Wordle Lovers - Play the NYT Daily Game

[Mister T]

Wordle 1,120 3/6

 

[fresh_42]

Wordle 1,121 4/6

 

[Orodruin]

Wordle 1 121 3/6

 

[OmCheeto]

Wordle 1,121 4/6

 

[jack action]

Wordle 1,121 6/6

 

[kuruman]

Wordle 1,121 3/6

 

[Mister T]

Wordle 1,121 4/6

 

[dwarde]

Wordle 1,121 4/6

 

[fresh_42]

Wordle 1,122 4/6

 

[Orodruin]

Wordle 1 122 4/6

 

[Mister T]

Wordle 1,122 4/6

 

[jack action]

Wordle 1,122 4/6

 

[OmCheeto]

1,122 4/6

 

[kuruman]

Wordle 1,122 4/6

 

[gmax137]

Wordle 1,122 4/6

 

[dwarde]

Wordle 1,122 5/6

 

[fresh_42]

Wordle 1,123 5/6

1
2
3
4

 

[OmCheeto]

Wordle 1,123 3/6

 

[sbrothy]

Wordle 1.123 6/6*








Hm. Well at least I got it. Barely.

 

[kuruman]

Wordle 1,123 4/6

 

[jack action]

Wordle 1,123 3/6





New challenge: yesterday, I made my own Wordle solver. I thought I needed a database but just two word lists ("all words" and "possible answers"), and a bash script with some regexes and I'm good to go.

I don't have (yet?) a list of "previous answers" which would cut the "possible answers" list in half. But I'm using it with other websites, so not necessarily a plus, considering how little it could help in most cases.

Spoiler: Solution

 

[Mister T]

Wordle 1,123 3/6

 

[gmax137]

Wordle 1,123 4/6

Spoiler: Solution

I'm wondering how you came up with those first two words?

 

[jack action]

Wordle 1,123 4/6








I'm wondering how you came up with those first two words?

The first is apparently composed of the most popular letters for the possible Wordle solutions (I always use the same):

Spoiler: Most popular letters

(source)​

And the other one was given by the program. It checks every possible solution, then evaluates the five most popular letters, and tries to find words that match, first in the possible answers found, then in the "possible answers" list, and finally in the "all words" list. If it doesn't find one, it takes only the four most popular letters and repeats, and so on. It gives only the first 10 matches.

The actual input and ouput of the program for the guesses for this particular puzzle:

Spoiler: First guess input

FIRST=''
SECOND=''
THIRD=''
FOURTH=''
FIFTH=''

SOMEWHERE='oe'

NOT_FIRST=''
NOT_SECOND='o'
NOT_THIRD=''
NOT_FOURTH=''
NOT_FIFTH='e'

NOWHERE='rat'

Spoiler: Second guess hints

19 possibilities

First ten possibilities (in no particular order):
epoch
epoxy
enjoy
venom
envoy
below
elbow
demon
olden
ebony

First 10 suggestions for the next guess:
dynel lindy

Spoiler: "Second guess input

FIRST='d'
SECOND=''
THIRD=''
FOURTH=''
FIFTH=''

SOMEWHERE='oey'

NOT_FIRST=''
NOT_SECOND='oy'
NOT_THIRD=''
NOT_FOURTH='e'
NOT_FIFTH='e'

NOWHERE='ratnl'

Spoiler: Second guess hints

1 possibility

First ten possibilities (in no particular order):
decoy

First 10 suggestions for the next guess:
decoy

 

[dwarde]

Wordle 1,123 4/6

 

[fresh_42]

Wordle 1,124 3/6

 

[Orodruin]

If you know my seed words you may want to wait with opening this …

Spoiler: Be warned!!

Wordle 1 124 2/6




Today was one of those days I decided not to use my secod seed word …

 

[OmCheeto]

Wordle 1,124 3/6

 

[Mister T]

Wordle 1,124 3/6

 

[jack action]

Wordle 1,124 4/6

[ROATE]
[HILUS]
[UNITE] (only 2 possibilities and I selected the wrong one)


The program is still working well! Even by choosing weird words.

 

[kuruman]

Wordle 1,124 2/6

 

[sbrothy]

Wordle 1.124 4/6*

Spoiler

 

[gmax137]

Wordle 1,124 3/6

SPLIT
THING
"It's been awhile since we had a QU"

 

[dwarde]

Wordle 1,124 5/6

 

[jack action]

Wordle 1,124 3/6

SPLIT
THING
"It's been awhile since we had a QU"

I had it in 4 guesses and that was just bad luck as I could have made it in 3 if I had selected the only other choice.

Seeing that only one person made it also in 4 guesses (and I know @sbrothy is only using his brain) and that everybody else had it in 3 guesses or even 2 (!), I was wondering what word choices were used to be so efficient. But with your explicit answer, I've put it through my program and you still have 5 possible answers after your 2nd guess (WRITE, FRITZ, DEITY, QUITE, AMITY).

If I had started with SPLIT like you, my program suggested using either HENRY, RHYNE, or YRNEH, which any of them would still leave me with 2 choices, TWICE and QUITE, weeding out 49 possible answers instead of 46 like you did.

Knowing that already 2 members out of 8 (so far) of this group already found it in 2 guesses - which is necessarily out of luck - what are the chances that the rest of you got it in 3 guesses? Which should still require a little bit of luck, since, according to the Wordle Bot, the NYT average was 3.8 for this puzzle.

Worst of all, the Wordle Bot solved it in 4, and - after I redone it with the same first 2 guesses but with the correct answer as the third guess - it told me that, with my choice of words, it would have picked the other one, just like I did originally!

This was a great choice. HILUS would’ve been one of my top picks. You’ve narrowed it down to only two remaining words: UNITE or QUITE.

You had two words to pick from and you chose the right one! Excellent work. And you bested me — I would’ve guessed UNITE.

Were you all this lucky or am I missing something?

EDIT: Just saw @dwarde 's result: Sorry for your result but thank you for giving me a little more faith in probability and statistics theory!