Maybe one for the cruciverbalists

[Phil]

"We are not amused ...."

 

[Alf]

Ridiculous game.

It is all down to luck.

I disagree. It's about your knowledge of how words, especially five-letter words, are constructed.

3rd guess COLLY
4th guess COOLY
5th guess COBLE

I disagree.
All acceptable words, all showing a knowledge of how 5 letter words are constructed, all with correct 1st, 2nd and 4th letters, all wrong. Maybe I know too many less common words (colly was a guess but coble I knew was a boat). There is a element of luck and perhaps being in synch with Mr Wardle, I clearly am not.

Agreed. I got "MOULD" on my third guess, then tried "WOULD", but it turned out to be "COULD". How was that anything but luck?

 

[Doug]

I think there’s a lot of luck involved, I recently had a run of 2’s solely down to lucky first word guesses then fortunately picking the the right word from a choice of a few.
Today I got the 2nd, 3rd & 4th letters right & in the right place first go, I had a couple of options but plumped for the wrong option so ended up with a 3

 

[Gill]

 

[Phil]

After having 4 greens in row 3 I then went and stuffed it up completely

 

[AndyP]

How many words are there ending with those 4 letters.?

 

[Alf]

Easily might have been a sixer like Phil or Andy. Even with the outrageous good fortune to have picked the right word ending on guess three, there are several other choices that I could have taken first.

 

[AndyT]

A good start today.

 

[Phil]

How many words are there ending with those 4 letters.?

According to WordHippo 15!

 

[Peri]

Anyone remember this?

 

[Trevanion]

 

[AndyT]

Anyone remember this?

Yes, but I also remember it as a pencil and paper game before it needed a box of plastic bits!

 

[AndyP]

Anyone remember this?

Yes, but I also remember it as a pencil and paper game before it needed a box of plastic bits!

Yep! It's called progress

 

[novocaine]

5. don't think my brain is working today.

 

[Alf]

Anyone remember this?

Yes. Not least because I always wondered which Bond film he was the villain from. But mainly owing to the tiny plastic pegs going everywhere but in the box.

 

[Gill]

This was my path to the result. After the second word it was pretty straight forward to work out, having regard to the letters that had already been excluded. I think a lot depends on the choice of the first and second words.

 

[AndyP]

So Gill, there is an element of luck then?

 

[Gill]

There must always be an element of luck. Nevertheless, I maintain you make your own luck through your understanding of the lexicon.

 

[Gill]

Sorry. I suppose I got lucky. :lol:

 

[AndyT]

In amongst all the other news yesterday there was an announcement that the New York Times has bought Wordle for a "low seven figure sum."

Josh Wardle has tweeted that it won't be hidden behind their paywall but will be available for everyone and that our stats will be preserved.

Just in case, here's mine, not as lucky as Gill today.

 

[Doug]

Sorry. I suppose I got lucky. :lol:

Well it certainly helps when you get 4 of the 5 letters is your first guess

 

[Alf]

In amongst all the other news yesterday there was an announcement that the New York Times has bought Wordle for a "low seven figure sum."

Josh Wardle has tweeted that it won't be hidden behind their paywall but will be available for everyone and that our stats will be preserved.

The newspaper publisher said the game would initially remain free to play.

Uh-huh. Very tempted to try "SCORE" as my first word today, but only because "KERCHING" wouldn't fit. Mind you, even a "low seven figure sum" may have been a bit steep, as I suspect this thing's popularity will run its natural course pretty soon.

Sorry. I suppose I got lucky. :lol:

Well, if you're using the first word you said you were, I stopped counting the possible words you might have chosen for the second guess after the first ten. So yes, you did indeed.


Been interesting timing myself for the last week. I thought 5-10 mins, but it turns out it's more like an average of 2. Well, I'm reclaiming even those 2, because I'm stopping this now before I have to spell everything 'Murrican fashion. Do me a favor. :eusa-snooty:

 

[AndyP]

Good luck to him I guess

From the BBC

The newspaper publisher said the game would initially remain free to play.

Also from the BBC in an article a few weeks back

Asked whether he planned to make money from it, he (MR Wardle) said: "I don't understand why something can't just be fun.

"I don't have to charge people money for this and ideally would like to keep it that way."

As you say Alf it's popularity will soon run its course.

 

[Dr.Al]

That'll do...

 

[chataigner]

Good luck to the inventor ! As for running it's course, I'm still playing (a 3 today).

 

[Doug]

I think folks might be surprised with the longevity of these games, I accept individuals may get bored of them in time but there’s always new folks finding them. I got the Word Master bug after seeing a customer playing the game that was 3 years ago & I still enjoy playing it most mornings over breakfast. At least with Wordle as Alf has found out it only takes a couple of minutes.

 

[Phil]

A 5

 

[TrimTheKing]

Five for me too after a complete brain fart after having letters 2-5 correct on the third go.

 

[Gill]

I hardly dare upload this!



Logic suggested a choice of two words for my second attempt. I happened to choose correctly.

 

[Windows]

Has anyone mentioned Absurdle yet?

https://qntm.org/files/absurdle/absurdle.html

It’s essentially the same game, but instead of choosing the answer up front, the game makes you keep guessing until you have forced a unique solution from the available words. It’s a good demo of the luck involved in Wordle because you can never get lucky on Absurdle.

It’s not as fun and it’s not as shareable because the answer is produced from the guesses, so people aren’t really competing to solve the same problem, but if you want the challenge of having to come up with a bunch of 5 letter words, Absurdle is pretty effective.

 

[AndyT]

Nice one Gill.
I think you and I must be taking rather different approaches

 

[chataigner]

A shameful 6 today, got much of it straight away, but there were several options for the missing letter and I guessed wrongly twice.

 

[AndyT]

Yes, a puzzle like today's reveals a feature of language, that many words have different beginnings but end the same way. (If they didn't, we wouldn't have rhyme.)

So I just need to make sure I always guess the first letters in my first go!

 

[Phil]

Pure luck

 

[TrimTheKing]

I’m back in the game after a couple of days of 4/5’s.

Once I had the 3/4 letters the answer was the first one that came into my head. Don’t know whether that says something about me…

 

[Gill]

Well done, Mark. Join the club .

 

[Woodster]

I found out there are only 2315 Wordle solutions out of a possible 12478 five letter words. I just need to memorise them now! :lol:

 

[Woodster]

All words are based on American spelling even thought the author is English.

 

[Gill]

I missed out on the hattrick. Never mind.

 

[Phil]

Crappy game ................... :lol: