Wordle Lovers - Play the NYT Daily Game

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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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  • 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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Luck. Pure and sheer luck …
 
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I got excited after the second try and impetuously fell into a degeneracy. It should have been a 4.
 
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Wordle 1,224 4/6

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⬛⬛⬛🟨🟩 [TALON] filter - 4 left: BROWN DROWN FROWN GROWN
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ [DEBUG] filter - 1 left
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The suggested filter for the 3rd guess by my program was GOWFS which was not good enough. Something to work on obviously.

I did not use the most-probable method as the choices were too many and too close to call. If I had used it though, the answer would have been my second choice: 1- GROWN, 2- FROWN, 3- BROWN, 4- DROWN.
 
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jack action said:
1- GROWN, 2- FROWN, 3- BROWN, 4- DROWN
In what world is FROWN more likely to be chosen by a human than BROWN or DROWN?
 
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Orodruin said:
In what world is FROWN more likely to be chosen by a human than BROWN or DROWN?
BROWN can be too scatological and rarely a favorite color, and DROWN is much too sad and negative. GROWN is my #1 choice because it gives a more positive outlook on life.

Remember, this is for a general audience that wants to escape the bad news they've just read. This is my criteria when comparing possible answers. But, like I said, the differences were way too subtle in this selection of words for me to try to guess it.
 
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Been off in the mountains for a few days.

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Wordle 1,225 5/6

⬛⬛⬛🟩🟨 [POLAR] 20 left
⬛⬛🟨🟨⬛ [TSKED] filter - 4 left: BREAK CREAK FREAK WREAK
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ [FINCH] filter - 2 left: BREAK WREAK
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This one was a bust. The most-probable method was not helpful at all. @Orodruin , you can put a notch on the "did not work" column.

As my third guess, I couldn't find a filter word with three of the four letters BCFW. My first choice as the most probable answer was BREAK, and my last choice was WREAK. So I settled to filter C and F, thinking it would be BREAK if none came out.
 
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jack action said:
BROWN can be too scatological and rarely a favorite color, and DROWN is much too sad and negative. GROWN is my #1 choice because it gives a more positive outlook on life.
Yet humans bake and consume without second thought brownies made with brown sugar. See here for mouth-watering recipe.


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kuruman said:
Yet humans bake and consume without second thought brownies made with brown sugar. See here for mouth-watering recipe.


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I guess it is all in the presentation:

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Or:
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Seriously, "least probable" doesn't mean "will never happen". And today was proof of that.
 
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jack action said:
The most-probable method was not helpful at all.
How do you define "most-probable"? After your second try in today's puzzle, you had 4 candidates left. Two of these have been used before and their probability of reappearing is, well, negligible. If you eliminated them before proceeding to your third guess, you would have a 50-50 chance for a 3 and a certainty for a 4.

After my second guess today, I had 10 candidates left which were reduced to 5 by eliminating already used words. One of the 5 was a filter that would allow me to distinguish among all five. I was lucky enough that it was also the answer.
 
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I read through the posts without opening any spoilers. I came away with "least probable" in my mind, and the correct word popped up. o0) :smile: I don't go online and read the hints and I usually go with what I think is "most probable". Then again there is always luck.
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kuruman said:
Two of these have been used before
Dang! My program was supposed to eliminate them!

The website it checks modified its HTML (an ID attribute), and manipulating the resulting text created a silent error that just returned an empty list of already-used words. :mad:
 
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jack action said:
Dang! My program was supposed to eliminate them!

The website it checks modified its HTML (an ID attribute), and manipulating the resulting text created a silent error that just returned an empty list of already-used words. :mad:
I felt more secure doing everything using VBA code within a single spreadsheet which keeps track of all word lists.
 
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Wordle 1,226 3/6

⬛⬛⬛🟨⬛ [CREST] 66 left
⬛🟨⬛🟨🟩 [INLAY] filter - 1 left
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Wordle 1,227 3/6

⬛🟩⬛⬛🟨 [RAPID] 10 left
⬛⬛🟩⬛🟩 [NEWLY] filter- 1 left
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 [BAWDY]

Lucky here. I forgot to use the "ignore past answers" option and ended up with 20 words left with my first guess and I used the suggested filter word which left only one possible answer.

If I had used the suggested filter word with 10 remaining words, I would have used the suggested filter word UNLAY which would have left two possibilities: BAWDY and CADDY. I would have chosen CADDY over BAWDY.
 
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