Wordle

[Mojo]

Anyone who has social media can’t have missed people sharing their
Wordle results. BBC News and other media outlets have done articles on Wordle in the last few weeks, since the game has undoubtedly gone viral.

Does anyone here play? What do you think, how can such a simple game have been so popular?

Sadly this forum doesn’t support Emojis so people can’t share their results here.

 

[Mcr Warrior]

@Mojo. For those of us who aren't already aware of 'Wordle', what is it, and why has it been in the news of recent?

 

[Mojo]

@Mojo. For those of us who aren't already aware of 'Wordle', what is it, and why has it been in the news of recent?

It’s in the news primarily because it’s so unexpectedly popular given the nature of the game. I did also see a news article because someone ‘copied’ it and tried to make money from it.

 

[Mcr Warrior]

@Mojo. Thanks for the "explanation". Not sure if I'm all that better informed now and I'm certainly none the wiser!

 

[Termy]

I blocked the word on Twitter, because I got tired of my timeline being filled with stupid square emojis. It seems absolutely pointless to me, but there we go. It's my opinion, others are entitled to have their own. I'll just ignore the squares.

 

[seagull]

I must be getting old and crotchety, once upon a time I'd have spent the afternoon looking it up and finding out about it. But now, as soon as I see the words "social media" and "viral" I just assume it is the latest in a never-ending series of stupid, so don't bother...

Bah humbug.

 

[birchesgreen]

Its a nice simple little game, within a few weeks it will largely fade away

 

[ComUtoR]

Reminds me of the old Mastermind Game. However, I did manage to score as Genius.....



I didn't cheat...... Honest Guv

 

[GrimsbyPacer]

I was vaguely interested in it, but saw it was only for American-English which put me off.
To be honest I'm happy playing Trainz 2004 and Railroad Tycoon 3.
Modern games are often extremely weak and simple to match today's short attention span culture, not that there isn't anything wrong with them, just not my style, I want to dive into the game world.

 

[GatwickDepress]

Wordle's a fun little game to play whilst waiting for the bus. No payment, no downloads, just a quick brain-tickler. My go-to starting word is always 'lemon'!

 

[Mojo]

Wordle's a fun little game to play whilst waiting for the bus. No payment, no downloads, just a quick brain-tickler. My go-to starting word is always 'lemon'!

I usually go with DUCKS.

 

[dakta]

I must be getting old and crotchety, once upon a time I'd have spent the afternoon looking it up and finding out about it. But now, as soon as I see the words "social media" and "viral" I just assume it is the latest in a never-ending series of stupid, so don't bother...

Bah humbug.

You're not the only one. One thing I've learned to love to hate is the somewhat subtle irony (and my local rag is bad at this on a slow news day) of pushing stuff as viral. If you're pushing stuff as viral and everyone has to google it to know what the fuss is about - it probably isn't. Nothing truly viral really needs the fact communicating

And on that note I've not heard of this at all? - and I'm not a social media hermit though I generally dislike the tech.

 

[ComUtoR]

I usually go with DUCKS.

Other than the obvious cheat I posted, I genuinely got today's word in 3 attempts and this was the first I have ever tried it. My 'tactic' was to choose a 5 letter word that has some of the most common letters.

A word you could try.... "TRAIN"

 

[Gloster]

Tried it for the first time and got it on the fourth. I think if you play tactically and have done crossword anagrams the attraction will probably soon pale. Much more fun to work out who is an anagram of presbyterians.

 

[Scotrail314209]

This is quite fun to play. My starter word is always ‘Weird’.

I don’t lose the game often, but I did the other day when the word was ‘Shire.’

 

[brad465]

In mine today, I somehow made the jump from 2 correct on the 4th to getting it after the 5th attempt.

 

[Mojo]

I really struggled this morning, even having to 'waste' one of my guesses on an answer that was guaranteed to be wrong just to clear letters, but managed to get it in 5 guesses.

 

[ainsworth74]

I've been using adieu for my starter word.

 

[gnolife]

I tend to use story as my starter, then follow up with adieu if neither the o or y are in

 

[kristiang85]

I seem to be good at this (or extremely lucky) as 4 of my 8 days of far I've done in 3 go's.

It's a nice way thing to do as I'm waking up; it gets the brain in gear.

 

[Strat-tastic]

I've been using adieu for my starter word.

I tend to too, but this morning swapped with my usual second word - crypt - which helped me get a personal best of three goes!

 

[birchesgreen]

Crypt is a good starter, might start using that. I've been using Lemon. Got it in 4 goes today...

 

[SteveM70]

I use SPARE as the first word as it uses some of the most commonly used letters. So far so good

 

[Acey]

Tried it for the first time today,got lucky ,third go !

 

[Trackman]

I've been using adieu for my starter word.

Makes sense.
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Is there an official iOS app for this, or if it just web-based?

 

[Mojo]

No need for an App as it's a website that works just fine.

I did lucky today, didn't have a single yellow square and guessed it in four; the third word I got all correct except the first letter.

 

[swt_passenger]

Makes sense.
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Is there an official iOS app for this, or if it just web-based?

Both. But the sudden interest in the web version led to the unexpected reawakening of a 5 year old iOS App with the same name, but a different author…. Seems to be a lot of clones too.

 

[nlogax]

It's a fun little game that's extremely undemanding on time or attention. Can't really find fault with it. My colleagues and I compare scores on a daily basis.

 

[SteveM70]

No need for an App as it's a website that works just fine.

I did lucky today, didn't have a single yellow square and guessed it in four; the third word I got all correct except the first letter.

Today I got one yellow with my first guess and somehow guessed the word second attempt

 

[Tracked]

Arise is usually my starting word, I've usually been getting it in 3/4 guesses, one of my longer guesses involved getting 3 out of 5 letters right for the last 3 incorrect guesses!