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Discussion Overview

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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  • Debate/contested
  • 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 1,143 3/6

⬛🟨⬛🟩⬛ [LEMUR] 4 left: ENSUE FUGUE ISSUE VOGUE
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First time I have had an issue with my program. The suggested filters were VEGOS and VLOGS, obviously looking for words with the letters GOSV. Both of them would have never filtered properly. I may have to revise the method to define the best filter word.

Human intervention saved the day again.
 
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Sorry. I've had other stuff going on recently...
 
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Wordle 1,144 3/6

⬛⬛🟨🟨⬛ [STILT] 30 left
⬛⬛🟨🟨⬛ [DRAVE] filter - 2 left: ANVIL CAVIL
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Wordle 1,144 5/6

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Wordle 1,145 5/6

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I think the first three lines are a new record.
 
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Wordle 1 145 4/6

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Wordle 1,145 3/6

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Guessing this was 99% luck as the global average was 4.6 today.
 
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Wordle 1,145 3/6

⬛🟩⬛⬛⬛ [LATER] 32 left - suggested filter: HYMNS MYNAS
⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛ [HYMNS] filter - 2 left: MACAW MAFIA
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Weird one. I feel like I cheated, yet I would most likely have got the same result if I didn't.

I saw the results of @fresh_42 and @Orodruin last night (for me). I noticed the first guess with few valid letters. I immediately thought there would be some rare letters in this word. Cannot unsee that.

I still tried to use a starter word that I would've picked anyway. For my 2nd guess, I was slightly attracted to MYNAS, but the H looked like a least occurring letter, so I went for it, influenced by what I knew. When stuck with the 2 words left, I knew the W was the letter I was looking for and chose that word. Without that previous knowledge, I would have gone for MAFIA and gotten it in 4.

The weird thing is if I followed my instinct and chose MYNAS, MACAW was the only possibility, and I would still have gotten it in 3.
 
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fresh_42 said:
I think the first three lines are a new record.
I feel ya!

OmCheeto said:
Guessing this was 99% luck as the global average was 4.6 today.
I was glad to get it in six!
jack action said:
I saw the results of @fresh_42 and @Orodruin last night (for me). I noticed the first guess with few valid letters. I immediately thought there would be some rare letters in this word. Cannot unsee that.
I really try not to look at this thread in the evening. I don't want any hints.
 
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gmax137 said:
I don't want any hints.
And I personally dislike "x possibilities left" comments. I don't want to know who is cheating.
 
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fresh_42 said:
I don't want to know who is cheating.
This is a single player game and we all play according to what makes it fun for us individually. Calling people cheaters because keeping track makes them enjoy the game more is a bit slanderous in my opinion.

If you do not want to do it personally that is one thing, but imposing those rules on others is not fair.
 
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This would have been a 1 if I had not changed my regular seeds like 100 games ago … 😭
 
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Orodruin said:
This is a single player game and we all play according to what makes it fun for us individually. Calling people cheaters because keeping track makes them enjoy the game more is a bit slanderous in my opinion.

If you do not want to do it personally that is one thing, but imposing those rules on others is not fair.
It is programming and a different version of the game in my opinion. The comment of "x possibilities left" translates to me as who has the better oracle tape for his TM. The word cheating in this context referred to improving probabilities by checking against external lists and was likely offensive, sorry. I'm cheating myself by looking up used solutions because I don't possess an eidetic memory and dictionaries to compensate for my lack of vocabulary - I'm happy that I remember the German word for a macaw. I expressed a personal opinion, that I don't like to be reminded of the fact that we all play to different rules. Everybody is free to have a different opinion and of course, can do whatever they want.

Sorry for this sloppy comment and for using the word cheat (December 02, 2021) instead of this longer explanation.

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