Wordle Lovers - Play the NYT Daily Game

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The discussion centers around the enjoyment of the daily Wordle game from the New York Times, with participants sharing their results and strategies. Many players express their competitive nature, often playing against friends or family, and discuss their preferred starting words. There are mentions of variations of Wordle in different languages and formats, highlighting the game's widespread appeal. Some users share their experiences with similar games, like Mastermind, and discuss the challenges posed by obscure words. Overall, the thread fosters a community of Wordle enthusiasts who appreciate the game's complexity and fun.
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OmCheeto said:
I'm both retired, and single. I can't think of anything better to do than be geeky, thank you very much.

Though, I do prefer 'nerdy'.
'Geeky' always struck me as someone with only one interest. I have many interests.
Though, wait a minute...
No. I still socialize with my friends, garden, plan on going to the 'Saturday Market' tomorrow, along with picking blueberries at a nearby farm.
Though......
hmmm....
You may be correct.
:blushing:
The way to resolve this issue is to give you the title that most of my friends have resorted to calling me: "neeky" :D

Close one today:

Wordle 1,498 6/6*

🟨🟨⬜⬜⬜ AUREI
⬜🟨🟨🟨🟨 STAUN
⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩TAUNT
⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩MAUNT
⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩DAUNT
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩HAUNT

We're going camping for the next week and I'm not allowed to bring my laptop, so I'm restoring to github codespaces and phone coding for my wordlebot :cry:
 
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Wordle 1,498 4/6

⬛🟩🟨⬛⬛ DATER 16
⬛⬛⬛⬛🟩 SPLIT 2 Orod/Om hybrid method
⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩 VAUNT 1 RNG
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
 
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Wordle 1,498 5/6

🟨🟩⬜⬜⬜
⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩
⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩
⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
 
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Wordle 1,499 3/6

⬛⬛⬛🟨⬛ TASER 87
🟨🟨⬛⬛⬛ LOGIN 2
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
 
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No cheating! Picture later ….

Wordle 1.499 4/6*

🟨🟨⬛⬛⬛
🟨🟨🟩⬛⬛
⬛⬛🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Screenshot from 2025-07-27 21-07-30.webp
 
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Signal is horrendous here but at least I can still play wordle...

Wordle 1,499 5/6*

⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜
⬜🟨🟨🟨⬜
🟨🟨⬜🟨⬜
🟨🟨🟨🟨⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

(I'll put my guesses on later: in a rush right now)
 
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Wordle 1,499 4/6

⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩
⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜
⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
 
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TensorCalculus said:
Signal is horrendous here but at least I can still play wordle...

Wordle 1,499 5/6*

⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜
⬜🟨🟨🟨⬜
🟨🟨⬜🟨⬜
🟨🟨🟨🟨⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

(I'll put my guesses on later: in a rush right now)
What was your seed word?
 
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sbrothy said:
What was your seed word?
AUREI, I think
Annoyingly, the fact that I played wordle with no signal (after the initial page load) means my game got erased.... grr....

Even worse: no signal = no phone coding :(((
 
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As you can see I tried LEAST with some success. I looked at the start words other people used on wordlebot.
 
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  • #7,361
Just analyzed playing the game when the 'past tense' words start flooding.
I suspect I will have very few rotating seed words in the future.
#1 is CREPT
 
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OmCheeto said:
Just analyzed playing the game when the 'past tense' words start flooding.
I suspect I will have very few rotating seed words in the future.
#1 is CREPT
Weird one actually....
 
  • #7,363
Wordle 1,500 3/6

🟩⬛⬛🟨⬛ STEAL 29
🟩⬛🟨⬛⬛ SWAMP 5 left. Orodruin method
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 1 of 3 perfect guesses. Picked by RNG

A bit of a rough one today. I was VERY lucky with my seed, and the final random pick.
The global mean was 4.898
5.4% of global players failed to solve the puzzle.

sbrothy said:
Weird one actually....
I agree. But those are the most numerous letters in the list below.
I'm curious how people are going to play in hard mode when faced with so many choices of the '_A_ED' pattern:

oared, rated, pared, sated, tased, cared, raced, bared, raged, paled, taped, raked, cased, laced, fared, lamed, mated, tamed, based, raved, baled, caned, bated, hated, gated, named, razed, caped, paced, bayed, fated, sawed, naked, saved, gaped, laved, paged, caged, waned, lazed, gamed, taxed, caked, pawed, faced, cawed, paved, vaped, famed, baked, caved, waged, japed, faked, waked, maxed, hazed, gazed, waved, eared, fazed, faxed, waxed, jawed, eased, dared, dated, faded, waded, dazed, jaded

Only 3 letters of the alphabet are not in the list: I, Q, & U

I'm also curious how the NYT is going to release these buggers.
 
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Aah...

Wordle 1,500 X/6

🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ AUREI
⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨 MOATS
⬜🟩⬜🟨🟩 PALSY
⬜🟩🟨⬜🟩 DASHY
🟩🟩⬜⬜🟩 SAGGY
🟩🟩⬜⬜🟩 SASSY

I somewhat feel like blaming it on the fact that I'm Gen Z (Gen alpha by some sources but I don't want to be Gen Alpha haha so we will believe the sources that say 2011 is Gen Z) and therefore the word sassy comes to mind before savvy which isn't really used by our generation but then there are so many wordle words that we never use so that's not really an excuse is it
 
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Yeh Well SAVVY I was not. Picture follows when I’ve set up Pauline (my Linux box). SAPPY and SAUGRY it was not though.

And I even tried to cheat. :H

Screenshot from 2025-07-28 19-37-23.webp
 
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Wordle 1,500 4/6

⬜🟩⬜🟨⬜
⬜🟩🟨⬜⬜
🟩🟩⬜⬜🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
 
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OmCheeto said:
Wordle 1,500 3/6

🟩⬛⬛🟨⬛ STEAL 29
🟩⬛🟨⬛⬛ SWAMP 5 left. Orodruin method
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 1 of 3 perfect guesses. Picked by RNG

A bit of a rough one today. I was VERY lucky with my seed, and the final random pick.
The global mean was 4.898
5.4% of global players failed to solve the puzzle.


I agree. But those are the most numerous letters in the list below.
I'm curious how people are going to play in hard mode when faced with so many choices of the '_A_ED' pattern:

oared, rated, pared, sated, tased, cared, raced, bared, raged, paled, taped, raked, cased, laced, fared, lamed, mated, tamed, based, raved, baled, caned, bated, hated, gated, named, razed, caped, paced, bayed, fated, sawed, naked, saved, gaped, laved, paged, caged, waned, lazed, gamed, taxed, caked, pawed, faced, cawed, paved, vaped, famed, baked, caved, waged, japed, faked, waked, maxed, hazed, gazed, waved, eared, fazed, faxed, waxed, jawed, eased, dared, dated, faded, waded, dazed, jaded

Only 3 letters of the alphabet are not in the list: I, Q, & U

I'm also curious how the NYT is going to release these buggers.

Hmm. Good point. Maybe I should rethink my seed…
 
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Wordle 1,501 2/6

⬛⬛🟩🟨⬛ 1 left!
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Yay! I love getting it in 2.
 
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  • #7,369
Wordle 1,501 4/6

⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨
⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜
🟩⬜🟩🟨⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
 
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Wordle 1,501 4/6

🟨⬜⬜🟨⬜AUREI
⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜
🟨🟨⬜⬜🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I sat there for like 15 minutes trying to figure out what guess #4 could be...
 
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  • #7,371
TensorCalculus said:
Wordle 1,501 4/6

🟨⬜⬜🟨⬜AUREI
⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜
🟨🟨⬜⬜🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I sat there for like 15 minutes trying to figure out what guess #4 could be...
This is probably the primary reason I switched to augmented mode. Staring at the patterns for what seemed like forever with nothing clicking in my brain seemed like a waste of time. Someone mentioned 'crossword puzzles' a while back, and I'm pretty sure I had never once in my life completed one. I had a buddy that actually published books filled with nothing but crossword puzzles that he himself created. Unfortunately he passed away before Wordle existed. He would have been a formidable opponent.


Here's a display of a few histories of players compared to global players.
You can see that I played unaugmented for my first 200 games.
Jack Action played about 75 games that way.
Orodruin showed up in augmented mode. And after about 200 games, it appears he perfected his game, leaving Jack and I in the dust.
Some of the difference may be due to him playing the single best seed word, while I rotate through an ever changing list of about two dozen lesser quality words. But that's ok. Science is about experimenting.
PF Wordle Augments vs Global  2025-07-29 at 14.16.57.webp
 
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  • #7,372
Wordle 1,502 2/6

🟩⬛⬛🟨⬛ AROSE 3 left
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Not again. It takes all the fun out of the game when it's over so fast.
 
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  • #7,373
Wordle 1,502 3/6

⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜
🟩⬜🟨🟨🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
 
  • #7,374
OmCheeto said:
This is probably the primary reason I switched to augmented mode. Staring at the patterns for what seemed like forever with nothing clicking in my brain seemed like a waste of time. Someone mentioned 'crossword puzzles' a while back, and I'm pretty sure I had never once in my life completed one. I had a buddy that actually published books filled with nothing but crossword puzzles that he himself created. Unfortunately he passed away before Wordle existed. He would have been a formidable opponent.
Augmented mode? (Agreed that it feels a bit like a waste of time sometimes: when you're going round and round in circles... not able to think of the word...)
I love crosswords: what are the names of the books?
OmCheeto said:
Here's a display of a few histories of players compared to global players.
You can see that I played unaugmented for my first 200 games.
Jack Action played about 75 games that way.
Orodruin showed up in augmented mode. And after about 200 games, it appears he perfected his game, leaving Jack and I in the dust.
Some of the difference may be due to him playing the single best seed word, while I rotate through an ever changing list of about two dozen lesser quality words. But that's ok. Science is about experimenting.
PF Wordle Augments vs Global  2025-07-29 at 14.16.57.webp
Awesome graph!
I usually use the same seed word like Orodruin and then once every now and then throw in a different seed, just for fun. As you say, science is about experimenting :D.

Today was another "I've never heard of this word in my life"
Wordle 1,502 4/6*

⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜DREAM
🟨⬜⬜🟩⬜SHOAL
🟨🟨⬜🟩🟩SATAY
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩ASSAY
 
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Wordle 1,503 3/6

⬛🟨⬛⬛🟨 AIDER 27 left
⬛🟨⬛⬛⬛ CLOTS 2 left. Orod/Om hybrid method
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 RNG & jack action hybrid method
 
  • #7,376
Been busy lately. Also, I’ve not been so lucky lately either:

Wordle 1.503 X/6*

⬛⬛🟨⬛🟨
⬛🟩🟩⬛⬛
⬛🟩🟩⬛⬛
⬛🟩🟩⬛⬛
⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩
⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩
 
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  • #7,377
Wordle 1,503 5/6*

⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜MEANS
⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜PILOT
🟨⬜⬜🟨⬜LUCID
⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩GRILL
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩FRILL
 
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Good grief Charlie Brown.

Wordle 1,503 6/6

⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜
⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜
🟨🟨⬜⬜⬜
🟨⬜🟨🟨⬜
⬜🟩🟩⬜⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
 
  • #7,379
dwarde said:
Good grief Charlie Brown.

Wordle 1,503 6/6

⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜
⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜
🟨🟨⬜⬜⬜
🟨⬜🟨🟨⬜
⬜🟩🟩⬜⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Apologies for laughing, but it reminded me of Pachinko.
Hmmm.... Haven't played that in 4.5 decades: 1980, Honolulu
Quite the silly game, IMHO.
 
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Wordle 1,504 4/6*

🟨⬛⬛⬛🟩
⬛🟩⬛⬛🟩
⬛🟩⬛⬛🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Third guess was a little.. tongue-in-cheek.

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  • #7,381
Wordle 1,504 3/6

⬛🟩⬛⬛⬛ LATER 45
⬛⬛🟨🟨⬛ SPANG 8 left. Engaged my brain for this one
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Orodruin method
 
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guess #3 really helped me out here

Wordle 1,504 4/6*

🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜AUREI
⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜PLATY
🟨🟩⬜⬜🟩NACHO
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩BANJO
 
  • #7,383
Wordle 1,504 5/6

⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜
⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜
⬜🟩⬜⬜🟩
⬜🟩⬜⬜🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
 
  • #7,384
Close call....

Wordle 1,505 6/6

⬛⬛🟨🟩🟩
⬛🟩⬛🟩🟩
⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩
⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩
⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Screenshot (1).webp
 
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Wordle 1,505 3/6

🟨⬛🟨⬛⬛ ASTER 24 left
⬛🟩⬛🟩🟩 TAINT 2 left. Orodruin method
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
 
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Whoooo

Wordle 1,505 3/6*

⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜ PHONE
⬜⬜🟨🟩🟩 GIANT
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 DAUNT
 
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  • #7,387
Wordle 1,505 4/6

🟨🟩⬜⬜⬜
⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩
⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
 
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  • #7,388
Wordle 1,506 4/6

⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
⬛🟩⬛⬛🟩
⬛🟨⬛🟨🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
 
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Wordle 1.506 4/6*

⬛🟩⬛⬛⬛
⬛🟩⬛⬛⬛
⬛🟩🟨⬛🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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This thing got really ugly. :cool:

Wordle 1,506 6/6

⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
🟨⬜⬜🟨⬜
⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩
⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩
⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
 
  • #7,391
dwarde said:
This thing got really ugly. :cool:

Wordle 1,506 6/6

⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
🟨⬜⬜🟨⬜
⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩
⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩
⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

At least you got it! :smile:
 
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Wordle 1,506 5/6*

⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
🟨⬜🟨⬜⬜
🟨🟨🟨⬜⬜
⬜🟩🟨🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

And some weird guesses today...
Super Short on time so I'll just provide a screenshot for today
Okay nevermind I can't figure out how to make a spoiler not inline
 
  • #7,393
TensorCalculus said:
Wordle 1,506 5/6*

⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
🟨⬜🟨⬜⬜
🟨🟨🟨⬜⬜
⬜🟩🟨🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

And some weird guesses today...
Super Short on time so I'll just provide a screenshot for today
Okay nevermind I can't figure out how to make a spoiler not inline
Inline spoiler ISPOILER. Non-inline spoiler: SPOILER.

:smile:

Compared to what we usually discuss, it's pretty bland. :woot:
 
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Wordle 1,507 3/6

⬛⬛🟨⬛🟩 OARED 2 left!
⬛🟨⬛🟩🟩 grrrrrrr.....
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
 
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Wordle 1.507 4/6*

⬛⬛🟨⬛🟨
⬛🟨🟨⬛⬛
🟩🟩⬛⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

4E3FAF54-8C12-44BC-A287-83DA7C9F66C0.webp
 
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OmCheeto said:
Wordle 1,507 3/6

⬛⬛🟨⬛🟩 OARED 2 left!
⬛🟨⬛🟩🟩 grrrrrrr.....
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

You seem to be on somewhat of a roll overlooking post #7388 where it took you 4 "guesses"! A little out of character for you. :smile:

EDIT: Interesting seed word though: OARED.
 
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sbrothy said:
You seem to be on somewhat of a roll overlooking post #7388 where it took you 4 "guesses"! A little out of character for you. :smile:

Over the last 100 games, I've had the following scores

guesses to complete game#
210
357
433

EDIT: Interesting seed word though: OARED.
Although they haven't kicked in yet, 'OARED' will rank as my #1 seed when they do.
 
  • #7,398
sbrothy said:
Inline spoiler ISPOILER. Non-inline spoiler: SPOILER.

:smile:

Compared to what we usually discuss, it's pretty bland. :woot:
Whoops, that makes sense... thanks for letting me know haha :D

Wordle 1,507 5/6*

⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨AUREI
🟩🟩⬜⬜⬜RISKY
🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜RIGHT
🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜RIGOR
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩RIGID
 
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Wordle 1,507 3/6

⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜
⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
 
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Wordle 1,508 3/6

🟨⬛⬛⬛🟨 OILER 57
🟩⬛⬛⬛🟨 SCANT 1
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
 
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