Wordle 246 4/6
I thought of it in two, but as usual, I resisted using the same letter twice..
Wordle 246 4/6*
IRATE
VITAL
ADMIT
TACIT
I just have to get over it, I guess.
Wordle 246 4/6
ADIEU
STAIN
RATIO
TACIT
I’ve been trying out using adieu as my starting word, vs a random word I happen to think of that has some good letters in it. I think I may go back to the random word.
“What in the world is happening with our beloved Wordle?” (The Guardian)
Some people seem irritated that the game is getting harder. No idea if this is truly the case – sorry if I missed this upthread, but do we know if the New York Times has preserved the original answer list? All the answers in the old game were coded in from the beginning, in order, visible in the source code. I assume the “hardness” of the answers was entirely random and arbitrary, though of course that might not be the case.
I thought today’s solution was perhaps the least common word I’d noticed since the beginning, but it’s still common enough and I don’t object. But any word with double letters is bound to be a bit harder to guess, because one usually doesn’t want to “waste” a letter by guessing a word containing a double letter early on. The Guardian said that some people had a big problem with the obscurity of CAULK (solution from several days ago), which has me wondering if that word is much more common in America – seems quite everyday to me.
The article also states that certain dictionary words that were deemed offensive have been removed from the allowed guess list, though they were never among the solution list. That seems… a little misguided and paternalistic to me. They’re common enough, real words which one might want to use as a guess, but because they denote offensive concepts, now you can’t.
NYT has a similar policy for the Bee.
When a friend showed me this spoof I laughed out loud — one letter wordle (letterle)
Brian
Letterle 22/26
22 dang tries. I won’t subject this thread to the ‘share’ copy and paste, though it was funny.
At first there was Wordle, for finding a word in six guesses.
And then there was Dordle, for finding two words in seven guesses.
And that spawned Quordle - four in nine…
…and Octordle - eight in thirteen…
…,and now Sedecordle - 16 in 21 guesses.
I guess a buffer of five misses is standard now.
Huh! Got it in two.
Wordle 247 2/6
ORATE
OTHER
This was one occasion when avoiding a double letter worked. I was about to try OTTER, but thought better of it.
Second-tier consonant start again, 2 for 2 getting it in 3.
Wordle 247 3/6
CHILD
HEART
OTHER
The only thing the NYT has done is remove some words (deemed to be inappropriate or obscure). Otherwise it is the same list. If anything it has become easier.
Wordle 247 4/6
What’s a second-tier consonant? What does that mean?
Wordle 247 3/6
tries
utter
other
Wordle 247 2/6*
Fastest played game yet!
Wordle 247 3/6*
Not too bad today. 2nd guess giving me a couple of letters NOT being where I put them was key.
Wordle 247 3/6
CHEAT
ETHYL
OTHER
Got my first 2
Wordle 247 2/6*
First word was
Stoup
It’s just a term I made up to describe my current strategy. Think of the most common consonants – in my mind those are S, T, R, L, N – and call them first tier. The next most common consonants – in my mind C, D, H, M, P and (barely) K – would therefore be second tier.
My hypothesis is that for most of those situations where you have four green letters but still a ton of choices, those choices are mostly or at least frequently going to be second tier consonants. SHA_E and S_ILL are both recent examples.
In order to use up this second tier list, my thinking is to start with them in your first guess, saving S, T, R, etc… for your second. This gives you complete freedom to choose four second tier consonants to start, and then it should in theory be easier to make your second word out of the most common letters. Certainly easier than the other way around, where you start with most common and then have to come up with words with less common letters.
My original assumption was that this would shave a guess off those situations like SHA_E, letting you solve in 5 or 6 instead of possibly losing, at the cost of an extra guess for “normal” games where the answer is made up of first tier consonants. But so far I’m two for two, getting the answer in 3. (Yesterday I tried for the first time starting with CHIMP, then today I used CHILD. I’m thinking PONCH for tomorrow’s, but H in the 2nd position is a much stronger opening. Maybe I’ll just cycle vowels with CHAMP/CHIMP/CHOMP/CHUMP depending on my mood.)
EDIT: Two “research” guesses then get the answer with your third guess is what I hope for. I try to apply all known information to all subsequent guesses, which has been noticeably easier these past two days with letters like S, R and T still on the table.
I’ll have to look at the word lists when I get home (I have the answers list and allowable words list downloaded somewhere on my computer), but I did find it odd the other day that I couldn’t use “slave” as a guess. I mean, I understand it not being in the answer list, I guess, but in the allowable words guess list, it seems odd to me to strike it. It’s just a game, and the owners of the game can choose whatever arbitrary wordlists to play from that they want, but it still surprised me.
My second two in a row! Lucky first guess.
Wordle 247 2/6
TONER
OTHER