# anti-Wordle
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-wordle/959438
**Category:** The Game Room
**Created:** [February 14, 2022, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-wordle/959438 "2022-02-14T07:27:12Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)
#### Post date: [February 15, 2022, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-wordle/959438/101 "2022-02-15T13:34:03Z")
Haha! I lol’d.
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### Author:  [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)
#### Post date: [February 15, 2022, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-wordle/959438/102 "2022-02-15T14:19:11Z")
> [@steronz](#):
>
> I’ll average it out to four.
You’re so mean!
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### Author:  [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)
#### Post date: [February 15, 2022, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-wordle/959438/103 "2022-02-15T14:23:33Z")
Damn I don’t want to ruin the math but it puts it closer to my average of 5.
I’m guessing. I clear out cookies fairly regularly so I don’t have my stats.
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### Author:  [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)
#### Post date: [February 15, 2022, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-wordle/959438/104 "2022-02-15T21:30:20Z")
I, too, read “righteous indignation”. I don’t call things I find casually amusing “a scam”.
Anyway, I’ve been enjoying wordle. I distinguish between hard words (that I have to think a long time to come up with) and easy words (that I get fairly quickly). I’m not sure the hard words take me more (or fewer) guesses than the easy ones, honestly. I was very good at mastermind as a kid, and find this harder, mostly because I often can’t think of valid words with the characteristics I want. (I don’t play hard mode, characteristics I want are often things like “use at least 2 new letter”.)
I also enjoy playing “Settlers of Catan” on my phone, even though that is mostly luck.
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### Author:  [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)
#### Post date: [February 15, 2022, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-wordle/959438/105 "2022-02-15T21:32:06Z")
Wordle Unlimited 3/6
🟩⬜⬜🟨🟩
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Think you can do better? Try the same puzzle:
[Wordle Unlimited Practice Game | WordPlay](https://www.wordleunlimited.com/?wardle=Y3J5cHQ)
Woot, that was a fun word. Thanks.
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### Author:  [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)
#### Post date: [February 15, 2022, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-wordle/959438/106 "2022-02-15T22:45:13Z")
> [@Roger\_That](#):
>
> I’d like to propose an experiment: try NOT to guess the word of the day. That is see how far you can extend a streak of 5 consecutive gray boxes, meaning zero correct letters guessed. If you do get a green or yellow box, try to keep it to all gray boxes from there on in.
>
> I’m guessing that you will also average a 4 this way.
I took you up on this, and played 12 trials, attempting to get as many grey boxes as possible. So that I could quickly play 12 games, I used the [wordle unlimited](https://www.wordleunlimited.com) site, which lets you play as many games as you want.
In only one of the 12 trials did I manage 100% grey boxes, but I “lost” every trial and averaged nearly 27 grey boxes (out of a perfect score of 30 boxes). To be more precise, I averaged 26.83 grey boxes, 1.92 yellow boxes, and 1.25 green boxes.
In scoring terms, if we assign a value of 2 points for each grey box, 1 point for each yellow box, and 0 points for each green box, a perfect score would be 60 (30 grey boxes x 2 pts each). My average score over 12 trials was 55.58.
I think this pretty conclusively proves that you won’t randomly guess the word in about 4 turns if you are playing “anti wordle.”
Anyway, here are my trials (sorry, I didn’t save the graphics, I just recorded the words).
Trial 1. The word was “still.” 29 grey blocks, 1 yellow, no green.
FREAK
RAKES
FAKER
FAZED
RAZED
RAKED
Trial 2. The word was “peach.” 27 grey blocks, 2 green, 1 yellow.
QUACK
QUILL
KILLS
SILKS
SKILL
LIKES
Trial 3. The word was “loose.” 26 grey blocks, 3 green, 1 yellow.
POOPS
PUPAE
PUPPY
PAPPY
PUFFY
HUFFY
Trial 4. The word was “solid.” 24 grey blocks, 5 yellow, 1 green.
BIBLE
BLEBS
Beefy
BEEPS
Freed
Break
Trial 5. The word was “bribe.” 26 grey blocks, 4 yellow, 0 green.
HAZEL
ZARFS
LEAFS
SLEET
STOPS
SPOTS
Trial 6. The word was HOTEL. 25 grey, 3 yellow, 2 green.
PHONO
PONDS
SPANK
CLAPS
RANKS
HANKS
Trial 7. The word was TOWEL. 30 grey.
CHIPS
SHIPS
CHICK
HICKS
SICKS
PICKS
Trial 8. The word was BROOK. 29 grey, 1 yellow
Lives
Evils
Veils
Liver
Sieve
Vises
Trial 9. The word was POLLS.27 grey, 3 green
BELCH
HUBBY
BUBBA
HEALS
BEACH
BEECH
Trial 10. The word was SHARE. 27 grey, 2 yellow, 1 green.
LOOPY
POOPS
POLYP
SLOOP
POPPY
PAPPY
Trial 11. The word was MINED. 27 grey, 3 yellow.
CHUNK
QUICK
CACHE
CACAO
QUACK
FLACK
Trial 12. The word was SPRAY. 25 grey, 3 green, 2 yellow.
COLOR
CACAO
COOLS
LOCAL
WOOLY
CLOCK
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### Author:  [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)
#### Post date: [February 15, 2022, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-wordle/959438/107 "2022-02-15T22:48:45Z")
I mean, yeah, it’s trivial not to guess the word correctly.
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### Author:  [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)
#### Post date: [February 15, 2022, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-wordle/959438/108 "2022-02-15T22:49:26Z")
[Moderating]
I don’t think this thread is serving any purpose any more. In fact, I’m not sure it was ever serving any purpose. If you enjoy playing Wordle, play Wordle. If you don’t enjoy playing it, don’t. In neither case is it a scam.
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### Author:  [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)
#### Post date: [February 15, 2022, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-wordle/959438/109 "2022-02-15T22:49:36Z")
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