Wordle’s gameplay will stay the same, and answers will be drawn from the same basic dictionary of answer words, with some editorial adjustments to ensure that the game stays focused on vocabulary that’s fun, accessible, lively and varied.
The answer list will consist of five-letter words that fit those criteria, with the exception of plural forms of three- or four-letter words that end in “ES” or “S.” That is, the answer will never be FOXES or SPOTS, but it might be GEESE or FUNGI.
I’d love to ask them about past tenses ending in ED, which have been notably absent from the list of solutions to date.
Bah humbug on the 6! I see I wasn’t the only one to fall into the S_ELL trap. By the 4th turn I saw that there were 3 possible solutions and for some reason decided to guess in alphabetical order which obviously didn’t work well.
I really thought I had stumbled into an unintentionally awesome trap bypass with hardy. I didn’t notice until after I guessed, but it eliminated both hairy and dairy, leaving fairy as the obvious answer. Obviously wrong answer, that is! heh. Wordle got me good today.
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RAINY - I think the only possible word.
[/quote]: Actually, Wordlebot gave words ending in “s” as options
Good point. (I’ll admit I was thinking just of plurals. Oops.) We haven’t seen any such verbs yet, so after >500 solutions, I have to assume the absence of the class of words you mention was intentional.
But now that the game is under new management, so to speak, there’s no guarantee that that intent will remain. We could start seeing such verbs.
I have no idea whether there’s a forum where such questions could be asked of Ms. Bennett (I don’t know if she’s on Twitter, for instance), but that’s the sort of question I’d like to ask her.
