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[fresh_42]

... or how many variations still exist given some hits.
Wordle 406 5/6

 

[DrGreg]

Wordle 406 4/6

 

[Orodruin]

Why Wordle in Spanish is annoying:

Wordle (ES) #205 X/6






https://wordle.danielfrg.com/

 

[DrGreg]

Why Wordle in Spanish is annoying:

I've never studied Spanish, but I have studied other languages. Is Spanish a language in which a word can have lots of different endings depending on the grammatical context? In English, the only variations are to add an "s" to most nouns, or to add "s", "ed" or "ing" to most verbs. (With a small number of exceptions to the rule.)

 

[fresh_42]

I've never studied Spanish, but I have studied other languages. Is Spanish a language in which a word can have lots of different endings depending on the grammatical context? In English, the only variations are to add an "s" to most nouns, or to add "s", "ed" or "ing" to most verbs. (With a small number of exceptions to the rule.)

Or "y" (fish - fishy, mess - messy) and "ly" (adjective > adverb) to change the grammatical context.

 

[Orodruin]

I've never studied Spanish, but I have studied other languages. Is Spanish a language in which a word can have lots of different endings depending on the grammatical context? In English, the only variations are to add an "s" to most nouns, or to add "s", "ed" or "ing" to most verbs. (With a small number of exceptions to the rule.)

All verbs are conjugated based on person and tempus. The main problem here however is that there the structure of Spanish spelling generally means a five letter word will have two or three vowels. Here I hit all the vowels with the first guess and the combination is such that many many consonant combinations will fit. I should probably guess three consonant combinations rather than trying to fill in the two consonants considering that, but it will still be rather annoying. You cannot start guessing four-consonant words to cover the consonants like you can do in English many times.

 

[DrGreg]

Or "y" (fish - fishy, mess - messy) and "ly" (adjective > adverb) to change the grammatical context.

You're right, I hadn't thought of changing a noun to an adjectve or an adjective to an adverb, I was thinking only of declension and conjugation.

 

[fresh_42]

You're right, I hadn't thought of changing a noun to an adjectve or an adjective to an adverb, I was thinking only of declension and conjugation.

Russian has eight or nine cases, Latin had six IIRC, Hungary concatenate words, some languages (forgotten which) conjugate by prefixes, etc. There are really many different versions of declination and conjugation. German has four declination cases which are mainly built by endings, plus three genders, also determined by the ending, and the tempi are more or less built as in English with two major cases of past perfect (weakly, resp. strongly declined). It is a mess when you look at it. No wonder English which lacks all of these became lingua franca.

However, I suppose that the Spanish Wordle uses only undeclined and unconjugated forms similar to its English version which (normally?!?) does not use the plural "s" or even the genitive "s".

 

[DrGreg]

Wordle 407 4/6

 

[fresh_42]

Wordle 407 5/6

 

[Wrichik Basu]

Wordle 407 4/6

 

[BWV]

Struggled with this one

Wordle 407 X/6

 

[Orodruin]

Struggled with this one

Wordle 407 X/6

Does the game allow you to use the same word twice or you actually had to come up with six distinct ones?

 

[BWV]

Does the game allow you to use the same word twice or you actually had to come up with six distinct ones?

You can use the same word twice (think there is only one that could give the first row)

 

[OmCheeto]

You can use the same word twice (think there is only one that could give the first row)

My cheat site says there are four words.

ps.

Wordle 407 5/6







zero cheating

 

[Wrichik Basu]

Wordle 408 X/6

 

[fresh_42]

Wordle 408 4/6

 

[Orodruin]

Wordle 408 4/6






Yes, I thought I had a 3/6 and wondered why I was not able to share

Spoiler

I was very happy about it. I am too much of a physicist I guess.

 

[fresh_42]

Wordle 408 4/6






Yes, I thought I had a 3/6 and wondered why I was not able to share

Spoiler

I was very happy about it. I am too much of a physicist I guess.

Not enough energy for asymptotic freedom.

 

[BWV]

My cheat site says there are four words.

View attachment 305175

ps.

Wordle 407 5/6







zero cheating

Only one word without out of place letters

 

[DrGreg]

Wordle 408 4/6

 

[Wrichik Basu]

Wordle 409 5/6

 

[fresh_42]

Wordle 409 4/6

 

[DrGreg]

Wordle 409 6/6

 

[Wrichik Basu]

Wordle 410 3/6

 

[Orodruin]

Well, nothing super special…

Wordle 410 4/6

 

[kuruman]

I am a newbie here having been hooked only a couple of weeks ago. I wish to develop my own strategy for this before I compare with other strategies. I am still in the stage of development, but so far it looks good. In short, I have adopted a process of elimination. It focuses on exclusions from the list of 12972 five-letter words in "hard" mode, i.e. "Any revealed hints must be used in subsequent guesses". I will share my findings once I become convinced that the logic and procedure work. This will require some field-testing.

Wordle 410 3/6*

 

[DrGreg]

Wordle 410 3/6

 

[BWV]

Wordle 410 X/6

 

[fresh_42]

Wordle 410 5/6

 

[Orodruin]

Wordle 410 X/6

I can’t decide whether to admire the artistery or report for obscenity…

 

[Wrichik Basu]

Wordle 411 5/6

 

[DrGreg]

Wordle 411 3/6

 

[kuruman]

Wordle 411 3/6*

 

[DrGreg]

Wordle 412 6/6

 

[fresh_42]

Wordle 412 5/6

 

[kuruman]

Wordle 412 6/6*

 

[pbuk]

Wordle 412 4/6

 

[Orodruin]

Phew

Wordle 412 6/6

 

[kuruman]

Phew

Wordle 412 6/6

You and I share too few attempts at 412.

 

[DrGreg]

Wordle 413 2/6




Never done it in two before! Very lucky with my first word.

 

[fresh_42]

Wordle 413 3/6

 

[Orodruin]

Better than yesterday

Wordle 413 3/6

 

[Borg]

I don't usually get this lucky.

 

[kuruman]

Wordle 413 2/6*




It occurred to me that if one thinks that getting three letters in the correct place after one attempt is a dream come true, one better think again lest this dream turn into a nightmare. Say you get _ R I _ E.

I could think of 20 common words that fit. I have not figured out the shortest path to each of the words and I hope I will not have to.

 

[Borg]

Wordle 413 2/6*




It occurred to me that if one thinks that getting three letters in the correct place after one attempt is a dream come true, one better think again lest this dream turn into a nightmare. Say you get _ R I _ E.

I could think of 20 common words that fit. I have not figured out the shortest path to each of the words and I hope I will not have to.

View attachment 305440

If your next word was a word like paint, it would narrow things down greatly.

 

[kuruman]

If your next word was a word like paint, it would narrow things down greatly.

Yes, that would narrow things down. However, I have decided to set the appropriate switch to "hard" mode which forces the use of any revealed hints in subsequent guesses. My decision was based mostly on philosophical reasons. You might think I'm silly, but if one views entering a word as a working hypothesis of what the target word could be, then that hypothesis better fit the facts that are already known. It goes against my grain to propose a hypothesis that I know a priori as incorrect. The Edisonian approach is viable in Wordle because there is a limited amount of solutions. I am trying to see how far the scientific approach can take me.

 

[Orodruin]

You might think I'm silly, but if one views entering a word as a working hypothesis of what the target word could be, then that hypothesis better fit the facts that are already known. It goes against my grain to propose a hypothesis that I know a priori as incorrect. The Edisonian approach is viable in Wordle because there is a limited amount of solutions. I am trying to see how far the scientific approach can take me.

Ah, but the aim is not to guess the correct word immediately but to gain information. As such it is not necessarily about making the guess you think may be correct but the guess that you think will give you the most information.

 

[Wrichik Basu]

Wordle 413 6/6

 

[kuruman]

Ah, but the aim is not to guess the correct word immediately but to gain information. As such it is not necessarily about making the guess you think may be correct but the guess that you think will give you the most information.

My decision is based on philosophical belief. I cannot propose a hypothesis for how things are when I am certain that it does not fit the already known observations. If one acted this way as a professional scientist, it would be catastrophic to one's reputation and career. Maybe it's just me, but I don't see why I should alter my methodology when I amuse myself with puzzles. Besides, I am not convinced (yet) that not using a known but misplaced letter in the next guess provides more information than using it but in a different position. That's something that I hope to settle.