Now I remember where I’ve seen this idea before (OK, I read it in the comments, but it jogged my memory). There was that gameshow Lingo, which was (almost) exactly Wordle. (Part of Wordle’s charm is the one-puzzle-a-day and social nature of it.)
ETA: I see Lingo has been mentioned in these comments.
I guess the difference is that Wordle isn’t monetized, so that’s why people are getting ticked off at it. Can the idea and gameplay of Lingo be copyrighted? Like if the original Wordle developer decided to monetize it, would that be problematic?
Once you have two vowels of a 5-letter word the chances of there being any other vowels are extremely slim, so you were right to concentrate on consonants. You had also already eliminated the U, so further vowels were even less likely.
My gut is that aeons doesn’t put the letters in their likely positions though. I’m sure there’s a number of words starting with A but E, O and S probably aren’t in common positions. Assuming that the word list doesn’t include a lot of plurals that is.
If you’re desperate for more, try Absurdle: it’s like Wordle, only it makes things as difficult as possible for you. It compares each guess to its word bank (the same bank as Worldle), and figures out what clue it can give you that eliminates the fewest number of words. You have to corner it.
It’s deterministic: the same guesses will always lead to the same word. But start with different words, and it’s pretty fun.
Pretty straightforward for me today. On Guess #3 I was thinking “really? I haven’t tried E yet?” Then that left me with only one non-obscure word that fit for guess #4.
