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

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In the past I used to use SCOREDLE ( https://scoredle.com/ ) where one enters the solution once you’ve found it, eg I’ve revisited it to enter a recent one:

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but I got a bit bored with all the, to me, impossible words it says could have been possibles—-BUT Idont know if they are actually in the NYT list!
 

Wordle Weekly Recap​

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Hardest word: BEEFY, from Thursday, Jan. 26​
Average guesses: 4.56, with 9.05 percent of players solving in three or fewer​
Easiest word: FLIRT from Friday, Jan. 28​
Average guesses: 3.42, with 58.14 percent of players solving in three or fewer​
The Wordle answers last week — Jan. 23 to 29 — were easier/harder than those from the week before.​

“easier/harder “ haha! I suspect someone has forgotten to strike out something in a template! :D
 
This week’s newsletter from the Wordle Editor says:
In the first month, I experimented with random and nonrandom methods for choosing answers, ultimately settling on a system that uses a random generator combined with some editorial organization of the word sequence through the week. In this system, I research and test each word for usage, familiarity and solvability before scheduling.​

He should know obviously but this conflicts with most sites which claim the list is fixed and the order in which the day’s word is picked is also fixed and that solutions never repeat - ie can’t be random!
 
sphexx said:
I’m not sure that’s quite the same thing*. It’s difficult to explain this if you have to be a subscriber to use WORDLEBOT but it only tells you how you’ve done after you’ve solved it (so it‘s no help in solving) and it knows the actual Wordle list of solutions rather than all possible words — though I think that list is widely available :(.

WORDLEBOT also can guess if you are using hard or easy mode

Some things we know of course. NYT biases towards US spelling (not exclusively), excludes words Americans think ‘rude’ plus I think some like “slave” as non-PC, and most (all?) plurals that are formed just by adding “S”.


* Guessing you may mean https://www.crosswordsolver.org/ which was the firat one that came up in my Google searcch.
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I think I clicked on it on the first day and then was unable to see it. I just wondered if there was another bot somewhere else. I suppose you could use that crossword solver after the event by going in and seeing at say, the second attempt, how many options there were.

Sometimes I really struggle to think of a word that fits, and I suppose that probably means I've done a good job of eliminating possibilities. I prefer that to having too many options.
 
An easy 3 today. BXXXO followed by a lucky XBBBO which left few (2?) possibilities so OOOOO.

SCOREDLE WORDLEBOT says only 13 left after my starter again — lucky 13?

EDIT to correct that it was the BOT! Getting myself confused with all these similar names ;(.
 
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Bebop said:
I think I clicked on it on the first day and then was unable to see it. I just wondered if there was another bot somewhere else. I suppose you could use that crossword solver after the event by going in and seeing at say, the second attempt, how many options there were.
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SCOREDLE works for that. Although it seems to produce a lot of ‘non-words‘ (IMHO) the ‘real’ ones are easy to spot.
 
A 3 for me too -with no help from Scoredle! :P:P:P
yxyxy morphed into yyxxg then I decided to aim for the solution rather than try to find more letters. A lucky guess hit the spot! FWIW, the word I was going to try to find more letters would have been a blank!
 
sphexx said:
SCOREDLE works for that. Although it seems to produce a lot of ‘non-words‘ (IMHO) the ‘real’ ones are easy to spot.
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There were a lot of words in your example that I didn’t know … perhaps they are scientific and hopefully would never crop up.

Nod said:
A 3 for me too -with no help from Scoredle! :p:p:p
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Well there would be no fun in letting Scoredle do the work for you :ROFLMAO: well done on a 3. Not an easy one today I’d have thought.

A 4 for me after drawing a blank on the first word.
 
Scoredle isn't an option for me - I don't subscribe to the NYT!

After the second guess, the 2 ys almost had to be where they ended up so I didn't have many options - the first one that sprang (OK, limped!) to mind proved to be the correct one.
 
Nod said:
Scoredle isn't an option for me - I don't subscribe to the NYT!

After the second guess, the 2 ys almost had to be where they ended up so I didn't have many options - the first one that sprang (OK, limped!) to mind proved to be the correct one.
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Sometimes there seems to be a lot of luck involved. My third word today, I could see at least two options, but I suppose both would have been equally informative. Then there were at least 2 options for the 4th word, so my 4 was lucky.
 
Nod said:
Scoredle isn't an option for me - I don't subscribe to the NYT!

After the second guess, the 2 ys almost had to be where they ended up so I didn't have many options - the first one that sprang (OK, limped!) to mind proved to be the correct one.
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SCOREDLE is not NYT. Very confusing all these ‘-OREDLES’ ㋡.
 
Bebop said:
There were a lot of words in your example that I didn’t know … perhaps they are scientific and hopefully would never crop up.
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That’s what I mean about “non words”!
Bebop said:
Well there would be no fun in letting Scoredle do the work for you :ROFLMAO: well done on a 3. Not an easy one today I’d have thought.
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SCOREDLE can only be used after you know the answer as you have to enter that first. It’s only (perhaps) indicating how lucky you were … or how stupid maybe ;( .
 
I know from seeing which words are acceptable in the the NYT “Letterboxed” and “Spelling Bee” that there are a lot of Yiddish and Spanish origin words they accept that we might not consider English and some spellings we might not accept — eg “nite” is OK.
 
A 5 for me today 2Y, 1G 2Y, 1G 2Y, 4G, 5G.
 
Bebop said:
Sometimes there seems to be a lot of luck involved. My third word today, I could see at least two options, but I suppose both would have been equally informative. Then there were at least 2 options for the 4th word, so my 4 was lucky.
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Very much so (WRT luck!) A lucky first guess can almost guarantee a 2 or 3 and so on down through the guesses, although there is some skill involved in avoiding reusing xs and ys in the same place... :headbang:
 
I normally don't do my Wordle late in the evening but as I'm out most of tomorrow I though I would give it a try, might have to keep it up if this is the result.
1G 2Y, 5G a 2
 
4 again for me. xxyxy then a new starter gave me xxxxg. Combining the 2 gave me xggxg and I guessed right for the 4.
 
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