BS: Wordle

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Raggytash
Date: 11 Feb 22 - 08:18 AM

I get tired of being tied up with tyres and being thrown in the tide.

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 11 Feb 22 - 10:47 AM

I'm alright I can post here in the middle of the afternoon;
I'm re-tyred ;)

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 11 Feb 22 - 11:28 AM

"Alright?" Tread carefully, Nigel! (See what I did there...?)

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 11 Feb 22 - 01:55 PM

The URL has changed to the New York Times site:

https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html.

I'm glad I'm already a NY Times subscriber, I enjoy this little game. :)

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 11 Feb 22 - 02:23 PM

I just google "Wordle" every time!

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Jeri
Date: 11 Feb 22 - 04:42 PM

You apparently don't have to be subscribed, and the old address forwards to this new one.

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 11 Feb 22 - 05:57 PM

I've been subscribed to the NYT Daily Briefing (a freebie this end) for a good while. It wouldn't count, would it...

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Jeri
Date: 11 Feb 22 - 06:01 PM

I never subscribed because they tried to force me. Pay-walls, nag-screens, nope. Just contrary.

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 11 Feb 22 - 06:17 PM

I'm like that too. I'm a lifelong Guardian subscriber but that's it. Don't link me to stuff that costs me, people!

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Mrrzy
Date: 11 Feb 22 - 10:00 PM

And a math one called Nerdle.

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 12 Feb 22 - 07:48 AM

Five. A bit unexpected, that one.

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Raggytash
Date: 12 Feb 22 - 08:02 AM

Got it in three today, not yet managed a two!

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: gillymor
Date: 12 Feb 22 - 08:59 AM

There's wordlegame.org that Stanron linked to earlier. I haven't noticed any difference between it and the one NYT now owns.

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: gillymor
Date: 12 Feb 22 - 09:00 AM

...except that you can play it any time you like.

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: gillymor
Date: 12 Feb 22 - 09:15 AM

I just played the Wordle on the Times site and didn't encounter a paywall.

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 12 Feb 22 - 10:08 AM

They said they'd leave it public. Don't know for how long, or what strings might be attached.

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 13 Feb 22 - 09:52 AM

Three. And by the second word I was getting nowhere. I think I could be genius material.

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 13 Feb 22 - 10:05 AM

Wordle 239 3/6

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?????????
??????????

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 13 Feb 22 - 11:27 AM

What does that mean, Jon?

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 13 Feb 22 - 11:32 AM

It means the Wordle share doesn't work here. Nigel had commented on this in an earlier post but, as it looked fine when previewed, I thought I'd continue...

I tried today and it took me 3.
#1: 1 in right place.
#2: 1 in right place, 3 in wrong place.
#3: correct guess.

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Stanron
Date: 13 Feb 22 - 11:51 AM

Me 3 2. I've started using AUDIO as the first word as it has four of the five vowels innit? Anyone got other five letter words with four vowels?

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 13 Feb 22 - 11:56 AM

I have a double whammy of aisle and mouth. Audio is the word I've been looking for!

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 13 Feb 22 - 12:14 PM

Took five tries today, and I ended up repeating much of one word lower down - wasting a guess. Oops.

Wordle 239 5/6

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 13 Feb 22 - 01:09 PM

I've mostly been starting with "early" or "later". I'm gradually finding that eliminating common consonants is at least as valuable as nailing vowels.

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Jeri
Date: 13 Feb 22 - 01:29 PM

Steve, two words to eliminate the same 2 vowels?
I got it in 3 today. Second word was lucky, because I got 4 of the 5 letters, and (previously) eliminated 2 vowels and 3 consonants. This has as much to do with identifying the wrong letters as finding the right ones.

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 13 Feb 22 - 01:49 PM

Not on the same day, Jeri!

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 13 Feb 22 - 03:29 PM

I like "aisle" because it always seems to hit somewhere in the puzzle.

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Jeri
Date: 13 Feb 22 - 05:26 PM

Got it, Steve. Thanks.

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 13 Feb 22 - 07:35 PM

Cheers, Jeri. This game has got me and Mrs Steve totally enthralled for about half an hour a day. I've never been one for crosswords (which I'm pretty good at, he said modestly...) or sudoku (never tried it...) but Wordle is a genius invention which fuses good luck and a canny bit of intrigue, beautifully crafted...

In other words, I'm addicted...

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Jeri
Date: 13 Feb 22 - 09:01 PM

There might need to be a 12-step program if any of us want to quit.
Part of the attraction is it's a logic puzzle as well as a word game.

I discovered Neverwherdle onNeilGaiman.com. Works the same but it's Gaimanesque. First guess, I got three letter in the right places. That's the last time that will happen.

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 14 Feb 22 - 07:10 AM

Three. One of my quicker efforts!

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 14 Feb 22 - 08:00 AM

Took me all 5 today.

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 14 Feb 22 - 08:56 AM

Stanron:
Me 3 2. I've started using AUDIO as the first word as it has four of the five vowels innit? Anyone got other five letter words with four vowels?
ADIEU: Again 4 vowels, but includes 'E' which comes top of the list for most deciphering options.
QUEUE, also 4 vowels but less help due to repetition.

I still tend to start with TRAIN followed by DEMOB (unless TRAIN gives me a lot of info)

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 14 Feb 22 - 09:22 AM

There might need to be a 12-step program if any of us want to quit.

I'm possibly the odd one in this thread on this. I do have a regular set of word things (mostly crossword of the simpler quick and cryptic varieties - Monday Quiptic and Cryptic in the Guardian are usually about my limit) but Wordle hasn't really made it for me.

Its intreset lies more in how others find a puzzle here and that may prompt a try from me...

On first guess, I've preferred to use A,E and common consonants for starter. "RATES" is one I've used a few times.

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Stanron
Date: 14 Feb 22 - 10:08 AM

ADIEU works well, thanks. I tried it on the

https://wordlegame.org/

clone site. Also I just noticed that on the original site there is a link, top left, to other games. The Sudoku is almost acceptable.

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: robomatic
Date: 14 Feb 22 - 06:50 PM

I once tried 'HOIST' as my first word. Took several steps to arrive at the wordle of the day. The next day the word was 'MOIST'.

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Mrrzy
Date: 14 Feb 22 - 09:50 PM

Worldle. Not a typo. Try it! I got today's in 4.

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 15 Feb 22 - 08:18 AM

Four. Made a right balls of the third one by not using an orange letter. Grr.

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 16 Feb 22 - 05:37 AM

Tough one today that a few people will not know!

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Stanron
Date: 16 Feb 22 - 06:03 AM

To my great surprise I got it in two. Pure luck of course although in the distant past I had actually done it.

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 16 Feb 22 - 08:27 AM

Four. A few annoyed people around, but it's a good word!

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 16 Feb 22 - 08:31 AM

It took me 4 tries, having guessed the word ending in 3.

As for the word, it comes into what may be a fairly large category for me. I would for example be able to use the word as a solution to a straight crossword clue and be satisfied my answer was right rather than me just putting in a word to fit but I’d probably have problems going the other way round, ie. if someone simply asked me what the word meant, I could find myself saying I don’t know.

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Jack Campin
Date: 16 Feb 22 - 08:14 PM

The Shetlandic version, Wirdle.

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 17 Feb 22 - 06:26 AM

Five. Bad stabs on lines 2 and 3. Grr.

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 18 Feb 22 - 06:22 PM

I tanked on the one for today. It just wasn't coming to me with the few letters I got early on.

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 18 Feb 22 - 07:20 PM

Five again. After line two I knew the last four letters in the right places. Then I made two wrong guesses as to the first letter. I hate this but I love it...

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Jeri
Date: 18 Feb 22 - 08:48 PM

4 tries. I got the first letter on my first try, then got two other letters, and one had to go at the end. I got enough the weren't in there anywhere. Once in a while, it's skill, but more often, it's a combination of logic and luck. Oh, and eliminating letters.

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 18 Feb 22 - 08:54 PM

Stop showing off, Jeri! ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Jeri
Date: 18 Feb 22 - 09:25 PM

:P
I don't say anything when I mess up.

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 19 Feb 22 - 06:12 AM

Six. Grr. Should have been four as I had four out of the five letters in the right places after three and there were only three possible words it could be - so I guessed the wrong one twice, just like yesterday! At least I haven't failed as yet...