Wordle

[MotCO]

Seems ok on Firefox

 

[Strat-tastic]

Now there's a first. Today's word's been used before.
I hope that's not too spoilery

 

[Gloster]

Now there's a first. Today's word's been used before.

I didn’t know that it had been used before. But, in that case, maybe it was an appropriate one.

 

[Calthrop]

The board I've mentioned upthread: with the several daily or quasi-daily reporters on their bouts with Wordle; seems to have all the folks, telling of having a hard time with today's word -- I got it, just, in 6 -- several of these bods didn't manage it at all. I hadn't been aware, either, of its having shown up before; but I don't participate every single day.

I rarely have any issue with the choice of answer-word: some people on abovementioned board, quite often find cause to moan about setters' choice of same (this partly coming, I think, from said people's being from assorted parts of the English-speaking world, with variations in the lingo, according); but when the word the other day, was UNZIP -- for some reason, that didn't sit too well with me. There was in the past, the advertising "meme" about "unzip a banana"; but other than that -- does anyone ever actually say "unzip"? They probably do; just, not a usage of mine.

 

[lewesroad]

The board I've mentioned upthread: with the several daily or quasi-daily reporters on their bouts with Wordle; seems to have all the folks, telling of having a hard time with today's word -- I got it, just, in 6 -- several of these bods didn't manage it at all. I hadn't been aware, either, of its having shown up before; but I don't participate every single day.

I rarely have any issue with the choice of answer-word: some people on abovementioned board, quite often find cause to moan about setters' choice of same (this partly coming, I think, from said people's being from assorted parts of the English-speaking word, with variations in the lingo, according); but when the word the other day, was UNZIP -- for some reason, that didn't sit too well with me. There was in the past, the advertising "meme" about "unzip a banana"; but other than that -- does anyone ever actually say "unzip"? They probably do; just, not a usage of mine.

I unzip zips on clothes and bags etc so don’t find it unusual.

Got today’s in three but was lucky with my opening word.

 

[swt_passenger]

I unzip zips on clothes and bags etc so don’t find it unusual.

Got today’s in three but was lucky with my opening word.

I had a “two” a couple of days ago, started with Ratio and went with Ditto. I’m still trying to decide if that was skill or flook…

 

[Calthrop]

I unzip zips on clothes and bags etc so don’t find it unusual.

I talk about "undoing", not "unzipping" them. Just a matter of usage, I suppose.

I don''t feel very taken with today (26th)'s word, either -- though got it in four. Maybe I'm getting fussy in my old age.

 

[MotCO]

I talk about "undoing", not "unzipping" them. Just a matter of usage, I suppose.

I don''t feel very taken with today (26th)'s word, either -- though got it in four. Maybe I'm getting fussy in my old age.

I assume that it may be American-ish rather than English that produces some strange words. I think that HONOR was a word not so long ago.

 

[Gloster]

I assume that it may be American-ish rather than English that produces some strange words. I think that HONOR was a word not so long ago.

Yes, it does used American spellings and occasionally has used words that are familiar in the US but not in normal use over here. However, a few months ago they used BLOKE, which I have always thought was British/English English.

 

[MotCO]

(Sounding my own trumpet) I managed to get today's word (27 April) in 2.

 

[londonbridge]

There’s also Metrodle for the London Underground which launched a couple of days ago

https://metrodle.com/

Metrodle site seems to have gone down, neither Safari nor DuckDuckGo on my phone will open it. Can’t establish connection to the server.

 

[pokemonsuper9]

Metrodle site seems to have gone down, neither Safari nor DuckDuckGo on my phone will open it. Can’t establish connection to the server.

yes I had problems with them (Chrome on PC) earlier and they are still present now.

 

[PGAT]

Think it’s working now. Just tried it on my phone

 

[pokemonsuper9]

Think it’s working now. Just tried it on my phone

yes just checked it again and it's back.

 

[londonbridge]

Yes, seems to be okay now. At one point I’d got up to 93 on the leaderboard but there were a couple of days I forgot to do it and now I’m back down at 590!……

 

[pokemonsuper9]

Yes, seems to be okay now. At one point I’d got up to 93 on the leaderboard but there were a couple of days I forgot to do it and now I’m back down at 590!……

I'm at Position #947 with Score 2364.

 

[Strat-tastic]

A good challenge today on Wordle I think.

 

[MotCO]

Spolier alert!!


















Having worked out what the first letter was and that there were no vowels, I managed to get it in 4.

 

[swt_passenger]

Spolier alert!!
Having worked out what the first letter was and that there were no vowels, I managed to get it in 4.

The letter in question is often considered a 6th vowel, according to my daughter.

I suppose once you realise it, there are quite a number of words where it replaces either an E or an I, a couple of good examples of the latter being Myth and Hymn.

 

[AlterEgo]

Not a difficult one to get if you use a strategy of playing two entirely different words containing all the vowels in your first two moves! CRATE and PIOUS will do most of the work for you.

 

[pokemonsuper9]

The letter in question is often considered a 6th vowel, according to my daughter.

Y is just a vowel that isn't respected for it

 

[Jimini]

With only seven minutes to go until the game recycles — I’ll share this. My day has finally come!

 

[MotCO]

With only seven minutes to go until the game recycles — I’ll share this. My day has finally come!

You'll have to change your start word if you want to repeat the feat!

 

[Calthrop]

With only seven minutes to go until the game recycles — I’ll share this. My day has finally come!

This having been Tuesday's word; and with our now being well into Wednesday everywhere on the planet -- I take it that I can put the word "in clear", and not ruin the game for anyone.

I totally botched this one -- do the game first thing on getting up, when brain sometimes still a bit foggy from sleep: as was the case here. Commenced with my usual STARE; then, stupidly, wasted a word with THANE -- not realising that first word had yielded a "yellow" R. This got me toward the right groove; but it turned out as an extreme example of what players call a "word lottery" -- *RATE; but what was the " * " ? I put GRATE, CRATE, PRATE, and finally ORATE -- and of course, the correct word had to be IRATE. Discovered, out of interest, that there are also several more *RATE words -- some, mighty obscure.

 

[McRhu]

This having been Tuesday's word; and with our now being well into Wednesday everywhere on the planet -- I take it that I can put the word "in clear", and not ruin the game for anyone.

I totally botched this one -- do the game first thing on getting up, when brain sometimes still a bit foggy from sleep: as was the case here. Commenced with my usual STARE; then, stupidly, wasted a word with THANE -- not realising that first word had yielded a "yellow" R. This got me toward the right groove; but it turned out as an extreme example of what players call a "word lottery" -- *RATE; but what was the " * " ? I put GRATE, CRATE, PRATE, and finally ORATE -- and of course, the correct word had to be IRATE. Discovered, out of interest, that there are also several more *RATE words -- some, mighty obscure.

Spookily enough 'STARE' is my starting word too.

 

[Calthrop]

Spookily enough 'STARE' is my starting word too.

I reckon it a good one (it's used also by my brother / housemate, who is a daily Wordle participant too) -- a couple of the commoner vowels, and several ditto consonants. Regular starting words of other participants whom I know, are -- by pretty much the same token -- AUDIT, and EARNS.

 

[Hassocks5489]

My starting word is "LATER", followed by "BISON" if the first guess has none of the letters from "LATER".

I keep a spreadsheet of my scores and of related online word games (I know, I know...! ) and it tells me that I have played 451 games so far, with no solutions in 1, 16 "2"s, 107 "3"s, 170 "4"s, 109 "5"s, 39 "6"s and 10 failures, usually in a "word lottery" situation like Calthrop describes. All in all, I think those stats are quite poor: I really must do better!

 

[Acey]

My starting words are IRATE or AUDIO ,yesterday I chose AUDIO

 

[Crossover]

My starting words are IRATE or AUDIO ,yesterday I chose AUDIO

I bet you were IRATE

 

[Acey]

I bet you were IRATE

Somewhat !