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

Wordle 211 3/6*

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Extremely lucky second guess.

A good day for me and wordle variants.

Le Mot (@WordleFR) #8 4/6

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Wordle 212 3/6*

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WORDLE🇩🇪 350 3/6

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ETA on the French one, I lost the green letter from the first row because I was checking for a duplicate and I didn’t know enough French to make it work.

Wordle 212 3/6*

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BEAST
SHONE
SHIRE

@Maserschmidt - bloody show off.

Wordle 212 5/6

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Wordle 212 2/6*

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Two threes in a row, and now a two? I’m on a roll…

BTW - yet another Wordle variant is Byrdle, for those of you with a reasonable knowledge of choral music. I’ve discovered the game does take proper names (one recent answer was ZADOK).

Wordle 212 3/6

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SCRAP
SORRY
SHIRE

Wordle 212 3/6* Jan 17th

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STORE
SHARE
SHIRE

Well we already knew this game was hobbit-forming.

I just came here to say I’ve got it in two for the last two days running, and I’m now off to see if there’s a TV quiz show of the same game I can sign up for and finally make my millions.

Wordle 212 4/6*

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Would’ve been three, but they went for the more obscure word.

Wordle 212 4/6

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I’m 25 for 25.

I am very surprised that your third word was accepted as a word!

ITV in the UK uses exactly the same format for guessing five letter words in a show called Lingo. It’s in its second season now, but it is a revival from the original show from the eighties. I found a clip and it’s pretty similar to Wordle though they give you the first letter…

I’m also generally using a different first word each time, so no patterns in these (though I do have some more common that I start with. Hmm.). Maybe could have managed 4 today, but this is what I got.

Wordle 212 5/6

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FEAST
JUDGE
SHONE
SHINE
SHIRE

I know some French and some German. Basically enough that I could get a couple of letters, but not enough so that I could make a leap from that to “other words that have these letters” especially not in French with the various silent letters. I suspect reading knowledge of languages is more helpful than spoken language because this is a visual language game.

How come your second guess didn’t include one of your correct letters from the first?

Because I thought I’d take a chance and go pretty different from my first word and see if I could get/eliminate some less common letters. Didn’t work out great, but could have.

I see! My ‘strategy’ (which is overstating it quite a lot) is simply to try and construct words with the letters I know to be right. It has worked pretty well for me so far.

Good first guess today.

Wordle 212 3/6*

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STORE
SPIRE
SHIRE

I’d like it if they showed you how people did on the current puzzle after you solve it. Like:

So far 4578 people have completed today’s puzzle.
X got it in one word
x got it in two words
x got it in three words
x got it in four words
x got it in five words
x got it in six words
x failed to discover the word

Then you could really feel proud or ashamed. :wink: