BS: 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: 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: Jeri
Date: 01 Feb 22 - 11:15 AM

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

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: 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: Jon Freeman
Date: 01 Feb 22 - 09:50 AM

A good crossword standard:

ENNUI

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: 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: Doug Chadwick
Date: 01 Feb 22 - 07:59 AM

Snap!

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 - 07:54 AM

ANION

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 - 07:52 AM

UNION

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 01 Feb 22 - 07:49 AM

ABUSE

LOOSE
MOOSE


DC

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 01 Feb 22 - 07:47 AM

NO

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 01 Feb 22 - 07:38 AM

HOUSE
IDEAL
JUICE
LOUSE
MOUSE
OAKEN
OLDIE
OPINE
OPIUM
PIOUS
QUIRE
SUITE
UNITE
UNTIE

then, if you are looking for repeated letters:

APIAN
AVIAN
EATEN
OPIOD
PEACE
PIECE



DC

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: gillymor
Date: 01 Feb 22 - 07:14 AM

AROSE
GAUGE
GUIDE

and that sound you make when your wife flushes the toilet while you're showering-

AIEEE

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 01 Feb 22 - 06:43 AM

There's always that Yorkshire word that's nowt BUT vowels; "Eeeee..."

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: gillymor
Date: 01 Feb 22 - 06:30 AM

Me too, got lucky with my starter word.

That looks like a strange beast, Bill.

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Stanron
Date: 01 Feb 22 - 06:28 AM

Words with three vowels are a good starting point. like;

BIJOU
EQUAL
QUAIL
QUIET
QUITE

Anyone got any more?

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 01 Feb 22 - 06:05 AM

I absolutely hate stuff like this so I had a go this morning after reading the rules. Not exactly difficult, is it!

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: weerover
Date: 01 Feb 22 - 04:53 AM

Got today's in two!

wr

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Bill D
Date: 31 Jan 22 - 11:58 AM

Maybe this is the next phase..
https://qntm.org/files/wordle/

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 31 Jan 22 - 11:23 AM

It was 4 for me too. Quite tough I thought.

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: gillymor
Date: 31 Jan 22 - 11:16 AM

Got it in 4 today but I had to let it simmer for a few hours after 3 guesses. When I came back to it it just jumped out at me.

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Neil D
Date: 31 Jan 22 - 03:58 AM

This game is very much like a game show that was on U.S. TV several years ago called LINGO.

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 30 Jan 22 - 10:04 AM

Out in 4 with that one.

I will confess that my predicted failure did occur yesterday. I had the last 4 letters right but two guesses for the first letter weren't enough. I think I tried "mould" and "would" but needed "could".

My "main statistics" were unaffected by this loss. I only tried yesterday's to confirm (re robo's question) that the wordle uses cookies/web storage to hold the data and I started with a clean sheet on Chromium rather than my usual Firefox.

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Stanron
Date: 30 Jan 22 - 10:01 AM

Very easy to go wrong.

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 30 Jan 22 - 09:46 AM

Today's is a tricky one!

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: robomatic
Date: 29 Jan 22 - 05:21 PM

what I like about the original wordle is it limits you to one per day

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: gillymor
Date: 29 Jan 22 - 01:41 PM

This is great, now I just need to find a 12 step program to help me kick it.

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: robomatic
Date: 29 Jan 22 - 01:35 PM

when very young we played jotto with great pleasure. i thought of it as "battleship" for words.

I enjoy the original wordle site. don't know how it remembers my stats without a log-in. if it's by IP then there can only be one player per address, right?

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Mrrzy
Date: 27 Jan 22 - 08:22 PM

Jeri, if the word were DWELL and I guessed QUILT, it would tell me that the L is in the right place ... But it is *also* in thw wrong place. Took me a while to get used to that.

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 27 Jan 22 - 09:55 AM

Well, the only 2 I've tried since this thread have been ones where people have commented on solving on 6th attempt. The first of these took me 4 and this one took me 3.

Just luck for me of course. I may well fail the next time I try one.

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 27 Jan 22 - 09:36 AM

I was down to my last stab today and had to resort to a crossword solver :-(

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 26 Jan 22 - 03:27 PM

Jon,
People looking at the word lists by viewing the source code have noted that the code includes the full list of words which will be accepted as valid guesses, also the list of the words which will be used as solutions (in date order)

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 26 Jan 22 - 08:01 AM

I've found an open source clone of Wordle. I'm not sure anyone in this thread would want to try to build or alter it but the word lists which apparently are the same as the genuine version is using may be of interest if it's not considered cheating.

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: meself
Date: 25 Jan 22 - 01:17 PM

Did someone say there was a pirate version? That's the one for me, mateys!

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 25 Jan 22 - 12:43 PM

If you can't backspace to get rid of individual letters when you realise you've mistyped, just end the word with a 'q' and get it rejected as not on the wordlist. You can then start that line again.

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 25 Jan 22 - 12:39 PM

Jeri:
Nigel, you can see what time I did the puzzle. It tells me the next one is in 11:17.

Unfortunately that timer updates live-time, but if you had saved a scree-shot showing 11:17 to the next Wordle then the screenshot was taken at 12:43 (Lunch time) UK time. Add/subtract hours for your own timezone from UCT.

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Jeri
Date: 24 Jan 22 - 04:14 PM

I've back-buttoned my ass off. You can't undo it once you've hit the "enter" key, but that would be cheating, anyway.

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 24 Jan 22 - 01:25 PM

... the link Stanron gave to wordlegame.org,
............
............ There is no undo button, ...

There is a back button at the bottom left of the keyboard when I am using it.

DC

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 24 Jan 22 - 12:43 PM

Glad it wasn't just me :-)

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Jeri
Date: 24 Jan 22 - 12:43 PM

Nigel, you can see what time I did the puzzle. It tells me the next one is in 11:17.

Mrrzy, from a previous puzzle, it seems it only tells you if you got a correct letter, not how many of them there are. I've figure out the doible letters because it was the only word I could think of, and it had a double letter.

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Mrrzy
Date: 24 Jan 22 - 12:04 PM

In Jotto, no repeated letters are allowed.

How does it score the L that is in the right place if there is another L in the wrong?

I consider any Wordle with repeated letters unscorable. But I play anyway! It is still fun.

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 24 Jan 22 - 11:12 AM

Ignoring the green one risks forgetting that the same letter can sometimes crop up twice or even three times in a word.

It's a good idea to start out with the more common letters, so you can tick them off one way or another.

I found that the link Stanron gave to wordlegame.org, wile very handy in that it enables you to play as often as you like - and also in various other languages, which I couldn't begin to do, has one annoying defect. There is no undo button, so once you've put in a letter you can't get rid of it and start again, you've got to keep on to the end with that word, and blown one of your goes on a word you hadn't intended to try.

If anybodies got a link to a similar one, but with an undo button, I'd be grateful.

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 24 Jan 22 - 10:18 AM

Just checked elsewhere to see if we're all working on the same puzzle. It seems that the daily reset is standard at Midnight UK time (or possibly UCT) so in the US it changes somewhere between teatime and midnight.

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Jeri
Date: 24 Jan 22 - 09:52 AM

Me too (6 tries).
The sneaky bastards!

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 24 Jan 22 - 09:00 AM

Just done today's. Again it strung me out to 6 attempts. I won't say why because of possible 'spoilers'.

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 24 Jan 22 - 08:55 AM

I'm having reasonable success. Only 3 words have taken the whole 6 attempts, in the first 18 (Favor, Proxy & Gorge). Spotting double letters caused the problem with 'Gorge' and the US spelling with 'Favor'

Unless I get a lot of information on the first attempt I try a different set of letters on the second (Often using Train followed by Demob).

Ebbie says Then when you get, say, one green block and two yellow blocks, concentrate on the correctly placed letter I take the opposite view. Unless you've already got enough info to make an informed guess, ignore the green letter, you know what it is, and where it must go, don't re-use it until you're ready to make a reasoned guess. It's not going to move, and it allows you to eliminate another unused letter.