smaller set of words I don't see why the math would be off by a significant degree.

[CringeFest]

Well, it's quite obvious it doesn't (e.g. many of the words mentioned in the article aren't recognized by Wordle). The general spread of the letters should still be very close as there's no reason to assume Wordle has a bias towards certain letters. So, while Wordle operates on a smaller set of words I don't see why the math would be off by a significant degree.


i don't think there's anything obvious about wordle's winning word preference, except that british words are favored: i've played 6 times and 2 of those times were words used more commonly in British english. I also think, based on playing it, that plurals of a singular words are not the winning ones since this would make it harder.

[gbgoodies]

There used to be a game show like this called "Lingo". If you search the App store for Lingo apps, there are several free versions of this game that you can download. (The free versions usually have ads, but there's usually an option to pay to remove the ads if you like the game.)

I found one called "Slang" that has puzzles ranging from 4 letters to 6 letters, and it gives you the first letter of the word. It's easier than this version of Wordle because of the first letter, but it's not as easy as you would think it would be, and you can play multiple games every day.

[TheUsualSuspect]

Repping 100% currently.


One three words.....

[CringeFest]

Since i knew i was going to be up late, i had the opportunity to try the vowel method discussed earlier, and it effectively narrowed down possible choices...i don't want to say anymore and give it away, but this is now 7 in a row.

[Chypmunk]

An interesting start today but still managed to get there :)

Wordle 213 3/6

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[Yoda]

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[Yoda]

Little tougher, first one over 4/6 since I think the first or second day:

Wordle 213 5/6

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[pahaK]

Easier than yesterday:

Wordle 214 3/6

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[Chypmunk]

Clearly I went the wrong way with guess 3 today :(

Wordle 214 4/6

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[Yoda]

Wordle 214 4/6

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[Holden Pike]

Wordle 214 4/6

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[Stirchley]

i don't think there's anything obvious about wordle's winning word preference, except that british words are favored: i've played 6 times and 2 of those times were words used more commonly in British english. I also think, based on playing it, that plurals of a singular words are not the winning ones since this would make it harder.

Probably because the creator is British.

Little tougher, first one over 4/6 since I think the first or second day:

Wordle 213 5/6

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I got good words yesterday, but not the word needed. First time I didn’t solve it. Yoda, do we need spoilers for older puzzles like yesterday’s? Can the old ones even be accessed?

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Wordle 214 4/6

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First time I ever solved it in 3.

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[Yoda]

Nope, just for today's. I assume somebody (even if unofficially) has archived old ones but I don't think we need spoilers for those.

[CringeFest]

Wordle 214 4/6

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How are folks displaying it like that?

[Stirchley]

How are folks displaying it like that?

Yeah, everyone is doing this (Twitter, et al.). I have no clue how they do it.

[pahaK]

How are folks displaying it like that?

Press the share button on Wordle, and paste to your post (for some reason it doesn't work on fast replies, but you can always edit the post and paste again).

[pahaK]

I guess I should have realized something after my 2nd word instead of wasting the 3rd for confirming that:

Wordle 215 4/6

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[CringeFest]

Wordle 215 5/6

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Still haven't lost, last one I accidentally cheated by clicking on a spoiler

[Chypmunk]

First failure for me :bawling:

Wordle 215 X/6

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[pahaK]

First failure for me :bawling:

Wordle 215 X/6

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Are you playing hard mode? I've been thinking if I should switch to that.

[Chypmunk]

Are you playing hard mode? I've been thinking if I should switch to that.
I am now, wasn't when I started. On a positive note I managed to get down to only 8 grey letters left today which is easily my best in that regard :D

[Holden Pike]

Wordle 215 3/6

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Sometimes you get lucky.

[CringeFest]

My goal is to either lose or get 50 in a row before switching to hard, I do want to see if I can lose, maybe my vocabulary is too big for that to happen.

[cricket]

Wordle 215 4/6

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Saw the thread title before but never knew what it was until today when my wife sent me the link. Everybody gets the same word?

[Chypmunk]

Everybody gets the same word?
Aye, that they do.

[cricket]

Aye, that they do.

I'm going to try not to make it a habit to do while I'm driving, at least not the truck:p

[cricket]

Wordle 215 3/6

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Sometimes you get lucky.

Did you use completely different letters for your first 2 words?

[Holden Pike]

No, one of the second round was the same as the first (a vowel). But otherwise, yes.

[pahaK]

I switched to hard mode today. It requires a lot more thinking, and I think it's better.

Wordle 216 4/6*

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[Holden Pike]

Wordle 216 3/6

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[Chypmunk]

At least I didn't fail today I guess.

Wordle 216 6/6*

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[TheUsualSuspect]

Wordle 216 3/6


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[Yoda]

Haven't missed one yet, but a pretty meh score this time.

I do like that it looks like I'm giving the puzzle the finger, though:

Wordle 216 5/6

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[Stirchley]

Haven't missed one yet, but a pretty meh score this time.

I do like that it looks like I'm giving the puzzle the finger, though:

Wordle 216 5/6

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Definitely getting easier for me. Played 11, missed 1 & solved 7 on the 4th try. My own word helped considerably today.

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[Stirchley]

Press the share button on Wordle, and paste to your post (for some reason it doesn't work on fast replies, but you can always edit the post and paste again).

It works! Thanks! So what do the numerals 216 mean? Surely not the number of puzzles so far?

216 4/6

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[Stirchley]

Are you playing hard mode? I've been thinking if I should switch to that.

I had no idea I am playing in hard mode, but, apparently, I am. :rolleyes:

[CringeFest]

Damn, today's wordle is rough, they might have finally used a word that i don't know. Don't look unless you hare having trouble or playing after 1/21:





https://www.movieforums.com/community/attachment.php?attachmentid=84625

[CringeFest]

Yay, 10 in a row! :D

[cricket]

At least I didn't try doing my second puzzle while driving. I waited til I was in line at BK:D

Wordle 216 4/6

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[Stirchley]

So what do the numerals 216 mean? Surely not the number of puzzles so far? Does anyone know?

[cricket]

So what do the numerals 216 mean? Surely not the number of puzzles so far? Does anyone know?

That was my guess just because yesterday it said 215.

[Yoda]

Yup, number of puzzles so far.

[pahaK]

Definitely the hardest day this far. Barely managed to do it in hard mode:

Wordle 217 6/6*

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[Chypmunk]

Thankfully back on better form today

Wordle 217 3/6*

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[cricket]

Wordle 217 3/6

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[CringeFest]

i'm having the hardest time with todays word than any other because i've only figured out the placement of one of them and 2 of the out of place letters, i don't plan on using google until i've been at this for another hour or so, lol.

[CringeFest]

this is driving me crazy: it's not so much about winning, but about KNOWING. Unfortunately i can't even tell google enough for it to give me a list:(

[CringeFest]

first one i lost today, on the 10th try, i think if i switch to hard mode that would actually make it easier for me, we'll see...

[Holden Pike]

Wordle 217 5/6

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I was due for some difficulty. Oy. But I persevered.

[pahaK]

I hate it when more than one letter fits the final spot. It's all about luck and guessing then.

Wordle 218 5/6*

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EDIT: Oh crap, I actually screwed up that 4th try and accidentally reused an old letter :(

[Holden Pike]

Wordle 218 5/6

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That was a brutal couple rounds. The only good thing was I eliminated so many letters.

[Chypmunk]

Wordle 218 4/6*

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*sigh* I'm now 1/1 again apparently as I had to delete my cookies last night to try and fix something :(

[cricket]

Wordle 218 4/6

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The hardest out of the 4 I've done, took me about a minute longer than the others.

[pahaK]

First time I had to Google the meaning of the word. Wasn't part of my vocabulary. In other words, this took a long time to figure out.

Wordle 219 5/6*

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[cricket]

Wordle 219 4/6

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[Chypmunk]

Took me ages to get from the 4th guess to the word today despite the choices being rather limited :D

Wordle 219 5/6*

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[Yoda]

Recovered from a brutal first few guesses to get this one. Still haven't missed any, only gone to six the very first time, I think.

Wordle 219 5/6

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[Stirchley]

Recovered from a brutal first few guesses to get this one. Still haven't missed any, only gone to six the very first time, I think.

Wordle 219 5/6

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I had a lot of difficulty with today’s word. Not finding a single letter in my first word always throws me off & it happened to you too. I was determined not to go to five. No vowel could be used unless it was “o” & the “l” at the end of the word really threw me off.

Wordle 219 4/6

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I’ve played 14 games & missed one, which was “query”. Not bad.

[Stirchley]

First time I had to Google the meaning of the word. Wasn't part of my vocabulary. In other words, this took a long time to figure out.

Wordle 219 5/6*

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Don’t feel bad. Took me forever to get today’s word & I’m British. :rolleyes:

[cricket]

My wife had her hardest time today.

[Holden Pike]

Wordle 219 5/6

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[Stirchley]

My wife had her hardest time today.

I struggled with it. It’s hard when the word you initially choose contains none of the needed letters.

[pahaK]

A lot easier than the last couple of days.

Wordle 220 4/6*

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[Chypmunk]

Definitely easier than yesterday.

Wordle 220 4/6*

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[doubledenim]

I love the fact that someone made the Wordlinator. RIP.

[pahaK]

I love the fact that someone made the Wordlinator. RIP.

Had to Google what that is. Anyway, considering how stupidly* Wordle is made, it was just a matter of time.

*While Googling the letter frequencies and best starting words, I also learned that the world list for Wordle is apparently in the front end code and each day it just takes the next word from that list. Not the most secure solution, I suppose.

[cricket]

Wordle 220 3/6

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Took a little risk trying to get it in 2

[Holden Pike]

Wordle 220 3/6

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That felt good after a few rough days.

[cricket]

Wordle 220 3/6

⬜⬜🟨🟨🟨
🟩⬜🟨🟩⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

That felt good after a few rough days.

I wonder if we tried the same word on the second try

[Chypmunk]

There's been quite a bit of this: 🟩⬛🟨🟩⬛ today :D

[Yoda]

Wordle 220 4/6

🟨🟨⬜🟨⬜
🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜🟩🟨🟩🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

[pahaK]

This was pretty tricky, again (not helping that I didn't really think my 2nd word through, and that semi-correct letter remained in the same incorrect place for two rounds).

Wordle 221 5/6*

⬛🟨⬛⬛⬛
⬛🟨⬛⬛⬛
🟨⬛⬛🟨⬛
🟨🟩🟩⬛🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

[Chypmunk]

Easy step from guess 3 today as it was the only possible word remaining I think :)

Wordle 221 4/6*

⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
🟨⬛⬛🟨⬛
🟩🟩🟩⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Wonder if 🟨⬛⬛🟨⬛ will become the theme of the day today?

[Holden Pike]

Wordle 221 3/6

⬜⬜⬜🟩🟨
🟨⬜🟩⬜⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

[cricket]

Wordle 221 4/6

🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I got a little lucky on this one

[Yoda]

Oh man, was this close. Got a whole lot of nothing the first few guesses:

Wordle 221 6/6

⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨
⬜🟨⬜🟩🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

[CringeFest]

phew, i played hard mode today and got it on the 6th try. Hard mode may make it easier in some respect, but it takes the luck element almost completely out of the game and forces you to focus which makes it more fun. My methodology is this so far:


-guess "aeons" for vowels.


-use gedit to display stuff in times of desperation



-bash my head against the table.


-use the "5 letter words that ____ " as a last resort for comfort, luckily i didn't have to do that today.

[pahaK]

Hard mode may make it easier in some respect

No, it doesn't (unless you're doing the normal mode completely wrong).

[Chypmunk]

Nice to see someone else step up to 'hard' mode .... that makes three of us now :)

#clubhard

#notsureilikethesoundofthat

[Torgo]

I'm ashamed to admit that I lost today. Growing up in the '90s, I think of the winning word as slang and not a real word.

[pahaK]

I'm ashamed to admit that I lost today. Growing up in the '90s, I think of the winning word as slang and not a real word.

I kinda agree. I mainly got it because there simply didn't seem to be anything else that felt like a word left.

[Chypmunk]

Oh it's most definitely a word, I remember hearing it quite a lot during my schooldays :D

[Torgo]

Oh it's most definitely a word, I remember hearing it quite a lot during my schooldays :DRiiight...

https://www.reactiongifs.us/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/yeah_sure_jon_hamm.gif

[Holden Pike]

I'm ashamed to admit that I lost today. Growing up in the '90s, I think of the winning word as slang and not a real word.
That is a four-letter word, as in the slogan CRACK IS WACK. "Whack", on the other hand, is classic onomatopoeia.

[Stirchley]

Wordle 221 4/6 Wordle 221 4/6

⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜
⬜🟩🟩⬜⬜
🟨🟩🟩⬜⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩


Finally got the darn thing on my usual 4th try. I guess because I desperately don’t want to try a 5th guess.

[Stirchley]

Oh man, was this close. Got a whole lot of nothing the first few guesses:

Wordle 221 6/6

⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨
⬜🟨⬜🟩🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I was amazed by its rejection of Latin as my first word guess. If Latin isn’t a word, I don’t know what is. :rolleyes:

[CringeFest]

No, it doesn't (unless you're doing the normal mode completely wrong).


It does for me because it forces me to stop guessing so fast.

[cricket]

After seeing what it is, I reject hard mode as meh. It limits strategy, but sometimes it is to the benefit of the player, not usually, but sometimes. The first couple of games I played, it didn't even occur to me to not use the letters I already knew were up there. Both times I was done in 2 minutes with no problem. My wife reuses the letters because she's trying to guess the word right away and she has no problem. If you look at Stirchley, she's using "hard mode" and maybe doesn't realize it. As far as I'm concerned, limiting strategy just takes a little bit of the fun out of it. If they really wanted to make it a challenge, they would not show any green letters until you guess the final word correctly.

[pahaK]

After seeing what it is, I reject hard mode as meh. It limits strategy, but sometimes it is to the benefit of the player, not usually, but sometimes. The first couple of games I played, it didn't even occur to me to not use the letters I already knew were up there. Both times I was done in 2 minutes with no problem. My wife reuses the letters because she's trying to guess the word right away and she has no problem. If you look at Stirchley, she's using "hard mode" and maybe doesn't realize it. As far as I'm concerned, limiting strategy just takes a little bit of the fun out of it. If they really wanted to make it a challenge, they would not show any green letters until you guess the final word correctly.

I don't really agree. The normal mode is just a repetitive and automated task. You use the same two words every time. If you're still missing many letters, you use the same third word every time. It reduces most of the game into a simple statistical exercise. In hard mode, you have to start thinking from the 2nd word on.

[cricket]

I don't really agree. The normal mode is just a repetitive and automated task. You use the same two words every time. If you're still missing many letters, you use the same third word every time. It reduces most of the game into a simple statistical exercise. In hard mode, you have to start thinking from the 2nd word on.

What do you mean you use the same word?

[pahaK]

What do you mean you use the same word?

In normal mode, you have the "starting" words that are designed to eliminate as many common letters as possible (they should also consider the positions the letters commonly are in these short English words). Unless you're lucky and hit almost all green/yellow on your first word, you'll always use the same 2nd word to "see" ten common letters.

In normal mode, I (after some investigation and thinking) always started SERAI and DONUT. Once you find out good words, it's detrimental to deviate from them. In hard mode, you can (usually) have only one fixed word to rely on. Everything after that changes from day to day, making you think more and rely less on predetermined statistical conventions. It makes Wordle more about vocabulary and wits, while the normal mode is almost purely statistical exercise.

[cricket]

In normal mode, you have the "starting" words that are designed to eliminate as many common letters as possible (they should also consider the positions the letters commonly are in these short English words). Unless you're lucky and hit almost all green/yellow on your first word, you'll always use the same 2nd word to "see" ten common letters.

In normal mode, I (after some investigation and thinking) always started SERAI and DONUT. Once you find out good words, it's detrimental to deviate from them. In hard mode, you can (usually) have only one fixed word to rely on. Everything after that changes from day to day, making you think more and rely less on predetermined statistical conventions. It makes Wordle more about vocabulary and wits, while the normal mode is almost purely statistical exercise.

I've only played 7 games so far but I haven't used any of the same words and I just don't think that way. I've been using words that don't have letters in common with the word from the day before. Today I used cited, tomorrow I'm planning on using ***** or *****, assuming I can remember those words tomorrow. My second word will completely depend on the results of my first word. As of now, that's thousands of options.

Edited to avoid spoilers

[cricket]

The way I see it, if it's mandatory that I have to use the same letters again, it gives me less to think about.

[pahaK]

The way I see it, if it's mandatory that I have to use the same letters again, it gives me less to think about.

It limits the number of letters you can eliminate with your first two words (assuming you hit something with the first). It also limits the number of possible words to use as your second and prevents you from having a go-to word beyond the first. These limitations increase difficulty, put more emphasis on vocabulary, and generally bring thinking into the game one word earlier.

While these are my opinions, I'm quite sure they're also mathematically correct assumptions. I'm a min-maxer with a long history of gaming. I guess it needs to be clarified that when I speak of the "right" way to play, I tend to mean "optimal" - the right way to play is the way you enjoy the most.

[pahaK]

And today's word was easy for a change.

Wordle 222 3/6*

⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
⬛🟩🟨🟨🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

[Chypmunk]

I guess a little luck never hurts, second ever 'hole-in-two' for me :)

Wordle 222 2/6*

⬛⬛🟨⬛🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

[cricket]

Wordle 222 3/6

⬜🟩🟩🟩⬜
⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Dammit I believe there was only 3 possible words after my 1st and I guessed the wrong one. Was hoping for my first 2-fer. Would have had it if I used my second option for the first word.

[cricket]

It limits the number of letters you can eliminate with your first two words (assuming you hit something with the first). It also limits the number of possible words to use as your second and prevents you from having a go-to word beyond the first. These limitations increase difficulty, put more emphasis on vocabulary, and generally bring thinking into the game one word earlier.

I don't quite agree with the bolded part. Let's say we are playing each other and we each get 2 yellow tiles on our first word. You are forced to use them on your second word, you most likely get at least 1 right, and going into your 3rd word you know where 2 letters go at minimum. If I spend the second word eliminating letters, there's a good chance that I'm still not sure where those 2 letters go, so going into word 3 you have an advantage. I'm not saying that hard mode isn't harder on average over time, but for certain games it will give you an edge. A decision has been taken out of your hands and you are forced to guess the correct word for each move. Sometimes you will be right. If I'm simply eliminating letters, I can't be right. The result is that you have a better chance than I do at getting the answer in 2 or 3 words. Of course you also have a better chance of it taking you 5 or 6. So it depends on the game. I would also say that having a decision made for you and using a system takes some thinking out of the game.

While these are my opinions, I'm quite sure they're also mathematically correct assumptions. I'm a min-maxer with a long history of gaming. I guess it needs to be clarified that when I speak of the "right" way to play, I tend to mean "optimal" - the right way to play is the way you enjoy the most.

Agreed, it all depends on what your personal goal is.

[CringeFest]

yay i won twice in a row in hard mode, today in only 3 guesses! They said "impressive" OH GOSH I'M SO FLATTERED, MAYBE I AM A GENIUS!! :D

[Yoda]

Got this one in five (didn't save the share thing). Yet another total whiff on the first guess. :eek: Some close calls recently, but haven't missed any and only gone to the wire twice.

[Holden Pike]

Wordle 222 4/6

⬜🟩🟩🟨⬜
⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩
⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

The problem with getting three of the letters right out of the gate sometimes is that you haven't eliminated much.

[pahaK]

This was kinda weird. Took me a while to figure out any real words for 4th and 5th.

Wordle 223 5/6*

⬛🟩🟩⬛⬛
⬛🟩🟩⬛⬛
⬛🟩🟩⬛🟩
⬛🟩🟩⬛🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

[gbgoodies]

Got this one in five (didn't save the share thing). Yet another total whiff on the first guess. :eek: Some close calls recently, but haven't missed any and only gone to the wire twice.


If you don't clear your cookies, and you go back to the Wordle page later the same day, it saves your results so you can still get to the Share button.

[CringeFest]

another close call.

EDIT: I left this first one up here because it's funny, apparently hitting copy/paste with your mouse does something very different from hitting Ctrl + v on your keyboard...

Wordle 223 6/6*

⬜��⬜⬜⬜
⬜��⬜⬜⬜
����⬜⬜⬜
⬜����⬜��
⬜����⬜��
����������


Wordle 223 6/6*

⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜
⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜
🟨🟩⬜⬜⬜
⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩
⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

[Holden Pike]

Wordle 223 4/6

⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜
🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜
🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

[gbgoodies]

Wordle 223 4/6

🟨⬜⬜🟨⬜
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

[pahaK]

EDIT: I left this first one up here because it's funny, apparently hitting copy/paste with your mouse does something very different from hitting Ctrl + v on your keyboard...

Wordle 223 6/6*

⬜��⬜⬜⬜
⬜��⬜⬜⬜
����⬜⬜⬜
⬜����⬜��
⬜����⬜��
����������

I don't know why, but pasting those in quick replies doesn't work. You need to "go advanced" or edit the post to properly paste those. Nothing to do with mouse vs keyboard.

[Chypmunk]

Really feel like I could have done better today.

Wordle 223 4/6*

🟩⬛⬛⬛⬛
🟩⬛⬛🟨⬛
🟩🟨🟩🟨⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

[cricket]

Wordle 223 4/6

⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Dangerously close to going to five for the first time.

[Hey Fredrick]

I tried to not get involved with Wordle alas curiosity got the best of me a couple days ago.


Wordle 223 4/6*

⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜🟦⬜🟦⬜
🟦⬜⬜🟦⬜
🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧

[Yoda]

Wordle 223 3/6

⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩
⬜🟩🟩⬜⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

[CringeFest]

I tried to not get involved with Wordle alas curiosity got the best of me a couple days ago.


Wordle 223 4/6*

⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜🟦⬜🟦⬜
🟦⬜⬜🟦⬜
🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧


Uh oh, looks like you'll be at Wordle Anonymous shortly. You have do much to live for! You can get off the elevator at any time!

[Stirchley]

If you look at Stirchley, she's using "hard mode" and maybe doesn't realize it.

Correct, but I realized it quite a while back.

The way I see it, if it's mandatory that I have to use the same letters again, it gives me less to think about.

Agreed. It never occurred to me not to use the letters that come up correct. Which is hard mode.

Today was easy. I now have a 10 game winning streak, but have yet to solve on the 1st or 2nd tries. Several Twitter people yesterday said they got “mount” on the first try, which I find somewhat suspect.

Wordle 223 3/6

🟨⬜🟨⬜⬜
⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

[cricket]

Correct, but I realized it quite a while back.



Agreed. It never occurred to me not to use the letters that come up correct. Which is hard mode.

Today was easy. I now have a 10 game winning streak, but have yet to solve on the 1st or 2nd tries. Several Twitter people yesterday said they got “mount” on the first try, which I find somewhat suspect.

Wordle 223 3/6

🟨⬜🟨⬜⬜
⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I had told pahaK the night before that I was going to use Mound or Bound, so I believe it.

[pahaK]

I hate it when only one letter is missing, and there's a bunch of eligible words left. All about luck, and I usually have none.

Wordle 224 5/6*

⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
🟨🟩⬛🟨⬛
⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩
⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

[Chypmunk]

Lol, same.
Wordle 224 5/6*

⬛⬛⬛⬛🟩
⬛🟨🟩⬛🟩
⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩
⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

[jiraffejustin]

Wordle 224 6/6

⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜
⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜
⬜⬜🟩🟨⬜
🟩⬜🟩⬜⬜
🟩🟨🟨🟨🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩


I didn't know this existed until today, but this kinda game is right down my alley.

[Chypmunk]

Welcome to the fun jj

[Holden Pike]

Wordle 224 3/6

⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜
🟨🟩⬜⬜⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

[cricket]

Wordle 224 3/6

⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨
🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

[Hey Fredrick]

Wordle 224 3/6*

⬜🟦⬜🟦⬜
🟧🟦🟦🟦��
🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧


No clue as to why it's pasting like that, with the �

[Chypmunk]

No clue as to why it's pasting like that, with the �
It generally does that if pasting into Quick Reply, need to either go to Advanced reply or Preview Changes before pasting or do the paste in edit mode of an existing post.

[CringeFest]

224:



Lol, today i really needed those last three spaces...i guessed the last 4 letters on the 3rd try in order, then it took me the remaining three to get the first letter! Lmfao.

[gbgoodies]

Wordle 224 3/6

⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

[Chypmunk]

In before pahaK for once :)
A little disappointing after a good result for the opening word today.

Wordle 225 3/6*

⬛⬛🟩🟩🟩
⬛⬛🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

[jiraffejustin]

Wordle 225 3/6

⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨
🟩🟩⬜⬜⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I found a Wordle archive too, so I have been going through the previous words. I've gone through 71 of them and I've gotten 66 of them and missed on 5. It's a good thing there is only one a day, because this is kind of addictive.

[pahaK]

Quite easy today.

Wordle 225 3/6*

⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛
🟨🟩⬛🟨⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

[pahaK]

I found a Wordle archive too, so I have been going through the previous words. I've gone through 71 of them and I've gotten 66 of them and missed on 5. It's a good thing there is only one a day, because this is kind of addictive.

If you want more, you can always try https://hellowordl.net.

Or if you're extremely adventurous, there's also a Finnish version: https://sanuli.fi. I guess I'll have to warn you that in my opinion, the Finnish version is harder, even for a native speaker. Not only do we have more vowels in common use, but we also have much more doubled letters that make the elimination game quite a bit more difficult :D

[cricket]

Wordle 225 3/6

⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨
🟨🟩⬜⬜⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

[Holden Pike]

Wordle 225 2/6

⬜🟩⬜🟨🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩


My first two!

[jiraffejustin]

Wordle 226 4/6

⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜
🟩🟩⬜⬜⬜
🟩🟩⬜🟨⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

[cricket]

Wordle 226 6/6

⬜🟩🟨⬜⬜
⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩
⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩
⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

First time in 12 games I went over 4, there were so many letters that could have been in the first slot. After 3 wrong guesses I couldn't take any chance and had to be sure.

[pahaK]

Took me literally 10+ minutes to figure out a proper word for 4th. Fortunately, it was the correct one :D

Wordle 226 4/6*

⬛⬛⬛⬛🟨
⬛🟨🟨⬛⬛
🟨⬛🟨🟨⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

[Chypmunk]

Boom!
I got lucky :D

Wordle 226 2/6*

⬛⬛🟨⬛🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

[Holden Pike]

Wordle 226 5/6

⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨
🟨🟨🟨⬜⬜
⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩
⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

That was tough. Even though I figured out the last four letters by guess number three there were about nine other words that could be made by putting a different letter first...and I had only eliminated three of them in those first two guesses. Spoilers for after you play...

I guessed FIGHT for my third word. From there it could have been EIGHT, MIGHT, NIGHT, LIGHT, TIGHT, SIGHT, RIGHT, HIGHT, or WIGHT. The only three of those I could eliminate were TIGHT, NIGHT and MIGHT (my first two words were MATCH and THINK). I guessed EIGHT for my fourth word. I could just as easily have missed the L in my last two guesses with that many options.

[Stirchley]

Wordle 226 5/6

⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜
🟨🟩⬜⬜⬜
⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Saturday I struggled with COULD. Kept trying to separate the L & D.

Sunday I got WRUNG on the 3rd try, which was unusual for me especially in view of the fact that I had only a single letter - R - to play with.

[Stirchley]

Quite easy today.

Wordle 225 3/6*

⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛
🟨🟩⬛🟨⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I was wondering if you would know the word WRUNG as it’s not used widely here. Good for you!

[Stirchley]

Apparently LATER is considered an excellent (some say the best) word to start with. Will use it tomorrow & see for myself.

[Holden Pike]

Totally depends on your strategy. Some people like to know the vowels, right away, so use a word like ADIEU first, then start figuring out consonants. I start with something different every day.

[pahaK]

I'm actually going to try a different starting word next time. I don't have any math to show, but I'm starting to feel that in hard mode the three vowel words aren't necessarily the best. At least I feel that hitting two vowels right away in hard mode limits your options a lot. I've been thinking something like STRIP or STRAP.

[Stirchley]

Totally depends on your strategy. Some people like to know the vowels, right away, so use a word like ADIEU first, then start figuring out consonants. I start with something different every day.

I do like vowels. Noticed how many English words have an E?

Will definitely try ADIEU. Funny they take this word, but not a word I tried - Latin.

I'm actually going to try a different starting word next time. I don't have any math to show, but I'm starting to feel that in hard mode the three vowel words aren't necessarily the best. At least I feel that hitting two vowels right away in hard mode limits your options a lot. I've been thinking something like STRIP or STRAP.

I always do a different word. I don’t analyze it like you do. I always feel annoyed when my first word reveals no letters, especially no vowels.

[pahaK]

New strats worked well at least today.

Wordle 227 3/6*

🟨🟨⬛⬛⬛
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[gbgoodies]

Wordle 226 4/6

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[Chypmunk]

Disappointing again, just chose the wrong option for guess #3.

Wordle 227 4/6*

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[Holden Pike]

I did the same thing...

Wordle 227 4/6

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[cricket]

Wordle 227 2/6

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Surprising, especially considering my 1st attempt at the 2nd word was not accepted as a word. 2nd time that's happened to me when using the V.

[Chypmunk]

I see the New York Times has now bought this. Wonder if they'll change the name to Nyttle (pronounced Nurtle)?

[cricket]

I heard something this morning on the radio about it becoming pay for play. I'm kind of bored with it anyway, never would've bothered if it wasn't for wifey and her co-workers playing.

[Yoda]

I assume the guy on the radio must've just been talking about it as a worry: the New York Times bought it, but:

The company said the game would initially remain free to new and existing players.
It's a pretty easy format to mimic, anyway, if someone tries to make playing it too arduous.

[CringeFest]

Now having played this around 15 times, and only lost once, I have come to the conclusion that hard mode makes it easier because it forces you to play more effectively.

[pahaK]

Now having played this around 15 times, and only lost once, I have come to the conclusion that hard mode makes it easier because it forces you to play more effectively.

Isn't it you what makes it harder on normal, though, not the game itself. Playing poorly isn't required in the normal mode :D

[CringeFest]

Isn't it you what makes it harder on normal, though, not the game itself. Playing poorly isn't required in the normal mode :D


I thought you were actually interested in the strategy behind wordle, but I guess not.

[pahaK]

I thought you were actually interested in the strategy behind wordle, but I guess not.

What I mean is this. If you believe you have a better chance to solve the word in hard mode style, there's nothing preventing you from doing that in the normal mode. In most scenarios, I still believe that "eliminating" the second set of five letters on your second word is the "correct" play, and you usually don't have that possibility in the hard mode.

Normal mode doesn't restrict you in any way, but the hard mode does. If hard mode is easier for you, then you can play "hard mode" in normal, too. It's not the normal mode that's forcing you to do something, but you yourself.

[CringeFest]

It's not the normal mode that's forcing you to do something, but you yourself.


That's really wierd that that's the focus your critique...I think it's important to point out here that there's nothing "forced" about me playing the game, i do it voluntarily for my own enjoyment. Does it matter this much to you that i'm playing the game in a logical way, rather than trying to make it harder on purpose? Whoops! I need to put in more bad guesses because now the game is too easy and my intellegence in the eyes of pahaK is threatened because of it.



However, i do think design is something to consider, and since hard mode eliminates my need to use notepad or more advanced google searches, i'm going to keep using it. Just typing words to get letters is inefficient.

[CringeFest]

i want to point out that i still did resort to using notepad in order to get one of my hard mode trials...it worked.

[pahaK]

That's really wierd that that's the focus your critique...

FFS. I don't how to make it more clear.

You can play normal mode exactly the same as hard mode. That's the reason why hard mode can never be easier than the normal mode. It has nothing to do with what's the optimal strategy.

No more contributions from me to this particular subject.

[CringeFest]

FFS. I don't how to make it more clear.

You can play normal mode exactly the same as hard mode. That's the reason why hard mode can never be easier than the normal mode. It has nothing to do with what's the optimal strategy.

No more contributions from me to this particular subject.


if i've brought you to the point of actually being upset and offended, here's a final contribution from me: my experience says that hard mode makes it easier, i have no other evidence than my experience to validate that which means its fine for me to feel that way. You haven't come up with anything to contradict my version of reality.



You can get off your high horse about "right and wrong", we already established that there is a bias towards certain words anyway, therefore nobody knows how to play the game "correctly" anyways. Playing this is not about looking smart for me. I don't need to be validated by some word game on the internet.


Why are you getting so mad about me saying that hard mode makes the game easier? Maybe if this makes you so mad, maybe you should start thinking about what you say to people on the internet anyways?

[beelzebubble]

Wordle 227 4/6

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Today's score

[pahaK]

Hah, even I get lucky sometimes.

Wordle 228 2/6*

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[jiraffejustin]

Wordle 227 4/6

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[gbgoodies]

Wordle 227 4/6

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[Chypmunk]

Slow progress today but we got there in the end.

Wordle 228 4/6*

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[cricket]

Wordle 228 3/6

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Felt a little frustrated when I got this. It's not like I didn't put a little thought into which letters I was using, but this is the 2nd day in a row I had some decent luck when I didn't have a lot to work with. It would be nice if there was a little more creativity with the words that are being used.

[CringeFest]

haha, had another one where i guessed the last 4 letters in the first 3 guesses, then it took me all the remaining guesses to hit the right first letter...