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This thread centers around the daily Wordle game from the New York Times, where participants share their results, strategies, and experiences. The discussion includes personal anecdotes, strategies for guessing words, and reflections on the game's impact on cognitive skills.

Discussion Character

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  • Conceptual clarification
  • Meta-discussion

Main Points Raised

  • Some participants share their Wordle results, indicating varying levels of success, with scores ranging from 1 to 6 attempts.
  • Several users discuss their strategies for choosing starting words, with mentions of specific words like 'EARLY', 'PIOUS', and 'ADIEU'.
  • One participant notes the surprising number of five-letter words in English and reflects on the difficulty of the game.
  • There are personal anecdotes about family members' engagement with word games, including Wordle, Sudoku, and crosswords.
  • Some participants express a competitive spirit in playing Wordle with partners or family members.
  • Discussion includes a comparison of Wordle to other games, such as Mastermind, highlighting differences in gameplay mechanics.
  • Participants speculate on the timing of Wordle updates and how it may vary based on local time zones and device settings.
  • One user shares their experience playing Wordle in both English and Spanish, noting differences in guessing success rates.
  • There are corrections and clarifications regarding the validity of certain word guesses, such as 'FHLMN'.

Areas of Agreement / Disagreement

Participants express a variety of opinions and experiences regarding strategies and the nature of the game, with no clear consensus on the best approaches or the implications of playing Wordle on cognitive skills.

Contextual Notes

Some discussions involve assumptions about the game's rules and the validity of word guesses, which may not be universally agreed upon. There are also references to personal experiences that may not apply to all players.

Who May Find This Useful

This thread may be of interest to fans of word games, particularly those who enjoy sharing strategies and results, as well as those curious about the social dynamics of competitive gameplay.

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Wordle 1,027 4/6

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I was sure my #3 was a winner. D'Oh. Looks like @jack action made the same pick for his #4.

Mister T said:
Oh no! I looked at your spoiler before I realized it's (for me) tomorrow's puzzle.
I don't look at this thread until I have done the puzzle (I think I'm usually among the last). I don't want to see if everyone's getting it in three, or six. That's kind of a clue (if everyone had a hard time maybe it has a Q or X, or it's all vowels...)
 
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Wordle 1,027 3/6

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gmax137 said:
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I was sure my #3 was a winner. D'Oh. Looks like @jack action made the same pick for his #4.


I don't look at this thread until I have done the puzzle (I think I'm usually among the last). I don't want to see if everyone's getting it in three, or six. That's kind of a clue (if everyone had a hard time maybe it has a Q or X, or it's all vowels...)
Yeah. Especially if you know people's start-words you risk getting a clue even if you don't want one.
 
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Now watch out. I'm ahead of you americans by about 6 hours, so this is your tomorrow's puzzle.

Wordle 1,028 2/6*

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And yeh. I might have been just a little lucky. A tiny smidge of luck :P


Which reminds me, I'll start varying my start-word or put the whole thing within SPOILERs in accordance with my comment above....
 
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Orodruin said:
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You also didn't need many clues. Are you keeping score with used words?
 
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Wordle 1,028 4/6

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sbrothy said:
Wordle 1,028 2/6*

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And yeh. I might have been just a little lucky. A tiny smidge of luck :P
According to my calculations, you had 132 words to choose from, both previous and future game solutions. I find that interesting, as globally, 1% of the players today solved the game in 2 guesses.

I've never formally studied statistics but am curious if this means that globally, everyone averaged out to about 100 potential solutions after their first guess?
 
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sbrothy said:
Now watch out. I'm ahead of you americans by about 6 hours, so this is your tomorrow's puzzle.

Wordle 1,028 2/6*

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And yeh. I might have been just a little lucky. A tiny smidge of luck :P


Which reminds me, I'll start varying my start-word or put the whole thing within SPOILERs in accordance with my comment above....
I don't think you need to add these caveats for Americans unless my stupid mistake keeps getting repeated. It doesn't take much effort on my part to be a bit more careful.
 
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Wordle 1,028 4/6

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sbrothy said:
You also didn't need many clues. Are you keeping score with used words?
No. There was only one possible solution after the first two guesses.

Keep in mind that a white square also contains information.
After the two first guesses I know that it ends with Y, has an I that is not in the second position, no other vowels, and a bunch of common consonants are excluded. This left only one possible solution.
 
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Wordle 1,028 5/6

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sbrothy said:
Now watch out. I'm ahead of you americans by about 6 hours, so this is your tomorrow's puzzle.

Wordle 1,028 2/6*

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And yeh. I might have been just a little lucky. A tiny smidge of luck :P


Which reminds me, I'll start varying my start-word or put the whole thing within SPOILERs in accordance with my comment above....
You use the same first guess as I do but I'm really curious about why you would choose that word as a second guess.

To my count, the first word left 749 possibilities. If your second guess wasn't right at all, it would have left you with 306 words, which is a lot. If my second guess CLONS wouldn't have been right at all, I would have been left with 48 words. In this case, I had only 15 possibilities left. Personally, I don't think too much and used the easy method of eliminating the most popular letters until I found at least 4 of them before guessing - unless I'm very lucky and a few fall into their right place.

Why choose such a word? The letters WYH wouldn't give you much information if they weren't in the word we are looking for.

This is not "a tiny smidge" of luck, it's "a hole-in-one on a windy day" kind of luck!
 
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Wordle 1,028 4/6

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Wordle 1,029 4/6

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Should've stuck with my start-word. Ah well.
 
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Wordle 1,029 2/6

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Wordle 1,029 3/6

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jack action said:
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You use the same first guess as I do but I'm really curious about why you would choose that word as a second guess.

To my count, the first word left 749 possibilities. If your second guess wasn't right at all, it would have left you with 306 words, which is a lot. If my second guess CLONS wouldn't have been right at all, I would have been left with 48 words. In this case, I had only 15 possibilities left. Personally, I don't think too much and used the easy method of eliminating the most popular letters until I found at least 4 of them before guessing - unless I'm very lucky and a few fall into their right place.

Why choose such a word? The letters WYH wouldn't give you much information if they weren't in the word we are looking for.

This is not "a tiny smidge" of luck, it's "a hole-in-one on a windy day" kind of luck!
Keep in mind that English is my second language and I don't really keep score of which words are used. So there's a lot of guessing going on here. I suspect that explains a lot. Sometimes though, no hits with the first word contains almost as much information as 3-4. As I wrote it was a pretty lucky shot! :P

As you almost wrote: ludicrously lucky.
 
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Wordle 1,030 6/6*

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See? Here I felt pretty darn stupid when it finally dawned on me. I'm pretty sure that's not a problem a native speaker would have. And that's not counting the obvious blunders I made, reusing letters, even though I have "hardmode" turned on.


I even tried to cheat but that didn't even help! That's pretty pathetic. I kinda panicked there at the end. We have a saying over here:

"Højt at flyve, dybt at falde".

(Almost) literally: "Flying high, falling far."
 
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Wordle 1,030 3/6

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I just let my gut pick my starting word, usually different every day, whatever pops into my head. This one was lucky! I think the answer today would have been a hard one without the two-letter headstart I got.
 
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Wordle 1 031 3/6

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Ah, symmetry!
 
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