BS: Wordle

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 31 Mar 23 - 10:52 AM

Still sticking with it.

Wordle 650 3/6

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Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 28 Mar 23 - 11:51 AM

Wordle 647 5/6

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Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 24 Mar 23 - 09:02 PM

Played 348 times
Failed 1%
1 - 1
2 - 16
3- 92
4 - 122
5 - 83
6 - 32

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 21 Mar 23 - 12:28 PM

I get it most often on the fifth line, next most often on the fourth. I suspect that is due to whatever technique I use (and I frequently accidentally reuse a letter; I know it's possible to set it so you can't reuse a letter, but I haven't done that.)

I've played 393 times and won 87% of the time.

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 21 Mar 23 - 12:19 PM

Woe was me today. I had all but the first letter in green on line 2. I reckoned that I had just four possible starting letters, so I started guessing.

You know what I'm going to say:

Did it in six. Grr.

I do it every day. I've a precise record of all my shots (how anal is that...). I've now done it 380 times, scores as follows:

In one: 1 (the word was "adopt")
In two: 16
In three: 103
In four: 141
In five: 91
In six: 21
Failed: 7

I seem to do a lot better when I get stuck than when I've got too many choices like today.

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 21 Mar 23 - 11:57 AM

Wordle 640 5/6

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Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 21 Feb 23 - 02:01 PM

Every so often my streak is chopped off by a particularly dastardly word choice by the Wordle Editor. But for now my streak is up to 25.

Wordle 612 3/6

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Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 04 Feb 23 - 11:11 AM

My streak is back up to a puny 8.

Wordle 595 5/6

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Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 29 Jan 23 - 11:44 AM

The last few days have been a struggle, probably because of alternating my starting word. There is also an inclination from this editor, apparently, to try to avoid the most usual vowel appearances.

Wordle 589 6/6

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Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 20 Jan 23 - 05:43 PM

Four. A stupid guess deprived me of a three.

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 20 Jan 23 - 04:18 PM

Back to a streak of one today.

Wordle 580 5/6

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Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 19 Jan 23 - 12:17 PM

Yes, not the best of starts SRS.

I've had a go at that one and my second guess helped me.

Wordle 579 3/6

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Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 19 Jan 23 - 11:44 AM

No use asking me what my starter word was. I've forgotten within minutes. I did it in four today, about three hours ago, and can remember neither my starter nor the answer. I'm as likely as not going to pick a random word from whatever I'm typing or reading at the time.

I might look at this post for a starter for tomorrow. The candidates could be "today" or "might" or "could" or "start" (a slight cheat there...) or "cheat." All good. But not "going" or "there." I think I quite often use the second line to try to eliminate double consonants such as TH, CH, SH, ST, TR, CR, PR, PL, BR, WH, that sort of thing, depending on what happened in line 1.

But look what I've just done. I've added "think," "often," and "thing" to my starter candidate list. But not "quite."

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 19 Jan 23 - 11:20 AM

Why not?

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 19 Jan 23 - 11:01 AM

Why the secret? ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 19 Jan 23 - 10:51 AM

Jon, I tried that one to the crash and burn result of a zero today. My second word was one of mine and it didn't work either.

It's difficult to think of another word without one of the letters in your first one, to do a clean play without repeating any of the non-working letters.

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 19 Jan 23 - 06:20 AM

Oh reading glasses, where art thou...

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 19 Jan 23 - 06:19 AM

I haven't trusted the NYT to keep my Wordle stats ever since a hiatus in the early days (I managed to recover, somewhat painstakingly, all my lost results because in those days I was enthusiastically exchanging my achievements every day with friends and family on WhatsApp). So I've now done it 320 times and I put a dot next to the appropriate score on a pice of paper every day. My commonest score is 4 (116 times). I've gone better than 4 103 times and worse than 4 101 times. I've failed five times and done it in one once (he crowed...)

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 18 Jan 23 - 09:57 PM

Jon's word has been added to my list - it isn't one I've ever used. Some of my favorites:

EARTH
AISLE
OAKEN

They follow the trial of vowels, but some of the consonants can make all of the difference.

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: robomatic
Date: 18 Jan 23 - 06:26 PM

I understand that George Santos usually gets it in one.

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 18 Jan 23 - 05:37 PM

Jon - PM me your favorite starting word - I'm curious to see if it is one I've used.

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 18 Jan 23 - 10:40 AM

I had what was an achievement for me on Christmas Day. I reached 100 in my streak. The streak only went on to 102 as I then forgot to play for a day. I'm now taking a bit of a braek from the game.

All my 100 used the same starter word.

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 18 Jan 23 - 10:10 AM

Every now and then I do use a word with QU because of all of the letters, Q is the only one least likely to be in play. I haven't dont today's puzzle yet.

I have a sheet of paper on the side of the desk with a running list of words that I like to start with, and I work out the puzzle on the page on occasion. I've done it enough now I can usually just work on the screen without resorting to pencil and paper.

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 18 Jan 23 - 04:56 AM

I got it in one yesterday. No resort to hints, tips clues or spouse! I did what I do every time, just fish around for a word from something I'm reading at the time I decide have a go at Wordle. My only rules are that my starter word mustn't have two of the same letter or contain Q, X, J or Z. Yesterday it was a word from a Mudcat post I'd just posted!

Of course, that was not an achievement but just a huge stroke of luck. I actually felt a bit frustrated that I didn't have a challenge on my hands....

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 06 Jan 23 - 11:18 AM

This one was a squeaker. My new tiny streak is up to seven.

Wordle 566 6/6

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Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 03 Jan 23 - 01:54 PM

I had a nice long streak of 43 that ended with a couple of really tough puzzles over the holidays. I'm up to a current streak of four.

Wordle 563 3/6

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Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 21 Dec 22 - 09:45 PM

Wordle 550 5/6

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Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 21 Dec 22 - 11:06 AM

I don't remember what they are after solving unless they were actually written down. If there have been complaints perhaps the editor got wise and stopped being so obvious.

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 21 Dec 22 - 04:41 AM

A couple of days ago, by the second try, I had four of the five letters in the right place which left me with only three possible words. One of those words was topical for the time of year but it wasn't the answer. The correct word didn't have any topical connection that I could see.

The solution to Wordle 544 could, most likely, be connected to a current news term on any day of the year, to my mind.

DC

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 15 Dec 22 - 02:28 PM

Wordle 544 5/6

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Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 15 Dec 22 - 11:33 AM

Thanks for the link—I actually solved today's puzzle by considering what current news term might come from the letters I had. The fact that holidays and reference to events are turning up in the puzzle is kind of disappointing.

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 15 Dec 22 - 09:48 AM

SRS,
I take back everything that I said. I read an article complaining of exactly what you say – themed, rather than random answers to Wordle puzzles. Apparently, the NY Times appointed a Wordle Editor on November 7 and, since then, topical words have been appearing. In fact, her very first word was BEGIN. That was followed by MEDAL on November 11. As I am in the UK, Thanksgiving doesn’t appear on my radar, so words related to it passed me by. Perhaps PRIME was, in fact, related to Black Friday, despite my doubt.

DC

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 27 Nov 22 - 04:52 AM

How many Americans go anywhere, any day of the year, without driving?

If I wanted to stretch things, I could say that the answer for the day before, PRIME, was related to Black Friday purchases delivered by Amazon - except that it wasn't Black Friday and Amazon don't sit around for the other 51 weeks, waiting for something to do.

This discussion could fit well into the "Precognition" thread as an example of people searching for significance in mere coincidence or, indeed, searching for coincidences that aren't really there.

As I said up-thread, you must have different topics than I do.

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 26 Nov 22 - 10:13 PM

A day or two before that the word was "drive." I think 55 million Americans were expected to drive somewhere for Thanksgiving. I didn't write them all down, but noticed a shift to words that have extra meaning this week, making them somewhat memorable.

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 26 Nov 22 - 11:23 AM

last Thursday (Thanksgiving): the word was "feast." That kind of topical.

Yes, but "topical lately" suggests more than a one-off coincidence.

DC

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 26 Nov 22 - 11:00 AM

Not bad.

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The site that converts the Wordle results to HTML code is https://mothereff.in/html-entities

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 26 Nov 22 - 10:52 AM

DC, a giveaway from last Thursday (Thanksgiving): the word was "feast." That kind of topical.

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 26 Nov 22 - 05:46 AM

Mrs Steve and I both did it in two just now! (No hints, tips, clues or chat of any kind allowed...)

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 24 Nov 22 - 04:32 AM

I can never remember yesterday's word.

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 24 Nov 22 - 04:03 AM

They have been topical lately.

?
You must have different topics than I do.

DC

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 24 Nov 22 - 01:27 AM

They have been topical lately. Unusual for Wordle.

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Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 15 Nov 22 - 10:58 PM

Today was another squeaker:

Wordle 514 6/6

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Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 14 Nov 22 - 12:19 PM

Most or all of them have been closed down, last time I looked (which was when I missed a day last week).

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 14 Nov 22 - 11:28 AM

There are places where you can pull up the old puzzles to work. Is that what you're using, Rap?

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 14 Nov 22 - 11:26 AM

Nearly, here. Took pencil and paper to pull victory from the mouth of defeat. I didn't have a lot to work with.

Wordle 513 6/6

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Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 14 Nov 22 - 11:18 AM

Wordle 437 was 30 August 22.

DC

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Rapparee
Date: 14 Nov 22 - 10:59 AM

Wordle -437 7/6 just now.

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 09 Nov 22 - 07:16 PM

I'm very strict with myself. I don't do that "hard" thing, I don't seek clues and and I don't want chat while I'm doing it. Generally, it takes me anything from sixty seconds to fifteen minutes.

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 09 Nov 22 - 05:10 PM

I'm thinking about setting it to "Hard mode" - where you have to use any letters you've uncovered in future guesses. But that would eliminate the ability to use a line to put something with a totally new set of letters in (a throw away word to see if it lands on some other letters to use).

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 08 Nov 22 - 11:16 AM

I do it every day. In all the time I've failed four times. I get a lot of fours and slightly more threes than fives, so my "bell curve* is skewed towards the better end. Mind you, an annoying six this morning, even though I had three greens on line 2.