Defend The Indefensible: Wordle

America -> fall -> autumn. I thought - this is autumn on after the first go. Should have just gone for glory but thought I'd hedge my bets by first checking fall on the grounds it might be useful if autumn was wrong

37 guesses, 52% - hurray baseball

would be interested to hear Alba's thought process - what was the clue?

The intro looked like “xxxxxx, also known as yyyy in” and that was backed up by the repeated xxxxxx (yyyy) in the bibliography. I immediately had four-letter words prom and camp going through my mind but didn’t get that what followed was “American English” as I was too set on it being a country or range of cultures. Despite that I took a punt on America being mentioned somewhere (as part of Latin America or South America) as it seemed like it was some phenomenon that was known in different parts of the world and I quite often throw America and American in there as early guesses. There was some sense of it being timed differently in different places (“on and around”) and the way that America came up just made me think harder about the four letter word and then fall/autumn hit me. Should really have gone straight to autumn then but went fall first in case it wasn’t autumn and fall was useful elsewhere.

I don't try to count letters on Redactle, I just guess words and when I get one right I guess more words in the same subject, and if I manage to do it by myself then that's the win for me.

#32 in 65 - I had a useful chunk of that first sentence by guess 9 - "something, also known as something in something something, is one of the four something somethings" but got lost in virtues, vices, humours, saints, feasts, churchy stuff (especially as that was getting me crumbs), forgetting a VERY OBVIOUS thing that there are four of. A small technical curiosity or annoyance - I've just noticed it didn't fill in saints' for my saints guess.

Nice work Alba btw!

Started a new thread -
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Weird that my two sisters got FETUS as their word today while my brother and I got SHINE as our word. WTF is NYT doing?

^ Sorry, that’s an actual Wordle comment

that happens whenever there's a word NYT removed from the master list (like fetus, unsurprisingly)

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/may/09/new-york-times-drops-fetus-as-an-answer-to-wordle

still mad about the time Quordle used "AORTA"

Had some time to kill at the end of the day, so I did a Wordle with a grade 4/5 class. One of them then suggested Foodle, so we tried that. We got D in the first spot after two guesses, then were kind of stumped. Answer: "drink." What's your favourite food? Drink. I love that restaurant--make sure you try the drink. God, that's stupid.

My favourite drink? Liquid.

I had a go at Foodle, at which point I realised that I couldn't think of a single food that had N in it that wasn't bacon or doughnut or nougat. Chips doesn't have N in it. But eventually I got it. The answer was beans.

Which is technically a food, but it's a weak answer. I was expecting something at least a little bit obscure, such as penia or lonza or knipp or something. Or steckrübeneintopf. I had to look all of those words up, but so did James Bond, when he started. Although he probably learned those words while chatting up the daughters of top Italian chefs. But the point still stands. We all have to start somewhere.

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Now I have done that. I am back. We can all begin again. Ilxor has waxed and waned over the years - the very concept of text-based bulletin boards that don't have pictures has waxed and waned, mostly waned - but with me on the team again we're going to turn this sucker around. Video will wither and fade. Text is back, honey, but I can't do it alone.

i did wordle once. i have done heardle fairly often. most of the time i get it immediately/within one second or i don't get it at all

If people are still playing it, NYT rolled out an opt-in update that lets you play across devices.

So, we've reached the point of adverbs now.

I was thinking that. I thought that kind of thing, like plurals, was explicitly excluded.

It seems like most words are basic forms but I recall a few exceptions (specifically, irregular verb tenses: CREPT, FOUND, SHOWN). In this case, the word isn't irregular, but it also strikes me that there aren't *that many* three-letter adjectives that can be turned into five-letter adverbs with -LY.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqUd72pK15Y

I didn't get it. I initially went a hundred days without failing, and ever since my streak ended I've been reckless.

yeah I missed this one too but my streak ended when I forgot one day last week

before that the last one I missed was VIVID which, lets face it, is a bullshit word. I couldn't even muster a guess

My most recent streak ended with CRAMP the other day, because I ended up with CRA _ _ on like turn 3, and it turns out there are a lot of words that start with CRA.

Miraculously I got today's on the final guess. I was sure it was wrong, even thinking "welp there goes my streak" as I hit enter...

Jowly isn't an adverb, it's an adjective, surely?. I guess jowlily would be an adverb, "...he bloviated jowlily".

I got it on the last guess and it didn't seem like an unreasonable word.

Not everything that ends in -ly is an adverb. Ugly, scraggly...

https://www.wordexample.com/list/ending-ly-not-adverbs

And even if it was, why would that exclude it from inclusion in this game, as long as it is a real, valid word?

1. the word in question is an adverb though
2. the game has established an expectation of not using words like adverbs

I wasn’t aware of said expectation, and had no problem guessing this completely valid word (a different adverb from the one Chinchilla mentioned tho)

My most recent streak ended with CRAMP the other day, because I ended up with CRA _ _ on like turn 3, and it turns out there are a lot of words that start with CRA.

It isn't. Can you provide an example of a sentence where it acts as an adverb?

He gazed down at his porridge and mused upon it jowly.???

That doesn't work.

It's an adjective that describes someone with prominent jowls. It is not an adverb.

It's an adjective!

the word I got yesterday was “coyly” though, which is an adverb - and a fine word

do we still need to hide these posts? this particular instance is already wordle under the bridge, right? (or am I missing a timezone?)

Drat, I must apologize because I somehow forgot between 7:30 AM and 11:30 PM that I actually failed this wordle and was just going with my last guess. Therefore I feel pretty stupid regarding my last several posts.

That said, I do not protest coyly as a valid word in the slightest.

Sorry!

before yesterday there was only one adverb in the 400+ answers so far, "badly" from november of last year. "gaily" was once on the list but seems to have been removed or moved. i'd say that's enough to set an expectation

ofc i'm referring only to -ly adverbs which is what people are talking about - the word list generally avoids words that modify base words i.e. plurals

there have been two gerunds though

i win

https://i.imgur.com/Tv05LlF_d.webp?maxwidth=1520&fidelity=grand

Uh spoiler.

Nicely done!!

My 40-something steak got snapped by “IONIC” a few days ago

Well done! I got it in two.

Ha, yes. Ionic. Grrrr.

It was 2 for me today, somehow (started with RATIO). Got a new phone recently and lots all the stats, which is fine.

Ha I also started with RATIO today, but took three to get it. (Stopped at DEBIT on the way.)

Well done with the first-word guess! Is that always your starting word? I rotate between 5 or 6 starting words, and my fear of course is that I won't use the right one on the day that one of them is the actual word.

I have somehow gone my life without being aware of today's word (except as a surname). I got it in 5 and thought I'd done well.

we have a group of players and last place player picks starting word for next day. so we typically have different starting words which keeps the game a bit fresher.

that's fun

Jeeze, get a load of Mr. ein stein over here!