BS: Wordle

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 01 Feb 22 - 07:53 AM

ONION

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 01 Feb 22 - 07:54 AM

ANION

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 01 Feb 22 - 07:54 AM

ANION

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 01 Feb 22 - 07:59 AM

Snap!

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Jeri
Date: 01 Feb 22 - 09:40 AM

I didn't read this earlier because I thought someone might be typing spoilers, but you're just spelling random words. Adorbs. Just like you're typing a whole Scrabble dictionary.

No, it's not hard. It's more about logic than vocabulary. Letters that aren't in it, letters that are, but are in the wrong place, letters you haven't tried yet.

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Stanron
Date: 01 Feb 22 - 09:47 AM

Hi Jeri. Not random words but words with three vowels to try as a first attempt.

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 01 Feb 22 - 09:50 AM

A good crossword standard:

ENNUI

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 01 Feb 22 - 10:18 AM

It's all very well starting with a word with 3 vowels, but there are only 5 vowels to eliminate. I prefer to start with a word with more consonants than vowels for this reason.
Unless something obvious jumps out at me I start with TRAIN followed by DEMOB. This checks the 4 most common vowels and several 'popular' consonants, without repetition.
Those two words usually give me some sort of guidance to what letters are definitely 'in', and a list of letters which are definitely 'out'.
So far over 28 days I have scores of:
2 tries: 1
3 tries: 11
4 tries: 10
5 tries: 2
6 tries: 4
No failures though.

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 01 Feb 22 - 10:19 AM

Jon Freeman:
A good crossword standard:
ENNUI

Yes, a good crossword word, but I was getting BORED with it ;)

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Jeri
Date: 01 Feb 22 - 11:15 AM

Oh. 3 vowels. Nobody did "toile" yet.

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Bill D
Date: 01 Feb 22 - 11:18 AM

Play it while you can...
https://www.barrons.com/articles/new-york-times-buys-wordle

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Bill D
Date: 01 Feb 22 - 11:22 AM

You can always switch to
https://www.cnet.com/news/lewdle-the-nsfw-wordle-clone-that-rewards-dirty-minds/

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Mrrzy
Date: 01 Feb 22 - 06:40 PM

I was just about to put that here!

Blicky.

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 02 Feb 22 - 08:27 PM

Boris
Bores
Bones
Bonks
Banks
Wanks

(Not an original from me!)

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 03 Feb 22 - 07:47 AM

I liked my few plays with absurdle but the same set of guesses will always lead to the same results.

There must be sequences of guesses that will lead to a solution in a minimum number of guesses but I don't see how to find that out. My best attempts have taken 6 but others here may well do better.

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: FreddyHeadey
Date: 05 Feb 22 - 04:52 PM

For the instrumentalists ,,,,

Chordle



https://www.chordle.synthase.cc/

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 06 Feb 22 - 06:35 AM

Six out of six goes so far. A three, four fours and a five. As Brucie Forsyth would have said, good game, good game!

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: cnd
Date: 06 Feb 22 - 09:20 AM

Those of you bored by Wordle may consider Dordle

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Rusty Dobro
Date: 06 Feb 22 - 02:06 PM

I just tried to enter the entirely usual and frequently-used word ‘prick’, and was told it is ‘not a valid word’.

Now why should that be?

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Jeri
Date: 06 Feb 22 - 02:21 PM

Rusty, that's funny. It was THE word a while ago. It never tells me when it's not a valid word, the game just won't take it.

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Jeri
Date: 06 Feb 22 - 02:28 PM

Trying to check when it happened, and I think I was wrong about them having used the word.

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Rusty Dobro
Date: 06 Feb 22 - 02:53 PM

Jeri: I came to the game via their website, rather than the app. Maybe that’s why I get the ‘not a valid word’ messages.

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: robomatic
Date: 06 Feb 22 - 03:10 PM

I have been finding myself waking up so I can play the latest right after midnight. Also it is midnight my time. Not volitional.

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Jeri
Date: 06 Feb 22 - 03:26 PM

There IS no valid app. The website address I use is https://www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/. I don't know why it gets all judgy with you. I'll try tomorrow with a non-word, but I'm pretty sure it just blinks, and won't take the word when I type a weird one.

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 07 Feb 22 - 06:55 PM

Got it in five tonight . Peed off because Mrs Steve got it in three and her best mate got it in four. My daughter got it in five. There's a lot of luck, or not, with your first word.

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Jeri
Date: 07 Feb 22 - 07:48 PM

I got it in five. It would've been four, but I typed a non-word that was actually a word. The actual non-word got the blink, and not accepting, but it also flashed "that word is not in our list" (or something like it).

There probably needs to be a "Wordle Anonymous" group for some of us.

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 07 Feb 22 - 08:19 PM

The first word is about 82.368% luck, but after that the luck element diminishes row by row. By line four, if you haven't got it by then, a mild panic sets in. I've never had to go to the utter panic of line five with nowhere to go...it must be awful...

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 08 Feb 22 - 10:51 AM

Seeing lots of people taking 6 attempts today. It seems to be a common set of letters with too many options to fill the last two. Thankfully my common first two words made it (fairly) obvious to get it in 3.
Wordle 234 3/6

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Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 08 Feb 22 - 10:53 AM

Ah! I thought the usual "Share" wouldn't work here, but had to try.

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 08 Feb 22 - 05:33 PM

Got it in three today. I know a few who took six too. Mrs Steve got it in two. Grr.

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 08 Feb 22 - 06:13 PM

I got it in three. I always aim at getting the vowels first.

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Jeri
Date: 08 Feb 22 - 06:20 PM

Five. I got the common letters, but there were many chances to plug in the rest of them. I aim for the vowels, then eliminate consonants. It gets down to a low number of word, and one usually just feels right. The really fast solutions, are, at least for me, a matter of luck.

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 08 Feb 22 - 06:28 PM

Aim for vowels? For the first word I have only two rules: it must have at least two different vowels and I never include Q, X or Z.

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 09 Feb 22 - 07:58 AM

And watch out for American spellings!
Another tricksy one today, but still got it in 3 thanks to my start words.

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 09 Feb 22 - 08:03 AM

Yes - Even forewarned about American spellings it still took me 5. Once I got the last three there were too many options!

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 09 Feb 22 - 08:41 AM

One way to do it is always to use the word that came up as the answer the last time you played. Introduces an extra element of chance.

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 09 Feb 22 - 08:48 AM

Oi, don't give warnings about American spellings, right? I wish to approach this in a pure, virginal manner every day! I suspected as much after the second word but ruled it out. So it took me five today. You'd think that the choice of tens of thousands of words should rule out such controversies.

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 09 Feb 22 - 09:17 AM

Well, although the creator of Wordle is Welsh born, he lives in New York. So perhaps US spellings are an understandable outcome.

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 09 Feb 22 - 11:40 AM

I'm OK with it now. As long as I know. The online opprobrium accompanying today's word does reek somewhat of British imperialism.

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Jeri
Date: 09 Feb 22 - 12:22 PM

If British spelling is used, it would eliminate 6-letter words that would otherwise have only 5 letters.

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 09 Feb 22 - 12:54 PM

I didn't see any opptobium involved or objection.. Just a warning that applies at all times. Whether it was English or American spellings involved the same issue would arise. It's just an extra trap to be evaded, and adds to the fun.

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: robomatic
Date: 09 Feb 22 - 02:02 PM

Someone can always put together a Britword version with an extra letter and claim how it is bigger brain food. But that lets in so many other words that they probably have to increase to ten tries.

It does make me want to try out 5 letter Brit words such as "lorry" which I don't think has a yank equivalent.

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 10 Feb 22 - 07:15 AM

Four.

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 10 Feb 22 - 11:06 AM

There are five letter words where the English version is different. One that comes to mind is tyre. I am sure there are others. But with the -or/-our words the English word is aways going to be excluded by the five letter format.

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 10 Feb 22 - 12:37 PM

There are five letter words where the English version is different. One that comes to mind is tyre.

But 'tyre' is not a very good example of a 'five letter word'.

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 10 Feb 22 - 12:52 PM

Very true.

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 10 Feb 22 - 01:21 PM

Tyres

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: robomatic
Date: 10 Feb 22 - 01:42 PM

But does one get 'tyred'? As in tied up in tyres?

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 11 Feb 22 - 07:41 AM

Three!

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 11 Feb 22 - 08:00 AM

100!

and 4