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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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Wordle 1,350 5/6

⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜🟩⬜⬜🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
 
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gmax137 said:
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
That’s a lot of white!
 
  • #6,513
Orodruin said:
That’s a lot of white!

I think that's the most misses I have ever had. Too bad it wasn't eggs, they're running 6 to 9 USD/dozen here, two to three times what they "should be."

edit: in case you're curious, here's the words

Wordle 1,350 5/6

⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ SLANT
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ GROPE
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ WHICH
⬜🟩⬜⬜🟩 MUDDY
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 FUZZY
 
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Wordle 1,350 5/6

⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜
⬜🟩⬜⬜🟩
🟩🟩⬜⬜🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
 
  • #6,515
Wordle 1 351 4/6

⬛🟨⬛⬛🟨
⬛⬛⬛🟩🟩
⬛🟩⬛🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
 
  • #6,516
Wordle 1,351 5/6

⬛⬛⬛⬛🟨
⬛🟨⬛🟩⬛
⬛🟩⬛🟩🟩
⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
 
  • #6,517
Wordle 1,351 4/6

⬛🟨⬛⬛🟨 [ARISE] 27 left
⬛⬛🟨🟨⬛ [DUROY] filter - 6 left: HOVER MOVER MOWER OFFER ROGER TOWER
⬛🟩⬛🟩🟩 [MOWER] filter - 2 left: HOVER ROGER
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 [HOVER] most probable

most-probable method count update (Success/Fail): 62/33 - 65.3%/34.7%
 
  • #6,518
Wordle 1,351 4/6

⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨
🟨⬜⬜🟨🟩
🟨⬜🟨🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
 
  • #6,519
Wordle 1 352 2/6

⬛⬛🟩⬛🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Pretty nice one. 8 left after seed with DEITY and EYING both being perfect filters. Guaranteed solution in 3 and on top DEITY seemed like one of the more reasonable words left.

Statistics after 30 days of using the spreadsheet:
1: 0
2: 5
3: 15
4: 10
5: 0*
6: 0
X: 0

* I did have a couple of 5s, but those were due to human error so I’m not blaming the sheet for those.

In particular my rate of solutions in 2 has increased dramatically from about 2% to 17% …
 
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  • #6,520
Wordle 1,352 3/6

⬛🟩⬛⬛⬛
🟩🟨⬛🟩⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
 
  • #6,521
Wordle 1.352 4/6*

⬛⬛⬛🟨🟨
⬛🟨🟨⬛⬛
🟩🟩⬛🟨⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Screenshot_20250302-134349.jpg

Been a while....
 
  • #6,522
Wordle 1,352 3/6

⬛⬛🟩⬛🟨 [ARISE] 8 left - DEIGN DEITY EDIFY EKING EVICT EYING PLIED WEIGH
🟨🟨🟩⬛⬛ [EYING] filter - 1 left
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 [DEITY]

My program suggested DYING as a filter so I naturally went with EYING.
 
  • #6,523
jack action said:
Wordle 1,352 3/6

⬛⬛🟩⬛🟨 [ARISE] 8 left - DEIGN DEITY EDIFY EKING EVICT EYING PLIED WEIGH
🟨🟨🟩⬛⬛ [EYING] filter - 1 left
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 [DEITY]

My program suggested DYING as a filter so I naturally went with EYING.
Both EYING and DEITY were perfect filters
 
  • #6,524
Wordle 1,352 4/6

🟨⬜⬜⬜🟨
⬜🟩🟨⬜⬜
🟩🟩⬜⬜🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
 
  • #6,525
Wordle 1,353 4/6

🟨🟨⬛⬛⬛
🟨🟨⬛⬛🟨
🟩🟩🟨🟨🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
 
  • #6,526
Wordle 1,353 4/6

🟨🟨⬛🟨🟨 [ARISE] 5 left - SAFER SANER SHEAR SPEAR SWEAR
🟩🟨⬛🟨🟩 [SAFER] most probable - 3 left: SHEAR SPEAR SWEAR
🟩⬛🟩🟩🟩 [SWEAR] most probable - 2 left
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 [SPEAR] most probable

I could have had it with a guaranteed 4 with a proper filter as a 2nd guess (I would have got it in 3), but decided to try the most-probable technique. Meh.

most-probable method count update (Success/Fail): 63/35 - 64.3%/35.7%
 
  • #6,527
Wordle 1 353 2/6

🟨🟨⬛🟨🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Ka-CHING! 😊


jack action said:
but decided to try the most-probable technique
Me too! among the words guaranteeing a solution in 4
 
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  • #6,528
Orodruin said:
Wordle 1 353 2/6

🟨🟨⬛🟨🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Ka-CHING! 😊



Me too! among the words guaranteeing a solution in 4
Ok. Just DM me your bank deposit account number and I'll transfer whatever you request to take a look at your spreadsheet. I may not understand higher level mathspeaks, but I can decipher spreadsheetspeak quite well.
 
  • #6,529
My lame seed word finally paid off. :smile:

Wordle 1,353 2/6

⬜🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
 
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OmCheeto said:
Ok. Just DM me your bank deposit account number and I'll transfer whatever you request to take a look at your spreadsheet. I may not understand higher level mathspeaks, but I can decipher spreadsheetspeak quite well.
I am happy to let anyone have a look. I'll DM you a view-only link. If you want to make changes you can always create a personal copy.
 
  • #6,531
Wordle 1 354 4/6

⬛⬛⬛⬛🟨
⬛🟨⬛⬛⬛
🟨⬛⬛⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Missed the 50/50 in the end. Hard to pick one of them over the other …
 
  • #6,532
Wordle 1,354 4/6

⬛⬛⬛🟨⬛
⬛⬛⬛⬛🟨
⬛⬛🟩🟩🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Orodruin said:
I am happy to let anyone have a look. I'll DM you a view-only link. If you want to make changes you can always create a personal copy.
Thanks! I'll have a look. I pretty much figured out the basics, but I have to create a new spreadsheet for word lists of different sizes. So far I'm only up to 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, and 14. Just curious how big your lists can get.
 
  • #6,533
Wordle 1,354 4/6

⬛⬛⬛⬛🟨 [ARISE] 55 left
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ [NOBLY] filter - 5 left: CHECK FETCH TEETH THEFT TWEET
⬛🟨⬛🟩🟨 [FETCH] filter + possible answer - 1 left
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 [CHECK]
 
  • #6,534
Wordle 1,354 4/6

⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜⬜🟩🟩🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
 
  • #6,535
Wordle 1 355 3/6

⬛🟨⬛🟨⬛
🟩⬛⬛🟨⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
 
  • #6,536
Wordle 1,355 3/6

🟩⬛⬛⬛🟨
🟩⬛⬛🟨⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

@Orodruin , I haven't completed the translation of your spreadsheet yet. Lots of boogers with a locked spreadsheet. I can't seem to gain access to what a appears to be some type of subroutine:

WORDLEMATCH(B$1,$A2)

Just completed making a copy for myself, so I may try and find it in the morning.
 
  • #6,537
OmCheeto said:
I can't seem to gain access to what a appears to be some type of subroutine:

WORDLEMATCH(B$1,$A2)
That is a scripted function I wrote on the side. In essence, it returns the number of the pattern for an assumed solution if you make a particular guess (I don’t remember which the order of the arguments is off the top of my head).
 
  • #6,538
Wordle 1,355 3/6

⬛🟨⬛🟨⬛ [ARISE] 11 left
⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛ [POUTY] filter - 1 left
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 [SCRUM]
 
  • #6,539
Orodruin said:
That is a scripted function I wrote on the side. In essence, it returns the number of the pattern for an assumed solution if you make a particular guess (I don’t remember which the order of the arguments is off the top of my head).
What's really odd is that while my copy is editable and claims; "Unknown Function: 'WORDLEMATCH'."

Screenshot 2025-03-05 at 07.45.21.png


The function is obviously working, as it's giving me legitimate values.
This is an analysis of game # 1,345 from 10 days ago.

OLD Wordle 1,345 4/6

⬛⬛🟨🟨🟨 SPORE 14(36) (53 WB)
⬛🟨⬛🟨🟩 DECOR 9(22) (27 WB)
⬛🟨⬛🟨⬛ FOWTH 1(2) (2 WB)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 OTTER

Interesting that my second guess was the worst choice!
Obviously I was still using my old method.
But it's definitely going to take me at least a month to decipher the 'black box' of WORDLEMATCH.
I've mimicked it quite well with the exception of how to deal with double letters like in 'OTTER'.


WordE(S)EER2^E(s)
TOWER6.7550.681.60
MOVER8.7550.881.83
MOWER8.7550.881.83
OTTER10.0001.002.00
HOVER11.5101.152.22
ODDER13.6101.362.57
ROGER14.7551.482.78
TENOR15.5101.552.93
OFFER15.6101.562.95
DECOR19.6511.973.90
 
  • #6,540
OmCheeto said:
This is an analysis of game # 1,345 from 10 days ago.
If you analyse old games you should remove the words that were not yet used back then from the used words tab.


OmCheeto said:
Obviously I was still using my old method.
But it's definitely going to take me at least a month to decipher the 'black box' of WORDLEMATCH.
I've mimicked it quite well with the exception of how to deal with double letters like in 'OTTER'.
It works rather straightforwardly.

First it checks every position of the guess if that letter is correct and correctly placed. If so, that position is assigned the number 2 to identify green. It replaces the position in the target string with a zero so it will not give hits in the following.

Then it checks all remaining letters of the guess if that letter exists anywhere in the target string and if so assigns a 1 for ”yellow”.

All positions without hits are assigned 0 for ”gray”.

I then convert the value of the resulting string of 0, 1, 2s (or actually, its reverse) from trinary to decimal representation, getting a number between 0 and 242 that uniquely identifies the pattern.

For example, guessing STINK if the solution is SNUCK would be the pattern 🟩⬛⬛🟨🟩, which the function would write down as the trinary 21002. Converting to decimal would be ##2\cdot 3^4 + 1\cdot 3^3 + 2 \cdot 3^0 = 2\cdot 81 + 27 + 2 = 162 + 27 + 2 = 191##. This is the number that I use to uniquely identify that pattern.
 
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