Wordle

[Wild Bill]

I'm glad to see others were thrown for a loop as well. I got it in 6 today after I tried using literally every letter available and the Y just happened to fit the mold. My wife was in the same boat. I blame her for getting me hooked on it.
I always start with STERN and AUDIO. You get a good mix of RSTLNE and all the vowels knocked out right away.

 

[FI460]

I know this thread is old, but I just have to vent.

Today’s Wordle word was absolutely ridiculous.

That was dumb and I hate it.

 

[Scott85]

I said I would never play it and now I got to eat crow.

 

[MNElkNut]

I'm glad to see others were thrown for a loop as well. I got it in 6 today after I tried using literally every letter available and the Y just happened to fit the mold. My wife was in the same boat. I blame her for getting me hooked on it.
I always start with STERN and AUDIO. You get a good mix of RSTLNE and all the vowels knocked out right away.

You don't get Y though and once in awhile that can really through ya. I use:

AROSE
UNITY

I trade that L for a Y. L is usually in my next guess.

 

[Irrelevant]

C's get degrees

 

[Irrelevant]

@Nameless Range lets see your stats on Worldle

 

[Schaaf]

I know this thread is old, but I just have to vent.

Today’s Wordle word was absolutely ridiculous.

You’re being too PC. It was total bullshit.

 

[Scott85]

It’s not how many words you know, it’s all about the technique. I’m just now figuring out the technique.

 

[madtom]

I’m addicted. Yesterday’s was dumb.

 

[Oak]

I’ve played for a lot longer but deleted the NYT cookies from my phone one day to snipe a free article which inadvertently deleted my Wordle stats as well.

The last couple of days have been rough.

 

[Cheesehead]

Was on a roll then covid hit

 

[Schaaf]

I begin wordle at the start of my second cup of coffee. It’s a nice baseline to work off of. Those of you that wait until the afternoon or the evening should have an asterisk beside your statistics.

 

[Oak]

I begin wordle at the start of my second cup of coffee. It’s a nice baseline to work off of. Those of you that wait until the afternoon or the evening should have an asterisk beside your statistics.

I’ve frequently solved it by 12:02 AM.

 

[rtraverdavis]

I begin wordle at the start of my second cup of coffee. It’s a nice baseline to work off of. Those of you that wait until the afternoon or the evening should have an asterisk beside your statistics.

Wordle with breakfast. Always.

 

[Cheesehead]

(Often) Hungover at 4 am…no joke. Clears the head

 

[kansasdad]

My current steak of 60 should be another 40+ but when on a long weekend/wedding event I totally lost track of what day it was And never attempted a solve.

I was introduced to Wordle by a YouTube channel I watch “Cracking the Cryptic“. Two English guys that solve sudoku and other puzzles daily. The Covid shutdown threw me out of my office for 8-ish weeks, so YouTube got a workout.

Mark Goodliffe, one of the duo does YouTube shorts that he calls Wordle in a minute.

An example……

 

[Schaaf]

I’ve frequently solved it by 12:02 AM.

I’ve also changed the settings on my clock to get tomorrows wordle but it’s a short lived happiness because then you have to wait even longer in between.

 

[LopeHunter]

Next time, start with FOUND, then you might reach genius level.
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BTW, that's got to be the worst, close-call ever. I will start using ADIEU.

ROATE then if skunked with that starter word play SPICY. Computers are smarter. Next tip is use the most commonly used word so _OUND would suggest trying FOUND before try BOUND or HOUND. Another tip is to use X as placeholder as try to arrange "yellow" letters. Say you matched N and D in the above example as GREEN letters and O and U as YELLOW letters. One letter is unknown. Very few words put U before O in a 3-letter run so is either OxUND or UxOND or OxUND or OUxND or xOUND. Loading the x as type in but do not submit the letters is a way to "see" possible words rather than merely look at the keyboard showing GREEN and/or YELLOW letters. More words have OUND in a run than the other 3 possibilities. Decide what would that has a letter preceding OUND is the most commonly used word and lead with that guess. SOUND and ROUND and FOUND are good guesses.

If you get very good, try to run a timer to see how fast can solve rather than merely solve at a calm pace.

 

[kansasdad]

Matt Parker (he has fascinating YouTube channels) asked the question: is it possible for their to be a set of 5 Wordle words that do not share letters amongst themselves? He set his laptop to work and a month later, he had an answer. He announced his results on a podcast and a day later a programmer had improved on his search methodology to run as fast as 15 minutes.

In passing he mentions that there are over 12,000 “approved” words on the word list. As I started doing Wordle long before the nytimes took over, I remember when Wordle told me a guess is “not a word”. Now it says it is “not on the list”.

Are you smarter than a computer program? I hint: no “q” and one word on the list has been an actual wordle word that was recently the correct answer (And is quite familiar to fly fishers and entomologists and etymologist's alike).

 

[gwhunter]

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C's get degrees

Cheater!!!