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

When you’re in the reply box, there are lots of things up top. All the way to the right is the gear symbol for settings. Pick it and one of the options is BLUR SPOILER. You get this without the spaces.

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Wordle 732 1/6

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My usual starting word finally paid off!

CRANE

Well, knickers. I’m in the Goat Group today. Congrats to all the 1s, 2s and 3s!!

Wordle 732 4/6*

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IRATE
GRAPE
BRACE
CRANE

What’s also interesting is, my WordleBot needed only 4 guesses to answer!

Congrats! @Aspenglow and I will have our day…some day!

That’s really odd. I figured the Wordlebot solution would be the same for all.

That’s what I thought, too. So I double-checked. It’s only 4 guesses on mine.

WordleBot is more disturbing than I first believed.

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I rechecked, and Wordlebot is still at 5:

SLATE
PRICK
CRAVE
CRAZE
CRANE

First four guesses are all previous solutions.

Weird. Obviously, it likes to toy with us.

Congrats!!

I was pretty sure Half_Man_Half_Wit wasn’t the only player who usually started off with today’s solution, and we’d see at least one more 1 today.

Now the tough question: do you keep on using that starting word because it’s a good starting word, or do you switch to something else because it’s not going to come up again until they start doing repeats?

Wordle 732 2/6

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PLANT
CRANE

Happy to be part of the 2 crew.

I have a couple I more or less cycle through, this was actually the second time one of those hit. The one that already did (RATIO), I still use as a starter.

Yeah, I thought about that, but the chances of getting a “one” again are slim to none, and it IS a good starting word.

I don’t have a NYT subscription and so don’t have any firsthand experience with Wordlebot, but maybe the 4 vs. 5 issue today was easy mode vs. hard mode?

Ooofff, you are so smart!! I’ll bet that’s it.

Yes it must be! I’m in hard mode and my WordleBot has it in 4. I see that wguy123 who says that WordleBot had it in 5 isn’t in hard mode.

Wordle 732 2/6*

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STEAL
CRANE
It’s been a while since I used CRANE as my start word, too bad it wasn’t today

2% of hard mode users got it in 1, according to WordleBot

Wordle 732 4/6

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STORE
BARGE
CRAPE
CRANE

Should have gone with Store > Chain like I was going to do, but decided to try for letter placements instead. I then went for Crape over Crane as there also was Drape and Grape to check. Wasn’t my day, though a 4 isn’t bad considering all the words this could have been.

With this answer word, I knew there would be a lot of great scores today…congrats to all that got them! :slight_smile:



Right there along with ya. Though I thought Goat meant “Greatest Of All Time”, and I certainly don’t feel that way today with all the 1,2,3’s. :laughing:

Wait…is there an option to toggle hard mode on and off? I can’t see options since I already played today, but I thought “hard mode” was just something we elected to do. I didn’t know it was an actual game play choice. And if so, Wordlebot should recognize I’ve always played in hard mode, even if I didn’t turn it on, and cut me a bit of slack.

Edit to add: LOL. I just went back and noticed a gear icon that I have never, ever clicked on. Hello Hard Mode! This is what happens when this is the very first thing I do in the morning while the water is boiling for the french press. Maybe I should start doing this after I’ve had a cup of coffee. :slight_smile:

Wordle 733 4/6

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RATIO
CASTE
THUMP
TASTE

Bad trap. After two I was left with BASTE, HASTE,
PASTE, TASTE and WASTE. I couldn’t find any word to check more than three of them. This is where using the prior answers could have helped because some of them have probably been answers before. Anyway, I got lucky and saved a par

LOL, glad that you found the toggle switch. I found out about hard mode through this board when someone pointed out that when players cut and paste results, hard mode play is marked with an asterisk.

Wordle 733 5/6*

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MOUSE
SPIRE
WASTE
HASTE
TASTE

Wordle 733 X/6*

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Well, I suppose balance has been restored…

SLATE
PASTE
BASTE
CASTE
WASTE
HASTE

Wow, turns out there were six possible words after the first one, and I managed to cycle through all the wrong ones… Although I’m somewhat comforted that Scoredle, which always starts with SLATE, would’ve shown the same performance.