Thanks! That's nice and clear.
― kinder, Sunday, 9 January 2022 22:38 (two years ago) link
Honestly, half of the fun of the Bee is complaining about included or excluded words.― Rabbit Pen Warren (Leee), Sunday, 9 January 2022 09:02 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglinkI am coming to the same conclusion, al"bee"it reluctantly. upthread you will see me expressing irritation with that approach. I am starting to embrace it now― nonsensei (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 9 January 2022 09:04 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
― Rabbit Pen Warren (Leee), Sunday, 9 January 2022 09:02 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
I am coming to the same conclusion, al"bee"it reluctantly. upthread you will see me expressing irritation with that approach. I am starting to embrace it now
― nonsensei (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 9 January 2022 09:04 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
there is a longer game within the game - we are meant to slowly figure out who sam is
― scanner darkly, Monday, 10 January 2022 21:37 (two years ago) link
Intriguing theory. It's like a Where's Waldo or Kit Williams https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masquerade_%28book%29.
Sam is interested in birds and Italian food. Has no interest in British politics or chemical compounds. Relatively few modes of preindustrial transport, except for oared craft. No knowledge of the terminology of the age of sail.
Sam likes loanwords but only from certain languages - Spanish but not French; indigenous Americans but not Arabic.
His affection for childish nonsense words indicates that he is either a manchild or a father.
Possibly Jewish, probably not Catholic.
― nonsensei (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 10 January 2022 21:45 (two years ago) link
kit Williams was local when i was growing up and one of the places in town used to get their lawn dug up regularly because it featured in the book.
there's still a clock he designed in the arcade in Cheltenham
― koogs, Monday, 10 January 2022 22:26 (two years ago) link
lol, i had a copy of masquerade as a kid. and theories!
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 11 January 2022 05:50 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTz1aTIX1u8
― The Door into Summerisle (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 11 January 2022 13:11 (two years ago) link
absurdlehttps://qntm.org/files/wordle/index.html
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 12 January 2022 00:31 (two years ago) link
The mechanics of Absurdle are identical to Wordle, or as close as I can make them. Among other things, they use the same word lists. (There are actually two word lists in Wordle: one is a list of 2,315 words which can appear as answers, and the other is a list of 10,657 rather more obscure words which are allowed as guesses but will never appear as answers.) The major difference is behind the scenes.Wordle picks a single secret word at the beginning of the game, and then you have to guess it. Absurdle gives the impression of picking a single secret word, but instead what it actually does is consider the entire list of all possible secret words which conform to your guesses so far. Each time you guess, Absurdle prunes its internal list as little as possible, attempting to intentionally prolong the game as much as possible.
Wordle picks a single secret word at the beginning of the game, and then you have to guess it. Absurdle gives the impression of picking a single secret word, but instead what it actually does is consider the entire list of all possible secret words which conform to your guesses so far. Each time you guess, Absurdle prunes its internal list as little as possible, attempting to intentionally prolong the game as much as possible.
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 12 January 2022 00:33 (two years ago) link
Absurdle 8/∞
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― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 12 January 2022 00:35 (two years ago) link
Absurdle 10/∞⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
― The Door into Summerisle (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 12 January 2022 00:42 (two years ago) link
oh brother
― Dan S, Wednesday, 12 January 2022 01:23 (two years ago) link
Absurdle 5/∞
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― towards fungal computer (harbl), Wednesday, 12 January 2022 01:29 (two years ago) link
not bad considering 4 is the most the creator thinks is possible!
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 12 January 2022 01:47 (two years ago) link
no spoilers but one of the things with Wordle is that I often forget American words are spelled differently to their British version, today I almost lost my streak because I nearly didn't realise that
― boxedjoy, Wednesday, 12 January 2022 09:22 (two years ago) link
― The Door into Summerisle (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 12 January 2022 11:18 (two years ago) link
Oh, I see, I think.
― The Door into Summerisle (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 12 January 2022 12:14 (two years ago) link
What was your word choice, harbl? I can't reduce Absurdle past 7
― flamboyant goon tie included, Wednesday, 12 January 2022 13:08 (two years ago) link
I actually tried the example given on the Absurdle to get to 4 but it didn’t work with the current word list I think.
― The Door into Summerisle (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 12 January 2022 13:10 (two years ago) link
i don't remember at all, sorry! i like absurdle better than wordle
― towards fungal computer (harbl), Wednesday, 12 January 2022 13:23 (two years ago) link
it may have been bride or drive but i can't be sure
― towards fungal computer (harbl), Wednesday, 12 January 2022 13:24 (two years ago) link
have ended with JAZZY twice
― towards fungal computer (harbl), Wednesday, 12 January 2022 13:34 (two years ago) link
Oh yeah, I just had that one!
― The Door into Summerisle (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 12 January 2022 13:36 (two years ago) link
actually just got it again. the way i play seems to force it in that direction.
― towards fungal computer (harbl), Wednesday, 12 January 2022 13:41 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0COws8SyQus
― The Door into Summerisle (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 12 January 2022 14:00 (two years ago) link
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Took some trial and error, I can get 6 fairly reliably. Put Y in the first guess so it doesn't appear in the result, gets rid of words ending double letter Y e.g. JAZZY. Getting S out of the way also helpful, and as many other high frequency letters as you can.
― two sleeps till brooklyn (ledge), Wednesday, 12 January 2022 14:20 (two years ago) link
Ahhhh that's a good tactic
― flamboyant goon tie included, Wednesday, 12 January 2022 15:36 (two years ago) link
Wordle 207 4/6
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Started off with ADIEU today after reading about it from someone else's strategy.
― Rabbit Pen Warren (Leee), Wednesday, 12 January 2022 16:30 (two years ago) link
Ooh thanks for Absurdle, I like it
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― rob, Wednesday, 12 January 2022 20:10 (two years ago) link
5 on my first Absurdle. I did my first Wordle in 2 so there’s some serious beginner’s luck going on hereAbsurdle 5/∞⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜🟩⬜🟩⬜⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
― Alba, Wednesday, 12 January 2022 21:27 (two years ago) link
Tomorrow's Wordle answer should be MATHS. See how they like it— Alex Selby-Boothroyd (@AlexSelbyB) January 12, 2022
― koogs, Thursday, 13 January 2022 18:19 (two years ago) link
I’ve managed to get in five or six attempts pretty regularly on Absurdle - still trying to get that elusive four. Anyone else has managed?
― Roz, Friday, 14 January 2022 10:56 (two years ago) link
Lots of fives but no fours - weirdly the one mention in the notes (aiery/canst/dolma/offal) doesn't work, laugh/lauch/pupal are all possible after that.
― two sleeps till brooklyn (ledge), Friday, 14 January 2022 11:20 (two years ago) link
But if you guess pupal it gives you the win, instead of carrying on with laugh/lauch and giving a grey for the Ps and a yellow for the U.
― two sleeps till brooklyn (ledge), Friday, 14 January 2022 11:24 (two years ago) link
sorry, not lauch (whatever that is), the c is not available. laugh still works though.
― two sleeps till brooklyn (ledge), Friday, 14 January 2022 11:33 (two years ago) link
it has been pointed out to me that 'laugh' is not available at that point as 'a' in second place has already been ruled out.
― two sleeps till brooklyn (ledge), Friday, 14 January 2022 15:11 (two years ago) link
Your point still stands: that the example given on the website does not work.
― The Door into Summerisle (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 14 January 2022 15:17 (two years ago) link
tangential but with wordle going supermainstream it's time for new new hotness:https://wikitrivia.tomjwatson.com/
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Monday, 17 January 2022 20:35 (two years ago) link
my top so far is 10
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Monday, 17 January 2022 20:36 (two years ago) link
11 on my first go, the last one actually had the date in the title but I misread 1598 as 1958
― two sleeps till brooklyn (ledge), Monday, 17 January 2022 20:50 (two years ago) link
Nice, thanks! I got to two, then tried again for ten.
― Presenting the Fabulous Redettes Featuring James (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 17 January 2022 20:50 (two years ago) link
okay, 12
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Monday, 17 January 2022 20:53 (two years ago) link
I like some of the titles & subtitles:Jesus. Deity.Diet of Worms. Diet.
― two sleeps till brooklyn (ledge), Monday, 17 January 2022 21:23 (two years ago) link
Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire did not end in 1AD you fuckers.
― two sleeps till brooklyn (ledge), Monday, 17 January 2022 21:29 (two years ago) link
Okay, 14. I'll stop until i get to 18
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Monday, 17 January 2022 21:39 (two years ago) link
Mount Olympus, Mountain of Greece, created: 1938
― I Am Fribbulus (Xax) (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 18 January 2022 02:34 (two years ago) link
Gigabyte Technology, Electronics company, created: 789
― I Am Fribbulus (Xax) (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 18 January 2022 03:24 (two years ago) link
none of these other games including wordle or absurdle are as interesting as spelling bee to me
― Dan S, Tuesday, 18 January 2022 03:41 (two years ago) link
Puma clothing company apparently created in the year 0.
― JoeStork, Tuesday, 18 January 2022 04:40 (two years ago) link
Yeah this is bad. Puma (brand), German clothing and consumer goods manufacturer, created: 0
― Roz, Tuesday, 18 January 2022 04:44 (two years ago) link
Lol I posted that without refreshing the thread first oops
― Roz, Tuesday, 18 January 2022 04:45 (two years ago) link