Also two versions of that one word is normal or not?
― fix up luke shawp (darraghmac), Thursday, 16 December 2021 22:51 (two years ago) link
I'm really sorry!
they do accept alternate spellings of some words, e.g. mama/mamma and tepee/teepee. I didn't know they would accept it for this word, just tried it, but I thought I remembered that like traveling/travelling, the word can be spelled two ways
― Dan S, Thursday, 16 December 2021 23:01 (two years ago) link
I forgive you but not him
― fix up luke shawp (darraghmac), Thursday, 16 December 2021 23:02 (two years ago) link
i found 7 pangrams (one by sheer luck), no idea what the eighth is.
fun day! I always prefer it when there are a gazillion words to find
― Roz, Friday, 17 December 2021 01:23 (two years ago) link
thank you mod for deleting my post. I also like it when I can find a lot of words, but sometimes when there are only a few words I do better
― Dan S, Friday, 17 December 2021 01:35 (two years ago) link
i don’t even remember how many pangrams i got. they really should highlight them in the word list
― scanner darkly, Friday, 17 December 2021 01:54 (two years ago) link
Yeah the reddit spelling bee mob are saying the same. Ive now got 4, even using the grid Im stumped. I try to hold off looking at the hive's clues til im close to genius but motherfuck this one's a hard one.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Friday, 17 December 2021 02:43 (two years ago) link
we haven’t had indian or italian dishes in a while..
― scanner darkly, Tuesday, 28 December 2021 19:49 (two years ago) link
well we could have. GARAM was there for the taking yesterday.
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 28 December 2021 20:00 (two years ago) link
Italian food makes a slight return with AIOLI.
I need to remind myself sometimes to try things that verge on nonsense - reduplicative words and babytalk like CANCAN, BOOHOO, BOOBOO, MOOLA, GLOB.
― ; (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 29 December 2021 11:45 (two years ago) link
Yesterday's had the stupidest one ive seen in a while, bollix
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Thursday, 30 December 2021 23:06 (two years ago) link
wordle
first time trying the game4/6
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 30 December 2021 23:16 (two years ago) link
I didn't mind seeing Trayce's word but today's exercise in futilibee was WAHINE but not WADI
― ; (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 31 December 2021 00:16 (two years ago) link
i have a 97% wordle get rate, only missed the first one when i didn't know what i was doing.
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 2 January 2022 19:24 (two years ago) link
never have seen or heard of tommyrot
― Dan S, Tuesday, 4 January 2022 01:27 (two years ago) link
yeah got everything but thatat least today’s single 6-letter wasn’t particularly difficult, thanks to this thread
― scanner darkly, Tuesday, 4 January 2022 03:00 (two years ago) link
my unluckiest ever wordle result:
https://i.imgur.com/wcbjIOI.jpg
the answer was GRIPE.
― two sleeps till brooklyn (ledge), Tuesday, 4 January 2022 12:27 (two years ago) link
TRUSS almost got me yesterday but so far i'm still 100% on wordle
― flopson, Tuesday, 4 January 2022 13:52 (two years ago) link
I had 4/5 with SIEVE and it took a lot of puzzled thinking before I got to SIEGE
― nonsensei (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 4 January 2022 15:33 (two years ago) link
The doubled letter in today's wordle about got me but so far still at 100%
― Jaq, Tuesday, 4 January 2022 16:08 (two years ago) link
my first 3
Wordle 200 3/6
⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜🟩⬜🟨🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 5 January 2022 19:05 (two years ago) link
someday i want to join the holy "2" club
i’ve done two in my life, both 4s
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 5 January 2022 20:17 (two years ago) link
finally started playing Wordle yesterday. crashed and burned as i learned the rules/method. got today's in 3! :D
― I Am Fribbulus (Xax) (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 5 January 2022 20:19 (two years ago) link
I was disappointed that "hoopoe" wasn't accepted yesterday. I suppose not all birds are deemed worthy.
― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Wednesday, 5 January 2022 20:34 (two years ago) link
what sucks is that my win streak is now 6 -- which I believe is the world record -- but i've changed devices 3 times so it only says 2. really hard to deal with, but that's life
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 5 January 2022 20:57 (two years ago) link
the secret sauce with wordle is that losing is pretty rare so you feel smart every time you play
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 6 January 2022 21:37 (two years ago) link
my wordle starting point is generally meats/steam/atoms
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 6 January 2022 21:38 (two years ago) link
I always go RAISE and unless there's three yellows or something key I go MOUNT or MOUND
If it's still looking bleak I go LINTY (if I did MOUND) or LINDY (if I did MOUNT)
I generally try and do strategic guesses to eliminate letters (instead of trying to solve the puzzle on guesses 2 or 3) so I'm not left with xIRES or something like that and guessing TIRES? FIRES? MIRES? WIRES? fuck I'm out of guesses
― flamboyant goon tie included, Thursday, 6 January 2022 21:41 (two years ago) link
I revert to the old print-era shibboleth of ETAION SHRDLU
Hence I like TRAIN, ARISE, TONES as starting points
― nonsensei (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 6 January 2022 21:43 (two years ago) link
Like if I had xIRES all green, I'd probably guess WAFTS before trying to complete so I knew what my prefix was
― flamboyant goon tie included, Thursday, 6 January 2022 21:44 (two years ago) link
Tried this for the first time and got it in 3, all downhill from here most likely.
― JoeStork, Thursday, 6 January 2022 21:44 (two years ago) link
i think it's less that than being limited to one per day. if you could go as far as you wanted, i would have played for 35 minutes, lost a couple times, lost a heartbreaker, than quit, all on the first day
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 6 January 2022 21:45 (two years ago) link
instead, I do it as I start my coffee. I have never lost. I am the world record holder
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 6 January 2022 21:46 (two years ago) link
Also if you want to binge instead of waiting 24 hours, somebody built a practice version
https://octokatherine.github.io/word-master/
My current streak is 48
― flamboyant goon tie included, Thursday, 6 January 2022 21:47 (two years ago) link
km, why not both?
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 6 January 2022 22:00 (two years ago) link
I also do RAISE! or sometimes RATIO
― donna rouge, Thursday, 6 January 2022 22:06 (two years ago) link
I go with ROUTE because I think that early on you should cast a wide net to see what the vowels are (and once you've got an idea you can pretty easily add an S if need be). I'm not sure if my strategy is sound though as I barely got yesterday's word.
― Rabbit Pen Warren (Leee), Friday, 7 January 2022 02:29 (two years ago) link
Hmm, got it in 2 this time. If this trend continues Sunday should be interesting.
― JoeStork, Friday, 7 January 2022 08:25 (two years ago) link
xp i’m ORATE, just because these seem like the most common letters. S doesn’t seem to show up that much (i’ve never seen a plural).
― just sayin, Friday, 7 January 2022 08:41 (two years ago) link
Omg Leee, ROUTE is genius.
Just got my first ever "solved in two" moment by starting with ROUTE.
Thought process: Only U was green. So with R O T E out of commission, my next candidate letters are I N S H L D, but I have noticed that I tend to forget M exists, so tried SLUMP on a whim. Damn.
― nonsensei (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 7 January 2022 10:42 (two years ago) link
this is a great strategy.
splitting hairs but i don't think ETAION SHRDLU works for a corpus of only five letter words, i read somewhere it was more like SEAORILTNU (but this may be questionable if no plurals); i go with AROSE.
― two sleeps till brooklyn (ledge), Friday, 7 January 2022 11:11 (two years ago) link
You are right, ledge. I have heard STARLINE suggested but what you write is persuasive
― nonsensei (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 7 January 2022 11:50 (two years ago) link
Spelling Bee can be a bit of a slog, a drag, a well-known drag but the Wordle is just what the doctor ordered.
― The Door into Summerisle (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 7 January 2022 21:53 (two years ago) link
Whenever I lose my streak it's always because I've got 4/5 letters on the fifth guess. I ~could~ do a test guess to cover some possibilities for that missing letter. But I don't. I stab on guess 6 and stab on guess 7 and choke
My last streak was lost to xIVES. My RAISE -> MOUND -> LINTY hadn't covered any possibilities for the prefix. (W)ives, (F)ives, (G)ives, (H)ives, (J)ives all untested. (L)ives and (D)ives were eliminated as possibilities. I had two guesses and I don't remember which ones I guessed (probably WIVES and JIVES because I'm stupid) and which one it actually was (probably GIVES, ugh)
― flamboyant goon tie included, Friday, 7 January 2022 22:50 (two years ago) link
I actually don't recall if I did RAISE MOUND LINTY on that one now that I think about it :( Typically with three clues on the first round I deviate. Anyway whatever who GIVES a shit
― flamboyant goon tie included, Friday, 7 January 2022 22:51 (two years ago) link
Guess 7?
― The Door into Summerisle (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 7 January 2022 22:51 (two years ago) link
BTW, the tactic described above is actually outlawed in HARD MODE!click the gear at the right corner
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Friday, 7 January 2022 22:54 (two years ago) link
(got today in three)
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Friday, 7 January 2022 22:55 (two years ago) link