Defend The Indefensible: Wordle

We're just defending the indefensible.

Lol, I tried oomph and glyph before getting nymph. Not many words end that way!

Also lymph

And crypt.

And tryst.

sorry, those are not -PH words.

Ahh, I got stuck in words where Y is the only vowel land. In that case, SYLPH.

Worldle in 1 today.
― Ace of Base Are Belong To Us (Leee), Saturday, March 26, 2022 11:14 AM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Wow. I felt lucky to get it in 3, since there's no way I would've made it my first guess.

― jaymc, Saturday, March 26, 2022 3:02 PM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink

Oops, just realized I misread "Worldle" as "Wordle." Carry on.

I got Sunday's in two, happened to set myself up with a good opening word (which gave me the first letter and also eliminated a bunch of vowels). Monday's however, is my least favorite type. I eked it out in 6, but that was still lucky because I was picking from among several possible words at that point. It nearly wrecked my streak!

Dang, I didn't get the wordle today for the first time (broke my streak of 81). It was one of those dumb ones where I had 5 of the letters early on, and was reduced to guessing one of the million words with a different starting letter.

yeah, i had to do a Wordle well breaker (enter a word that contains numerous possible letters to sniff out the last remaining letter that you need) for the first time ever to get today's

got the poeltl on the first guess today

I really should have done that!

yeah, i had to do a Wordle well breaker (enter a word that contains numerous possible letters to sniff out the last remaining letter that you need) for the first time ever to get today's

― Murgatroid, Monday, March 28, 2022 12:47 PM (twenty-six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Yep, that's what I did. The word I used was HIMBO.

Haha. I was just very convinced it would be WOUND and not FOUND, since they don't tend to use many verbs that are just conjugations. Maybe I'm reading too much logic into the word selection.

There are two different answers today: mine was stove but some others got harry instead.

I was wondering how people were taking so many guesses with just the 4th letter to get

Are some people still on powerlanguage instead of nyt?

Interesting. I can't get to powerlanguage, it redirects.

I think it still works if you've never closed the tab.

Ah, good point!

Appears NYT fucked up again by deciding to remove a word (the name one) but people whose browsers hadn't refreshed still got it.

what? is it prejudiced against harolds?

Oh man so this is the influence of that spelling bee puzzle that decides words aren’t words anymore even tho they are definitely words

Hats off to Sam.

I regret to inform you that we as a society have crossed the --ordle rubicon. https://t.co/tIxYZSbM6X

— Ken Tremendous (@KenTremendous) March 30, 2022

I decided to try Quordle and over the course of a week I've learned like 7 new words

Feel like as it gets higher than Quordle it gets easier but maybe more tedious.

once you get like 12+ guesses it's just a game of word scramble

Yup

Oh man so this is the influence of that spelling bee puzzle that decides words aren’t words anymore even tho they are definitely words

― wins, Wednesday, March 30, 2022 10:13 AM (thirteen hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Sure, it's a word, but it's not a very good word to use as the correct answer for a word-guessing game. Although if they also removed it from the list of guessable words, that would be dumb.

I can't get to wordle using Chrome, only Safari

for me today it was the fourth letter - stole, stoke, stone, stove, store - those words with multiple one-letter substitutions are where I fail

see above for “well breaker” (?) advice

Yes but hard mode

hard mode is dumb mode in situations like this

I like it as it ups the stakes. Sometimes means it's pure luck if you guess the remaining letter in time but not using it means you basically never fail.

^this. I don' think I even have hard mode on but still usually play it that way most of the time.

I do use the well-breaker idea for the 4 and 8 word versions though.

I don't have hard mode turned on but that's just how I've always played it anyway. (I'm not a purist or anything, I just like trying to guess the actual word.)

Right. Plus I don't really like the pressure of having to always get it every day. It's generally easy enough as it is and I don't want to stress about it if I can help it.

I don't stress about it but I will still be sad when my streak ends.

Wordle in 2 today :)

Today had me asking aloud if shart was a word

That "Lingo" TV show accepted "Spunk" as a legitimate word answer attempt, last week.

That was spunky of them.

The Mary Tyler Moore Show Thread (Love Is All Around)

Think today was my favorite octordle yet. Quordle was fine too.

quordle and octordle are fun puzzles. sedecordle (16 words) is a bit less fun since it doesn't fit easily on my screen so i lose track of which letters are ruled out or in. i start with a 3 word well-breaker that covers 15 letters including all vowels. from there i can solve the puzzles usually with 1 or 2 spaces left. nice low stakes mental break during the day.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/upshot/wordle-bot.html

This is a fun addition but not sure how much to trust its skill metric!

fun quordle today

yeah it had one which 1) I didn't know was an actual word and 2) never would have gotten even if I did