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My wife and my daughter have a friendly competition each day to see who can solve the puzzle in fewer steps.
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The fact that there is only one try per day is what makes it remain interesting for me.
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Yes, it gives me a "Brain Start" while I drink my .
If I could do it anytime, it would get boring pretty quickly, I suspect.
How do you start? I tend to use either AEROS or TINEA as my starter, they seem to give me good results - I haven't failed to get it yet, though one did take me all 6 tries.
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I always start with a random word, and most of the time I get it in 4 or 5. Although I have got a couple in the second guess.
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Took me five today.
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A random word gives you a 1:20,000 (or so) chance of being correct, so I like to start with words that give me the most information: which vowels, and a couple of "frequent flier" consonants.
It seems to help, my stats aren't too bad, I think - 53% in 4 guesses, 16% in three. (And some very lucky 6% in 2 guesses!)
Guesses Percentage
1 0
2 6.25
3 15.625
4 53.125
5 21.875
6 3.125 Anyone with a high "one guess" percent is suspect, I think!
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Well the odds of getting it in one are better than the lottery.
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I don't expect to win that either!
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I used Letter Frequencies in the English Language[^] to decide on ROAST, LINED, and CHUMP as the first three, although it often deviates on the third, and sometimes even second, word. An average of 3.75 after 48 days (0-3-14-24-6-1). I still haven't seen anything truly nasty, like GLYPH or QUEUE.
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I prefer mine, because they contain three vowels - and there are likely to be at least two in any word.
So I almost always get at least one yellow, and up to four!
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I read somewhere that RATES is a good word for a starter because not only is 'S' one of the most common letters, having it as the last letter is even better because 'S' is often the last letter of a word (and not just for plurals).
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I generally start with 'TEARY', then have 'BOILS' and 'CHUNK' to cover 15 letters in three goes if I need to (like today, where I got 1 yellow from the first word, two from the second, then 'CHUNK' let me down, with nothing right. But it's given me good information previously...
Java, Basic, who cares - it's all a bunch of tree-hugging hippy cr*p
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Very nice. But I miss the BS and ENTER keys on the keyboard.
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Just use your keyboard's DEL and ENTER keys. You can also use the computer's physical keyboard to enter letters.
/ravi
modified 7-Mar-22 11:43am.
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Thanks for sharing, Ravi. This is awesome.
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Careful. I recall reading that the NY Times paid some millions for this, and I have to assume it was to acquire the rights.
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Must have been for the URL, then. I bookmarked it before the transfer and now see that it redirects.
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Greg Utas wrote: Careful. I recall reading that the NY Times paid some millions for this, and I have to assume it was to acquire the rights. They paid USD 700K for it.
I haven't used any code from the original. I reimplemented the behavior of the game from scratch (and added a bunch of new features). I did use Wordle's word list and have credited the authors.
/ravi
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They have 2, actually.
/ravi
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Never tried Wordle until now. Thanks for posting!
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Nice landing page.
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I play it online at wordle.com
I had been playing that way for weeks before I realized that others were playing a single game a day divvied out by the NYT - and I wondered why.
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