Defend The Indefensible: Wordle

I’ve never turned “hard mode” on but I don’t need to cause I will never play any other way, I hate strategy & don’t want to make guesses that aren’t real guesses. I don’t mind if I lose this way

this, i want each guess to be "real"

hard mode definitely does make it harder since it constrains you (and creates the 'winner's curse' of getting too many letters right early on) (there is one way that hard more makes it easier which is blocking you from making mistakes) but imo it's not really the difficulty per se, but that it does so in a non-interesting way. in the sense that it blocks off subtle "two steps ahead" sacrifice type moves like the one i described above. wordle's a trivially easy game when you think of the goal as not losing; hard more on/off will only ever make the difference between a long-run win rate off 99% or 100%. but if you think of the goal as solve in 3 as often as possible its actually pretty tricky and thinking about it that way is what sustained my interest

i don't tweet the score and while the tweeting is obviously what made it viral i don't really see any communal aspect to it bc no one seems to interact with each other's wordle tweets they just post them into the void. having said that a friend texts me his score every morning and it's such a trivial thing but it's brought us closer

todays quordle was bullshit tbh

― Ár an broc a mhic (darraghmac), Tuesday, 8 March 2022 08:46 (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

100%

I would never in a million years have guess this to be a controversial quordle

Hello my name is Mikko an i am 8 year old,my record is now,snake2
2342,i am treining abaut 1/2 year.
[nokia 3310]
― Mikko, Friday, 1 August 2003 13:28 (eighteen years ago) bookmarkflaglink

from Snake and Snake 2 (greatest thread in the history of forums)

xps I always get wordle in 4, it’s become a running joke with my friend who I text scores with. Everyone’s getting 3s I’m a 4 guy

Another small pleasure is choosing a different start word every day, recently: mirth, abuzz, banjo, pixel, quack, zebra, cloud, bleak

I would never in a million years have guess this to be a controversial quordle

― wins, Tuesday, March 8, 2022 5:42 AM (fifty-two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

it's one of the few daily ones i've lost since starting a few weeks ago. combination of word with a rare letter "dozen" and (much worse) word with 3 of the same letter "poppy." it's hard to do if you didn't guess P early and often. none of the other words have a P but they all have rabbit holes you can go down (S_IFF, __AIL, _O_EN) and if you burn multiple guesses on any of them you're not going to have room to figure out poppy. my partner had the right idea with it but guessed "mommy" instead.

here's a practice quordle i had a while ago that was so brutal i had to save it:

4️⃣3️⃣ WHITE - SEIZE
7️⃣8️⃣ SHYLY - EPOXY

wordle freaks on twitter are going to riot when they get "shyly"

See I get that makes it slightly tricky but “bullshit” seems way off, nothing there that isn’t playing fair with the solver imo

fwiw I didn’t guess a P until I solved the puzzle on guess 7, & all I had in place was the O

idk I’ve only been playing quordle for a week and I still feel like I’ve done harder ones

I had the O in place and one P, and one guess left. Why I went for POOPY instead of POPPY I still don't know

this is typical hibernian-poking from wins, he likes to suggest that bogwandering paddies with my dialect dont speak the queen's correctly, i irge everyone to ignore this known troll

Just did quordle for the first time. Was sweating a bit at the end but got over the line. Not a bad performance for an over caffeinated wet-brained old div with hangover. I found it much easier than today's semantle.

thats right xp

I find quordle really easy and octordle and secordle easier still as after 12 guesses or whatever you can usually work out what all the words are

Has anyone ever used ‘eared’ as a standalone adjective, without ‘dog-‘ or ‘long-‘ or something preceding it? Because fuck you fake Wordle.

from reading the eiki on taonte ching yesterday i know that 'dan' means long ears fyi

got nothing else

wiki of tao te ching that is but

The commentary about today's Quordle made me go check it out:

7 5
4 6

🤷🏾‍♂️

I just solved an entire Octordle for the first time.

i don't tweet the score and while the tweeting is obviously what made it viral i don't really see any communal aspect to it bc no one seems to interact with each other's wordle tweets they just post them into the void. having said that a friend texts me his score every morning and it's such a trivial thing but it's brought us closer

― flopson, Tuesday, March 8, 2022 4:17 AM (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Yeah, this is the weird thing about the social-media virality: Because there's also a (socially enforced) prohibition against spoilers, it's impossible to do anything more than just post the score. There have been days when I have wanted to talk about the word or how I solved it, and the fact that it's such a communal activity makes me think that others would be interested, but the only permissible way to do that is to wait until the next day, when it no longer feels relevant.

We post scores in a channel on my work Slack and people discuss spoilers in threads; seems to work fine in a closed group, not so fine in a cowboy free-for-all environment like Twitter

I lost interest in Wordle, but like flopson there was a period where a couple friends were also doing it and we would group chat about it, it was nice (xp)

I just tried Worldle for the first time--looks fun in general, though today's was dead easy

So in the two weeks I've been doing worldle there have been about 4 I've known straight off the bat, and 3 or 4 I haven't got so there is a big variation.

Islands are tough, I've found, despite them being the ones that don't have any straight (ish) lines.

yeah yesterday was an island and I was completely lost and guessing pacific islands at random

Today's was easy, possibly the most distinctive small country shape on the globe.

Often I don't "know" it but I have a vague recognition that at least leads me to the right continent/region and then I get it in a couple more guesses.

I could see it being impossible at times. Today's was funny because I've seen map representations of that country probably more times than any other I don't have a personal connection to

Often I don't "know" it but I have a vague recognition that at least leads me to the right continent/region and then I get it in a couple more guesses.

That was me today, I knew what part of the world it was but not which country.

This one's quite fun. Try and go as many rounds as possible without guessing the word (you have to stick with greens and use yellows and can't reuse incorrect letters already guessed)

https://lazyguyy.github.io/survivle/

today’s Heardle is so easy/famous/iconic, and yet it took me several skips. for some reason the answer was buried in my brain beneath “Damn, I Wish I Was Your Lover”.

The 1-second clip immediately triggered the artist for me, but then I played it again and it sounded less familiar, and I wondered why I'd had that initial thought. It took a couple of skips before I realized I'd been right all along.

seems to me that the octordle is actually easier than the quordle because of the extra guesses.

i've found that pretty much any quordle is solvable if you just burn your first 3 guesses on 15 common letters. i imagine octordle is even easier if you do that. but that's no fun.

I think these kind of games are more fun if you're not being too strategic about it. Just enter whatever 5 letter word pops into your mind and go from there. I was listening to the new Ghost album so started with 'devil'.

Yeah I saw some people trying to work out the best first guess and to me that takes the fun out of it

Finally missed one today, got the last 4 letters in 3 but guessed wrong on the first three times

same tbh

First guess, I just wing it too--maybe try to get an 'e' or 'a' in there.

same, had the last 4 letters on guess 3, but picked the wrong choice every damn time.

I immediately went into letter elimination mode and still had to guess in order to get it in 6

if your goal is to get some 2's then you're better off using different and arbitrary first guesses every day rather than sticking to one optimal one, a stopped clock is only right twice a day whereas a clock thats completely freaking out could be right more often. this is more fun than using something like RAISE to optimize getting it in 3 every time

Heardle is not exactly trying to make things difficult, its database seems to consist of 21st century smash hits only, but I’m still pleased I got my first one-go answer today.

Heardle annoyed me when I hit a few songs I only knew from the radio and they played the intro that I hadn't ever heard before (like the Ariana Grande one from several days ago).

I am planning a new game that just makes you guess Roger McGuinn songs

Byrdle

A game where you have to identify the species of faeces - Turdle

A game where you have go guess how many days the milk is past its use-by date - Curdle

No doubt these all actually exist

I am reliably informed there is one just for hockey player names and it is called Gordle

Would definitely play a game where you have to jump over a number of obstacles in order to discover the name of an American film producer whose illustrious Hollywood career was responsible for The Terminator, Aliens and Dante’s Peak among others

iswydt

so, today’s Worldle…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hzrDeceEKc

Haha I guessed right first try today! (For one of the quordle words, that is, but still) feeling like my luck is finally in

great synergy between Heardle and Wordle today

was playing the solution to Heardle and feeling inspired, I entered “shoes” in Wordle. that wasn’t it, but I did get it in two