A bit of fun - WORDLE. (NB, US spelling!) No spoilers please

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4 this morning, :)
 
5 for me today ... brain less awake than fingers!

2Y, 1G + 1Y, 2G +1Y, 3G, 5G.
 
3 today.
 
5 today:

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5 for me today
3Y, 3Y, 2Y+1G, 1Y+3G, 5G
 
I've been playing (guessing!) this game since the middle of January. So far every word has had a vowel/s in it. At some point they must use a word without a vowel, do you not think?

That'll catch a few out I'm sure ;)
 
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Norkie said:
I've been playing (guessing!) this game since the middle of January. So far every word has had a vowel/s in it. At some point they must use a word without a vowel, do you not think?

That'll catch a few out I'm sure ;)
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I don’t know. I usually, subject to what the first throws up, get all the vowels into the first 2 so I’d move to Ys on the third. What do you do?

I’m assuming there aren’t any Welsh words in US English but perhaps there are — have to check. I can think of one that might be but it’s too short to qualify,
 
I was thinking of cwm which is too short but crwth would be a suitable candidate for 5 letters and is in Merriam-Webster Webster.
 
xylyl...
 
A 4 for me today 1G 1Y, 2G 1Y, 3G 1Y, 5G.
 
I wonder what the word list is and how randomly they are chosen. A lot of US games exclude what they call “cuss words” :LOL: .

I have done a lot (not astronamical but maybe 50) of 4-letter ones on Wordlegame* and some words seem to have come up more often than one would expect.

*which I suspect may be pinched from the original because apparently the code is available on Wardle‘s website.
 
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I've been guessing the first based on previous words tbh, not precisely but I see in my mind at least a very loose pattern where the game tends toward certain starting letters. Worked today, could have had a 2 if I'd spent a little more time thinking
 
Cagey75 said:
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I've been guessing the first based on previous words tbh, not precisely but I see in my mind at least a very loose pattern where the game tends toward certain starting letters. Worked today, could have had a 2 if I'd spent a little more time thinking
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I find I have a tendency to think common words are more likely which I have to resist as it should not be true if they are a random choice :(
 
My first word gave me two yellows, I just couldn’t think of a word that fitted so I left it for a few hours. On my return I almost immediately thought of one word that worked…bingo! 5 greens in two goes. :) (That's not a spoiler!)

I seem to remember reading that Mr Wardle used a word list of 400 words of his own choosing, I’ll see if I can find the reference.

I've noticed there are no pluralised 4 letter words etc
 
Cartus said:
My first word gave me two yellows, I just couldn’t think of a word that fitted so I left it for a few hours. On my return I almost immediately thought of one word that worked…bingo! 5 greens in two goes. :) (That's not a spoiler!)

I seem to remember reading that Mr Wardle used a word list of 400 words of his own choosing, I’ll see if I can find the reference.

I've noticed there are no pluralised 4 letter words etc
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The word list is apparently also available on his website — beyond my skill to access even if I wanted to :(.
 
Cartus said:
I've noticed there are no pluralised 4 letter words etc
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Ah, that’s a difference from Wordlegame then as “s” plurals are allowed, eg “frogs”.
 
3Y from my first word. Thought of 2 common words that would fit, and typically guessed the wrong one. The other was correct, so missed out on getting it in 2 for the first time.
 
Retune said:
3Y from my first word. Thought of 2 common words that would fit, and typically guessed the wrong one. The other was correct, so missed out on getting it in 2 for the first time.
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My 87 yr old Mum got it in 2 today ... :banghead:
 
4 today, I had 3 yellow on the first guess:)
 
5 but relatively quickly - not too much head scratching to get there (just several guesses!!!)
 
Some of us are doing different puzzles.
I couldn't understand why people were talking about US spelling until I saw a solution on twitter, for a different word from a different site. Totally different from mine.
 
I noticed that I was redirected this morning so had to "reject all" assorted NYT cookies. Hopefully it'll remember my preferences!
 
Cockney said:
Some of us are doing different puzzles.
I couldn't understand why people were talking about US spelling until I saw a solution on twitter, for a different word from a different site. Totally different from mine.
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Which one are you doing? It turned out I was doing https://wordlegame.org/ which has a U.K. spelling choice, 4-11 letter choices and unlimited “games” :(.
 
For the first time, I failed to get the word. I was using the powerlanguage website as usual. Having just seen Nod's NYT link I thought I’d try that and did rather well (I did have an idea of what it was!).

Presumably, the original site will be closed down and a charge be made to play? I do look at the NYT sometimes and like to play their 'spelling bee’ game, you can only get so far before you’re asked for a subscription, albeit a reduced one just for playing the games etc.
 
I leave the tab open and this morning it has change to the NYT one, so I assume the old one will just route to the new one automatically. Still has all my stats there.
 
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Cartus said:
Presumably, the original site will be closed down and a charge be made to play? I do look at the NYT sometimes and like to play their 'spelling bee’ game, you can only get so far before you’re asked for a subscription, albeit a reduced one just for playing the games etc.
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Yes
, I do the spelling bee too (prefer it to Wordle) and it’s annoying that just as get better than “good” they ask you to subscribe — I am a subscriber to the News version but that doesn’t get you games etc (Food & maybe others). The Sudoku might be free because it’s listed as “other”.
 
Shock ... 3 today, 1G+1Y, 3Y+1G, 5G
 
Mine has changed to NYT also, no ads or asking for monies just yet. Got a 3 on this one - what I have noticed is my streak was reset, still showing my old one as max streak [33] but now my current streak is 2 and I never skipped a day :/
 
sphexx said:
Since the old one is still running today it’s possible to cheat by using both, they have the same word :(.

No doubt the old one will be removed.
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I had the original link in my favourites bar and when I clicked on it this morning, I was redirected automatically to the NYT site. Probably around 08:00. Stats appar to have carried over from the old home.
 
Nod said:
I had the original link in my favourites bar and when I clicked on it this morning, I was redirected automatically to the NYT site. Probably around 08:00. Stats appar to have carried over from the old home.
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I haven’t had a redirect but I already had the tab open and currently have both tabs open.

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I’ve just refreshed my ”Wardle” page and that has gone to NYT but maintained my stats.
 
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Normal 4 again today, got of to a bad start but sometimes rejected letters help as much as right ones. 1Y, 1G 1Y, 3G 1Y, 5G.
 
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