"Wordle," a strangely compelling word game (Part 1)

[GuanoLad]

Yes, the “one puzzle a day and it’s the same answer for everyone” makes it more like the sudoku or crossword published in newspapers, giving it competitive or comparison appeal.

[Johnny_Bravo]

Wordle 203 3/6*

Very lucky second guess.

[DMC]

Barely got it.

Wordle 203 6/6*

ORATE
BRAID
GRAVY
CRAMP
CRAWL
CRANK

[Bullitt]

I got it in 6 today, but guesses # 3, 4, 5, and 6 all had the first 3 letters all green.

Wordle 203 6/6

[Zakalwe]

Lost my streak today. Dammit. I just couldn’t come up with the missing letter:
Wordle 203 X/6*

SWEAR
RATIO
KARMA
QUARK
PRANK
FRANK

bust…

[JohnT]

Nice… fear the power of my symmetrical logic!

Wordle 203 3/6*

[SunUp]

I decided to use the “start today with yesterday’s word” strategy:

SLUMP
TREND
BRONC

and then the solution was easy, as the C had to go in the front and there aren’t a lot of “CRIN” words, so the middle vowel was an A. The second guess was key, as it turned out.

[thorny_locust]

Four, again:

IDEAS
ACORN
CARNY
CRANK

– from the result I had on 3, there wasn’t much of anywhere else to go.

[PB_J]

Does it remind anyone else of the old pencil and paper Hangman game?

[GuanoLad]

Bleargh.

Wordle 203 X/6

[SoToasty]

Wordle 203 4/6*

4 guesses for me today

[pulykamell]

@Great_Antibob

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.

I was thinking about this last night before I went to sleep and that’s exactly the conclusion I came to. The one-game-a-day approach, everybody gets the same word, and the social aspect, after seeing it blow up on my Facebook feed the last few days and in this here Game Room, that itself makes it much more compelling. Because, frankly, the game itself gets pretty damned boring quickly if you have unlimited access to playing as many games as you want.

[Johnny_Bravo]

Rough one for me.

Wordle 204 5/6*

[DMC]

Wordle 204 5/6*

STAIR
RULED
WRECK
FERRY
GORGE

[Maserschmidt]

Wordle 204 5/6

Dang, tough one for me. 5/6.

[pulykamell]

Four.

ADIEU
STROP
FORGE
GORGE

[Ponderoid]

It was a 50-50 shot whether we were gonna get it in three or four today.

Wordle 204 4/6*

STORE
ROUGE
FORGE
GORGE

[Bullitt]

I’m not reading the rest of the thread yet.

I’m simply waiting until midnight to give it another go. So far I am 16 for 16.

2 minutes to midnight…

[Bullitt]

I abandoned my strategy and it cost me. Instead of solving it in 5, I got it in 6.

Wordle 204 6/6

I am 17 for 17.

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[Bullitt]

@pulykamell

I was thinking about this last night before I went to sleep and that’s exactly the conclusion I came to. The one-game-a-day approach, everybody gets the same word, and the social aspect, after seeing it blow up on my Facebook feed the last few days and in this here Game Room, that itself makes it much more compelling. Because, frankly, the game itself gets pretty damned boring quickly if you have unlimited access to playing as many games as you want.

Fortunately it’s not on my FB feed.