Defend The Indefensible: Wordle

i just had a look at phrazle, which is identical to worlde except it's a phrase not a word. you wouldn't know it from the instructions, which have been written by an a.i. or a moron or both:

As a logic puzzle game, Phrazle requires players to have excellent analytical skills. In Phrazle, there are no set rules for the open-ended play and format. You are encouraged to come up with your own rules or simply improvise. The key to winning the game is identifying word and phrase patterns. Four random words are given in each round's set. You have a certain amount of time to write down as many phrases as you can using these four words. The game will provide some facts before each round so you can guess the context. These won't affect how you play, but they can help you guess what other players are trying to do.

In fact, you will have six attempts to guess sentence patterns and phrases. Each guess must include only words that are legitimate and use all spaces. The color of the tiles will change to indicate how close your guesses are to the correct answer after each one:

💠 Green: The letter is in the first word and in the correct position.

💠 Yellow: Although it is in the first word, the letter is in the incorrect location.

💠 Purple: The letter is in the phrase but not in the second word.

💠 Gray: Letters are not in the phrase.

Tips And Tricks

In every game, the rules are one of the core factors that make the game attractive. With Phrazle we will give you examples to help you understand the rules and how to play better:

The word must have at least two parts. When you come up with a word to look up, simplify it and think of the words closest to you. For instance, a word like "fruit" has two components in Phrazle. The term "fruit" is what we often conceive of as a whole, while the word "u" is what we define in Phrazle.

Each word in a sentence must appear at least once. One of the most crucial regulations is this one. You're not playing the same round like everyone else if you break it. If you don't follow this rule, you can still use common words, but you must use at least one Phrazled word in your phrases.

Try using some of the more complex techniques you first discovered now that you are familiar with the game's rules. For instance, try flipping words or making sentences using synonyms or antonyms. Breaking the guidelines you learned above if you're seeking more complex techniques. For instance, you may still utilize Phrazled words in a sentence even though they don't exist in it. Likewise, you may employ synonyms for terms, such as "antidisestablishmentarianism."

Four random words are given in each round's set - no?
The game will provide some facts before each round so you can guess the context - nope
they can help you guess what other players are trying to do. - what other players?
Purple: The letter is in the phrase but not in the second word. or it might be in the second word but not in the first, did you think about that?
In every game, the rules are one of the core factors that make the game attractive. - couldn't agree more!
For instance, a word like "fruit" has two components in Phrazle. The term "fruit" is what we often conceive of as a whole, while the word "u" is what we define in Phrazle. - ok bye!

this is why the gods invented the well-breaker

― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Wednesday, 3 August 2022 07:09 (eight months ago) bookmarkflaglink

breastcrawl - is this an actual term? Did you make it up? I was about to tell someone else 'I used a well-breaker' but when I google Wordle + wellbreaker I get nothing except this thread!

no, far from it - it was used further upthread, that's where I got it:

^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.

― The Central Rockaliser (James Redd and the Blecchs), donderdag 31 maart 2022 17:12

oh! Didn't search properly.

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, 28 March 2022 17:47 (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink

Still - not heard it outside of this thread.

@murgatroid?

I hadn’t noticed that term before but that is my default strategy

Hard Mode kind of makes the well breaker impossible, no?

Correct -- that's why I don't use it anymore, since I think wellbreakers make the game more strategic.

my second guess is always a “well breaker”

RIP alll the myriad wordle knockoffs, in foreign languages and otherwise

Strands has potential. I can't not do Spelling Bee, it's how I start each day. Connections is usually fun too. The Washington Post's Keyword is another piece of fun. I do Wordle pretty much every day, but it's rather more hit or miss than the other games I do.

why RIP? I do Wordle every day but could never bring myself to care about the knockoffs

connections is good fun

Yeah I really like Connections. Strands could be good, but I'll see how I feel after a few weeks of it.

why RIP? I do Wordle every day but could never bring myself to care about the knockoffs

https://www.shetnews.co.uk/2024/03/07/shetland-dialect-version-wordle-taken/

We’re still doing Wordle and recently added Connections to the daily routine. Tried Strands but not sure I’ll continue with it.

If you enjoy Connections you should try the Connecting Wall round of Only Connect (a load are here. It's the third round on the show, usually about 20 minutes in.

The main section of Only Connect is scary hard. Haven’t looked at the Connecting Wall bit since I started playing Connections. Maybe it won’t be too frightening

i lost an 85-day wordle streak the other day because I got busy and forgot to do it, which was annoying. i feel like it should be more like the crossword where you can keep your streak as long as you do it in order or as long you don't get stumped

unfortunate, but i'm okay with that

much better than losing a streak because you guessed

PATCH
MATCH
CATCH
LATCH
BATCH
and it turned out to be HATCH

My Wordle streak is a healthy 149 currently

Was low key obsessed with getting to 100

Now low key obsessed with getting my 3 guess stats line (69) out front of my 4 guess line (108)

Enjoy Wordle as the perfect vaguely engaged life background thing - esp as it is usually over in 30 secs (unlike Spelling Bee which can wreck an evening)

I still do Wordle and Framed every day. Cell Tower is a nice distraction if you've got time to kill - sometimes it's incredibly easy and sometimes you can get stuck for ages.
https://www.andrewt.net/puzzles/cell-tower/

I've got the Wordle in one TWICE and I aim to do it again.

I still do Framed and Wordle every day too - going it in a pals' WhatsApp group is what keeps the interest.

Also got World in one twice and have no expectation of ever doing that again, esp as I've mainly slipped back into a 'start with same word each day' routine (and that word has already come up)

Wordle, not World

I’m a big fan of Wordall: my main course after the Wordle starter.

Still do Wordle, Travle, Worldle and Connections. Wordall looks like a good one.

Nice twist to connections today

Yeah, enjoyed that although possibly a bit too easy?

our group started with fools as first word today ... looked like a terrible choice but was in fact very lucky choice

and connections was fun today as well

I am hating the Connections so much right now.

connections in part depends on learning how the author(s) construct the categories and also having cultural knowledge from growing up in the US. my wife didn't grow up in the US and gets super frustrated with some of the US-centric categories

not just US centric but often the double whammy of US sports *bleaurgh*

I'm USian and I have no idea what these emojis are supposed to be signifying! Ope wait a second okay I got there but it took me ALL the allowed errors.

I've been doing the Wordall every day - thanks Mike t-d!

they also sometimes seem to overlap with Wordle...?

Glad you’re enjoying Wordall; I’ve started tracking my average solution time, and I’ve managed to reduce it by three whole seconds this year! (Currently 2 mins 18 seconds)

not just US centric but often the double whammy of US sports *bleaurgh*

lol payback for everything I’ve needed to learn about cricket to understand a cryptic crossword.

It's only about once a week that I get thrown by a US-centric Connections category. Usually food or sport.

Seems likely to be a controversial pick today. (I got it in 2, and even I'm not completely on-board)

Doesn't bother me. It's a word that is commonly used in that form.

yeah, bit fishy imo

I got it in three so I’m okay with it

Well, "laser" is an acronym.

(2 for me as well today)

If it's good enough for Spelling Bee it's good enough for -- no wait...

(I got it in 5 but fine with it.)

Started playing daily again after months missed and keep getting it in three day after day.

Been playing fairly consistently for the most part. However, couple months back the NYT required an account to see your play history. Rather than do that bs, I remembered that I actually saved a copy of the OG Wordle web site a couple years back before the transfer in anticipation of this enshittification and decided to finally setup a home web server that hosts it. I remember the original was entirely self contained, with no dependency on a backend service, simply using client side HTML and JS coupled with cookies and the computer date to run the show.

Nice to have it again without the need for ad blockers or an account to track history and I can just use my VPN to play it when I'm not home too.

NY Times can fuck off

Now low key obsessed with getting my 3 guess stats line (69) out front of my 4 guess line (108)

i achieved this a while back and am now obsessed with maintaining it. currently at 304 (3) to 296 (4). the other thing i’m proud of, i have solved in two more times than in six (33 vs 32)

ooh... my 2s and 6s are exactly equal! my 3s way behind the 4s though. bloody ROVER fecked my streak the other day.

I was striving for more 3s than 4s at one point, but I lost that battle long ago. Now I'm just constantly trying to make sure the gap between the two doesn't get bigger than it currently is. After today, it's 53 (265 vs. 318). :/