Wordle Lovers - Play the NYT Daily Game

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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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  • 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.

  • #5,221
sbrothy said:
Never really considered BASH simple. Or rather I consider it counterintuitive. I prefer C/C++ or even assembler! But sure, the power of the CLI! Pipe, man, apropos, less, find, regex,awk, sed... Once you feel just a little at home going back to that other OS becomes downright emasculating.
Yes, Bash is kind of weird. But I run multiple servers from home now and I made a lot of scripts to automate processes. It grows on you!
 
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  • #5,222
jack action said:
⬛⬛⬛⬛🟨 [PIOYE] 10 left
can you use that in a sentence? 😛
 
  • #5,223
jack action said:
Yes, Bash is kind of weird. But I run multiple servers from home now and I made a lot of scripts to automate processes. It grows on you!
Indeed. Among other things I've worked as a programmer for Mærsk and a rather unkown (gazelle(?)) company selling medical equipment (such as dictaphones and planning applications) to the Chinese National Health service. The owner of that company got rich really really fast!

I've also implemented a tool database coupled with a barcode scanner coded in embedded C, used Struts on top of some really heavy Windows webapp server. I forget the name (EDIT: WebSphere Application Server!). That was some heavy dancing though (navigating the IBM site with their white- and red-papers was a nightmare I remember). I've set up Microsoft mail server from scratch. I mean from RAIDing the machines and upward. When I was done I was told what Microsoft is payed for doing that. I was shocked and felt a little bit "used". On the other hand some of what you pay for is of course also the subsequent technical assistance. When I left the company they were kinda effed. :biggrin:

I remember trying to print out Mærsk's database on A3 papers and putting them on the wall. I had to give up! That database is a monster! "Talking" with it using PL/SQL was kinda like magic. They used the expression that their systems "ate cobber", because at that time Maersk and the Danish Telecom net couldn't run simultanously!!
 
  • #5,224
Wordle 1,179 4/6

⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨
🟨🟩⬜⬜⬜
🟩🟩🟨⬜⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
 
  • #5,225
Orodruin said:
can you use that in a sentence? 😛
My only other suggestion was YOWIE which is not better! I just thought the P would be more useful than the W.

So I'll try this sentence: A yowie admires pioyes in the night sky.
 
  • #5,226
jack action said:
My only other suggestion was YOWIE which is not better! I just thought the P would be more useful than the W.

So I'll try this sentence: A yowie admires pioyes in the night sky.
Why does this come to mind?
 
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  • #5,227
jack action said:
My only other suggestion was YOWIE which is not better! I just thought the P would be more useful than the W.

So I'll try this sentence: A yowie admires pioyes in the night sky.

I, of course, had to look it (read: both) up. I got more of an OWIE vibe from the first and a kind of fable animal from the second. I don't know what a "flock" of pioyes would be called. A piano? Anyway, your sentence there didn't make much sense at first.
 
  • #5,228
Wordle 1,179 3/6

⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨
🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
 
  • #5,229
Wordle 1 180 2/6

🟨⬜🟨⬜🟩
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  • #5,230
Wordle 1,180 4/6

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⬛🟩🟨⬛🟩
⬛🟩⬛🟩🟩
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  • #5,231
Wordle 1,180 3/6

⬛⬛🟨🟨⬛ [NOISY] 22 left
⬛⬛🟨⬛🟩 [TRAVE] filter - 1 left
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 [AISLE]
 
  • #5,232
Wordle 1,180 2/6

🟦🟦🟦⬜🟧
🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧

A good start for a broken streak because I went on vacation and stayed away from the internet.
 
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  • #5,233
kuruman said:
Wordle 1,180 2/6

🟦🟦🟦⬜🟧
🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧

A good start for a broken streak because I went on vacation and stayed away from the internet.
That opener can't have left much to choose from ... I was left with two possibilities and won the coin flip ...
 
  • #5,234
Orodruin said:
That opener can't have left much to choose from ... I was left with two possibilities and won the coin flip ...
I, too had two options, one of which being FALSE which I thought that the answer couldn't be.
 
  • #5,235
Wordle 1,180 3/6

🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ SHORT
🟨🟩⬜🟨⬜ LIMEY I usually don't play hard mode
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
 
  • #5,236
a total screw up.
Wordle 1,180 4/6

🟩⬜🟨🟨🟩
🟩🟨🟨⬜🟩
🟩⬜🟨🟨🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
 
  • #5,237
Wordle 1 181 5/6

🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜
🟨⬜⬜🟨⬜
⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩
⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Annoying. 4 possibilities left after 2 guesses. 25-50-25 distribution for getting it in 3-4-5 guesses…
 
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  • #5,238
Wordle 1,181 4/6

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  • #5,239
Wordle 1,181 3/6

⬛⬛🟩🟩⬛ [CHASE] 8 left - BLAST BOAST BRASS GRASS QUASI ROAST SPASM TOAST
⬛⬛🟨🟨⬛ [TURBO] filter - 1 left
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 [BRASS]
 
  • #5,240
Wordle 1,181 4/6

🟦⬜🟧⬜⬜
⬜⬜🟧🟧⬜
⬜🟧🟧🟧🟧
🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧
 
  • #5,241
Wordle 1,181 3/6

🟨⬜⬜🟨⬜ SHIRT
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ LEMON
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 BRASS
 
  • #5,242
Wordle 1,181 3/6

🟨🟩⬜🟩⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
 
  • #5,243
Wordle 1,182 3/6

⬛🟩⬛⬛🟨
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  • #5,244
Wordle 1,182 3/6

🟨🟨⬛🟨🟨 [SHEAR] 2 left: CRASH HARSH
⬛🟨🟨🟩🟩 [CRASH] :mad:
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 [HARSH]
 
  • #5,245
Wordle 1.182 3/6*

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No cheating!
 
  • #5,246
Wordle 1,182 3/6

🟦⬜🟦⬜⬜
🟦🟧🟦⬜⬜
🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧
 
  • #5,247
I was really proud of myself there (even pointing out that I didn’t cheat and all) but you all did it in 3 max so now not so much.
 
  • #5,248
Wordle 1,182 3/6

⬜🟩🟨⬜⬜ TASTY
🟨🟩⬜⬜⬜ SALVO
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 HARSH
 
  • #5,249
Wordle 1,182 2/6

🟨🟨⬜🟩⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
 
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  • #5,250
Wordle 1,183 3/6

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