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[sbrothy]

I tend to use crane, pilot, mushy but I do mix it up sometimes just because the same thing every day gets a bit boring :)

We've been through this but the thread is too long to expect a new "combatant" to go through it all. I prefer IRATE (and I know others like that one too), AUREI, and (I think) I've had luck with RADIO.

I'll get better at posting my failures although sometimes I just don't get around to doing Wordle at all.

 

[Beyond3D]

struggled hard at the end

 

[sbrothy]

struggled hard at the end

I hate it when you have the pattern and a ton of words that fit so you get almost heuristical....

EDIT: Much like in this post in fact. Although that one was pretty stupid.

 

[sbrothy]

Oh my god: several thousand lines of C++ to cheat on wordle?! [...]

Hah. I tried to feed LORIS to my program. I'll have to make an exception for when I don't want it to guess from a specified word list but just do a dictionary lookup. Then again maybe I should just resume what I have left of my life. I'll search for it under the nearest box of cables....

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EDIT: Oh SORRY. Thought this one was older. I had the two latest ones confused.

 

[TensorCalculus]

Hah. I tried to feed LORIS to my program. I'll have to make an exception for when I don't want it to guess from a specified word list but just do a dictionary lookup. Then again maybe I should just resume what I have left of my life. I'll search for it under the nearest box of cables....

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THAT IS SO COOL OH MY GOD (genuinely aspire to have the skill to cheat on wordle like that)

Looks like my laptop when I'm trying to do web dev except I don't actually know what I'm doing so I'm typing random commands and installing random things in the hope my website magically deploys at some point

 

[sbrothy]

THAT IS SO COOL OH MY GOD (genuinely aspire to have the skill to cheat on wordle like that)

Looks like my laptop when I'm trying to do web dev except I don't actually know what I'm doing so I'm typing random commands and installing random things in the hope my website magically deploys at some point

I fear you're too easily impressed. It's a mess and totally indicative of way way too much free time and boredom.

EDIT: But I'm certainly flattered that you'd think so.

 

[sbrothy]

[...]
Looks like my laptop when I'm trying to do web dev except I don't actually know what I'm doing so I'm typing random commands and installing random things in the hope my website magically deploys at some point

I tried to set up a web page myself a while ago and was actually astonished at the amount of commerce and tinkering involved. And don't even get me started on upkeep.

I genuinely found "writing" (read: mostly copy/pasting other's code) a PHP application web server was less (and more fun) "work".

 

[TensorCalculus]

I fear you're too easily impressed. It's a mess and totally indicative of way way too much free time and boredom.

EDIT: But I'm certainly flattered that you'd think so.

Or maybe I just don't meet enough nerds who have a lot of time on their hands :)
I fear I'm one of the rare few who "wastes their time" doing things like this just for fun. Though in my case it's more like "huh, what if I applied gauss's magnetism law to a klein bottle embedded in a 4D hyperspace instead of something normal like everyone else in the world? That sounds cool". Is it worth writing thousands of lines of C++ just to cheat on Wordle? Absolutely not. But is it really, really cool? Absolutely yes!!!

I tried to set up a web page myself a while ago and was actually astonished at the amount of commerce and tinkering involved. And don't even get me started on upkeep.

I genuinely found "writing" (read: mostly copy/pasting other's code) a PHP application web server was less (and more fun) "work".

Yes, it is a pain. We ended up settling with Astro as the language (almost the same as HTML) and then using Vercel to deploy the github repo as an app. Bit of a nightmare but we got there in the end :)
Please please please don't ever write a PHP server again that sounds downright painful haha

 

[sbrothy]

Or maybe I just don't meet enough nerds who have a lot of time on their hands :)
I fear I'm one of the rare few who "wastes their time" doing things like this just for fun. Though in my case it's more like "huh, what if I applied gauss's magnetism law to a klein bottle embedded in a 4D hyperspace instead of something normal like everyone else in the world? That sounds cool". Is it worth writing thousands of lines of C++ just to cheat on Wordle? Absolutely not. But is it really, really cool? Absolutely yes!!!

Yes, it is a pain. We ended up settling with Astro as the language (almost the same as HTML) and then using Vercel to deploy the github repo as an app. Bit of a nightmare but we got there in the end :)
Please please please don't ever write a PHP server again that sounds downright painful haha

Hah! Yeah, I'm sure I'm no match for you. I envy both your brilliance and your youth! Take this advice: Stop aging somewhere in the middle of your twenties.

I wont say it's mostly downhill from there, that would be way too cynical; even for me. But one you day you "meet" a "kid" on the internet that just makes you feel old and stupid! Relish it and savor it for as long as you can!

EDIT: Here comes my language "OCD".... It should have been "I envy you your [...]" shouldn't it?

 

[TensorCalculus]

Hah! Yeah, I'm sure I'm no match for you. I envy both your brilliance and your youth! Take this advice: Stop aging somewhere in the middle of your twenties.

I wont say it's mostly downhill from there, that would be way too cynical; even for me. But one you day you "meet" a "kid" on the internet that just makes you feel old and stupid! Relish it and savor it for as long as you can!

Advice taken, that's a good one, I'll cherish it! But don't feel that way: I don't know a line of C++, nor did I learn physics particularly quickly (I've known what I wanted to do since I was... like.. 6? So I've had time to learn things, and spend tons of time applying concepts in the stupidest way possible just because it seems cool :D)!

 

[dwarde]

I had a long visit with my old dictionary.

Wordle 1,490 4/6

 

[sbrothy]

I had a long visit with my old dictionary.

Wordle 1,490 4/6

Doesn't look too bad to me. It is a tricky (or rather esoteric) word this time around.

 

[OmCheeto]

struggled hard at the end

I've had those games.

 

[TensorCalculus]

Got lucky today. Decided to start off with cloud instead today, just to mix things up a bit :D

Wordle 1,491 3/6

Cloud
Showd
Sword

 

[sbrothy]

Voila:

Wordle 1.491 3/6*





EDIT: Got home where I can take screenshots....

Spoiler

 

[OmCheeto]

Wordle 1,491 3/6

RELAY 59
SNOUT 1

 

[dwarde]

Wordle 1,491 4/6

 

[sbrothy]

Wow. Close:

Wordle 1.492 6/6*

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EDIT: Some pretty scatterbrained guesses too.

 

[TensorCalculus]

Not horrible, not amazing either:
Wordle 1,492 5/6

CRANE
PILOT
MUSHY
GLAND
BLANK

 

[OmCheeto]

Wordle 1,492 4/6

SNORE 43 left
AUNTY 7 left
CLANG 1 left. The only Orodruin method perfect guess.

 

[sbrothy]

Not horrible, not amazing either:
Wordle 1,492 5/6

CRANE
PILOT
MUSHY
GLAND
BLANK

My “hard mode” setting (signified by the asterisk in my paste) forbids “fishing expeditions like your guess MUSHY. I’m not sure why I enabled it, but now it’s there…

 

[Beyond3D]

I've had those games.

Must've been so frustrating man.

 

[dwarde]

Wordle 1,492 4/6

 

[TensorCalculus]

My “hard mode” setting (signified by the asterisk in my paste) forbids “fishing expeditions like your guess MUSHY. I’m not sure why I enabled it, but now it’s there…

quick fix: disable it haha
though I want to try hard mode now...

 

[sbrothy]

Hah yeah, I'm not really sure why I've had it on for so long. I've gotten used to it though and admittedly, it saves me from making a really stupid mistake sometimes.

 

[OmCheeto]

Wordle 1,493 4/6

PALER 129
TOUSY 0 left. 9 in full list. 2 left according to Wordlebot.
TINTY 0 left. 4 in full list. 1 left according to Wordlebot.


Another rough one today. I rank it 7th most difficult to solve, with a global mean of 5.269.
8.1% of players did not solve todays game.

 

[sbrothy]

I admit to cheating in the last guess although there were really only 2 available choices left, and for obvious reasons it couldn't be TITTY. Thus only TIZZY remained. But as I'm not completely sure my vocabulary is up to the task I ran wcheat:

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and immediately felt much more secure. So, close call yeah.

Wordle 1,493 6/6*

Spoiler

 

[TensorCalculus]

@sbrothy I tried hard mode and I can confirm that I hate it :D. Unfortunately it is also simultaneously a fun challenge so I shall be keeping it until I'm sick of it .

After guess no.3 I just ended up trying random combinations of letters that seemed like they would make a word until something worked. No idea what it means, but to be honest half the time on wordle I end up having to search up the word afterwards so that's not unusual:

Wordle 1,493 5/6*

ADIEU
PILOT
TIPSY
TINNY
TIZZY

 

[sbrothy]

[...] No idea what it means, but to be honest half the time on wordle I end up having to search up the word afterwards so that's not unusual: [...]

I often end up doing the same thing. One can see there's only one posibility, no matter how nonsensical the word might look and it often ends up being correct but, as you say, one has to look it up afterwards.

It reminds of that Sherlock Holmes quote. You know the one:

"Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth."
---- Arthur Conan Doyle

 

[TensorCalculus]

I often end up doing the same thing. One can see there's only one posibility, no matter how nonsensical the word might look and it often ends up being correct but, as you say, one has to look it up afterwards.

It reminds of that Sherlock Holmes quote. You know the one:

"Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth."
---- Arthur Conan Doyle

exactly!
(I haven't watched sherlock Holmes so I don't know the quote but nice quote)