@Robot_Arm I decided to just play tomorrow’s Wordle game…I was too curious.
SPOILER WARNING FOR WORDLE #862 (Sunday, 10/29/23)
Summary
So it was what I thought it was…it’s not the first time I’ve gotten accidentally spoiled, so no biggie. I just played the game like I usually do, and I had two possible answers after my two start words - I didn’t know what I’d have gone with had I not known the answer, so I just flipped a coin. It landed on the wrong word - lol, so I got it in 4 guesses. I’m not going to post it up on the Wordle thread, but at least my stats will remain intact by going ahead and playing it.
I play the same three words starting words in quordle every night, RATED, PHONY, MUSIC. I start wordle with RATED, but that usually gets me at least one hit, so I’ll pick my second word to use the info I have.
A few weeks ago, I played wordle and RATED got no hits. I was about to play PHONY, and I thought MUSIC would make a better second guess because it has two vowels. That turned out to be the answer. I thought it was very odd to go from 0 hits to the correct answer. I posted about that upthread.
I played today and RATED had no hits. I thought it probably wouldn’t be MUSIC again so soon, so I guessed PHONY. That turned out to be correct. It was the same unlikely score line I had just posted about, so I posted that result here. I was a little worried about spoilers, but it was too interesting to pass up.
So yes, I don’t always use the same two starting words in wordle that I do in quordle. In fact, this is the only time I’ve ever used RATED and PHONY as my first two guesses in wordle.
I am sorry about the spoiler. I’m reasonably certain it won’t happen again.
Now that I think about it, if RATED is ever correct, and I get the answer in one guess, how do I brag about that without spoiling that game for everybody?
This went better than I was expecting. Solving Scale on guess 2 meant I needed a new word to check letters, so I went with Robin. It helped a little, but not enough. I then was going to go with my usual Dumpy, but I really wanted to check the H due to seeing some possible words with that in it, so Humpy would do the trick - lol, and that helped! The last word (#4) took me a little bit though…all I could see was Unfix and Undid - I didn’t like either of them, but glad I chose the right one!
@chiliwillybing Thanks…I was just trying to place the O and also check more common letters, so it was a happy surprise, as 2’s usually are - lol.
I think I’m going to look at it as having a super power with being able to guess wrong almost every time on a 50/50, because this is a very cool skill I seem to have.
I don’t think you need to worry about that…Wordle never uses past tense ED words - that is unless they decide to start including them, but I’m not sure if they ever will. There actually are a few people in the Wordle thread that always go with the same start words, and it really is impossible to avoid the possibility of spoiling others if they get a 1 or 2. However, most that are posting in there don’t see the next day people, as they are playing early enough to avoid that. I’m one of the few that comes in there last, and as I’ve mentioned, I just avoid looking at those last few posts.
If you wanted to say something to us in here about your Wordle game, you could maybe just post text only and spoiler it with a warning it’s for whatever day and game number it is for.
What happened those two times you got a 2 is pretty interesting though! What are the chances?
Yes, please be careful, my wordle was spoiled this morning because I usually look at @SeaSun’s quordles from yesterday before doing today’s puzzles.
It would probably be best to just keep the wordle puzzles in the wordle thread only to avoid such issues. We participate in both threads so we’ll see everyone’s results there. Congrats on the 2.
Gotcha, I’m the exact opposite and only focus on how well I do on the puzzles from day to day and don’t care at all about the winning streak aspect. Different strokes for different folks
It doesn’t? I’ve never noticed any tendencies like that in the words it chooses. I figured it just picked randomly from a list of reasonably common five-letter words. Part of the reason I chose my starting word is to have that D in the last space, to get a good hint for any past tense verbs.
I never would have mentioned it here, except it was exactly the same odd situation I had described a few hours before. Since it’s already happened twice, with both of my second-guess words, it seems unlikely to happen again. But then, I don’t know how often wordle repeats its words.
As for spoilers, I’ve looked at other poster’s guesses in these threads, but I don’t remember them well enough to be spoiled. If anyone here got a 1, in quordle or wordle, I don’t think I’d know what the word was. I’m surprised anyone remembers mine.
Has anyone in this thread, or the wordle thread, gotten a word on the first guess?
RAISE
COUTH
HATER - 3
THREW - 4
BLIMP
AGATE - 6
FELON - 7
I was looking at plate, abate, elate or agate, blimp helped me sort that out and gave me the L for felon
Yes, lots have gotten ones, if you play long enough your starter word will come up sooner or later, unless as @SeaSun pointed out, it’s not a valid wordle word.
I don’t have everyone’s starters memorized and of course some people use different starters each day, but we were just discussing yours. I didn’t remember your first word, but I did remember music and phony So when I went to play wordle I used RAISE - nothing, CLOUT- which gave me the O in the middle, so at that point I already knew it was PHONY
You know, now that you mention it, I don’t think I’ve ever had my opening word come up in wordle, quordle, or sedecordle. Does anyone know if past-tense, -ED verbs are specifically excluded from wordle? Maybe they just haven’t come up. If quordle and sedecordle use the same word list as wordle, that would explain why I’ve never seen my word.
For some reason, this troubles me. I know there are probably lots of really obscure five-letter words that lots of people wouldn’t recognize, and using any of those would make the game very difficult. -ED verbs aren’t exactly obscure, though. I can’t see any good reason to exclude them.
IIRC They can be used as guesses but are not included in the answer list. I believe they do use irregular past tense verbs like built, heard, flown etc.
That’s a good question, I really don’t know, but I just know they never were included in the original Wordle answer list by the person who created the game, and when the NYT bought Wordle (January 2022), they continued with excluding the past tense ED words. Will they ever start using them? No telling…I think they will start repeating words before they add past tense words to the list, maybe. So far, no repeated words have shown up in Wordle, but there still are plenty of valid (as in not obscure) 5-letter words words that have not been used yet.
If you are considering changing your start word, and you wanted to keep the same letters, as well as get a chance to get a 1 at some point, maybe change it to TRADE? I know that hasn’t been an answer yet.
I probably won’t change my starting word. I’m not necessarily interested in getting a 1; I’m trying to have the longest winning streak. RATED has served me pretty well in that regard, and I’m used to it. There are still plenty of words that end in D; TREAD, GREED, etc., so a guess that ends in D can still be useful. And in an odd sense, I don’t want to reverse-engineer the game to increase my odds of winning.
But I am curious (and maybe because of my background in software) why the creator of the game made the implementation choices that he did. You don’t say whether repeated winning words are deliberately excluded, but let’s assume they are. If I were creating this, I don’t think I’d have made the same choice to exclude repeated answers, or to eliminate past-tense verbs. I feel like those things shift the game play away from vocabulary and deduction, and introduce a research and rules lawyering aspect that doesn’t appeal to me as much.
I actually got another 50/50 right (abate vs. agate). I remember Ellis saying that when it’s down to a B or G, it’s usually the G, otherwise, always trust the B*. That was true yesterday with the B and G, and I got it wrong, so today I went for the G.
*The B has proven itself to be rather untrustworthy these days it seems.
@chiliwillybing Blimp is a good sleuth word! Adding that to my list. I had a ton of words for that word, and I feel lucky to have chosen a good one (lemon) to tell me what it was.
River was a lucky guess! I was seeing about 5 words for that one. And the B was trustworthy this time. It was between the B and G again, but I had Brake, Braze, and Grape, so I thought the B would be better to check first. I’m actually not familiar with the term Braze, but I was going through the keyboard letters and wondered if that was a word…turns out it’s a metal soldering term.
For Nomad-Woman, I also had Wagon…we were thinking the same though with Nomad, and I see that my superpowers seem to be rubbing off on you.
RAISE
STRAP - 2
CLOWN
SEIZE - 4
PLUSH - 5
POLAR - 6
For the 2nd word I had s_ i _e and a lot of words it could be, clown eliminated most of them.
Weekly Quordle Challenge 19
RAISE
MOUNT
CRAMP
CHARM - 4
ADAPT - 5
SERIF - 6
BIGLY
JOLLY - 8
Again several possibilities for _o _ _ _ , bigly showed me that it was jolly. Bigly Although I just now realized it could have been lolly too, that would have ticked me off.
