Defend The Indefensible: Wordle

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

Quordle games where one word refuses to play along

whoa, Tradle in one today 🧧

(thank you, rather big clue!)

Constantly struck by the framed master list having such a range of interesting movies when the answers never even go slightly leftfield. Obv ideally you want a balance but today is the 3rd fucking Edgar wright film since I started playing and I’ve been playing for about 2 weeks

Heardle on the other hand seems to be putting a lot of work in expanding its data set: whereas before it looked like almost exclusively big US hits from this century, now you have much older stuff like Led Zep’s “Immigrant Song” popping up, but also things like Daft Punk’s “Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger” (influential, but not a big US chart hit) and even, earlier this week, Koffee’s “Toast”. Makes things a lot more interesting obviously.

quordle in 5 today, fairly confident I'll never surpass this

Daily Quordle 80
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Very impressive

Very impressive

https://www.redactle.com/

this one is a semantle like challenge. Or at least today's is. I'm guessing the difficulty could vary a lot.

350 guesses! For some reason I found Redactle a lot more palatable than Semantle.

nice idea, but the interface is off-putting

133! climate at guess 80, anthropocene at 102. And now I know what the holocene actually is. I enjoyed that - maybe more than if it had taken me 350 guesses!

I solved today's Redactle (#10) in 187 guesses with an accuracy of 43.85%. Played at https://www.redactle.com/

what happens in redactle when you have something like "XXX, 000"? or things that are obviously years?

You can keep guessing the unit before and after commas if you want but don’t think it’s a very worthwhile use of a guess. I did wonder similar when I thought the point of the game was to fill every blank rather than just get the title.

I got today’s in 29 but once I’d got it I realised I really should have got it sooner.

> just get the title.

what the what?

never would've got that without looking it up, not a part of history i'm familiar with. i ended up getting the song title at the end and that had a connection to the article title, almost...

although it now occurs to me that alba was talking about 'yesterday's' redactle, given that it changes like mid-afternoon.

16:00 UTC it changes, which is 5pm in bst.

the one i did was #12 incan emperor

Oh yes, I was talking about The Washington Post, which I should have got sooner after spotting D.C. on my eight go, but I forgot about newspapers for some reason despite working for one

(i looked at the source, there's a gamelist.js which does it right - a base64 encoded list. i decoded them all, and none of them were the one i just did!)

I thought that I'd stumbled on something very smart by entering 0-9, but then that only works if those digits appear on their own, and long strings of numbers are counted as single words.

Redactle #12 in 5 tries, most likely I will never again achieve such a thing in my life

Incredible. I got it in 77 after googling the title... is that cheating?

Also lost my 110 wordle streak today.

Yeah, my second Wordle fail today: I have no strategy for twin wells.

There is a strategy it's called not hard mode. But for some reason I chose to keep guessing.

I managed to guess it thanks to a little bit of luck but I'm becoming more convinced that hard mode doesn't encourage more strategic thinking.

I was considering doing a well-breaker, but then decided to go with the first thing that came to mind, and bingo!

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!

― Alba, Saturday, April 9, 2022 2:36 AM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

i've been checking it every day and it's definitely kinda stupid:
Your guess cut the number of remaining solutions to one. But there were some other words that could have been better — guessing ROWDY here, for example, will usually eliminate more solutions than FRYER. And you’ve narrowed it down to one possible solution. You should solve the puzzle on your next turn.
??? (and it gave my guess a score of 0, harsh. i probably should've tried [what the actual answer was] instead of what i guessed, but it was still only one letter off, and better than the word they chose...)

i get that burning a lot of letters and ignoring your greens and yellows is probably the most "optimal" way to play, but no one plays like that. and it sounds so snobby as it shames you for not burning your second guess on an unwinnable word. fuck off wordlebot! probably would be easy to just program it to play hard mode style until it gets to a point where burning letters would make more sense - weigh winnability vs the need for a well-breaker etc

anyway today's wordle fucked a lot of people up huh, i was the only one in my immediate family who didn't get it wrong

Redactle #13 in 14 - pleased with that

How the hell?! I took 109!

i gave up after 200ish. had the entire first sentence minus the two important words.

(there doesn't seem to be a way of giving up, but i googled and found it)

How the hell?! I took 109!

I had prophet at 75 and it took me another 145 guesses lol, hope I won't make that mistake again.

Got it (my first full attempt) in 278 - but it should have been 165 (basic spelling error: I wrote “prophesy” - so I thought I had already tried the word, to the extent I was actually looking for clues (here I stand, the Cheater) in the Wikipedia entry in question, blissfully unaware, convinced that it would have to be something very similar…)

Alba, that's awesome! I didn't really think to peruse the punctuation for clues.

539(!) for today's Redactle!

Redactle #14 in 45 with 73% accuracy. Woo hoo.

I solved today's Redactle (#14) in 67 guesses with an accuracy of 62.69%.

lol I'm perfectly willing to admit that I may just be bad at it.