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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.

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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.

  • #7,141
sbrothy said:
What list does it use? My cheater program (which I don't use as it's just too much hassle uses the Scrabble CSW (The English version with > 200.000 words, although it of course ignores any word with more or less than 5 letters).

EDIT: Writing the program was more fun than actually using it. I'm also not sure which of all the versions I have lying around actually works: WordleCheater (Sourceforge)
They use an expanding list based on the original list provided by the couple that created the game. The original list was about 2300 solution words drawn from a list of around 13,000 legitimate guess words. While I haven't seen any official count of current solution words, my guesstimate is around 3200. I've only managed to collect 143 of the new words, as the Wordlebot only tells them to me sparingly, and I've not figured out a decent algorithm to numerically extract them.
 
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  • #7,142
Time flies it seems like only yesterday that I got it in two.

Wordle 1,462 2/6

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  • #7,143
Wordle 1,462 4/6

🟨⬛⬛⬛🟩 [ARISE] 15 left
⬛⬛⬛⬛🟨 [GLINT] filter - 2 left: HAUTE OVATE
⬛🟩🟩🟨🟩 [HAUTE] wild guess - 0 left
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 [TAUPE]
 
  • #7,144
Wordle 1,463 3/6

⬛⬛⬛⬛🟩 SNORE 42
⬛⬛⬛🟨🟩 UTILE 4
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 via random number generator. Woo Hoo!
 
  • #7,145
Wordle 1.463 3/6*

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  • #7,146
Wordle 1,463 4/6

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  • #7,147
Wordle 1,463 3/6

🟨⬛⬛⬛🟩 [ARISE] 15 left
🟩🟩⬛⬛⬛ [GLINT] filter - 1 left
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 [GLADE]
 
  • #7,148
Wordle 1,464 3/6

⬛🟨⬛⬛⬛ ARIEL 34
⬛⬛🟨🟨🟨 YOUTH 1
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Never heard of this word.
 
  • #7,149
Not a word I have ever used, but it was in my old 1985 dictionary.

Wordle 1,464 3/6

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  • #7,150
Wordle 1,464 3/6

⬛🟨⬛⬛⬛ [ARISE] 27 left
⬛⬛🟨🟨🟨 [YOUTH] filter - 1 left
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 [THRUM]

OmCheeto said:
Wordle 1,464 3/6

⬛🟨⬛⬛⬛ ARIEL 34
⬛⬛🟨🟨🟨 YOUTH 1
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Never heard of this word.
Almost twins!
 
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  • #7,151
Wordle 1,465 4/6

⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛ SNOUT 57
⬛⬛⬛🟩🟩 EARLY 4
⬛🟨🟩🟩🟩 GODLY 1
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
 
  • #7,152
Wordle 1,465 3/6

⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ [ARISE] 67 left
🟨🟨⬛⬛🟩 [LOUSY] filter - 1 left
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 [ODDLY]
 
  • #7,153
Wordle 1,465 4/6

⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜
⬜🟨⬜⬜🟩
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  • #7,154
Wordle 1,466 4/6

⬛🟨⬛⬛⬛ HEMPY 198
⬛🟩⬛⬛🟨 SLART 2
⬛🟩⬛🟩🟩 FLUTE 1
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
 
  • #7,155
Wordle 1,466 2/6

⬛⬛🟩⬛🟩 [ARISE] 9 left: CHIDE ELIDE ELITE EXILE KNIFE OPINE OVINE UTILE WHITE
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 [ELITE] filter - pure luck!
 
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  • #7,156
Wordle 1,466 4/6

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🟩🟨⬜⬜🟩
🟩⬜⬜🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
 
  • #7,157
Wordle 1,467 4/6

⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ STERN 124
🟩⬛⬛🟨⬛ CLAMP 2
🟩🟩🟩⬛⬛ ARGH! 1
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
 
  • #7,158
Wordle 1,467 4/6

⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ [ARISE] 66 left
⬛🟩⬛⬛🟩 [LOUSY] filter - 10 left: BOBBY COMFY DODGY DOWDY DOWNY MOODY POPPY TODDY WOODY WOOZY
⬛🟩⬛⬛🟩 [DOWDY] filter - 3 left: BOBBY COMFY POPPY - worst possible scenario
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 [COMFY] most probable ... but pretty close to pure luck.

most-probable method count update (Success/Fail): 84/55 - 60.4%/39.6%
 
  • #7,159
I burned through most of the alphabet getting there. :smile:

Wordle 1,467 5/6

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  • #7,160
Wordle 1,468 3/6

🟩🟨⬛⬛🟨 ORATE 2
🟩⬛⬛🟩🟩 ARGH! 1
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
 
  • #7,161
Wordle 1,468 4/6

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🟨⬜⬜🟨🟩
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  • #7,162
Wordle 1,468 3/6

⬛🟨⬛⬛🟨 [ARISE] 26 left
🟩⬛⬛⬛⬛ [OUNDY] filter - 1 left
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 [OFFER]
 
  • #7,163
Wordle 1,469 3/6

⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛ TONER 34
⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩 SLAIN 1
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
 
  • #7,164
Wordle 1,469 4/6

⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜
🟩🟨⬜⬜⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
 
  • #7,165
Used my cheater program but I set it to use regular expressions and I'm not as good at those as I thought, so it didn't really help...

Ended up with this as my last command:

./main -l5 -w./csw.txt '[^chawrtod]{2}ain'

... and still it was a guess.

Wordle 1.469 4/6*

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  • #7,166
Wordle 1,469 3/6

🟨⬛🟨⬛⬛ [ARISE] 8 left: CABIN CACTI CAVIL CLAIM MAFIA MANIC PIZZA PLAIN
⬛🟨🟨🟩⬛ [MANIC] filter - 1 left
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 [PLAIN]
 
  • #7,167
Wordle 1,470 3/6

⬛🟨🟨⬛⬛ ASTER 24
🟨⬛🟩⬛🟨 POULT 1
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
 
  • #7,168
No cheating. Didn't get that far.

Wordle 1.470 3/6*

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  • #7,169
sbrothy said:
Used my cheater program but I set it to use regular expressions and I'm not as good at those as I thought, so it didn't really help...

Ended up with this as my last command:

./main -l5 -w./csw.txt '[^chawrtod]{2}ain'

... and still it was a guess.

Wordle 1.469 4/6*

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EDIT:

Had trouble writing a regex which would match if the word contained a specific letter at any position, but came up with this:

./main -l5 -w./csw.txt '.*u{1}.*'

This will match any 5 letter word with U in it. Just have to incorporate an exception for the place I know the letter isn't. As I said, I wasn't as fluent in regular expressions as I initially thought. I'd like to say I'm getting rusty but I think I was never strong in regex's.

EDIT: Was meant to be an edit but pressed POST. Sorry.
 
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  • #7,170
Down to the last try and only one word left. ?:)

Wordle 1,470 6/6

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🟩🟩⬜⬜⬜
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