I’m not all that familiar with the U.S. school system, but doesn’t everyone who is well educated and reasonably intelligent (barring distractions etc.) get a GPA between about 3.5 and 4.0?
Does this mean your GPA score is also a meaningless scam?
I suggest that the OP relax and take his mind off Wordle. Might I suggest the game show Lingo? Check it out on YouTube, it’d be perfect.
Or golf. A daily player that makes an effort can probably average about 90. The absolute best of the best average about 67; only about a 25% reduction. I guess it’s mostly luck…
I will say this. If someone in my circle was obnoxiously proud of themselves when they got it in 2 or 3, I’d consider that annoying. I tend to think getting it on one or two is luck: by the third guess, you’ve tested at least one hypothesis and are building on it. But even then, I’m quite aware luck is involved.
Two threads shitting on Wordle feels more like displayed annoyance at some particular type of Wordle players.
My graduate school program was certainly that way. They considered any grade below B as flunking the course, since they were supposedly educating professionals who would possess demonstrated mastery of the required subjects. If you scored a B-minus or under, you had to take the course again. That didn’t happen a lot, as the admission process was sufficiently rigorous that they only accepted people capable of the work.
When it did happen, you took the course again and presumably got the proper grade on the second try. Or dropped out of the program, I suppose, although that didn’t happen to anyone in my class.
So yeah, we all did graduate with GPAs in a narrow range between 3 and 4.
And I’m guessing that 3.7 won’t get you into the top colleges, barring extenuating circumstances, even though that’s “only” 0.3 off the possible maximum?
Sort of, yeah, now that you mention it. (But watch out you don’t mention this idea in another thread or you might get diagnosed as having a deep-seated psychological maladjustment about GPAs.) Some professors in the university I just retired from would give out all A grades to all their students on the philosophy of “Who am I to pass judgment?” which I personally thought was a kind of scam intended to boost their Rate-Your-Professor ratings and, institutionally, it was winked at, I suspect, as a “keep-the-tuition-money-rolling-in” species of scam.
There’s far less at stake with Wordle but I think the same principle applies: the game is designed to make people feel good about themselves and indirectly about Wordle. I don’t think anyone is being harmed, but I think they are being mildly deceived. And rather than feeling aggrieved, I’d describe my take as being “amused.” A lot of my friends are posting their Wordle scores first thing in the morning and displaying a lot of emotion about how they did, which I find funny.
Ah yes, you are correct. The one with the higher percentage that’s appeared most often.
But, regardless, that’s pretty impressive. I suspect the mode will shift to 4 over the next as many games, but the computer has shown that it is possible with optimal play to maintain that in the long run.
Tricky, tricky! In my defense, I’m really stoned after a long day and after the second guess I completely forgot there was a T in it.
Wordle Unlimited 5/6
STARE
TRUCK
CRIMP
CROPS
CRYPT
Think you can do better? Try the same puzzle:
Wordle Unlimited Practice Game | <!-- -->WordPlay
There was not some secret plot behind the page. It was designed by a guy named Josh Wardle. His reasons for designing it are easily found on the internet. He made the game so he could have fun with his girlfriend. If you don’t have fun then maybe you should just walk away?
You know what are terrible scams? Jigsaw puzzles. People eventually solve them. What’s the point?
That I find it funny how elated (or dejected) my friends are by solving it in 2 moves (or five moves) every morning?
Sorry to be upsetting you so much by my amusement. If you can’t watch someone enjoying himself, then maybe you should just walk away?
Maybe you should listen to this.
I listen to myself a lot. Maybe you should stop suggesting what other people should do?
Isn’t that what you did?
You seem to get righteously indignant about how people play a silly game, and righteously indignant when other people have the same reaction to you.
What part of “amused by” are you mistaking for “righteously indignant”?
Your OP and participation in this thread did not come across to me as amused. It reads as righteously indignant to me. So that’s two people.
Definite tones of righteous indignation. These people “beaming with pride” and “moaning about how they did” because of the “serious scamming going on” in this game of “all luck, pure luck.”
You take the position of an enlightened observer, shaking his head about these fools who are deluding themselves into thinking they’re playing a game of skill.
Which is why this is good advice:
Count me in as a third.
I’ll average it out to four.