Feel like a Mastermind - it's Wordle!
Feel like a Mastermind - it's Wordle!
As there seems to be a few of us playing, thought it would be worth starting a thread. Only rule is, no spoilers!
Slightly tricky one today, went against my usual method and spent a couple of turns entering words I knew to be incorrect just to pin down/eliminate a bunch of letters.
Got it turn 4, though.
Slightly tricky one today, went against my usual method and spent a couple of turns entering words I knew to be incorrect just to pin down/eliminate a bunch of letters.
Got it turn 4, though.
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Also, as it occupies a similar place in my brain currently, this is worth checking out while you're waiting for the next Wordle:
https://wikitrivia.tomjwatson.com/
Basically, you have to arrange historical events on a timeline. My solo best is a streak of 13, playing with my mum we managed 17.
There's nothing quite like having your run ended by a sequence of three events in the 1400s within a decade of each other -_-
https://wikitrivia.tomjwatson.com/
Basically, you have to arrange historical events on a timeline. My solo best is a streak of 13, playing with my mum we managed 17.
There's nothing quite like having your run ended by a sequence of three events in the 1400s within a decade of each other -_-
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The timeline game looks like a dangerous timesink! Nice idea though.
I only started Wordle off the back of this forum and I'm enjoying it so far. Got 4 in both games I've played. I'm trying to figure out what the optimal starting word would be, as it would ideally cover the most commonly used letters.
I only started Wordle off the back of this forum and I'm enjoying it so far. Got 4 in both games I've played. I'm trying to figure out what the optimal starting word would be, as it would ideally cover the most commonly used letters.
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Mine is 'alone', reason being it's got the three most common vowels and a couple of common letters.Wrathbone wrote: ↑Mon Jan 24, 2022 8:51 amThe timeline game looks like a dangerous timesink! Nice idea though.
I only started Wordle off the back of this forum and I'm enjoying it so far. Got 4 in both games I've played. I'm trying to figure out what the optimal starting word would be, as it would ideally cover the most commonly used letters.
I have a Youtube channel now! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6kVsr ... Q/featured
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Wordle 219 5/6
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That was a toughie, mainly because I keep misinterpreting the colours, which actually helped today by keeping me stuck on 3 and not using up all my turns. I tried the "colourblind" option, but those colours don't work for me either. Keep my 100% streak though! (9/9)
As for start words, I tend to use 'avert' most often, 'suave' today.
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That was a toughie, mainly because I keep misinterpreting the colours, which actually helped today by keeping me stuck on 3 and not using up all my turns. I tried the "colourblind" option, but those colours don't work for me either. Keep my 100% streak though! (9/9)
As for start words, I tend to use 'avert' most often, 'suave' today.
˙ƃuıʇıɹʍ ʎuıʇ ʎllɐǝɹ uʍop ǝpısdnEverything on the internet is 100% true.
– Abraham Lincoln
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One thing I read about Wordle, which I don't think is a spoiler, is that literally none of the words in its database is a plural, ie ends with an s. Good to know.
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I stared at this morning's sodding wordle for what must have been nearly an hour (on and off, had my laptop open while working on my desktop), and I could not for the life of me get it. What I didn't realise was that if you make an attempt with two of the same letter in, and that letter is present but not in the right place, it'll only highlight one of those two letters in yellow. I thought that meant that the letter was in the word but only once.
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Yeah that threw me today too. Took me all six attempts to get it today because of that oversight.Raid wrote: ↑Mon Jan 24, 2022 2:11 pmI stared at this morning's sodding wordle for what must have been nearly an hour (on and off, had my laptop open while working on my desktop), and I could not for the life of me get it. What I didn't realise was that if you make an attempt with two of the same letter in, and that letter is present but not in the right place, it'll only highlight one of those two letters in yellow. I thought that meant that the letter was in the word but only once.
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They should really point that out in that little instructions link on the page. It's catching a lot of people out I think.
It's a bit of an oversight.
It's a bit of an oversight.
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It treats repeats as another letter, so they are always possible if not guessed already, and it will judge repeats as separate letters, so if your guess has two 'A's, but the solution has only one, it judges the first and grays the second...keeps the puzzle unnecessarily hinted.
If you fancy doing past Wordles, Devang Thakkar has created an archive that includes all of them:
https://www.devangthakkar.com/wordle_archive/
If you fancy doing past Wordles, Devang Thakkar has created an archive that includes all of them:
https://www.devangthakkar.com/wordle_archive/
˙ƃuıʇıɹʍ ʎuıʇ ʎllɐǝɹ uʍop ǝpısdnEverything on the internet is 100% true.
– Abraham Lincoln
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The problem is that if the word is "bless" and you guess "scars", the last S would be marked as green, but the other S would be grey. To me, the second S should be green because it's in the right place, but the first should be yellow because it's still in the word. I don't think that's over-hinting, you've already guessed two letters, they just happen to be the same.
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I agree, that seems very unfair.
˙ƃuıʇıɹʍ ʎuıʇ ʎllɐǝɹ uʍop ǝpısdnEverything on the internet is 100% true.
– Abraham Lincoln
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My first 3 today.
Wordle 220 3/6
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Wordle 220 3/6
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Nice. Got it turn 4, which wasn't bad considering I only had two yellows from my first couple of turns
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