Defend The Indefensible: Wordle

This garbage psy-op robot nonsense has taken over a significant percentage of my social media feeds. What's worse, its adherents seem to be extremely defensive about any and all criticism of their willful perversion of the signal-to-noise ratio. A pox on all of thee.

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Octordle is better

oh yes, I forgot to rant about the tiresome and inevitable copycat spinoffs that will continue for the rest of time

I think its neat that it's a one-a-day thing and everyone gets the same word. the communal aspect of that is cool & I like that it only asks for a couple minutes of your day. watching Twitter bitch about a word like TACIT is kinda fun

Tbh, I don't see it in my Twitter feed as much as I did a month ago, though I'm still playing and enjoying it. I usually do it when I'm making coffee in the morning, and I agree that it's nice to have a little 5-minute diversion once a day.

like I'm actually kind of charmed that there's a popular game that does NOT encourage people to play it as much as possible. makes me feel like someone actually respects my time

Agree with these last few, although these days I kind of enjoy the quordle challenge more. Someone I know described wordle itself as an amuse-bouche which I thought was fair and apt.

I stopped posting my 🖼 on social media a while back, probably only did it a few times anyway.

love wordle and only see it on socials a little any more.

Yeah, I've only ever shared a result a few times, but wgaf if people want to do it every day. It's better than seeing corny self affirmation graphics and other people's horoscope memes.

I play and enjoy, wouldn’t really think to post results on socials but I have a few Wordle pals with whom it is fun to compare experiences - feel a small dose of wholesome fun is allowed IMO

Was surprised when it was sold to the NYT for a “low six figure sum”, felt it was probably worth quite a bit more

I play and enjoy, wouldn’t really think to post results on socials but I have a few Wordle pals with whom it is fun to compare experiences - feel a small dose of wholesome fun is allowed IMO

Was surprised when it was sold to the NYT for a “low six figure sum”, felt it was probably worth quite a bit more

It’s an easy & fun puzzle to do over a cup of tea

The once-a-day release and the social aspect (plus the visual aspect of the squares &c) is the inspired part for sure, it’s been said enough times but during the pandemic these low-stakes communal experiences are particularly appreciated. Same goes for that spelling bee thing that I don’t play because not free (also I played a trial version and it said LING is not a word which anyone who’s ever done a crossword might have something to say about)

OP needs to get some perspective

what's psy op abt it?

i think its ok. what wins said about spelling bee, the creator of that needs a heavy punishment beating. most days

i will never take time from my busy important life to play a daily word game but i greatly like the way wordle's soothing untranslateable abstract pattern pops up to interrupt the relentless harshness of my war-torn TL its like visual ASMR from donald judd

Once I realized there was no skill involved, and heaps of luck, and few don't eventually guess the word, I quickly stopped playing. But I concede there's probably something soothing to that for some folks. Not everything has to be doing the Times crossword in pen with the timer going.

lest we forget (images lost to time):
mastermind, the game

^pvmic

played Mastermind a lot as a kid

anyway was coming here to agree with you all that Wordle hate is futile (and passe) in March 2022 but I did just see #WordleTheAlbum trending on UK Twitter so

Yes, let's reserve our hate for the Wordle Movie (coming spring 2024)

Sounds like a Pokemon character already.

I love Quordle and play it every day. So does my bf and my mom. Idk why anybody wouldn’t enjoy it except that they find people sharing their results tiresome, but it was fun the other day to scratch my head at JUNTO and Google “junto” and get back all these people on Twitter screaming “wtf is a JUNTO?!”

^seconded

It seems like the bulk of people came to Wordle very late in its run (the first time I remember seeing results shared en masse was somewhere in the 190s), so I have to imagine many of the most familiar words had already dropped off the list before people noticed it. I suspect it will be a very long time before we see a word repeated, but ones in common usage will be fewer and farther between until then.

I do find the copycats thing annoying as they spring up so quickly it feels cynical and like skilled people not busy enough in their job are just hanging around waiting for someone else to prove something is worth their precious time and effort. Ah wait this has kinda been my life MO minus the actual success and now I am too busy.

This garbage psy-op robot nonsense

look dude I understand not wanting to have any part of the latest trend but you clearly don't even understand what Wordle is

to be clear i'm not a Wordle "adherent" and i don't post about Wordle on social media - but it's really actually harmless

@ johnny fever are you suggesting that ..... we are running out of words after 200 games?

.....

Nope, I'm just guessing that Wardle, when developing the game, probably used a lot of commonly used words first before poring over his dictionary for stretching out the game's lifespan. NYT is still following the original game's numbering and wordlist afaik, so the words are only going to get more obscure before it circles around and gets easy again.

so its creator is called Wardle ffs

I feel this fact will have been discussed to death on corners of the web I've thankfully not encountered yet

some words that have already appeared as answers: rebut, humph, whelp, wooer, agora (last one removed by nyt). i'm guessing he randomised the list (of 2315 words, enough for over 6 years of gameplay), which was already had very obscure words filtered out by his girlfriend.

wooer some bullshit

Semantle is better

I like it because it's only once a day--it's impossible to develop the kind of addiction I have to internet Scrabble and internet backgammon. Half the time I forget to even check for that day's Wordle. I've done about 40--only got it in two once. I don't think I'd ever post on Facebook about it...though I do post Scrabble screenshots here and on Facebook.

It seems like the bulk of people came to Wordle very late in its run (the first time I remember seeing results shared en masse was somewhere in the 190s), so I have to imagine many of the most familiar words had already dropped off the list before people noticed it.

(xps & ledge has already got there first but)

I agree that this could happen (though have not paused to guess how many five letter words might be reasonably familiar to most people) but the 3rd and 4th Wordle answers were "sissy" and "humph"!

Can only imagine the reaction to those on Twitter now, "sissy" with a triple letter and a word I would not care to use in conversation unless very obviously joking, and "humph" right on the onomatopoeic word-or-not faultline (although I think it came up in Dordle or Quordle or Octordle recently).

(Yes I have been playing all 4 of these games lately; Wordle is a nice quick thing to do when you have a spare minute, and Quordle hits the a better sweet spot for actual puzzliness for me. Octordle is just too much, although possibly only because the UI is horrible and you can only see two of the words at once.)

Once I realized there was no skill involved, and heaps of luck

Half agree with this. One weird thing is that getting it in two (where's there's at least some reasoning involved) is more impressive than getting it in one (100% blind luck). I feel like I've used a lot of reasoning in the ones I've gotten in three and four.

I mean there’s the same amount of luck involved as other letter guessing games like wheel of fortune & hangman

xp yes, picking a second or third guess to eliminate as many alternatives as possible is definitely something you can do to improve on blind luck.

here's a few out of many non obscure words in the last 50 or so (apologies if anyone remembers this six years from now and complains about spoilers): hello, adult, rival, piece.

I'd say getting it in 2 is mostly just luck, though you can boost your chances a bit, and there can be a large amount of luck even with the 3s; if you're unlucky and/or don't pause to think through all the options you can lose, but most players will get there in less than 6 most days. So from the game design point of view Wordle is not perfect, but it's a fun enough pastime for a tea break, anyway.

And I admit when I see the green and yellow squares popping up I mostly think "nobody cares how many you got it in" (but yes, I've still talked about the day's puzzles online, so guilty too) but it's kind of nice to see the internet talking about something so harmless imo.

Working from home, I get to watch a TV quiz show called "Lingo".

This, basically, is the same as Wordle. Or so it seems.

I have not signed onto "Wordle" or anything similar, as the TV show is enough already.

(xp to self) Or, a month ago there were a lot of squares on my timeline and I'd think "nobody cares" but now there aren't so many, so when they do pop up it can be vaguely interesting to see if I can work backwards a bit to guess what word the poster started with.

(If I know them well enough to care at all what random words they typed into a webpage, which tbh is probably a stupid thing to think about at all.)

I just tried Semantle! God it is hard. I guessed the second-closest word on my 25th guess then spent my next twenty guesses on variations of that word instead of... something immediately adjacent to that word

Wordle is fine. I'm less interested in it now that it's on the Times website, and presumably will be paywalled soon. I still do them some days. It was fun when it was just a random web thing, sort of felt like a 90s internet throwback. I knew it wouldn't last that way.

I think its neat that it's a one-a-day thing and everyone gets the same word. the communal aspect of that is cool & I like that it only asks for a couple minutes of your day. watching Twitter bitch about a word like TACIT is kinda fun

Yeah, this. I don't post my own results on social media, but my wife and text them to each other every morning, and I'll occasionally chime in on someone else's Wordle post. I think it's a charming little game, with a charming little backstory, and it's charming that the dude got a million bucks from the NYT for something he made just for fun. Hard for me to see the harm.

my wife and I, that should say.

man alive otm

the original site's code was 100% client-side so you could just save the webpage to your computer and it would work offline for another 6 years until it runs out of words. i.e. it was made in a way thats impossible to paywall. the times basically just bought the name & idea.

My favorite thing was the pissy person on Twitter who scraped the word list from the code and made a bot that would post spoilers for tomorrow's word on everyone's results, I have never been irritated by something so much that it made me go out of my way to be an ass to people I don't know

i found the posts a little annoying at first, but now i don't care

I like it. It's like when people used to do the crossword on their commutes but now they do it before they start their day WFH

That person is a cunt but that was kinda funny, also the fact that they got banned within like a day - Twitter does have community standards! xp

yeah 100%

taylordle.com

Once I realized there was no skill involved, and heaps of luck, and few don't eventually guess the word

Getting the word is a given, the fun part is getting it in as few tries as possible imo.

I usually do it within a few moments of waking up, posting squares is lame though.

not skill but knowledge, the bigger your vocabulary the better obv

Wordle is mmorpg daily quests for boomers and the NYT ruling class. And that's okay.

I do wordle and quordle every night and have a running competition with my partner. It's become a midnight routine. Agree with a passing spacecadet that quordle is the copycat that feels like a real game and not a gimmick. Octordle is just ridiculous for the sake of it. And the quordle UI is good, they've gotten it so the whole playing board fits on your screen at once

I dislike the culture of secrecy-at-all-costs around wordle. People can get so weird about acknowledging any aspect of the word itself, even if it's like deep in someone's Twitter replies where no one would go if they hadn't already done the word that day. People will get weird when someone else types out yesterday's word. Can only assume this type of person is aroused by the inherent taboo of wordle

those are the same people that say "you telling me you enjoyed the show is a spoiler!!!"

run through wordle, quordle and octordle at midnight - it's not really rewarding at this point but it's like doing sudoku on my phone when I'm waiting around staring at the wall. Five minutes to run through all three, a miniscule serotonin hit at having won something.

I am obsessed with sedecordle now

If ever a word should have been solved in one try--I took five--it's "karma." Sorry, John Lennon.

It seems like the bulk of people came to Wordle very late in its run (the first time I remember seeing results shared en masse was somewhere in the 190s), so I have to imagine many of the most familiar words had already dropped off the list before people noticed it.

I thought the dude (and his partner) pared down the list to 2,500 or so familiar five-letter words, and then hit a randomizer that essentially set the word list for the next 6+ years. So there's no reason to think that earlier words were any more familiar than current or later ones.

Someone mentioned that upthread. I didn't know the backstory.

https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/does-wordle-prove-that-we-can-have-nice-things-on-the-internet

Wardle's background is interesting.

If Place sounds like a minimalist conceptual-art project, that may be because Wardle trained as a minimalist conceptual artist. He grew up in South Wales and moved to Oregon, in 2008, to get an M.F.A. in digital art. One of his few non-digital pieces, an installation in a physical gallery, was called “This Button.” People who entered the gallery saw a red button on a pedestal, and a timer showing how long it had been since the button had been pressed. “Imagine you walk in, alone, and the timer has been going for two days, and counting,” Wardle said recently. “You’re faced with a choice—you can have the momentary satisfaction of pressing the button, but you’ll be throwing that streak away, erasing all the restraint of however many strangers came before you. I found that to be an interesting tension.” His classmates didn’t. “They just walked up one by one, pressed the button, and went, ‘I don’t get it.’ ”

Place sounds like yourworldoftext. Speaking of which, does it (and its 77 page) still exist?

How common is it not to get the word in six attempts? Has anyone ever not managed to solve it?

My wife tipped me off to Heardle, which asks you to guess the song in as few tries as possible, with each attempt offering a little bit more of the track. The two I've done so far were different degrees of frustrating. The first stumped me a few tries in, until I guessed it was Marilyn Manson's "Beautiful People," which was wrong; it turned out to be Kanye's "Black Skinhead," which I had only heard once years ago but which bears a striking resemblance to the Manson song. The second one I eventually guessed correctly was Ariana Grande, but only after I got to her voice, plus the fact that I half remembered she had a hit that interpolated "My Favorite Things."

xp -- I've missed one in 65 played

thanks for the heads up, this looks very tantalizing - but you gotta promise: no more spoilers from now on!

xp to Josh re Heardle

Xp to getter - I've missed 2 out of 72 played. Generally get them in 3 or 4 though.

I’ve been playing it for a few months and missed the word once

The other day I got it on my first attempt- logically I understand this indicates nothing but luck, and getting it in two is far more impressive - but it was a real rush!

the only one I've missed is "VIVID"...I actually had to abandon it because I could not think of a single word that fit what I had left. the double letters are really tricky!

I think that's the one I missed.

I eventually got it, but it took me a long time to puzzle out.

I gave up on wordle about a while back, tried heardle for a few days but realised I was so out of touch with current music it was largely pointless, I tried a country one that was just guessing really...

So the only one I'm doing at the moment is worldle, which gives you the silhouette of a country and tells you how far away in distance you are from the right place. Without scale for context it can be quite tricky - the other day I just couldn't work out which Polynesian island it was in time.

My favorite thing was the pissy person on Twitter who scraped the word list from the code and made a bot that would post spoilers for tomorrow's word on everyone's results, I have never been irritated by something so much that it made me go out of my way to be an ass to people I don't know

― castanuts (DJP), Wednesday, March 2, 2022 11:05 AM (six days ago) bookmarkflaglink

lol this is geniusly evil

todays quordle was bullshit tbh

Seemed ok to me? Spoiler tag which one u don’t think is a word

i found today’s quordle tricky but not junto tricky

lost at wordle for the first time a couple weeks ago. casualty of hard mode where i had something like SPI_E on the third turn and it could have been SPITE or SPIKE or SPINE or SPICE but i didn't have enough rounds to check all 4 and was locked in. i've been reconsidering hard mode ever since, because ideally what you'd want to do in that situation is burn a move on like, TRICK which would narrow it down to something solvable within the 6 turns. but the fact that it's called "hard mode" keeps my ego from turning it off

i was pretty proud of my point histogram with modal score of 3 (just barely) in 100 games but i saw some smart people posting their histograms on twitter and was kind of shocked--one guy had median score of 3

I’ve never turned “hard mode” on but I don’t need to cause I will never play any other way, I hate strategy & don’t want to make guesses that aren’t real guesses. I don’t mind if I lose this way

Also doubt it makes the game appreciably harder except in that 1 time in 100 that you really haven’t narrowed down the possibilities within 5 guesses

Conversely I love playing non hard mode and trying to find just the right word to eliminate as many possibilities as, er, possible.

I’ve never turned “hard mode” on but I don’t need to cause I will never play any other way, I hate strategy & don’t want to make guesses that aren’t real guesses. I don’t mind if I lose this way

this, i want each guess to be "real"

hard mode definitely does make it harder since it constrains you (and creates the 'winner's curse' of getting too many letters right early on) (there is one way that hard more makes it easier which is blocking you from making mistakes) but imo it's not really the difficulty per se, but that it does so in a non-interesting way. in the sense that it blocks off subtle "two steps ahead" sacrifice type moves like the one i described above. wordle's a trivially easy game when you think of the goal as not losing; hard more on/off will only ever make the difference between a long-run win rate off 99% or 100%. but if you think of the goal as solve in 3 as often as possible its actually pretty tricky and thinking about it that way is what sustained my interest

i don't tweet the score and while the tweeting is obviously what made it viral i don't really see any communal aspect to it bc no one seems to interact with each other's wordle tweets they just post them into the void. having said that a friend texts me his score every morning and it's such a trivial thing but it's brought us closer

todays quordle was bullshit tbh

― Ár an broc a mhic (darraghmac), Tuesday, 8 March 2022 08:46 (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

100%

I would never in a million years have guess this to be a controversial quordle

Hello my name is Mikko an i am 8 year old,my record is now,snake2
2342,i am treining abaut 1/2 year.
[nokia 3310]
― Mikko, Friday, 1 August 2003 13:28 (eighteen years ago) bookmarkflaglink

from Snake and Snake 2 (greatest thread in the history of forums)

xps I always get wordle in 4, it’s become a running joke with my friend who I text scores with. Everyone’s getting 3s I’m a 4 guy

Another small pleasure is choosing a different start word every day, recently: mirth, abuzz, banjo, pixel, quack, zebra, cloud, bleak

I would never in a million years have guess this to be a controversial quordle

― wins, Tuesday, March 8, 2022 5:42 AM (fifty-two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

it's one of the few daily ones i've lost since starting a few weeks ago. combination of word with a rare letter "dozen" and (much worse) word with 3 of the same letter "poppy." it's hard to do if you didn't guess P early and often. none of the other words have a P but they all have rabbit holes you can go down (S_IFF, __AIL, _O_EN) and if you burn multiple guesses on any of them you're not going to have room to figure out poppy. my partner had the right idea with it but guessed "mommy" instead.

here's a practice quordle i had a while ago that was so brutal i had to save it:

4️⃣3️⃣ WHITE - SEIZE
7️⃣8️⃣ SHYLY - EPOXY

wordle freaks on twitter are going to riot when they get "shyly"

See I get that makes it slightly tricky but “bullshit” seems way off, nothing there that isn’t playing fair with the solver imo

fwiw I didn’t guess a P until I solved the puzzle on guess 7, & all I had in place was the O

idk I’ve only been playing quordle for a week and I still feel like I’ve done harder ones

I had the O in place and one P, and one guess left. Why I went for POOPY instead of POPPY I still don't know

this is typical hibernian-poking from wins, he likes to suggest that bogwandering paddies with my dialect dont speak the queen's correctly, i irge everyone to ignore this known troll

Just did quordle for the first time. Was sweating a bit at the end but got over the line. Not a bad performance for an over caffeinated wet-brained old div with hangover. I found it much easier than today's semantle.

thats right xp

I find quordle really easy and octordle and secordle easier still as after 12 guesses or whatever you can usually work out what all the words are

Has anyone ever used ‘eared’ as a standalone adjective, without ‘dog-‘ or ‘long-‘ or something preceding it? Because fuck you fake Wordle.

from reading the eiki on taonte ching yesterday i know that 'dan' means long ears fyi

got nothing else

wiki of tao te ching that is but

The commentary about today's Quordle made me go check it out:

7 5
4 6

🤷🏾‍♂️

I just solved an entire Octordle for the first time.

i don't tweet the score and while the tweeting is obviously what made it viral i don't really see any communal aspect to it bc no one seems to interact with each other's wordle tweets they just post them into the void. having said that a friend texts me his score every morning and it's such a trivial thing but it's brought us closer

― flopson, Tuesday, March 8, 2022 4:17 AM (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Yeah, this is the weird thing about the social-media virality: Because there's also a (socially enforced) prohibition against spoilers, it's impossible to do anything more than just post the score. There have been days when I have wanted to talk about the word or how I solved it, and the fact that it's such a communal activity makes me think that others would be interested, but the only permissible way to do that is to wait until the next day, when it no longer feels relevant.

We post scores in a channel on my work Slack and people discuss spoilers in threads; seems to work fine in a closed group, not so fine in a cowboy free-for-all environment like Twitter

I lost interest in Wordle, but like flopson there was a period where a couple friends were also doing it and we would group chat about it, it was nice (xp)

I just tried Worldle for the first time--looks fun in general, though today's was dead easy

So in the two weeks I've been doing worldle there have been about 4 I've known straight off the bat, and 3 or 4 I haven't got so there is a big variation.

Islands are tough, I've found, despite them being the ones that don't have any straight (ish) lines.

yeah yesterday was an island and I was completely lost and guessing pacific islands at random

Today's was easy, possibly the most distinctive small country shape on the globe.

Often I don't "know" it but I have a vague recognition that at least leads me to the right continent/region and then I get it in a couple more guesses.

I could see it being impossible at times. Today's was funny because I've seen map representations of that country probably more times than any other I don't have a personal connection to

Often I don't "know" it but I have a vague recognition that at least leads me to the right continent/region and then I get it in a couple more guesses.

That was me today, I knew what part of the world it was but not which country.

This one's quite fun. Try and go as many rounds as possible without guessing the word (you have to stick with greens and use yellows and can't reuse incorrect letters already guessed)

https://lazyguyy.github.io/survivle/

today’s Heardle is so easy/famous/iconic, and yet it took me several skips. for some reason the answer was buried in my brain beneath “Damn, I Wish I Was Your Lover”.

The 1-second clip immediately triggered the artist for me, but then I played it again and it sounded less familiar, and I wondered why I'd had that initial thought. It took a couple of skips before I realized I'd been right all along.

seems to me that the octordle is actually easier than the quordle because of the extra guesses.

i've found that pretty much any quordle is solvable if you just burn your first 3 guesses on 15 common letters. i imagine octordle is even easier if you do that. but that's no fun.

I think these kind of games are more fun if you're not being too strategic about it. Just enter whatever 5 letter word pops into your mind and go from there. I was listening to the new Ghost album so started with 'devil'.

Yeah I saw some people trying to work out the best first guess and to me that takes the fun out of it

Finally missed one today, got the last 4 letters in 3 but guessed wrong on the first three times

same tbh

First guess, I just wing it too--maybe try to get an 'e' or 'a' in there.

same, had the last 4 letters on guess 3, but picked the wrong choice every damn time.

I immediately went into letter elimination mode and still had to guess in order to get it in 6

if your goal is to get some 2's then you're better off using different and arbitrary first guesses every day rather than sticking to one optimal one, a stopped clock is only right twice a day whereas a clock thats completely freaking out could be right more often. this is more fun than using something like RAISE to optimize getting it in 3 every time

Heardle is not exactly trying to make things difficult, its database seems to consist of 21st century smash hits only, but I’m still pleased I got my first one-go answer today.

Heardle annoyed me when I hit a few songs I only knew from the radio and they played the intro that I hadn't ever heard before (like the Ariana Grande one from several days ago).

I am planning a new game that just makes you guess Roger McGuinn songs

Byrdle

A game where you have to identify the species of faeces - Turdle

A game where you have go guess how many days the milk is past its use-by date - Curdle

No doubt these all actually exist

I am reliably informed there is one just for hockey player names and it is called Gordle

Would definitely play a game where you have to jump over a number of obstacles in order to discover the name of an American film producer whose illustrious Hollywood career was responsible for The Terminator, Aliens and Dante’s Peak among others

iswydt

so, today’s Worldle…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hzrDeceEKc

Haha I guessed right first try today! (For one of the quordle words, that is, but still) feeling like my luck is finally in

great synergy between Heardle and Wordle today

was playing the solution to Heardle and feeling inspired, I entered “shoes” in Wordle. that wasn’t it, but I did get it in two

Heardle's list of possible guesses continues to irritate me. They have zero Beyonce songs (yet several Destiny's Child songs?), zero Maroon 5 songs, zero Weezer songs... there is like no rhyme or reason as to what's in there.

zero Maroon 5 songs, zero Weezer songs... there is like no rhyme or reason as to what's in there.

I am planning a new game that just makes you guess Roger McGuinn songs

Byrdle

― jenny from the blockchain (Ye Mad Puffin)

I missed this at the time but there is a spinoff called Byrdle already, it is wordle for choral geeks and I love it.

There's definitely some Beyonce songs as Halo was the answer the other day xps

Huh, I searched for Beyonce and zero songs came up

Might have been the only one as looks like songs are removed from the song list once they've been the song of the day (yesterday's song no longer appears in the search for example)

two heardles in a row in the first second, i am a sad man

https://framed.wtf/

Framed #13
🎥 🟥 🟩 ⬛ ⬛ ⬛ ⬛

https://framed.wtf

It's funny how Worldle will jump from painfully obvious to virtually impossible. Like when it was brazil recently, I was like "come the fuck on." But then another recent one was BOUVET ISLAND, which I had never even heard of and basically just looks like a little, smooth, round bump.

today's was much more in the painfully obvious category

I'm usually not so good at this kind of stuff but somehow for a movie I saw once in the theatre years ago:

Framed #13
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https://framed.wtf

Second one does kind of give it away.

Today's Framed was obvious from the first and the previous of days obvious from the second. I've only been doing it this week.

The Worldle game was much too difficult for me.

Today's framed took me two tries since I never saw the movie. They should make something like this that checks your letterboxd and only quizzes you for movies you've already seen.

Worldle is the one of these I've found the most fun. Any game that ends up making me spend 15 minutes reading the wikipedia article on Svalbard is good.

You're a Fjord Explorer

I love that about Worldle too - all these tiny island groups and making me realize I generally know where countries are by their name and not their outlines! Like, who knew Guernsey was its own actual thing - I really had no idea except it had cows and sweaters, so I thought it was some chunk of the UK.

I only play Wordle, Tradle, and Poeltl

lol I got Poeltl in 1.

oh, Tradle looks like a fun one!

The thing about Wordle is it appears to be the Rich Man's Word game.

There are much tougher word games that are so conspicuously competitive but all of these assholes posting to social media don't want to be humiliated by people who do something much more difficult.

Difficulty is just one aspect of a game, young padawan

Worldle in 1 today.

Worldle has taught me that I don't know anything about geography and also there are a lot of islands.

But my boyfriend couldn't get Mexico the other day, that was nice. He usually beats me.

Watching "lingo" this week, one young couple were amazing, usually I can guess the word just before they do, but not once was I ahead of them.

Worldle in 1 today.

― Ace of Base Are Belong To Us (Leee), Saturday, March 26, 2022 11:14 AM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Wow. I felt lucky to get it in 3, since there's no way I would've made it my first guess.

When I was studying geography for LL, I made a point of the remembering its shape and arrangement, but even then, I wasn't sure about it today.

“

“A virtuoso performance!”
Awww, you’re too kind, but no.
Wait till after I’ve recorded my next album

Wordle 281 3/6*

⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

damn, what a guess!

Wordle 281 3/6

⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

It was, probably, the only possible answer.

Wordle 281 6/6

⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩
⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩
⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨
🟨⬜⬜🟨⬜
⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

It made me so angry.

Wordle 281 6/6

⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩
⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩
⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩
⬜⬜⬜🟩🟨
⬜⬜🟨🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

it def threw me for a loop. I thought I had the only possible solution at 5/6, turns out there was another one

Wordle 281 3/6

⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

After seeing the vowel situation, the right answer was pretty obvious.

Also got Quordle with three guesses left and Octordle with two guesses left. My best -ordle day yet.

well, like I said I went with a different correct word including said vowel (but at a different position) first. it wasn’t totally clear cut

Got the last four, thought I had it sorted, picked the wrong first letter, ugh.

GLYPH?

👍🏻

that was my guess #3, got it on the next one

lol @ today's worldle

I got it!

*Phew*

today's wordle was great

I rest my case

We're just defending the indefensible.

Lol, I tried oomph and glyph before getting nymph. Not many words end that way!

Also lymph

And crypt.

And tryst.

sorry, those are not -PH words.

Ahh, I got stuck in words where Y is the only vowel land. In that case, SYLPH.

Worldle in 1 today.
― Ace of Base Are Belong To Us (Leee), Saturday, March 26, 2022 11:14 AM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Wow. I felt lucky to get it in 3, since there's no way I would've made it my first guess.

― jaymc, Saturday, March 26, 2022 3:02 PM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink

Oops, just realized I misread "Worldle" as "Wordle." Carry on.

I got Sunday's in two, happened to set myself up with a good opening word (which gave me the first letter and also eliminated a bunch of vowels). Monday's however, is my least favorite type. I eked it out in 6, but that was still lucky because I was picking from among several possible words at that point. It nearly wrecked my streak!

Dang, I didn't get the wordle today for the first time (broke my streak of 81). It was one of those dumb ones where I had 5 of the letters early on, and was reduced to guessing one of the million words with a different starting letter.

yeah, i had to do a Wordle well breaker (enter a word that contains numerous possible letters to sniff out the last remaining letter that you need) for the first time ever to get today's

got the poeltl on the first guess today

I really should have done that!

yeah, i had to do a Wordle well breaker (enter a word that contains numerous possible letters to sniff out the last remaining letter that you need) for the first time ever to get today's

― Murgatroid, Monday, March 28, 2022 12:47 PM (twenty-six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Yep, that's what I did. The word I used was HIMBO.

Haha. I was just very convinced it would be WOUND and not FOUND, since they don't tend to use many verbs that are just conjugations. Maybe I'm reading too much logic into the word selection.

There are two different answers today: mine was stove but some others got harry instead.

I was wondering how people were taking so many guesses with just the 4th letter to get

Are some people still on powerlanguage instead of nyt?

Interesting. I can't get to powerlanguage, it redirects.

I think it still works if you've never closed the tab.

Ah, good point!

Appears NYT fucked up again by deciding to remove a word (the name one) but people whose browsers hadn't refreshed still got it.

what? is it prejudiced against harolds?

Oh man so this is the influence of that spelling bee puzzle that decides words aren’t words anymore even tho they are definitely words

Hats off to Sam.

I regret to inform you that we as a society have crossed the --ordle rubicon. https://t.co/tIxYZSbM6X

— Ken Tremendous (@KenTremendous) March 30, 2022

I decided to try Quordle and over the course of a week I've learned like 7 new words

Feel like as it gets higher than Quordle it gets easier but maybe more tedious.

once you get like 12+ guesses it's just a game of word scramble

Yup

Oh man so this is the influence of that spelling bee puzzle that decides words aren’t words anymore even tho they are definitely words

― wins, Wednesday, March 30, 2022 10:13 AM (thirteen hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Sure, it's a word, but it's not a very good word to use as the correct answer for a word-guessing game. Although if they also removed it from the list of guessable words, that would be dumb.

I can't get to wordle using Chrome, only Safari

for me today it was the fourth letter - stole, stoke, stone, stove, store - those words with multiple one-letter substitutions are where I fail

see above for “well breaker” (?) advice

Yes but hard mode

hard mode is dumb mode in situations like this

I like it as it ups the stakes. Sometimes means it's pure luck if you guess the remaining letter in time but not using it means you basically never fail.

^this. I don' think I even have hard mode on but still usually play it that way most of the time.

I do use the well-breaker idea for the 4 and 8 word versions though.

I don't have hard mode turned on but that's just how I've always played it anyway. (I'm not a purist or anything, I just like trying to guess the actual word.)

Right. Plus I don't really like the pressure of having to always get it every day. It's generally easy enough as it is and I don't want to stress about it if I can help it.

I don't stress about it but I will still be sad when my streak ends.

Wordle in 2 today :)

Today had me asking aloud if shart was a word

That "Lingo" TV show accepted "Spunk" as a legitimate word answer attempt, last week.

That was spunky of them.

The Mary Tyler Moore Show Thread (Love Is All Around)

Think today was my favorite octordle yet. Quordle was fine too.

quordle and octordle are fun puzzles. sedecordle (16 words) is a bit less fun since it doesn't fit easily on my screen so i lose track of which letters are ruled out or in. i start with a 3 word well-breaker that covers 15 letters including all vowels. from there i can solve the puzzles usually with 1 or 2 spaces left. nice low stakes mental break during the day.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/upshot/wordle-bot.html

This is a fun addition but not sure how much to trust its skill metric!

fun quordle today

yeah it had one which 1) I didn't know was an actual word and 2) never would have gotten even if I did

Quordle games where one word refuses to play along

whoa, Tradle in one today 🧧

(thank you, rather big clue!)

Constantly struck by the framed master list having such a range of interesting movies when the answers never even go slightly leftfield. Obv ideally you want a balance but today is the 3rd fucking Edgar wright film since I started playing and I’ve been playing for about 2 weeks

Heardle on the other hand seems to be putting a lot of work in expanding its data set: whereas before it looked like almost exclusively big US hits from this century, now you have much older stuff like Led Zep’s “Immigrant Song” popping up, but also things like Daft Punk’s “Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger” (influential, but not a big US chart hit) and even, earlier this week, Koffee’s “Toast”. Makes things a lot more interesting obviously.

quordle in 5 today, fairly confident I'll never surpass this

Daily Quordle 80
2️⃣3️⃣
5️⃣4️⃣
quordle.com
⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨⬜🟨⬜🟨
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩⬜⬜⬜🟨
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜
🟩⬜⬜⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛

Very impressive

Very impressive

https://www.redactle.com/

this one is a semantle like challenge. Or at least today's is. I'm guessing the difficulty could vary a lot.

350 guesses! For some reason I found Redactle a lot more palatable than Semantle.

nice idea, but the interface is off-putting

133! climate at guess 80, anthropocene at 102. And now I know what the holocene actually is. I enjoyed that - maybe more than if it had taken me 350 guesses!

I solved today's Redactle (#10) in 187 guesses with an accuracy of 43.85%. Played at https://www.redactle.com/

what happens in redactle when you have something like "XXX, 000"? or things that are obviously years?

You can keep guessing the unit before and after commas if you want but don’t think it’s a very worthwhile use of a guess. I did wonder similar when I thought the point of the game was to fill every blank rather than just get the title.

I got today’s in 29 but once I’d got it I realised I really should have got it sooner.

> just get the title.

what the what?

never would've got that without looking it up, not a part of history i'm familiar with. i ended up getting the song title at the end and that had a connection to the article title, almost...

although it now occurs to me that alba was talking about 'yesterday's' redactle, given that it changes like mid-afternoon.

16:00 UTC it changes, which is 5pm in bst.

the one i did was #12 incan emperor

Oh yes, I was talking about The Washington Post, which I should have got sooner after spotting D.C. on my eight go, but I forgot about newspapers for some reason despite working for one

(i looked at the source, there's a gamelist.js which does it right - a base64 encoded list. i decoded them all, and none of them were the one i just did!)

I thought that I'd stumbled on something very smart by entering 0-9, but then that only works if those digits appear on their own, and long strings of numbers are counted as single words.

Redactle #12 in 5 tries, most likely I will never again achieve such a thing in my life

Incredible. I got it in 77 after googling the title... is that cheating?

Also lost my 110 wordle streak today.

Yeah, my second Wordle fail today: I have no strategy for twin wells.

There is a strategy it's called not hard mode. But for some reason I chose to keep guessing.

I managed to guess it thanks to a little bit of luck but I'm becoming more convinced that hard mode doesn't encourage more strategic thinking.

I was considering doing a well-breaker, but then decided to go with the first thing that came to mind, and bingo!

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/upshot/wordle-bot.html

This is a fun addition but not sure how much to trust its skill metric!

― Alba, Saturday, April 9, 2022 2:36 AM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

i've been checking it every day and it's definitely kinda stupid:
Your guess cut the number of remaining solutions to one. But there were some other words that could have been better — guessing ROWDY here, for example, will usually eliminate more solutions than FRYER. And you’ve narrowed it down to one possible solution. You should solve the puzzle on your next turn.
??? (and it gave my guess a score of 0, harsh. i probably should've tried [what the actual answer was] instead of what i guessed, but it was still only one letter off, and better than the word they chose...)

i get that burning a lot of letters and ignoring your greens and yellows is probably the most "optimal" way to play, but no one plays like that. and it sounds so snobby as it shames you for not burning your second guess on an unwinnable word. fuck off wordlebot! probably would be easy to just program it to play hard mode style until it gets to a point where burning letters would make more sense - weigh winnability vs the need for a well-breaker etc

anyway today's wordle fucked a lot of people up huh, i was the only one in my immediate family who didn't get it wrong

Redactle #13 in 14 - pleased with that

How the hell?! I took 109!

i gave up after 200ish. had the entire first sentence minus the two important words.

(there doesn't seem to be a way of giving up, but i googled and found it)

How the hell?! I took 109!

I had prophet at 75 and it took me another 145 guesses lol, hope I won't make that mistake again.

Got it (my first full attempt) in 278 - but it should have been 165 (basic spelling error: I wrote “prophesy” - so I thought I had already tried the word, to the extent I was actually looking for clues (here I stand, the Cheater) in the Wikipedia entry in question, blissfully unaware, convinced that it would have to be something very similar…)

Alba, that's awesome! I didn't really think to peruse the punctuation for clues.

539(!) for today's Redactle!

Redactle #14 in 45 with 73% accuracy. Woo hoo.

I solved today's Redactle (#14) in 67 guesses with an accuracy of 62.69%.

lol I'm perfectly willing to admit that I may just be bad at it.

(Z)-3-acetoxy-heptadeca-1,9-diene-4,6-diin-8-ol

fml

done in 155

23! Like Alba yesterday the punctuation gave some clues - (██████ ██████ █████. ███████) looked like it could be the Latin name of some living thing, and (█)-█-███████-█████████-█,█-█████-█,█-████-█-██ suggested something chemical, so I started trying food-related words and got there pretty quick

i got all the colours in the first para quite quickly but couldn't connect the dots, went with flowers and got nowhere

damn you all for alerting me to the existence of redactle

I did yesterday’s Redactle with Kevin; as they drop at 5pm UK time, it’s a pleasant cocktail hour interlude. He got the answer ahead of me, and shamefully I kept vetoing it until he insisted.

yeah one of my favourite things about Redactle is that it refreshes at a different time to all the other *dles

#15 has some weird formatting that makes viewing certain parts hard to read.

I solved today's Redactle (#15) in 338 guesses with an accuracy of 34.32%. Played at https://www.redactle.com/

15 ████████ ████ 127 30.71%

ugh this one's taking forever even though I basically know what it is, after getting yesterday's in 11.

same! I have the first word and I know what it is also known is, but I'm just going through everything that could be plausible for the second word and so far it's none of them

got it in the end - that was annoying

got the redactle in 120. I feel like I should have gotten in about half as many. I knew broadly in what category of thing it was pretty early thanks to some lucky guesses, but somehow couldn't quite figure it out.

I eventually got Inclined with about five minutes to go but couldn’t summon up plane. 518 guesses what a joke.

I got it in 18 after a lucky early guess of 'normal' which was clearly used in a geometrical sense. And the previous one in 44, I guessed 'sun' after I heard it in a cartoon my kids were watching, which revealed something being 'in ____ sun', clearly 'full' and therefore plant related.

today's Redactle features a reference to a landmark that's in the scheme I grew up in!

yeah, lots of maths in the inclined plane one and was helped slightly by the "An" before it in the first line which narrows it down to starting with a vowel. should've got it earlier tbh. the subscript confused me for a while. and the formatting glitches in the middle.

that's odd in redactle #16, it says there are two instances of artist but only one shows up when you click on it

Today's Octordle was certainly fun

redactle #16 in 314, somehow took me until guess #309 to try music and got it pretty quickly after that.

I solved today's Redactle (#16) in 117 guesses with an accuracy of 65.81%. Played at https://www.redactle.com/

I guess every dog has its day!

Phew, back on track

Redactle #16 in 32 guesses with an accuracy of 87.50%.

I solved today's Redactle (#16) in 84 guesses with an accuracy of 73.81%.

4 hours in, 365 words, and nowhere

at the stage where i'm just throwing around proper nouns

but never the right ones. gave up.

Octordle got me today. Not trying Redactle for a while after not being able to get CARROT the other day for whatever reason and then having that Homer Simpson moment.

Or should I h-tag that in case of archive usage.

I solved today's Redactle (#16) in 117 guesses with an accuracy of 65.81%. Played at https://www.redactle.com/

I guess every dog has its day!

― Born Sleeepy (Nuxx) (Leee), Friday, 22 April 2022 18:06 (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Also 117! I was just throwing nouns at it for a while but it was satisfying when I finally got a bite.

Today's Octordle was certainly fun certainly on theme with spinning 8s at the top

i couldn't see a way of getting at old redactles. would be interested in having a go at the first dozen that i missed, for practice

https://riddimstream-cdn.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/04/21101603/Rytikal-Twerk-single-scaled.jpg
#onethread

Redactle #17 in 33.

I solved today's Redactle (#17) in 66 guesses with an accuracy of 45.45%.

Surprised they are back on religion so quickly but once it seemed clear it was something with a long history I took a punt on church, helped by the Behind ——— ––– in the bibliography as Behind Closed Doors seemed an obvious fit and that seemed evocative of the Catholic church. Took me 21 goes to throw enough Catholic stuff at it to get cardinals then I was quite pleased the missing word wasn’t more esoteric than it turned out to be

Oh I see - each Redactle is randomly generated (from Wikipedia's 10,000 Vital Articles). I assumed the game’s creator was selecting it each day.

i wonder whether a similar thing using project Gutenberg's most popular books would be interesting? although looking at that list there are some things I'd never get, including 2 in tagalog inside the top 50

(redactle code talks to a server for session information and stats, ses.php / init.php. i think it's keeping your guesses there but i'll know more after 17:00 when it flips to the new one. wordle was a lot simpler and kept the state locally)

Makes sense if it's providing global stats. Meanwhile, I'm continuing to pull up the averages with a 385-guess effort today.

18 ???? 162 58.02%

I did it in 76. Good one.

i do have the tendency to fill in words that i really don't need to fill in. determined to know whether it's pope paul I or II or III or or IX or whatever when i don't really know the difference. ditto which century it is, fifth, sixth, seventh, who cares?

i did steer clear of typing 'bibliography' this time though.

Figuring out the relevant centuries has been helpful for me, but I also suck at this so. At least you can usually determine which millennium you're looking at based on the length of the word preceding "century"

Dammit, my boy is way better than me at Redactle. Carrot, Chopin, College of Cardinals, and even words that don’t begin with C, like today’s. Then again, I am way better than him at University Challenge. Complementary skills and all that.

got the redactle in 41 guesses today. A record for me I think.

got the wordle in two 3 days in a row now, my esp is activating

worldle has repeated a country for the third day on the trot, I think they've run out.

there were 5 year's worth of words in the original wordle code, but i don't know what changed when they got bought out

Aldo, did you pick up the update? It came up as a banner you could take or ignore recently.

today's redactle has me trying to remember lessons i took in 1986.

I got Redactle 19, but again, 305 guesses. Averages are WAY below that -- I guess that's pulled down by very few people getting the actual answer? IDK.

there were 5 year's worth of words in the original wordle code, but i don't know what changed when they got bought out

― koogs, Monday, April 25, 2022 11:21 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

It's basically the same code, except the NYT has removed a few words that it deemed either esoteric or offensive.

I tried taking the worldle update, maybe it didn't work?

Worldle answer was Costa Rica for me today, I don't remember getting it before though I occasionally forget to play so I have missed a couple.

19 ??????????? ???????????? 25 68.00%

one word within 20, the other word a complete (educated) punt.

the formatting is broken but doesn't really matter.

oh, aldo was talking about worldle, not wordle.

Teamwork on today’s Redactle: I got the second word, then he got the first. I was similarly taken back to A-level lessons, over 40 years ago and long forgotten.

Yeah I definitely had that Worldle answer before, and both Monaco and Uruguay from the previous two days.

Yeah I saw Monaco for the second time in Worldle, but I haven't been playing long enough to have seen any other dupes.

Gave up on today's Redactle at 96 because I didn't want to spend the next 19 hours in an inclined plane type situation. I did get distribution but after flexing my weak stats muscles for bit ran out of ideas for the first word

oh yeah, I definitely saw Costa Rica before. Maybe it's recycling, the source code link is on the ? page but I can't dig in to it until later.

I got today's Redactle in 12. Spotting what looked like a list of awards, I guessed "role" at 6, then "actor" and "actress". Then I saw repeated mentions of an italicised Out Of, which gave me "Africa" at 9. "Jane" (as in Fonda) was 10, "Streep" at 11.

Yup, stunned myself in 4. that italicised 'out of' in the intro set me off very early - basically just checked his or her.

Yesterday, tapped out at 41 had distribution, but had nothing after 'standard' beyond guessing plausible-sounding mathy things.

oh - a thought - if saying 'we got it super-quick' about today's is in itself a clue, pls mods delete post.

Redactle #20 in 22! I didn't notice Out of but the parenthetical in the beginning looked like a birth date, and a lucky guess of "she" led me down the right path for once.

19, I figured it might be out of Africa but decided to pussyfoot around first with actor (which didn't help), film, etc. also couldn't remember who was in it, and tried Jane (Fonda) and (Kathleen) Turner.

A Facebook friend got it in 3, again by spotting Out Of. So perhaps 2 is an attainable score today.

20 ????? ?????? 30 96.67%

had the gender and occupation wrong for the first 80%. 'eat' was my one 0 word

more wasted guesses on Here We Go Again when the ????? ???! had made that obvious

yeah 2 would have been possible if you squinted long enough at the awards section at the end, I got it in 7 but didn't really learn anything from my first couple of guesses

I spotted “Out of” but sexistly my mind went to Robert Redford so Robert was my first guess. Then I wasted a couple of goes with his and her. “Into the” was also there as a title but I couldn’t get “Into the Wild” out of my head. Woods!

you can drag your mouse over the rectangles and count the individual letters if you're careful

I got Redactle in 2. Actually, I got it in 3 because I stupidly typed both words for the first guess, which it turned into a single word with no space.

A vastly different experience from yesterday, when I used up 300+ guesses and never solved it. (I figured out "distribution," but not "exponential," even though I guessed "exponent" somewhere along the way.)

just wanted to say thread title warmed my heart

Got in 3 as well.

oh - a thought - if saying 'we got it super-quick' about today's is in itself a clue, pls mods delete post.

got it in 10, add me to the pile of africa-guessers, but then i saw "into the woods" as well and having no idea that she was involved in any production of that, took a roundabout route to the answer. i was thinking after yesterday's nightmare that i wish there was a version of redactle just for dumb assholes like me but maybe it would be too easy

feeling really dumb for having tried actor but not actress so then going in many wrong directions despite knowing that it was a woman, I had "she" and knowing that it had something to do with movies. Got it in 41.

in my experience 'him' / 'his' gets a lot of hits regardless

also 'that' and 'this'. it's odd they aren't in the common words list.

Redactle #21 in 108 guesses. "History" and "kingdom" kept me in the wrong discipline for a long time till I went for "science."

21 ??????? 174 44.25%

not great

spent too long fixated on it being a place name

147 for me. got “animal” very quickly, but couldn’t get many specifics in, which made sense in the end since it’s an umbrella term

My first Redactle experience was guessing "prophesy" ages before getting "prophecy", and it was so discouraging I almost gave up. But my scores have been ok since: 79 / 70 / 19 / 102 / 26 / 37 / 2 (!) / 34. I'm sure I'll waste an evening on one soon and want to give up.

36 today, mid-tier effort

Redactle #21 in 52, which tbh is one of my better efforts even if it is a bad score for most ilxors (my mind isn't great at going straight for possible answers but hey, I have fun filling in words to form clumps of meaning out of the murk all the same).

Still a bit annoying as I had tried the adjectival form around ~30 but thought I was looking for a more specific taxonomy-related word, of which I entered all the ones I could think of

yeah I got just 1 hit for zoologist and figured I should try a different tack

got it in 135 spent about 30 guesses knowing exactly what the answer was but just could not think of the word and was committed to not cheating like i normally do

17 for #21 - animal was an early guess, which got me 'kingdom' in the first paragraph

#22 115 / 57%

I wonder if Redactle should get its thread now too?

got this one in 31, I think my best result so far

#22 is perhaps too large. enter a word, scroll forever seeing what changes.

#22 in 133 (62.41%) (an early guess for “religion” had only 2 hits, so I never considered the first part of today’s solution as a potential answer, just thought it might fill out some blanks)

can identify with this:

I have fun filling in words to form clumps of meaning out of the murk all the same

46; got the second word in 31, considering that was my degree subject I could have spun it out a lot longer trying more typically related words.

22 ???????? ?????????? 102 52.94%

second word at 40, india at 100 having tried all the usual regions a lot earlier. "bhuddist" at 101 ffs. got The Middle Way early on, but didn't twig

A game where you have to identify the species of faeces - Turdle

there is a game called Turdle based on Wordle but it's about making a cute animated turtle jump

https://turdle.xyz/

Redactle #22 in 15, the grey blobs were speaking to me

i am terrible at this. i see 'A ??? and a ???' and i immediately think 'a hawk and a hacksaw' which is obviously bollocks but i can't get it out of my head.

23 ????? 64 48.44%

dumb luck

Yeah I had the Hawk/Hacksaw thing too. No communication from the blobs today, I just bashed away until by 141st word was it.

#23 278 / 40%

Meanwhile in Wordleland, my streak ended today. :(

^wordle 313 or 314?

Redactle #23 in 39, I got lucky.

I think my big problem with Redactle is that I enjoy filling in the blanks more than trying to work out the title. Maybe I need a game where it's "get as many of the words as you can in x minutes" and your score is the percentage you get right?

^wordle 313 or 314?

314

Redactle #23 in 31 with 70.97% accuracy. The form of that first paragraph really threw me though – it didn't look like an introductory definition and I wondered if it was some weird bit of description of an illustration or something. I actually got nothing much but filler by guess 25 and then it went types > size > metric > measure > metal > screw, bingo

Redactle #23 in 186 with 61.83% accuracy, another stellar performance, just taking my time, patiently circling the prey.

I solved today's Redactle (#23) in 81 guesses with an accuracy of 39.51%.

I knew it was related to factories 13 guesses in and it still took me another 68 guesses. Look it's been a long week.

For Redactle 23, I really went down a cul de sac when my first guess was number (5) and soon thereafter integer (2), so I was convinced for another 200+ guesses that I was wandering the math wilderness.

Redactle #24 in 44 guesses, with accuracy 63.64%.

question (hiding in case it reveals anything about today’s puzzle)

what does it mean if, in a given row, i have one green square and one yellow square for a given letter?

what about one yellow and one grey square?

my instinct is that one green one yellow means that letter appears a second time just not in the yellow position, and one yellow one green means the letter appears only once, and neither in the yellow or grey box. but im not sure. also wondering if there is any information contained in which box is yellow/grey

oops didn’t realize hide didn’t wrap around paragraphs

my instinct is that one green one yellow means that letter appears a second time just not in the yellow position, and one yellow one green means the letter appears only once, and neither in the yellow or grey box.

assuming your last "green" should be "grey" then yeah that's right

been really enjoying myself the past two days with the box office variation of wordle:

https://boxofficega.me/

Redactle #24 in 13 guesses, 92.31%

24 ???????? 107 56.07%

ran around the houses, as usual. then had an epiphany whilst in the kitchen making tea

does middle ages appear in every Wikipedia article? also ancient rome

Redactle took me so so many guesses today, I guessed the plural of the solution and got many happy returns but it never occurred to me to try the singular and so I was guessing and guessing and guessing

weird, today’s Redactle answer consists of only one box. I thought for sure it had to be “Swinging on a Star”. I mean, like:

A pig is an animal with dirt on his face. His shoes are a terrible disgrace. He has no manners when he eats his food. He's fat and lazy and extremely rude. But if you don't care a feather or a fig, you may grow up to be a pig.

totally fits!

anyways, solved Redactle #24 in a mere 273 guesses (48.72%)

I've been enjoying boxofficega.me as well. I'm pretty good at it as long as the date is before 2010. It's crazy how many successful movies I've never heard of have been released since I became a father.

oof, that one is impossible for me. I got one right off the bat and had zero idea about the others. I thought the box office winner came out years before!

I generally need to reveal the tagline and genre before being able to guess, if I still have no idea I reveal first actor.

Ah, I somehow didn’t spot the hints feature. Got one yesterday quite quickly then was flailing around.

Ha - pretty much same today despite using the hints. Got one straight away then no others except a couple of others when I revealed all the hints and lost all points. Should have got The Martian though.

I solved today's Redactle (#25) in 45 guesses with an accuracy of 71.11%. Played at https://www.redactle.com/

fucking fuck. general knowledge letting me down.

Oh redeactle is fun. 69 guesses, 58% accuracy .

this one was pretty easy for me compared to yesterday's which took forever... got that it was a large inhabited place pretty early because i usually guess "popular" and "culture" to get "in popular culture," and i got just a plain "culture" section instead which is very helpful. originally assumed country, and i guess i cheated? by looking at a list of african countries and guessing all the five letter ones. i don't know if that counts as cheating in the general consensus. i probably should've tried a little harder to think of them. and then when i figured it was a city i had to dig a little more, because i'm ignorant about african geography and never would've thought of the answer without help

words i now throw in automatically at the beginning of every game:

be
are
were
this
that
there
have
will
such

some of these are ridiculous, especially the first three which are literally forms of "is." i've been assuming the dev would add some more common words and some other QOL things you'd expect (like a give up button), but he's been mysteriously AWOL from both of his twitter accounts and reddit for weeks. not that i expect anything from a free game, at this point i'm just getting concerned about the guy.

I used to guess some of those common words and others but now I think it just ups the score without gaining anything - you might fill out some sentences but the critical words will still be a mystery. Got today's in 28, not that I take that as proof of the above strategy which I've only just started on!

looked up the answer at 156 having got as far as "most populous city in Nigeria"

I solved today's Redactle (#25) in 9 guesses with an accuracy of 77.78%. Played at https://www.redactle.com/

I'm not sure where the cheating line is with these. it's certainly wrong to Google phrases in the answer to find the exact page they are taken from but what about narrowing it down to an exact thing, an Australian animal say, and then looking up a list of those?

I don’t do any of that, unless I’ve given up. I got today’s in 11. Might be the first time I’ve pretty much read the form of the first sentence from the outset.

like with Chopin, you narrow it down to a single proper noun but aren't that up on your polish composers. it stops being a word puzzle and becomes general knowledge.

the other thing I've noticed is that it's harder on my phone because the squares are physically bigger, wider than the letters, so you can't see exactly how long the redacted words are. (also the keyboard and the guess box fight with each other)

on my ancient samsung the input box is about one pixel high, hitting it is half the game. i can select blank squares to see how long the words are though.

like with Chopin, you narrow it down to a single proper noun but aren't that up on your polish composers. it stops being a word puzzle and becomes general knowledge.

You mean the Inca one?

I think that Redactle is definitely a knowledge game, just like Worldle is a geography game.

Inca one, sorry. I’m clearly not adding to my general knowledge very well.

Annoying that, given the open-source nature of Wikipedia, that the dating conventions are inconsistent, e.g. AD and BC vs. CE and BCE.

like with Chopin, you narrow it down to a single proper noun but aren't that up on your polish composers. it stops being a word puzzle and becomes general knowledge.

― koogs, Sunday, 1 May 2022 20:32 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

feeling this today...I've got Babylon, Assyria, Mesopotamia and am now wracking my brain for other place names

You are so close, my dude. So very very close.

yeah you're about to make the exact same error I made that resulted in [redacted] minutes of pointless brain scraping

wtf I have never heard of Babylonia

Redactle in 58 and a fair amount of confusion

I solved today's Redactle (#26) in 50 guesses with an accuracy of 70.00% - my best result so far, bar that Meryl-Streep-in-3 fluke.

115 guesses, 69% accuracy, getting the final answer was a fluke

(█, █, █, █, █, ██, ██, ██, ██, and ██)

this has to be something, but god knows what

today's is another subject area i know very little about

guessing words based on second hand references like pixies lyrics and The Warriors

yeah you're about to make the exact same error I made that resulted in [redacted] minutes of pointless brain scraping

My 860 guesses feels this acutely (I had to look up hints to get to the right answer despite getting Babylon and Babylonian at 115 and 116).

koogs, at one point I was inputting everything I could remember from playing Civilization VI

lol Leee that is v close to mine too: 680 guesses, those two words at 135 and 136, fairly demoralizing though I got yesterday's in 24

26 ????????? 130 54.62%

the thing that was obviously something was nothing

300, the Frank miller thing was another, failed source of guesses

when i should've been guessing things from bob marley all along

I gave up after 100, I had Mesopotamia fairly early on and knew that was probably as close as I was going to get. i cheated to get akkadian which was no help, can't imagine I would have got it if I'd carried on plugging away.

yesterday i overlooked africa until late having done 4 other continents and got nowhere. maybe if I'd literally slept on it i may've got lagos, but i doubt it

the other thing that would've helped today is conan the barbarian. i noticed Cimmeria was mentioned

Redactle #26 in 170 guesses, accuracy 77.65%. another Babylon ……………… Babylonia journey here. Stuff upthread too spoilery, glad I didn’t look at this thread

#24 in 197 haha just when I was starting think 'I'm pretty good at this' - got a kind of medieval religious orders thing and just got super stuck digging around guilds and templars and trying to remember what else they did - eventually hostel and hotel got me there

#25 in 27 lucky. fast to African city, and got West, then realised I didn't have much of a grasp of African geography (eg trying out the North African countries because well they're sort of west as well). But eventually hit Nigeria then straight to the answer - absolutely would not have been able to get it if it was Abuja

#26 in 54 Hit the same dead end as everyone else but then looking back over the number of hits for Babylon/Babylonian vs any other plausible local civ made me pause and think hard

Redactle #27 in 6 guesses with 62.50% accuracy. That's more like it.

Ha, sorry, 16 guesses not 6. Overexcited.

#27
You solved it in 39 guesses
Your accuracy was 51.28%
Globally, 180 players have solved today's Redactle so far

Bit hot on the heels of screw, this one

82 guesses for today's redactle. Somehow it was "hair" at guess 80 that got me to the answer

#27 in 26 hair basically got it for me too after mucking about with materials, belt, shoes.

#27: 376 / 38%

You'd think that after screw I'd have learned my lesson but not really!

I'm not sure i even know 376 words

(you have more patience than me)

not my day...222 and I was pretty surprised when I got it, I was just flinging words around at that point

Got it in 43 somehow, my guesses were going nowhere, was particularly perplexed by "can be made to float on water". In the end I just took a stab at a more or less random four letter word!

I solved today's Redactle (#27) in 137 guesses with an accuracy of 57.66%. Was using the boa constrictor method again, just trying to fill in as many circumstantial words as possible because this wasn’t my kind of topic and then the word just jumped at me, (no more) skip- skip- skip- skipping!

#28 - basically gave in at 83 chemical by guess 2, sugar by 66, saccharide/ine at 68/9, then rapidly exhausted glucose, sucrose, etc. Eventually googled glucose and the infobox effectively gave me the answer. Maybe gettable if I'd paid a bit more attention to the etymology - had 'greek', & 'sugar' - & lettercount

#28 77 / 48%

I wonder if that'll hold up against the ILX Redactle savants!

A lot less beating around the bush for me: once I noticed the subscripts, I guessed chemical at 24, which got me to carbon (@28) and then sugar (@29). Polysaccharide @45 had no hits, and so I didn't think of polysaccharides till 64, and from there it didn't take me too much longer to figure out, "Hey, maybe try mono."

i turned on the 'pluralise' flag, thinking it'd help (cheat a bit). but it counts both anyway, even when it guesses rubbish like turned and turneds

good early start today but am now struggling

28 ?????????????? 162 46.30%

it's not giving me a global placing today

probably because i don't deserve one.

lots of single letters got me c and carbon early on and the chemical formula not long after. but went down the hydrocarbons route.

Gave up on turn 244 after throwing words at it stopped being fun. Now I see the answer it was just conceivable I might have got it if I'd persevered as I was as far as:
███████████████ (from Greek █████: ██████, ███████: █████), ████ ██████ simple ██████, are the simplest form of █████ and the most █████ █████ (████████) of █████████████. The ███████ ███████ is , or [█n(H2O)n] or ███2██n ██████ not all molecules ███████ ████ ███████ (e.g. ██████ ████) are █████████████. They are ███████ █████████, water-soluble, and ███████████ solids. ████████ to █████ ████ (██████), ████ ████ ███████████████ ████ a █████ █████.
If I'd have guessed sugar maybe that would have unlocked it but, nah, I probably wouldn't have

I solved today's Redactle (#28) in 70 guesses with an accuracy of 38.57%. Played at https://www.redactle.com/

I cheated on this one, I had "sugar" and "molecule" and "carbohydrate" so I basically knew what kind of thing I was looking for, but (after a couple of basic guesses) I also knew that I was unlikely to find the exact word. Did a quick google search based on "nH2nOn" which I'd also uncovered and found the answer.

also gave up and googled CxH2xOx after guessing every letter in the alphabet lol. this isn't a word that i have swimming around in my brain. need another meryl streep for my confidence

#29: 174 / 37.93%

#28 in 101 guesses with accuracy of just 45%

#29, rather

Once I’d established from “act” and “species” that it was something animals did, I was far too attached to thinking it was something about reproduction.

Alba: It kind of does, actually! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannibalism#Sexual_cannibalism

#29 in 76, 28.95% - had almost nothing till 'animal' at 53, 'species' at 54, and slowly got there when I realised sexual/mating etc wasn't filling it out properly - needed something tangential to that. Hmmm. Just realising that I thought I'd tried 'food' early, but I hadn't - that would have helped.

am finding this really tough. about 200 down and still nothing

Take a break, maybe have some friends over for a quick bite, then come back to it.

quality article today, appreciated the "both sides" approach to the topic

29 ??????????? 305 27.21%

none of my usual starts got me anything numbers, letters, continents, colours, countries. the spider sex thing was the first foothold and that was a bit of a red herring

seems, now I've read all the hidden text, i wasn't the only one, just the slowest

94 guesses / 36.17%

This was a fun one

I had "animal" and "food" and after trying "carnivore", "herbivore" and "omnivore" which all had 0 results, I just went with the obvious alternative

31 guesses, had species early on, spent a lot of time thinking rather than guessing. I was also was fixated on sex but that gave me the clue, something done by the male to the female 'before, during or after copulation' made me think of spiders.

If Redactle had it's own thread, every post would look like this.

i do hate how hard it is to do hidden test on a phone. the square brackets aren't even on the alt page of the google keyboard but on the alt-alt-page

anyway, today, had narrowed it down by guess 20, now have to conjure the exact word out of my head and i'm not sure it's in there.

#30 in 17 @ 64.71% - island as first guess, with Sea, English, Spanish, America main waypoints getting me there. Annoyingly, I miscounted the letters before the first 'sea' so kept thinking it wasn't Caribbean despite all the things pointing that way (tho I might have expected more hits from my Bahamas, Bermuda, Jamaica guesses). Still have a bad habit of colouring in - like I can see island ***** is going to be island chain so there's no need for me to enter 'chain' yet I cannot resist after 3 or 4 nothing guesses.

Redactle #30 in 8 with 87.50% accuracy

Got island in 2, then Antigua and Jamaica shortly after but for a minute I thought I couldn't think of any more seven-letter island countries in the Caribbean. A relief not to have fucked it up after a flying start

I solved today's Redactle (#30) in 143 guesses with an accuracy of 67.13%. Played at https://www.redactle.com/

Started strong but French colonization was my entry but I didn't think of Grenada and France

#30 71 / 63%

I think I'm ok with higher guess counts as I do like to fill out sentences so that I can glean context and info from them. Getting to the right answer is already hard enough that I don't feel the need to min/max this game as I would with Wordle.

Redactle #30 in 41 guesses with an accuracy of 63.41%

I should have had this in about 25. I had island and west indies. I threw a bunch of island names randomly instead of before trying "French" which narrowed it down a bit

I know the point of redactle is trying to get it in the least amount of guesses, but I play it more like I need to get the answer as quick as possible, which means rapidly typing a lot of related words sometimes just in case they get hits.

15 guesses and I know what it is but I don't know what it is.

same, at about 30 guesses then looked at the list of 70 books for the jubilee knowing there were commonwealth authors on there and sure enough... wasn't something i'd've got

19 which is a lot better than I've been doing recently

Redactle #30 in all of 350 guesses with an accuracy of 65.43%

couldn’t for the life of me think of another Caribbean island with a cricket tradition besides… Trinidad and… Tobago. filled a lot more blanks than ever before, which must count for something

bit of a slog today (205 guesses)...book=1 and author=0 early on sent me down other paths

#31
You solved it in 247 guesses
Your accuracy was 23.08%

abyssmal. last 50 of those were getting the second word

#30 i got barbados, bermuda, barbuda even. it wasn't those

#31 see seandalai's hidden text. so many 0s.

#30 the crib sheet i mentioned was the jubilee reading list of 70 novels from around the commonwealth, one of those was from the island in question

I solved today's Redactle (#31) in 157 guesses with an accuracy of 33.12%. Played at https://www.redactle.com/

I did ok today (87 guesses), but the actual article is kind of shoddy

Of all things, Aristotle put me on the right track.

So bad at redactle.

101 / 41.58%, yeah very odd article. Tried guesses about writing early on with few hits so it was only out of a lack of any other ideas that I tried 'prose' and 'poetry', then I thought it was going to be something super obscure in that area so it was only a stab in the dark when I guessed the first word, but then I got the second straight away.

Redactle #31 in 167 with just 29.34% accuracy. Scratching around all over the place.

#31 in 77 absolute crawl - nothing useful till 'poetry' at 60 but relatively fast after that. Agreed, a weird article

#32 in 48 fine enough though I took some unwise linguistics and mythology side streets; turns out that "saints" doesn't count as a match for "saints'" which is a bit annoying but probably didn't make much difference in the end

still Wordling but there's not much to say about it at this point

ha. i actually beat someone

#32
You solved it in 46 guesses
Your accuracy was 60.87%

(we could do with a redactle thread given that wordle doesn't get much of a look on these days. although jaq has a point)

redactle in 55, really should've gotten it as soon as i had "is one of the four"

Got it in 7 today, best I’ve done by miles

Ah no I got Lagos in 8 a while back but everything else is like 50 plus (including ‘rope’ in just 178)

137, clueless till I finally guessed 'when' about ten guesses earlier.

Redactle #32 in 3

America -> fall -> autumn. I thought - this is autumn on after the first go. Should have just gone for glory but thought I'd hedge my bets by first checking fall on the grounds it might be useful if autumn was wrong

37 guesses, 52% - hurray baseball

would be interested to hear Alba's thought process - what was the clue?

The intro looked like “xxxxxx, also known as yyyy in” and that was backed up by the repeated xxxxxx (yyyy) in the bibliography. I immediately had four-letter words prom and camp going through my mind but didn’t get that what followed was “American English” as I was too set on it being a country or range of cultures. Despite that I took a punt on America being mentioned somewhere (as part of Latin America or South America) as it seemed like it was some phenomenon that was known in different parts of the world and I quite often throw America and American in there as early guesses. There was some sense of it being timed differently in different places (“on and around”) and the way that America came up just made me think harder about the four letter word and then fall/autumn hit me. Should really have gone straight to autumn then but went fall first in case it wasn’t autumn and fall was useful elsewhere.

I don't try to count letters on Redactle, I just guess words and when I get one right I guess more words in the same subject, and if I manage to do it by myself then that's the win for me.

#32 in 65 - I had a useful chunk of that first sentence by guess 9 - "something, also known as something in something something, is one of the four something somethings" but got lost in virtues, vices, humours, saints, feasts, churchy stuff (especially as that was getting me crumbs), forgetting a VERY OBVIOUS thing that there are four of. A small technical curiosity or annoyance - I've just noticed it didn't fill in saints' for my saints guess.

Nice work Alba btw!

Started a new thread -
______ the ____________: Redactle

Weird that my two sisters got FETUS as their word today while my brother and I got SHINE as our word. WTF is NYT doing?

^ Sorry, that’s an actual Wordle comment

that happens whenever there's a word NYT removed from the master list (like fetus, unsurprisingly)

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/may/09/new-york-times-drops-fetus-as-an-answer-to-wordle

still mad about the time Quordle used "AORTA"

Had some time to kill at the end of the day, so I did a Wordle with a grade 4/5 class. One of them then suggested Foodle, so we tried that. We got D in the first spot after two guesses, then were kind of stumped. Answer: "drink." What's your favourite food? Drink. I love that restaurant--make sure you try the drink. God, that's stupid.

My favourite drink? Liquid.

I had a go at Foodle, at which point I realised that I couldn't think of a single food that had N in it that wasn't bacon or doughnut or nougat. Chips doesn't have N in it. But eventually I got it. The answer was beans.

Which is technically a food, but it's a weak answer. I was expecting something at least a little bit obscure, such as penia or lonza or knipp or something. Or steckrübeneintopf. I had to look all of those words up, but so did James Bond, when he started. Although he probably learned those words while chatting up the daughters of top Italian chefs. But the point still stands. We all have to start somewhere.

Before you respond, yes, I realise that I have been without you for so long. The last time I posted was just after I returned from Hong Kong. I vowed that I would not post again until I had been to Greenland, but COVID intervened and it has taken me two years to go there.

Now I have done that. I am back. We can all begin again. Ilxor has waxed and waned over the years - the very concept of text-based bulletin boards that don't have pictures has waxed and waned, mostly waned - but with me on the team again we're going to turn this sucker around. Video will wither and fade. Text is back, honey, but I can't do it alone.

i did wordle once. i have done heardle fairly often. most of the time i get it immediately/within one second or i don't get it at all

If people are still playing it, NYT rolled out an opt-in update that lets you play across devices.

So, we've reached the point of adverbs now.

I was thinking that. I thought that kind of thing, like plurals, was explicitly excluded.

It seems like most words are basic forms but I recall a few exceptions (specifically, irregular verb tenses: CREPT, FOUND, SHOWN). In this case, the word isn't irregular, but it also strikes me that there aren't *that many* three-letter adjectives that can be turned into five-letter adverbs with -LY.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqUd72pK15Y

I didn't get it. I initially went a hundred days without failing, and ever since my streak ended I've been reckless.

yeah I missed this one too but my streak ended when I forgot one day last week

before that the last one I missed was VIVID which, lets face it, is a bullshit word. I couldn't even muster a guess

My most recent streak ended with CRAMP the other day, because I ended up with CRA _ _ on like turn 3, and it turns out there are a lot of words that start with CRA.

Miraculously I got today's on the final guess. I was sure it was wrong, even thinking "welp there goes my streak" as I hit enter...

Jowly isn't an adverb, it's an adjective, surely?. I guess jowlily would be an adverb, "...he bloviated jowlily".

I got it on the last guess and it didn't seem like an unreasonable word.

Not everything that ends in -ly is an adverb. Ugly, scraggly...

https://www.wordexample.com/list/ending-ly-not-adverbs

And even if it was, why would that exclude it from inclusion in this game, as long as it is a real, valid word?

1. the word in question is an adverb though
2. the game has established an expectation of not using words like adverbs

I wasn’t aware of said expectation, and had no problem guessing this completely valid word (a different adverb from the one Chinchilla mentioned tho)

My most recent streak ended with CRAMP the other day, because I ended up with CRA _ _ on like turn 3, and it turns out there are a lot of words that start with CRA.

It isn't. Can you provide an example of a sentence where it acts as an adverb?

He gazed down at his porridge and mused upon it jowly.???

That doesn't work.

It's an adjective that describes someone with prominent jowls. It is not an adverb.

It's an adjective!

the word I got yesterday was “coyly” though, which is an adverb - and a fine word

do we still need to hide these posts? this particular instance is already wordle under the bridge, right? (or am I missing a timezone?)

Drat, I must apologize because I somehow forgot between 7:30 AM and 11:30 PM that I actually failed this wordle and was just going with my last guess. Therefore I feel pretty stupid regarding my last several posts.

That said, I do not protest coyly as a valid word in the slightest.

Sorry!

before yesterday there was only one adverb in the 400+ answers so far, "badly" from november of last year. "gaily" was once on the list but seems to have been removed or moved. i'd say that's enough to set an expectation

ofc i'm referring only to -ly adverbs which is what people are talking about - the word list generally avoids words that modify base words i.e. plurals

there have been two gerunds though

i win

https://i.imgur.com/Tv05LlF_d.webp?maxwidth=1520&fidelity=grand

Uh spoiler.

Nicely done!!

My 40-something steak got snapped by “IONIC” a few days ago

Well done! I got it in two.

Ha, yes. Ionic. Grrrr.

It was 2 for me today, somehow (started with RATIO). Got a new phone recently and lots all the stats, which is fine.

Ha I also started with RATIO today, but took three to get it. (Stopped at DEBIT on the way.)

Well done with the first-word guess! Is that always your starting word? I rotate between 5 or 6 starting words, and my fear of course is that I won't use the right one on the day that one of them is the actual word.

I have somehow gone my life without being aware of today's word (except as a surname). I got it in 5 and thought I'd done well.

we have a group of players and last place player picks starting word for next day. so we typically have different starting words which keeps the game a bit fresher.

that's fun

Jeeze, get a load of Mr. ein stein over here!

Oh wow todays is just mean

how so? pretty standard, no?

Three of the same letter = gasface

the one I got today is FAULT, so ???

Yesterday's was MUMMY, which I got after GUMMY and Dummy but before trying YUMMY.

so was that the supposed mean one then?

yeah that was the one

oopsy daisy, adverb alert!

New Wordle clone, although I'm not sure about its staying power: https://anigrams.us/

i got the wordle in 1 a little while back (DREAM i think?) and decided to go out on top

give it a break tomorrow, please

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2022/12/06/media/new-york-times-union-negotiations-reliable-sources/index.html

(not directed at ciderpress! or anyone specific)

My streak stops for no union.

enjoy being terrible

You can play today’s word here instead of you like:


https://mywordle.strivemath.com/?word=ebwhc

i just had a look at phrazle, which is identical to worlde except it's a phrase not a word. you wouldn't know it from the instructions, which have been written by an a.i. or a moron or both:

As a logic puzzle game, Phrazle requires players to have excellent analytical skills. In Phrazle, there are no set rules for the open-ended play and format. You are encouraged to come up with your own rules or simply improvise. The key to winning the game is identifying word and phrase patterns. Four random words are given in each round's set. You have a certain amount of time to write down as many phrases as you can using these four words. The game will provide some facts before each round so you can guess the context. These won't affect how you play, but they can help you guess what other players are trying to do.

In fact, you will have six attempts to guess sentence patterns and phrases. Each guess must include only words that are legitimate and use all spaces. The color of the tiles will change to indicate how close your guesses are to the correct answer after each one:

💠 Green: The letter is in the first word and in the correct position.

💠 Yellow: Although it is in the first word, the letter is in the incorrect location.

💠 Purple: The letter is in the phrase but not in the second word.

💠 Gray: Letters are not in the phrase.

Tips And Tricks

In every game, the rules are one of the core factors that make the game attractive. With Phrazle we will give you examples to help you understand the rules and how to play better:

The word must have at least two parts. When you come up with a word to look up, simplify it and think of the words closest to you. For instance, a word like "fruit" has two components in Phrazle. The term "fruit" is what we often conceive of as a whole, while the word "u" is what we define in Phrazle.

Each word in a sentence must appear at least once. One of the most crucial regulations is this one. You're not playing the same round like everyone else if you break it. If you don't follow this rule, you can still use common words, but you must use at least one Phrazled word in your phrases.

Try using some of the more complex techniques you first discovered now that you are familiar with the game's rules. For instance, try flipping words or making sentences using synonyms or antonyms. Breaking the guidelines you learned above if you're seeking more complex techniques. For instance, you may still utilize Phrazled words in a sentence even though they don't exist in it. Likewise, you may employ synonyms for terms, such as "antidisestablishmentarianism."

Four random words are given in each round's set - no?
The game will provide some facts before each round so you can guess the context - nope
they can help you guess what other players are trying to do. - what other players?
Purple: The letter is in the phrase but not in the second word. or it might be in the second word but not in the first, did you think about that?
In every game, the rules are one of the core factors that make the game attractive. - couldn't agree more!
For instance, a word like "fruit" has two components in Phrazle. The term "fruit" is what we often conceive of as a whole, while the word "u" is what we define in Phrazle. - ok bye!

this is why the gods invented the well-breaker

― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Wednesday, 3 August 2022 07:09 (eight months ago) bookmarkflaglink

breastcrawl - is this an actual term? Did you make it up? I was about to tell someone else 'I used a well-breaker' but when I google Wordle + wellbreaker I get nothing except this thread!

no, far from it - it was used further upthread, that's where I got it:

^this. I don' think I even have hard mode on but still usually play it that way most of the time.

I do use the well-breaker idea for the 4 and 8 word versions though.

― The Central Rockaliser (James Redd and the Blecchs), donderdag 31 maart 2022 17:12

oh! Didn't search properly.

yeah, i had to do a Wordle well breaker (enter a word that contains numerous possible letters to sniff out the last remaining letter that you need) for the first time ever to get today's

― Murgatroid, Monday, 28 March 2022 17:47 (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink

Still - not heard it outside of this thread.

@murgatroid?

I hadn’t noticed that term before but that is my default strategy

Hard Mode kind of makes the well breaker impossible, no?

Correct -- that's why I don't use it anymore, since I think wellbreakers make the game more strategic.

my second guess is always a “well breaker”

RIP alll the myriad wordle knockoffs, in foreign languages and otherwise

Strands has potential. I can't not do Spelling Bee, it's how I start each day. Connections is usually fun too. The Washington Post's Keyword is another piece of fun. I do Wordle pretty much every day, but it's rather more hit or miss than the other games I do.

why RIP? I do Wordle every day but could never bring myself to care about the knockoffs

connections is good fun

Yeah I really like Connections. Strands could be good, but I'll see how I feel after a few weeks of it.

why RIP? I do Wordle every day but could never bring myself to care about the knockoffs

https://www.shetnews.co.uk/2024/03/07/shetland-dialect-version-wordle-taken/

We’re still doing Wordle and recently added Connections to the daily routine. Tried Strands but not sure I’ll continue with it.

If you enjoy Connections you should try the Connecting Wall round of Only Connect (a load are here. It's the third round on the show, usually about 20 minutes in.

The main section of Only Connect is scary hard. Haven’t looked at the Connecting Wall bit since I started playing Connections. Maybe it won’t be too frightening

i lost an 85-day wordle streak the other day because I got busy and forgot to do it, which was annoying. i feel like it should be more like the crossword where you can keep your streak as long as you do it in order or as long you don't get stumped

unfortunate, but i'm okay with that

much better than losing a streak because you guessed

PATCH
MATCH
CATCH
LATCH
BATCH
and it turned out to be HATCH

My Wordle streak is a healthy 149 currently

Was low key obsessed with getting to 100

Now low key obsessed with getting my 3 guess stats line (69) out front of my 4 guess line (108)

Enjoy Wordle as the perfect vaguely engaged life background thing - esp as it is usually over in 30 secs (unlike Spelling Bee which can wreck an evening)

I still do Wordle and Framed every day. Cell Tower is a nice distraction if you've got time to kill - sometimes it's incredibly easy and sometimes you can get stuck for ages.
https://www.andrewt.net/puzzles/cell-tower/

I've got the Wordle in one TWICE and I aim to do it again.

I still do Framed and Wordle every day too - going it in a pals' WhatsApp group is what keeps the interest.

Also got World in one twice and have no expectation of ever doing that again, esp as I've mainly slipped back into a 'start with same word each day' routine (and that word has already come up)

Wordle, not World

I’m a big fan of Wordall: my main course after the Wordle starter.

Still do Wordle, Travle, Worldle and Connections. Wordall looks like a good one.

Nice twist to connections today

Yeah, enjoyed that although possibly a bit too easy?

our group started with fools as first word today ... looked like a terrible choice but was in fact very lucky choice

and connections was fun today as well

I am hating the Connections so much right now.

connections in part depends on learning how the author(s) construct the categories and also having cultural knowledge from growing up in the US. my wife didn't grow up in the US and gets super frustrated with some of the US-centric categories

not just US centric but often the double whammy of US sports *bleaurgh*

I'm USian and I have no idea what these emojis are supposed to be signifying! Ope wait a second okay I got there but it took me ALL the allowed errors.

I've been doing the Wordall every day - thanks Mike t-d!

they also sometimes seem to overlap with Wordle...?

Glad you’re enjoying Wordall; I’ve started tracking my average solution time, and I’ve managed to reduce it by three whole seconds this year! (Currently 2 mins 18 seconds)

not just US centric but often the double whammy of US sports *bleaurgh*

lol payback for everything I’ve needed to learn about cricket to understand a cryptic crossword.

It's only about once a week that I get thrown by a US-centric Connections category. Usually food or sport.

Seems likely to be a controversial pick today. (I got it in 2, and even I'm not completely on-board)

Doesn't bother me. It's a word that is commonly used in that form.

yeah, bit fishy imo

I got it in three so I’m okay with it

Well, "laser" is an acronym.

(2 for me as well today)

If it's good enough for Spelling Bee it's good enough for -- no wait...

(I got it in 5 but fine with it.)

Started playing daily again after months missed and keep getting it in three day after day.

Been playing fairly consistently for the most part. However, couple months back the NYT required an account to see your play history. Rather than do that bs, I remembered that I actually saved a copy of the OG Wordle web site a couple years back before the transfer in anticipation of this enshittification and decided to finally setup a home web server that hosts it. I remember the original was entirely self contained, with no dependency on a backend service, simply using client side HTML and JS coupled with cookies and the computer date to run the show.

Nice to have it again without the need for ad blockers or an account to track history and I can just use my VPN to play it when I'm not home too.

NY Times can fuck off

Now low key obsessed with getting my 3 guess stats line (69) out front of my 4 guess line (108)

i achieved this a while back and am now obsessed with maintaining it. currently at 304 (3) to 296 (4). the other thing i’m proud of, i have solved in two more times than in six (33 vs 32)

ooh... my 2s and 6s are exactly equal! my 3s way behind the 4s though. bloody ROVER fecked my streak the other day.