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I don't expect to win that either! 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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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!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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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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I plan to submit the puzzle around noon GMT (even though the sun won't be up yet).
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In most languages, at least in my experience, the things that you can and can't do with it are pretty clear.
With C++, this isn't really the case. Because of things like metaprogramming, and the sheer flexibility of it, it's often not a case of whether or not you can do a thing, but rather how you can coax, tease, finagle, or otherwise cajole the compiler into doing what you're asking of it.
And therein lies the rub. I sometimes find myself running into things that I know *should* be solvable in C++, but how to do it requires (often) days of banging on a narrow section of code to get it to do what I need.
I love the mental challenge of it, but I hate the frustration that often comes with that. Sometimes I don't want a challenge - I just want the thing to work. And even when it does the code is often write only code.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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I find the same frustration level in WPF.
The learning curve is so steep, the language so flexible and powerful that I fight problems for hours or sometimes days at a time to straighten things out.
Like you sometimes I just want it to work.
The less you need, the more you have.
Even a blind squirrel gets a nut...occasionally.
JaxCoder.com
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I've reached that level with WPF. I'll be going along just swimmingly, and all of a sudden the easiest thing just. doesn't. work. I have the most trouble with bindings, largely because the XAML syntax is brutal.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Bindings are very powerful but they can really be a PITA. Chasing a bad binding is akin to a bad pointer.
The less you need, the more you have.
Even a blind squirrel gets a nut...occasionally.
JaxCoder.com
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