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

Weird. I got only one letter in the wrong place on my first guess. Then wanted to try the other two most common vowels and “N”. And completely randomly solved it on the second guess. There must be thousands of common words that were possible there, but I wonder if a lot of people will also do well on this one because it contains 4 common letters that people will want to try.

RATED
POINT

By the way, if you’re impatient to try the next day’s puzzle, just change the system time on your computer to somewhere further east where it’s tomorrow already.

Grep tells me that number is more like 400. :slight_smile: Picking a word from EATOIN SHRDLU as your first guess is really the way to go no matter what results you get.

Wordle 214 5/6

:yellow_square::black_large_square::black_large_square::yellow_square::black_large_square:
:black_large_square::green_square::black_large_square::black_large_square::black_large_square:
:black_large_square::black_large_square::black_large_square::black_large_square::yellow_square:
:black_large_square::black_large_square::yellow_square::black_large_square::black_large_square:
:green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square:

@Ponderoid and @Riemann, nicely done!

Wordle 214 4/6*

:white_large_square::yellow_square::white_large_square::white_large_square::white_large_square:
:white_large_square::white_large_square::green_square::green_square::white_large_square:
:white_large_square::white_large_square::green_square::green_square::white_large_square:
:green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square:

Eh. My fourth guess really should have been my third one, but I haven’t had my tea yet.

Tough one. Spent a while working out different combinations and decided to ignore the placing of one letter to try and see which other letters are in.

Wordle 214 5/6

:green_square::white_large_square::white_large_square::yellow_square::white_large_square:
:green_square::green_square::white_large_square::yellow_square::white_large_square:
:green_square::green_square::white_large_square::white_large_square::white_large_square:
:green_square::green_square::white_large_square::green_square::white_large_square:
:green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square:

PARTY
POETS
POEMS
POUND
POINT

Did pretty well today. No "two"s yet, though:
Wordle 214 3/6*

:white_large_square::white_large_square::white_large_square::green_square::green_square:
:white_large_square::white_large_square::yellow_square::green_square::green_square:
:green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square:

Decided to start with a bastard:

Wordle 214 5/6*

:black_large_square::black_large_square::black_large_square::black_large_square::green_square:
:black_large_square::black_large_square::yellow_square::black_large_square::green_square:
:black_large_square::green_square::black_large_square::black_large_square::green_square:
:black_large_square::green_square::black_large_square::yellow_square::green_square:
:green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square:

QUEST
FLOUT
ROBOT
VOMIT
POINT

Wordle 214 4/6*

:white_large_square::yellow_square::yellow_square::white_large_square::white_large_square:
:white_large_square::white_large_square::yellow_square::yellow_square::yellow_square:
:white_large_square::green_square::yellow_square::white_large_square::green_square:
:green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square:

STORY
BATON
DONUT
POINT

My mind was a bit all over the place today. The hard mode made it a bit tough this time.

In case anyone wants to just scratch the itch all in one go.

Unlimited Wordle - What it says.
Evil Wordle - Has no correct word, but a word list. The lettres in your guesses are rejected in a manner which allows the puzzle to keep the largest amount of remaining words on the list. This maximizes the amount of guesses it takes to find the final possible word. My shortest win was 7 guesses.

Isn’t this how Absurdle also works?

Slightly better today than the last few for me:
Wordle 214 4/6

:yellow_square::white_large_square::white_large_square::yellow_square::white_large_square:
:white_large_square::yellow_square::yellow_square::white_large_square::white_large_square:
:yellow_square::yellow_square::yellow_square::white_large_square::white_large_square:
:green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square:

IRATE
WITCH
TIPSY
POINT

Seems like it.

:Looks very similar, but don’t see a claim that they directly lifted the Wordle solution and acceptable guess lists like Absurdle did. If Evil Wordle’s acceptable guess list is the same as its solution list, that probably makes their game a lot harder than Absurdle.

Eh, why not, Spanish now.

Wordle (ES) #13 5/6

:yellow_square::white_large_square::green_square::green_square::white_large_square:
:white_large_square::green_square::green_square::green_square::white_large_square:
:white_large_square::green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square:
:white_large_square::green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square:
:green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square:

This is the first puzzle I’ve tried where the word adieu wasn’t permitted.

ESTAN
PETAR
FETAL
DETAL
METAL

Also, I feel like, without any proof whatsoever, that Spanish may have more five-letter word options.

My most common, 4. 214, Jan 19.

BEANY
THONG
MOUNT
POINT

I didn’t think of trying different languages. I don’t know French, but I’m trying to learn:
Le Mot (@WordleFR) #10 5/6

:black_large_square::green_square::black_large_square::black_large_square::yellow_square:
:yellow_square::green_square::black_large_square::black_large_square::black_large_square:
:black_large_square::black_large_square::yellow_square::black_large_square::black_large_square:
:green_square::green_square::black_large_square::yellow_square::black_large_square:
:green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square:

Not bad since I don’t even know that word.

Nice! I see that word and can only think of Seinfeld….

Wordle 214 3/6*

:green_square::white_large_square::yellow_square::white_large_square::white_large_square:
:green_square::yellow_square::white_large_square::green_square::yellow_square:
:green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square:

PROXY → good start, probably another vowel - what has a lot of 'em?
PIANO → good 2nd guess, pretty locked in now…
POINT

Starting with the previous day’s answer basically made this one.