Wordle Lovers - Play the NYT Daily Game

[gmax137]

Wordle 710 5/6

 

[OmCheeto]

Wordle 711 4/6

 

[kuruman]

Wordle 711 3/6

 

[fresh_42]

Wordle 712 6/6

 

[gmax137]

Wordle 711 4/6

 

[DrGreg]

Wordle 712 6/6








Thought I was going to fail, but just scraped through.

 

[fresh_42]

Wordle 712 6/6








Thought I was going to fail, but just scraped through.

So did I, and my hole was even deeper.

 

[OmCheeto]

Wordle 712 5/6







This is the worst set of stats I recall seeing. 40 times more people failed to solve this game than usual.

 

[kuruman]

So did I, and my hole was even deeper.

Still, you managed to tunnel through.

 

[kuruman]

Wordle 712 5/6

 

[gmax137]

Wordle 712 6/6







whew!

 

[scottdave]

Wordle 712 5/6






That was a little close.

 

[fresh_42]

Wordle 712 5/6






That was a little close.

This was definitely not what it said to be!

Wordle 712 5/6







This is the worst set of stats I recall seeing. 40 times more people failed to solve this game than usual.

 

[scottdave]

.... It was all fun until she got a word in 1 shot ("fumer" -- to smoke, in French). I got twice words in 2 shots but I never reach her record. We don't play anymore.

Getting in 1 guess is just lucky. You could imprive your odds by keeping track of prior winning words and never start with one of those.

 

[fluidistic]

Getting in 1 guess is just lucky. You could imprive your odds by keeping track of prior winning words and never start with one of those.

As far as I recall they picked the same word like 1 month later or so. So, I wouldn't count on it. But that's good, this means they probably draw uniformly randomly from their small list of possible words, without removing the words.

 

[fresh_42]

Wordle 713 4/6

 

[DrGreg]

Wordle 713 3/6

a good start



And with that, I have achieved a century:

 

[OmCheeto]

 

[kuruman]

Wordle 713 3/6





After the first two tries, 4 candidates were left 3 of which had been used before. I like the simplicity of this pattern.

 

[gmax137]

Wordle 713 3/6

Wordle 713 3/6



After the first two tries, 4 candidates were left 3 of which had been used before.

How do you know this?

 

[kuruman]

Wordle 713 3/6




How do you know this?

Bookkeeping. There is a list of about 2300 words from which NYT chooses candidates and another list of words that have already appeared. Both lists are available on the web. The rumor is that when the NYT list runs out, that's the end of WORDLE.

To be honest, the bot's assessment for me today was that there were 6 possibilities after my first two trials, not 4 as I thought. Considering that there are about 13,000 words with 5 letters, the bot is probably using a more comprehensive list for its guesses than the NYT candidate list and that's where the extra two words came from.

 

[fresh_42]

Wordle 714 5/6

 

[DrGreg]

Wordle 714 4/6

 

[OmCheeto]

Wordle 714 4/6

 

[scottdave]

Wordle 713 4/6

 

[kuruman]

Wordle 714 3/6

 

[scottdave]

Wordle 714 5/6







My current stats: (0, 2, 25, 53, 35, 16, 3),
"Current Streak = 1" <-- I don't understand why. Current streak should be 3, now.

 

[kuruman]

Wordle 714 5/6







My current stats: (0, 2, 25, 53, 35, 16, 3),
"Current Streak = 1" <-- I don't understand why. Current streak should be 3, now.

Did you skip a day or more? If so, the streak starts afresh every time there is a gap because it is based on contiguous successful attempts. To me, the Win % is a more important figure than the streak. I will be going on vacation soon and the streak will be re-initialized.

 

[gmax137]

Wordle 714 4/6

 

[fresh_42]

Wordle 715 5/6







The Hamming distance of English is not existent!

 

[DrGreg]

Wordle 715 6/6

 

[OmCheeto]

Wordle 715 2/6




tainted

 

[kuruman]

Wordle 715 3/6

 

[gmax137]

Wordle 715 5/6

The Hamming distance of English is not existent!

Indeed.

 

[fresh_42]

Wordle 716 3/6