Wordle

[Trackman]

Well, they paid ‘an undisclosed seven-figure sum’ according to the Grauniad, so they will want to get their investment back. I must say that I have already started to get bored with it, although I never saw it as more than a mild amusement when I had a few minutes spare.

Sounds like the beginning of the end to me.
I only play it when I see this thread pop up!

 

[Crossover]

I can’t help but think the creator has pulled a bit of a fast one given it has now been effectively revealed how simple the code is!

 

[Strat-tastic]

I gather you can save the website to play offline for the next seven years.

GRAND

 

[Bevan Price]

It is nothing new. In principle, it seems like an on-line equivalent of the ITV quiz programme "LINGO", but omitting the 4-letter and 6-letter puzzles.

 

[A Challenge]

I've just been sent a link to this rail themed version of Wordle called Traindle, where you have to guess the TIPLOC code...

Traindle

Game

traindle.tim32.org

 

[scotrail158713]

I've just been sent a link to this rail themed version of Wordle called Traindle, where you have to guess the TIPLOC code...

Traindle

Game

traindle.tim32.org

There are a few different ones going about now. I'm a member of a parkrun-related group on Facebook and there now appears to be a "parkrundle" as well, with the names of different 9 letter parkrun events.

 

[DynamicSpirit]

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

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If you don't mind, might I suggest a tweak in tactics: Your first guess told you what the 2nd letter is. For your 2nd and 3rd guesses, you then re-used the same letter in the same position. That means that for your 2nd and 3rd guesses, only 4 of the five letters could give you any new information. I'd have just mentally parked the fact that I now know what the 2nd letter is, and used that slot to try out other letters to help find out what letters are in the word. That way, you maximise your chances of having enough information to know what the answer is by about guess 4 or 5.

I lost yesterday, for the first time ever. Guesses 4, 5, and 6 were all correct except for the first letter

Similar issue methinks. After guess 4, you knew all the letters except the first one but there were more possibilities for the first letter than you had guesses left, meaning that just repeatedly guessing the right word would give a high probability of losing. I think in that situation, for guess 5, I'd have picked a word that contained as many as possible of those letters that might be the the letter you want - that way you maximise your chance of finding out what the final letter is, and therefore of not losing the game.

 

[flymo]

If you don't mind, might I suggest a tweak in tactics: Your first guess told you what the 2nd letter is. For your 2nd and 3rd guesses, you then re-used the same letter in the same position. That means that for your 2nd and 3rd guesses, only 4 of the five letters could give you any new information. I'd have just mentally parked the fact that I now know what the 2nd letter is, and used that slot to try out other letters to help find out what letters are in the word. That way, you maximise your chances of having enough information to know what the answer is by about guess 4 or 5.



Similar issue methinks. After guess 4, you knew all the letters except the first one but there were more possibilities for the first letter than you had guesses left, meaning that just repeatedly guessing the right word would give a high probability of losing. I think in that situation, for guess 5, I'd have picked a word that contained as many as possible of those letters that might be the the letter you want - that way you maximise your chance of finding out what the final letter is, and therefore of not losing the game.

All true perhaps but if you play it in hard mode you have to use the hints in subsequent guesses. if you don't use the hints its not accepted as a guess.

Disclaimer : Of course I don't know what mode the original guess was in but using the hints this way makes it a bit harder to guess.

Also, try nerdle.... try to guess a sum..

 

[Peter Mugridge]

Let's hope the sewage workers don't create their own version as well....

 

[Strat-tastic]

Nerdle is good if you like a maths/logic challenge.

 

[DynamicSpirit]

Nerdle is good if you like a maths/logic challenge.

Thanks, just tried it: Nerdle is definitely more challenging to the extent that it requires a lot more careful thought to come up with sensible guesses. But I think the fact that there are fewer characters (15 for Nerdle, 26 for Wordle) and I suspect fewer valid answers makes it much more likely that you can get enough information to deduce the answer in a few guesses - as shown by my first full Nerdle attempt - won on the 3rd guess. I would say that would only happen in Wordle if you're extremely lucky with your first couple of guesses. By contrast, in Nerdle, what I'm sure is a pretty average first guess had already given me enough information to get extremely close to the answer on the 2nd guess.

 

[Strat-tastic]

Thanks, just tried it: Nerdle is definitely more challenging to the extent that it requires a lot more careful thought to come up with sensible guesses. But I think the fact that there are fewer characters (15 for Nerdle, 26 for Wordle) and I suspect fewer valid answers makes it much more likely that you can get enough information to deduce the answer in a few guesses - as shown by my first full Nerdle attempt - won on the 3rd guess. I would say that would only happen in Wordle if you're extremely lucky with your first couple of guesses. By contrast, in Nerdle, what I'm sure is a pretty average first guess had already given me enough information to get extremely close to the answer on the 2nd guess.

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Beginner's luck

 

[Mojo]

The curse of Simplified English strikes again!

 

[AlterEgo]

The curse of Simplified English strikes again!

Quite!!! Although I managed it in four through sheer luck.

 

[swt_passenger]

The curse of Simplified English strikes again!

Odd that he’s on a .co.uk net address but uses the simplified dictionary where they shorten so many words…

So did he move from here to there at some point?

 

[Peter0124]

Oh so it's like lingo on ITV?

 

[DynamicSpirit]

The curse of Simplified English strikes again!

I'm confused. What has Simplified English got to do with Wordle?

 

[swt_passenger]

I'm confused. What has Simplified English got to do with Wordle?

Todays answer is one of many 5 letter words in a US dictionary that most of us would expect to have 6, including a U…

 

[DynamicSpirit]

Todays answer is one of many 5 letter words in a US dictionary that most of us would expect to have 6, including a U…

Sure, Wordle appears to use the US Dictionary. And that probably makes sense from the point of view of making it usable across the World - because most people in the UK will be somewhat familiar with US spelling, but people in the US are much less likely to know UK spelling. (I had no trouble with today's word, probably because in the online World I tend to expect US spelling by default in anything that isn't specifically aimed at the UK).

But - as far as I can tell from Googling - Simplified English is something completely different, and not particularly to do with US English - it's basically a set of rules restricting how you use English to make it more understandable to non-native-English speakers. So I still don't get why we're talking about Simplified English?

 

[swt_passenger]

Sure, Wordle appears to use the US Dictionary. And that probably makes sense from the point of view of making it usable across the World - because most people in the UK will be somewhat familiar with US spelling, but people in the US are much less likely to know UK spelling.

But - as far as I can tell from Googling - Simplified English is something completely different, and not particularly to do with US English - it's basically a set of rules restricting how you use English to make it more understandable to non-native-English speakers. So I still don't get why we're talking about Simplified English?

Well I just thought @Mojo was having a dig at Americans…

 

[Trackman]

Todays answer is one of many 5 letter words in a US dictionary that most of us would expect to have 6, including a U…

I got it, but I sussed out what was going on as I had only the first letter to find the rest where in the correct order.

 

[Jimini]

 

[birchesgreen]

People seem to lack a sense of humour on days like today

I got it in 3

 

[davews]

Well I also got it in 3 but used Chambers Wordgames to verify it was the only answer - even Chambers recognises the USA spelling.

 

[Strat-tastic]

People seem to lack a sense of humour on days like today

I got it in 3

Well I also got it in 3 but used Chambers Wordgames to verify it was the only answer - even Chambers recognises the USA spelling.

Top Wordling dudes

 

[SteveM70]

People seem to lack a sense of humour on days like today

I got it in 3

Humor, surely?

 

[Crossover]

The game URL seems to have now changed to nytimes.com

 

[Trackman]

The game URL seems to have now changed to nytimes.com

Just noticed it tonight.
What do we reckon, a pay-wall or just loads of ads?

 

[TheEdge]

Just noticed it tonight.
What do we reckon, a pay-wall or just loads of ads?

Knowing what happens when most corporations who buy up viral content but still don't understand how viral marketing and content works over the next few months it'll naturally wane in popularity and the NY Times will have a 7 figure cost to make up and it'll just go behind their paywall with a fraction of the users.

 

[brad465]

Now there's "Worldle", where you have to try and guess a country on display, with incorrect guesses giving details of how close/far geographically they are to the answer:

Worldle - Guess the Country

worldle.teuteuf.fr