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

There has been one plural in the solutions since this thread started, FEARS. It’s also a conjugated verb, which someone else (perhaps in the other thread) theorized would never happen.

So far since we started this thread, only four of the solutions have had a repeated letter, which comes out to about 1/6.

The vast majority of solution words I’ve tracked so far have been nouns, some of which can work as verbs. There’s been a smattering of adjectives, and only one ‘pure’ verb that can’t work as another part of speech,

SPOUT

CLANG

MISER

JAWED

FRAYS

ABBEY

This was one of the toughest for me.

This was me, too - for about 35 minutes. I was playing in Hard mode, so had to come up with a word that would fit with two known letters in 2 fixed positions. And for the longest time I simply couldn’t find one. Thus, no way to make a legal move.

After almost half an hour I encouraged myself with the idea that surely if I found a word that fit, it would have to be the solution. And so it was, not too much later. On the bright side, I got it in 3 total tries.

@Newtosite, what was that puzzle number and/or your current date when you did the puzzle? We need to know when it’s safe to unblur your spoiler, and that answer is different for everybody based on their timezone.

To see what the puzzle number was, the easiest thing to do is click the “share” button then paste out what’s now in your clipboard. That’s how people are getting all those awful games of Tetris. :wink: You can also see the puzzle number in really tiny faint text in the lower right hand corner of the settings page, you get there by clicking the gear icon.

You can look at the source code to see the words it’s using. I think there’s a word selection pool plus another pool of words it considers valid.

WARNING: As I have just discovered, the valid word list is in the same order as they appear as puzzles, so don’t look without knowing this.

Yes I know that, but I don’t want to be spoilered by looking at the actual word list. I’ll take the info that was gained “legitimately” through playing the game.

Wordle 209 4/6* Jan 14th

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STORE
FAINT
PANTY
TANGY

Look at you and your sexy third guess.

I think there’s a pretty low probability of that word being in the solution list, but after my 2nd guess I worked out the tree and using that as my 3rd guess guaranteed me a solve on the 4th guess,

Wordle 209 5/6*

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ABODE
TRAIN
TAUNT
TANKS
TANGY

I apologize for my delay in seeing this!

I did the puzzle on January 13.

Wordle 208 6/6

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Got it in 4. My streak extends to 22.

Wordle 209 4/6

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Wordle 209 4/6*

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Not too bad today. Four guesses seems to be the norm for me; I’m not too bothered about how many it takes as long as I get it, and I haven’t missed one yet.

STORE
PLANT
TITAN
TANGY

Wordle 209 3/6*

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Nice to have done one quickly after yesterday’s effort. Funny how I started with exactly the same word as @Gyrate did.

STORE
THING
TANGY

I had been using STARE but it was pointed out that O was a more common vowel in the game’s word set. Which saved me from then guessing TANGO for guess 4.

I haven’t looked at the game’s word set.

This was another tough one. My streak is still intact, but my # of guesses graph is pretty bottom heavy.

Wordle 209 6/6*

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Good grief, you’re right. I had looked at the settings page more than once and hadn’t seen that; it’s both really tiny, and really faint.

#209, Jan 14: a lucky second guess let me get it in three.

ARISE
TAWNY
TANGY

Me neither; nor am I going to.

Wordle 209 5/6*

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ABBEY → good start from yesterday’s word, now KO some common letters
SALTY → found where A goes, try T at start
TARDY → Matter of time now
TACKY → Still not worried, I promise
TANGY → Ah, the sweet & sour taste of success

I think of this one as the reverse of the previous for me, in that here I started with 1 hit and 1 near miss, which made it less cryptanalysis and more word guessing very early on. But it was harder to guess from 3 letters to 5 with fewer letters eliminated. I pretty much didn’t worry about vowels in this one since I started with A & a terminal Y.

Wordle 209 3/6

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Felt a bit fluky. My third guess was the only word I could think of and was surprised to see it turn green.