"Wordle," a strangely compelling word game (Part 2)

[QMatic]

Wordle 810 5/6*

GUILE
SHELF
KNELT
QUELL
DWELL

[pjd]

Wordle 810 3/6*

\begin{aligned} &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt Y} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt W} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \\ \end{aligned}

[RTFirefly]

Wordle 810 6/6

640
90
17
2
1

SLANT
CHORE
GIMPY
LEVEL
QUELL
DWELL

A fine followup to yesterday’s 2.

[Bullitt]

Wordle 810 5/6

SALET
ROUND
CHIMP — from here it’s almost certainly either LEDGE, DWELL
LEDGE — damn, looks like it’ll be a 5 today
DWELL

Like @The_Other_Waldo_Pepper said, it was a slog.

[chiliwillybing]

Wordle 810 2/6

IDEAL
DWELL
very lucky today, only one word left

[BobLibDem]

Wordle 810 4/6

HEART
SLICE
NOVEL
DWELL

[Chefguy]

Wordle 810 3/6

SLATE
JELLY
DWELL

Well, I did better than most for a change.

[Aspenglow]

@RTFirefly

A fine followup to yesterday’s 2.

Wordle never lets us get too cocky.

As evidenced by today’s 5:

Wordle 810 5/6*

IRATE
SHELF
QUELL
KNELL
DWELL

If it was the wrong answer, I picked it today!

[Rebo]

Wordle 810 4/6*

MUSIC
LARGE
BOWEL
DWELL

I kept trying to find vowels!

[mattgg]

@RTFirefly

That illustrates the difference between Wordlebot and Scoredle. The latter is working from a list of 14,855 words that are legitimate guesses, but I assume Wordlebot’s working from the list of ~2300 actual solutions.

Wordlebot used to work from the list of actual solutions (which, see next paragraph, doesn’t exist anymore) but now it works from a broader list that they compiled by gathering all of the five-letter words published in the New York Times over some period of years. They weeded out words that are known to not be possible answers, like plurals formed by adding “s”. This left somewhere around 3,400 words, I think. The list includes the frequency of the words, which helps Wordlebot when it makes its choices. For example, yesterday at one point both “chasm” and “miasm” were still possible answers but it gave “miasm” a 0.1% chance of being the answer.

Since the answers are now chosen by an editor instead of using the original answer list, there’s a chance that someday Wordle won’t be able to solve it because the answer isn’t in its list of words.

[Wheelz]

Wordle 810 4/6

AGILE
SPELT
QUELL
DWELL

I see I’m not the only one who went QUELL before DWELL. Makes me feel a little better, I guess.

[SeaSun]

Wordle 810 4/6

SLATE
MELON
PIXEL
DWELL

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@chiliwillybing

very lucky today, only one word left

Nice 2! Your start word turned out to be the ideal word.

[gkster]

Wordle 810 2/6*

STEAL
DWELL

Just as lucky as @chiliwillybing because there were 5 other possible words left, and I went with the 1st one I saw

[EllisDee]

Wordle 810 6/6

PLANT
ROLES
BIBLE
FEELY
QUELL
DWELL

I kind of went wacky after 2.

[The_Other_Waldo_Pepper]

FRIDAY, SEPT 8th

Wordle 811 4/6*

ALONE
PORTE
ROGUE
ROUSE

[psychobunny]

Wordle 811 5/6

RATIO
RECON
ROWED
ROGUE
ROUSE

I was trying to find words with common letters but nothing was coming to be. I predict that most people will get this in less than five.

[SunUp]

Wordle 810 4/6* 9/7/2023

GNASH → Whole lotta nuttin’.
TILER → E the sole vowel? Seems unlikely. The more I stared at this the more I saw a repeat-letter word, which seemed a bit early to try but it did give me a vowel to try, so
CYCLE → which gave me very little, but having broken the repeat letter taboo, I found it easy to try again with
DWELL

I think I might have bitten on the QU- prefix first, so it’s a good thing I didn’t see it. Turns out there were a bunch of good third guesses, though.

[QMatic]

Wordle 811 6/6*

PIOUS
DOUSE
MOUSE
HOUSE
LOUSE
ROUSE

[Bullitt]

Wordle 811 3/6

SALET
ROUND
ROUSE — easy peasy!

[pjd]

Wordle 811 4/6*

\begin{aligned} &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt G} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt M} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt F} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt C} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \\ \end{aligned}