BS: Wordle

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 05 May 22 - 03:23 PM

I used a throwaway word on the third row and got lucky today. I was going to make a remark about the nature of the word itself, but must resist, because that would be a spoiler.

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Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 05 May 22 - 04:14 PM

Yep. I held back too, but tomorrow there may be wigs on the green...

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 08 May 22 - 01:47 PM

My first two guesses ruled out charismatic letters I usually look for.

Wordle 323 4/6

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Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 08 May 22 - 08:38 PM

I got it in three in under two minutes. Mrs Steve spent ages on it, eventually getting it in five. I've admonished her for overthinking it. But pride goeth before a fall...

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 09 May 22 - 03:32 PM

"Homer." What a stinker!

I see that the NYT has removed "fetus" from its bank of answer words. Just as well, as, among other things, they can't even spell it. ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 09 May 22 - 03:33 PM

A very quick three today.

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 12 May 22 - 03:13 PM

Five. A struggle today as I had just one orange by line 2 then adopted some weak strategy.

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 13 May 22 - 10:55 AM

The speller/divider list to the rescue today. It only works if I have a good idea of what the first 2 or 3 letters might be.

Wordle 328 5/6

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Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 16 May 22 - 06:11 AM

My last three goes have been 2, 2, 3. Am I on a roll?

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 16 May 22 - 07:42 AM

Maybe but things can change...

I had my second failure since I last posted here. It was one where I recognised the same place I'd been once before (same letters correctly placed and 2 gaps to fill. I also remembered realising after my (correct) guess from there last time, I'd got lucky and there were numerous possibilities. This time, I decided to waste a word to reduce the words that would fit the pattern but it wasn't enough to save me on my 2 remaining guesses.

From there, it's been 4 or 5 on the days (I missed one or two) I've played it. Today was 4.

Wordle 331 4/6

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Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 17 May 22 - 12:13 PM

You're not wrong. I nosedived to a five.

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 19 May 22 - 09:06 AM

Maybe my turn for roll now: 3 yesterday and 2 today:

Wordle 334 2/6

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Mind you, as they say, pride goes before a fall...

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Jeri
Date: 19 May 22 - 12:30 PM

2 yesterday, 4 today.

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 19 May 22 - 02:10 PM

4.

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 21 May 22 - 08:31 PM

A very rapid three today. This is in total contrast to last night, when Mrs Steve and I tackled Wordle after a couple of glasses of Nero d'Avola, not at all our usual approach. We got a five and a six, narrowly avoiding defeat, and concluded that Wordle is best tackled with a fresh mind, preferably after a strong morning flat white...

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 22 May 22 - 01:57 PM

Wordle 337 4/6

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I've been skunked a couple of times lately - it all depends on that first word, or second word if first was a complete dud. Maybe I need a word with as many consonants as I can manage, not vowels.

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: John on the Sunset Coast
Date: 22 May 22 - 02:13 PM

Wordle 337 4/6

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Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 23 May 22 - 03:27 AM

I'm mostly (I think there was the one 4) had 3 since my last post. Today was another 3.

Wordle 338 3/6

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Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 23 May 22 - 06:48 AM

I'm in four or five territory the last couple of days.

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Stanron
Date: 23 May 22 - 06:58 AM

Perhaps one way of thinking about it is this. If you get it right in one go, that's 100% luck. The more tries you have, the more skill or intelligence is displayed.

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 29 May 22 - 11:05 AM

Wordle 344 4/6

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Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 29 May 22 - 11:06 AM

John/Sunset Coast

If you visit this site https://mothereff.in/html-entities and plug in your copied Wordle results, then you can copy and paste the code it provides to share the actual graphic instead of ?????

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 05 Jun 22 - 11:45 AM

Nice second guess!

Wordle 351 2/6

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Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 06 Jun 22 - 04:54 PM

I've done a five and a three in the last couple of days. Still only the one fail...

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 07 Jun 22 - 08:21 PM

Scraped it in six tonight. I've driven over 550 miles since Sunday in lousy traffic and taken an energetic six-year-old to SeaLife in London and hawked him all round Westminster. Only got home two hours ago, brain totally addled. Do you accept my excuse?

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 08 Jun 22 - 03:25 AM

I got off to a bad start with that one. No letters in my first guess and just one letter which was in the right place for the next two attempts. Solved on 4th try.

Today was an easy 3.

Wordle 354 3/6

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Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 08 Jun 22 - 03:43 AM

I've done it in six only four times out of 126 goes (plus the one fail). In future I'll be doing it early on in the day, preferably with me coffee! :-(

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 08 Jun 22 - 04:04 AM

My stats show 6/110 solved in 6. I think that would be about right but my stats are a bit screwed. I played with more than one browser and experimented a little in my early days and didn't always use the same browser to keep accurate stats with.. These stats do show a solved in one that I've never achieved by honest means. I solved it on an other browser first but wanted to see what message (now forgotten) it gave for a right first time solutions.

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 08 Jun 22 - 04:36 AM

Early on I lost all my stats when I switched to the NYT. I was able to retrieve them all as my family had been competing and reporting their scores in our WhatsApp group every day. Since then I've kept a little piece of paper with 1 to 6 down the left-hand side, and every day I put a dot next to that day's score. It makes a nice visual bell-curve, sort of, though I'm not very tidy about it!

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: robomatic
Date: 10 Jun 22 - 05:10 AM

one

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 10 Jun 22 - 05:14 AM

I failed yesterday. After line four I had a choice of three words after getting all the letters bar the first. I guessed wrong twice, dammit.

Whaddya mean, "one"?

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 10 Jun 22 - 05:31 AM

5 for me today. I found this one quite tricky and struggled to think of what to try for attempts 3 and 4. Try 4 however pointed me in the right direction.

Wordle 356 5/6

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Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 10 Jun 22 - 07:16 AM

Hard work, that one. Got it in four. One of those when it was hard to come up with a permissible word at all after line 2.

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: robomatic
Date: 10 Jun 22 - 02:17 PM

SS:what i writted. No brag, just fact. Bragging would be ridiculous, since no skill nor thought involved. It's making me think, and that's a bad sign.

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Jeri
Date: 10 Jun 22 - 05:20 PM

I got it in three today.

Got it in one once. On Facebook, a friend posted his results, with the yellow and green squares. The guy had told everyone what his first and second word always were. Then I knew a few of the letters, when the squares were green, and when you get 3 or 4 letters, it's not difficult to figure the word out. I bitched about it, and after that, avoided looking at posts before I finished the day's Wordle. It really did take the fun out of it.

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 11 Jun 22 - 02:24 PM

Wordle 357 4/6

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I used my pocket speller divider again once I had three letters.

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 13 Jun 22 - 07:23 PM

I forgot to play yesterday and was trounced today. Bummer.

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: robomatic
Date: 15 Jun 22 - 04:42 AM

SIX

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: robomatic
Date: 15 Jun 22 - 05:14 AM

Just tried it in FRENCH. It's called 'Le Mot'
Also SIX.

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 15 Jun 22 - 10:14 AM

I used my pocket speller divider again...

Isn't that kind of cheating? While it's a bit of fun, it is hardly the most demanding of puzzles and normally takes no more than a couple of minutes. It seems a bit pointless if you remove the need to put a bit of thought into it.

DC

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 15 Jun 22 - 12:55 PM

Why? It's just a list of words that I can use it maybe one out of 10 times. It's a tool. I wondered if someone would eventually notice that I mention that little book.

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: robomatic
Date: 15 Jun 22 - 01:29 PM

Interesting site:

Wordle Global


Coming up: 'Wordle' on other planets

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 15 Jun 22 - 05:28 PM

I won't use any aids and I must do it alone without someone else doing little comments while I'm doing it. I might grab a pen and do the E--N- sort of thing on scrap paper. But it's all good. Do it your way!

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 17 Jun 22 - 04:53 AM

I think today's is the first I've had where both first and second guesses contained no letters in the solution.

Wordle 363 4/6

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Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: robomatic
Date: 18 Jun 22 - 06:26 AM

Wordle 364 5/6

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Took me some time; almost ran out the alfabet

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Raggytash
Date: 18 Jun 22 - 08:23 AM

Go on, which of us Brits is going to say it?

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 18 Jun 22 - 08:54 AM

I once had a wager on a fodder crop. It was called an alfalfabet.

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 26 Jun 22 - 06:56 PM

Not a good game to play when you're under the weather. It has been more difficult to have patience with the word-play as my knee heals. Today was a nice outcome.

Wordle 372 4/6

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Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 27 Jun 22 - 04:49 PM

Nice!

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Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: robomatic
Date: 04 Jul 22 - 03:14 PM

Abandon spoilers ye who enter here. . .

I started with my usual somewhat thoughtless gay hope that a random monosyllable with no more than a vowel diphthong would get me in with a couple. But I gaped as the grey bloks bobbed up one by one, until the final:   GREEN!. Actually, the penultimate letter was GREEN. The ultima thule was another grey. So with my standard tactic of finding another word with another vowel and three or four alphabetic newcomers I ventured anew: And got greyballed.

I was now two words in, and one common vowel green. I faced a keyboard of few prospects. I tightened my sinews and went for a thrid word, one with NO previously posed letters. At a medium pace the squares filled: Grey, grey, grey, grey, pale yellow. Pale Yellow! Maybe I had a new possibility. A new hope, like a radiation free zone on our poisoned planet. But.... it was no vowel.

And so, with all vowels tried and y-ed I re-entered the fray. On the fourth 'down' I figured I had to re-position the consonant, and, a thing I had barely thought of, but now was compelled to venture, double the vowel. The empty squares became blocks... GREEN. GREY. YELLOW. GREEN! GREY. I had positioned two letters and established a double vowel. Common letters all, but at the completion of the fourth try there was new hope.

But only two tries left. I would have to find the place for the vowel and come up with two new cons. Could this happen. The yawning sixth try was only a couple of tries away.

And now there was nothing left but pure luck as my weakest link appeared - brain work! I had to think of likely words that could fill the places and spaces of my wordle hurdle. This could take hours, or....well over five minutes. Wee the double vowels something that could occur together. Or apart Coult there actually be three of the suckers? I wrestled with the conundrum for a minute. Then another minute. A minute passed in between.

I felt adrift in time, my only stability supplied by the mattress firmly under my spine. If only gravity could talk! Intelligently!
I thought of a word. A word that would fit. It would have the vowels, the one I had placed and the one at large. It included two new consonants. I tried fiercely for about two seconds to think of another word that would serve. I could not think of one. But had I tried enough?

I was out of patience. It HAD to be right. It was kind of a dirty word, but after all, we're playing with the New York Times here! Every parrot needs a cage liner...
So I tried this try. I wordled.
GREEN. But this was a known known green. GREEN! I had the second vowel placed!

GREYYYY!! My world went dark as the phone started to time out...A nuAmbing kind of numbness began to whelm. I was on a suspension bridge at mid span and the bottom was a kind of Squid-game glass that was cracking below my feet....time was not. As my breathing was stilled the other returns came in....

GREEN. and GREEN.
One letter and one try left.
One letter to rule them all?
My tactic is half brilliance. Half elimination. Had I eliminated enough to save myself in the last gasp? I went through the available letters. No. Way. In. Hell. But. Maybe. This. One.
There was one likely leftover. One symmetrical con.
I won't lie. I cried a little as I filled the blocks. I was seconds from failure or success. Which would it be? Almost nothing was riding on this press on the submit icon.
But there was some hope. Some fear of failure. Some doubt as to whether I could lie successfully to the folks at Starbucks...

GREEN.
GREEN.
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GREEN!

Was it victory sublime? More a sweaty relief.

I will have to leave it here. I am so overcome with emotion, this is the high note for me to leave with.

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(Leave us speak not of the bloodbath that was QUORDLE.)