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A bit of fun - WORDLE. (NB, US spelling!) No spoilers please
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Update. SCORDLE says there are 2 words I could have chosen at third line but the other one I have never heard of and Wiki says it it is Swiss French! Maybe it’s used in the US since it relates to a geographical feature not found in UK
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4 today. One of those annoying ones. After 3rd there were 3 possibles so I knew it was solvable, just a .after of luck whether it was 4,5 or 6:
Update: I was wrong, SCORDLE says there were 4 possible though one is a word I’d never heard of and is apparently derived from the patois of slaves. Of course it may not be in the word list!
In the Letter Boxed game today when I was stuck I entered MUND while just thinking around and it was accepted! No idea what it is in English, it seems very Germanic.
Update: I was wrong, SCORDLE says there were 4 possible though one is a word I’d never heard of and is apparently derived from the patois of slaves. Of course it may not be in the word list!
In the Letter Boxed game today when I was stuck I entered MUND while just thinking around and it was accepted! No idea what it is in English, it seems very Germanic.
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Ad free for me and 4 today.
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It’s interesting about the ads. I guess it shows it was a smart move to pick up Wordle. There are no ads on any of their other games so I suspect Wordle gets more players and so worth putting ads on.
The other games are partially free as a hook to get people to subscribe to them.
The other games are partially free as a hook to get people to subscribe to them.
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I like Spelling Bee but so far they haven’t enticed me. Do do Letter Boxed?
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I do Spelling Bee and Letter Boxed…..
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No just wordle, spelling bee and the ‘mini’ but I’ll checkout letterbox!
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Editor’s Note: It wasn’t just you. Friday’s Wordle was the hardest in a while, with only 41 percent of users able to solve compared with the normal 99 percent. We’re learning a lot about how people solve Wordle, and we’ll use that information the next time we take a look at the solutions list. |
In the meantime, here’s a short explanation on how we use failures in the average guesses data: Not every X/6 is treated the same way! When a player doesn’t get the answer in six turns, WordleBot estimates how many more turns it would take to solve the puzzle based on how many potential solutions remain. So if there’s one possible solution, the player’s score would be seven. If there’s more than one, then the score goes up accordingly. You can find more information in the WordleBot 2.0 announcement. |
Hardest word: PARER, from Friday, Sept. 16. |
Average guesses: 6.32, with 3.81 percent solving in three or fewer. |
Easiest word: CHUTE, from Saturday, Sept. 17. |
Average guesses: 3.46, with 54.68 percent solving in three or fewer. |
The Wordle answers this week — Sept. 15 to Sept. 21 — were easier than last week’s answers. |
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4 for me after a bit of head scratching.
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Helpful hints. From the NYT but I think it’s a (general, ie News not Games) subscriber page. I didn’t know about the “baby” words, not sure how many there are in 5 letters:
All else being equal, the more common a word is (as measured by how frequently it’s appeared in The New York Times since 2010), the more likely it is to be a Wordle solution. On the other hand, plural nouns and past-tense verbs have rarely been solutions, so the bot considers these words to be less likely.
The bot also uses how often the word has appeared as a baby name in the United States because — in the roughly 400 Wordle games the bot has seen so far — words that are more likely to be interpreted as names rather than other meanings have been less likely to appear as solutions. (HARRY is one example.)
The bot’s estimates aren’t perfect, and just because a pattern has held in the past is no guarantee that it will hold in the future. But every week, the bot will update its understanding based on the previous week’s Wordles and adjust its probabilities accordingly.
One upshot of all this: The bot now has new favorite opening words, in both standard and hard mode. And these words may continue to change as the bot learns.
New opening words — for now
SLATE is now WordleBot’s top first pick in regular mode, replacing CRANE. And LEAST is the bot’s choice for hard mode, replacing DEALT.
(CRANE and DEALT are both still outstanding opening guesses, and the difference between the “best” opening guess and second best is miniscule.)
All else being equal, the more common a word is (as measured by how frequently it’s appeared in The New York Times since 2010), the more likely it is to be a Wordle solution. On the other hand, plural nouns and past-tense verbs have rarely been solutions, so the bot considers these words to be less likely.
The bot also uses how often the word has appeared as a baby name in the United States because — in the roughly 400 Wordle games the bot has seen so far — words that are more likely to be interpreted as names rather than other meanings have been less likely to appear as solutions. (HARRY is one example.)
The bot’s estimates aren’t perfect, and just because a pattern has held in the past is no guarantee that it will hold in the future. But every week, the bot will update its understanding based on the previous week’s Wordles and adjust its probabilities accordingly.
One upshot of all this: The bot now has new favorite opening words, in both standard and hard mode. And these words may continue to change as the bot learns.
New opening words — for now
SLATE is now WordleBot’s top first pick in regular mode, replacing CRANE. And LEAST is the bot’s choice for hard mode, replacing DEALT.
(CRANE and DEALT are both still outstanding opening guesses, and the difference between the “best” opening guess and second best is miniscule.)
