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

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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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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:

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

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/5lett...ondlettera.htm

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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.

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/a...s-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.

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 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.

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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.

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.

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.

*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.

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.

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.

This got me immediately, either my first or second day.

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

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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?

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

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.

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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.

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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.

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

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

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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:
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Boy was I on fire today!!! :D
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One day they'll pick the word I always start with and I'll look like a genius.

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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

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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.

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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.

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

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

I’m using your 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!!

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

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.

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.





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



Finally got it when I doubled the “b”.




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.

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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).

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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:

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

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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

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:


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!

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All right, 4 for 4.

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

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.

Genuinely got it at the second attempt today :D

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

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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 :)

Congratulations :up:

Today's word was

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

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

It's a big word now adays...

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

Screenshot of yesterdays mad guessing scramble for me :)

So relieved I managed to get there in the end :D

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

Maaaan I almost had this in two.

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

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My current starting words worked wonders today :D

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


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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.

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

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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)

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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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.

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



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

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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:

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I just downloaded this yesterday.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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-fre...e-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.

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.

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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.

"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.

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.

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.

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.

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Repping 100% currently.


One three words.....

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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.

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

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

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Easier than yesterday:

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

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Probably because the creator is British.

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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.

How are folks displaying it like that?