Wordle

[Cal Weldon]

When I was young, we spent hours on end playing what we called word game. Same rules but it was always 4 letter words.
I was introduced recently to this new sensation and tried it today. Now I know it's beginners luck, but first time out I got it in 3 words.
I think I'll try again and let it bring me back to earth.
Who else is doing this?

 

[Cal Weldon]

Okay, I better stop now or it might be 3 strikes and you're out.

 

[markmar]

When I was young, we spent hours on end playing what we called word game. Same rules but it was always 4 letter words.
I was introduced recently to this new sensation and tried it today. Now I know it's beginners luck, but first time out I got it in 3 words.
I think I'll try again and let it bring me back to earth.
Who else is doing this?

👍 wordle with coffee in the morning to start the day.

 

[Cal Weldon]

The luck continues. All words so far are 3 or 4 tries with the exception of one. They threw in a foreign word. BIJOU. Apparently it means a piece of jewellery in French. I’d never heard of it so I ran out of tries after getting 3 right on the third guess.

 

[Darakon]

There is a speaker called 'bijou' by visaton (which was even quite popular a few years ago).
https://www.visaton.de/en/products/2-way-speakers/bijou

 

[Cal Weldon]

Just figured out why this seems easy. When we played four letter word game, you only knew how many letters were correct in the right location and how many were right in the wrong location, you weren’t told which letter was which. When we tried doing five letter word game you could take an hour and use 20 or more guesses. It was just too hard. This way gives you a huge advantage. At my age, I kinda like that.

 

[Darakon]

I just tried today's wordle.
Got it with the 5th try. Also I never heard this word before (not a native speaker). Guess it was luck.

 

[markmar]

Just wrapping up first cup of coffee and

Wordle 237 4/6

⬛🟩⬛⬛🟨
⬛🟩🟨⬛⬛
⬛🟩🟨🟩⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

 

[Cal Weldon]

Now it says something about becoming a member. I just googled it and went to the NY Times link. They give you unlimited words. Please tell me how I'm supposed to do this for real.

 

[billshurv]

The version we played as kids was called 'hangman'. Same principle though. But your problem is you've got into it just as the developer sold it to NYT. About 9 months too late.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-60312231 couldn't happen in UK as police just wouldn't do that!

 

[Cal Weldon]

Mark, how do you show it like you did so as not to show others?
Took me five tries this time. And I don't know how you find out what # puzzle this is.

 

[Cal Weldon]

Well Bill, you've discovered the reason I joined. Heard about it, didn't have time. Watched the news, found the time.

Now the house garbage and recycling doesn't get taken out on time.

 

[Mark Johnson]

The software is free, open source, and its github repository contains two word lists. One of them is the list of solutions (!!!) and the other is the list of permissible guess words that are not solutions. There are 2315 words in the list of solutions and 12971 permissible guess words that are not solutions.

I created a letter frequency table from the list of solutions, attached below.

Then I wrote the ten most frequent letters (E A R O T L I S N C) on a piece of paper and asked my wife to form two 5-letter words from these ten most frequent letters. She succeeded

CONES (also SCONE)
TRAIL (also TRIAL)

And those are always my first two guesses in Wordle.

 

[billshurv]

and that does work. 4 out of 5 letters in 2 guesses on todays. You remind me of a friend who bet his wife he could write a program to solve sudoku faster than she could do it. He won.

 

[Cal Weldon]

'hangman'.

That too is different than the 'Word Game' we played. With Word Game you got an X (correct location) or an O (wrong location) beside the presented word.

Example for the word MASK :

1. GAME X O
2. MALT X X
3. BALK X X
4. CALL X
5. MAIM X X
6. MASS X X X
7. MASK X X X X

Much harder when you don't know which letter the X and O refers to.
Imagine giving your opponent a word like LULL. Yes it was among the favourites with the newer players, just not on the first night.

 

[billshurv]

Ah mastermind with words.

 

[Brzzl]

If someone is interested, Grant Sanderson of 3Blue1Brown has an interesting video up on his youtube channel about Wordle

 

[Mark Johnson]

Here's how it worked out today. After the first two guesses, I could only think of two 5-letter words that contained CERL and obeyed the yellow thou-shall-not-go-here commands: CLERK and ULCER. I flipped a coin and lucked out.

 

[Pano]

You will have to change your name to Cal Wordle.

 

[JMFahey]

The luck continues. All words so far are 3 or 4 tries with the exception of one. They threw in a foreign word. BIJOU. Apparently it means a piece of jewellery in French. I’d never heard of it so I ran out of tries after getting 3 right on the third guess.

Aren´t you Canadian?
Then "bijou" isn´t a foreign word

Hey, even your Prime Minister has a French surname