My first 4 today, after two fives. I switched to hard mode after, though that’s how I’ve been playing anyway.
Question spoilered for very minor hint for today’s puzzle:
I see the question was raised early in the thread, but couldn’t see that it has been answered. And I didn’t check every previous solution posted in this thread, but have there been any words so far with repeated letters?
Yes. Yesterday’s, for starters.
Four guesses for me today. How do people do the little colored box thing in their posts?
Sheesh! I did that one. You’d have thunk I’d remember for 24 hours at least.
I think they just use the share button you get when you solve, and paste what’s then placed on the clipboard. At least that’s how I’ve been doing it on Twitter.
Wordle 202 4/6*
AWOKE
FLUID
PLUSH
SLUMP
4 guesses seems to be a common number for today’s puzzle (1/7/22)
Wordle 202 4/6*
SWEAT
SPOIL
SLURP
SLUMP
Got it in 3 today, with the first guess having no letters matching!
CRAFT
POUND
SLUMP
Wordle 202 5/6*
My superpower appears to be making very unhelpful starting guesses.
I think this is the first time I ever made a guess that had no correct letters, and then my second guess had only two correct letters, and in the wrong places! At that point I thought I might fail the whole puzzle. But then I managed to somehow get it in 4.
Wordle 202 4/6*
RATIO
DUNES
SHUCK
SLUMP
One of my ‘starting’ words is PLUMS. I used that first this morning. Gave me all five letters, three in the proper slots!
So I got it in two guesses!
Tried this for the first time just now. Took me all 6 tries, but got it on the last one. Guess I’ll have to up my game!
One thing the stated rules don’t specify (but I gather is a rule, because it balked when I typed in a non-word) is that each guess has to be an actual word. I guess that keeps one from typing in ‘AEIOU’ as one’s first guess to see what vowels are and aren’t in the word.
The keyboard setup is really helpful, especially showing you which letters you’ve already tried that aren’t in the word, and those that you haven’t yet tried. Made it easier to use my penultimate try to just narrow down the possibilities, so I could get it on the last try.
Jan 7 took me 5 tries:
ARTSY
SOLVE
SLINK
SLUGS
SLUMP
I completely forgot to use that first misplaced letter in the next two tries. Also, my statistics have apparently reset and I wasn’t on hard mode anymore. That’s weird since I haven’t deleted cookies or anything.
Wordle 202 4/6
PLACE
BLOND
SLUSH
SLUMP
First time playing for me; I also had a two-guess win.
Didn’t really play a lot of strategy; my first guess was PATSY. I’d been reading the JFK assassination thread.
I’m not sure why I didn’t try SLEEP next, but for some reason the answer just popped into my head.
Three
ADIEU
STROP
SLUMP
I guessed good!
Wordle 202 3/6
And now the articles about people’s obsessions with Wordle are already starting…
Wordle 202 3/6*
First time playing.
I find this hilarious. As I said above, I made almost exactly the same game as a programming exercise for myself. I just dug up the code. It was using pygame, back in 2009. Had to clean up the code for the current version of Python, but I’m surprised at how similar it is. If I can somehow figure out how to code it for the web, I’ll put it up for you guys to play, but I’m crap at anything but python. (It’s pretty easy to program, though. I mean, if I can do it, somebody here can code it up in an hour or two.) My version uses two word lists > a target word list and an accepted word list. It has green tiles for correct position, correct letter; yellow tiles for incorrect position, correct letter. Letters can be duplicated, and there is no additional feedback for that. Unlimited guesses. Five-letter words. Guess I shoulda coded it up for the app store when I had a chance, eh? 
(I didn’t because it was a copy of a game I had already seen before around that time – I’m not that original.)
I wonder why it hit it big now.
Just one of those “right time” things, I guess.
It’s not the game so much as the social aspect that was the key to success. You can see other people’s progression and compare with your own. Cheating doesn’t matter because then it’s “oh, you had a lucky first guess, good for you” rather than some kind of test of skill.
Also, more than one a day wouldn’t work. That also helps since just about everybody who cares to can get to it within the day and people can share in that.
The game itself is fine but without the ability to share with others (see this thread!), it wouldn’t have been as successful.