tech spoiler:the answers are in the source code, ALL OF THEM, he's hard coded the entire list in order, in plain text. it's a strange decision. also contains a list of all allowable words and the distribution of letters in those is slightly different from normal English. there were two uncommon words that used the top 5 letters from this distribution, but i forget what they were (and they were useless against today's word)
― koogs, Saturday, 8 January 2022 09:20 (two years ago) link
With regard to the spelling bee, I’ve started using the hints after I’ve exhausted my first run or two and want to chisel away, don’t know how people feel about that/postingfromzing
― The Door into Summerisle (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 8 January 2022 13:33 (two years ago) link
i do that too so i think it’s fine
― flopson, Saturday, 8 January 2022 19:00 (two years ago) link
Yeah I generally only go to the forum / grid after I reach Genius on my own.
It's not a hard and fast rule, though, there have been days when I only got to Great or Amazing all by myself, and went to the grid because I was out of ideas.
As I think I've said before, the task of finding, say, a 6-letter word beginning with PE is a very different task from just staring at hexagons hoping for a miracle. The process of elimination is itself a puzzle, where you're narrowing down possibilities and crossing off letters where you have found everything.
The VERY last resort is to just go look at the answers on nytbee.com and see the things I just could never have gotten on my own, like, say TOMMYROT, which I was never gonna get to by guesswork.
― nonsensei (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 8 January 2022 19:06 (two years ago) link
tomtit in the [spoiler]
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 8 January 2022 19:30 (two years ago) link
holy canole, i've bagged a 2
Wordle 203 2/6
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The method, which will never work again, was to do the first guess, walk away for 4 hours, and then guess the exact word
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 8 January 2022 20:42 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phOW-CZJWT0
― The Door into Summerisle (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 8 January 2022 21:28 (two years ago) link
there's a "share" button on the final results
There isnt for me. Is it possibly a noscript/adblock thing I wonder.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Saturday, 8 January 2022 23:28 (two years ago) link
Oh! god, its on the popup screen and I'd just not noticed lol I am dense.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Saturday, 8 January 2022 23:29 (two years ago) link
Bleurgh. I’ve switched to the tactic of fishing in the first two rounds but didn’t like the way it was going. Nearly went for a third round of new letters but didn’t quite have the nerve. Wordle 204 5/6🟨🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜🟩🟩🟨⬜⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
― Alba, Sunday, 9 January 2022 07:44 (two years ago) link
Today I, um, followed my bliss, I mean just typed whatever quasi-strategic words popped into my head, which was enjoyable and converged satisfactorily. Got close on four and clinched it on five.With regard to the spelling bee is this thread in which we post words we wished were accepted, like VITTLE? I understand why it is isn’t but still.
― The Door into Summerisle (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 9 January 2022 13:15 (two years ago) link
My friends call it a futilibee when you see a word that you think should be accepted but isn't. WADI, TORY, PHAETON are recent examples
― nonsensei (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 9 January 2022 16:42 (two years ago) link
NAPHTHA not being accepted makes me so mad, every time.
― Jaq, Sunday, 9 January 2022 16:46 (two years ago) link
today's Wordle was the toughest for me because I'm not clear on the rules for indicating repeated letters. I think I have it figured out now though.
― kinder, Sunday, 9 January 2022 16:55 (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 17:02 (two years ago) link
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 17:04 (two years ago) link
Heh.Wait, kinder, what do you mean by “indicating repeated letters”?
― The Door into Summerisle (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 9 January 2022 17:15 (two years ago) link
So say the word was DODGYIf I get _ _ D_Y obviously either of D and Y could be in the remaining blank letters
But if I put A Y D R Y (pretend this is a real word) and the first Y is grey does that mean it's not in the blank letters at all or in another position - because grey is supposed to indicate that letter is not in the word at all (according to the 'how to play') but clearly that's incorrect. So I still wondered if there might be a second Y in one of the other positions, say YEDLY.I tried something similar today to figure out the 'rules' and I think maybe it treats remaining blank letters as 'the word' so it would be yellow if it was there a second time but in a different position? I always forget that if they're 'green' they could still be somewhere else in there, anyway.
― kinder, Sunday, 9 January 2022 17:22 (two years ago) link
So sorry yeah I didn't really mean 'indicating repeated letters' - more what I can infer from the colours of the remaining letter guesses given that grey doesn't mean it's not in the word at all if it's already been found. I've only played it a few times so still figuring it out!
― kinder, Sunday, 9 January 2022 17:24 (two years ago) link
i went from a "2 performance" to a 5 rounder today. i thought i had really figured out things. :(
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 9 January 2022 17:37 (two years ago) link
Does it really matter? Seems to be a question of luck.
― The Door into Summerisle (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 9 January 2022 18:04 (two years ago) link
staring at the crossword puzzle, i asked myself, does it really matter
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 9 January 2022 18:09 (two years ago) link
I'd say no.
― The Door into Summerisle (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 9 January 2022 18:11 (two years ago) link
@ kinder, yeah if there is a repeated letter in your guess, they'll green one if it's in the correct position, and yellow the other if there is a second occurrence of the same letter; the second letter will be grey otherwise.
So if the solution is PATTY, the guess TOTEM will get you yellow/green, TACIT will get you yellow/yellow.If the solution is DATUM, the guess TOTEM will get you grey/green, the guess TACIT will get you yellow/grey.
― flamboyant goon tie included, Sunday, 9 January 2022 22:21 (two years ago) link
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
― 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