Wordle

[Vorpal]

I only noticed this morning that there is a 'Hard Mode' in Settings, which states: "Any revealed hints must be used in subsequent guesses" - which is what I'd been assuming all along! The default appears to be 'Easy Mode". This made me re-think, and I used the easy cop-out to advantage in today's Wordle when I'd drawn a lot of blanks in my first couple of attempts. Must admit, though, it felt a bit like cheating!

Sometimes, if I get a single yellow letter, especially if it's common, like E or S, I will do a word without it to see if I can identify other letters. AUDIO is one I use a lot because it has all the other vowels, except 'Y'.

Enjoying wordle, particularly because it is limited to one a day.

unless you https://www.wordleunlimited.com/

[Ray]

unless you https://www.wordleunlimited.com/

That way madness lies

[gaz]

unless you https://www.wordleunlimited.com/

I can't unsee that, I shall have to settle for doing my best to ignore it .

[Ray]

I recently came across Quordle https://www.quordle.com/#/ which challenges you to solve four wordle puzzles simultaneously.

Tried it once and somehow managed to solve it. But, valuing my sanity, I think I'll stick to doing one at a time in future. And just once a day

[Slowtwitch]

Not sure about it now that it's been sold on to the NYT, how will they monetise it?

[simonineaston]

For those interested in how things work there's a nice little article about Wordle here.

[freeflow]

For my strategy I stand on the shoulders of giants. I took the first 10 most common letters as per Morse code. I then generated two words from those 10 letters and use those as my first two guesses. There are a number of two word combinations that are possible, I went for a pair that had a non overlapping spread of vowels, and where vowels didn't appear in unlikely places, e.g. no I as a last letter.

[mattheus]

For my strategy I stand on the shoulders of giants. I took the first 10 most common letters as per Morse code. I then generated two words from those 10 letters and use those as my first two guesses. There are a number of two word combinations that are possible, I went for a pair that had a non overlapping spread of vowels, and where vowels didn't appear in unlikely places, e.g. no I as a last letter.

I don't remember telling you this strategy, but thanks for the credit anyway

[DaveReading]

For my strategy I stand on the shoulders of giants. I took the first 10 most common letters as per Morse code.

As opposed to the 10 most common letters in written English ?

[freeflow]

Yes. Because Morse based his frequency count on five letter words

[rjb]

I've taken the hint from Vorpal and use "audio" as my first word to see which vowels are used. Thankyou Vorpal.
I'm also hooked on nerdle now. I'm better at this whilst Mrs Rjb is better at wordle.

[Slowtwitch]

I'm getting pretty bored with Wordle already, anyone else finding similar?

[freeflow]

It's just a guessing game. No skill involved at all. You learn a few new, relatively useless words but otherwise no real scope for development. If you are so inclined you could try 'Advent of code' problems or similar.

[richardfm]

It's just a guessing game. No skill involved at all. You learn a few new, relatively useless words but otherwise no real scope for development. If you are so inclined you could try 'Advent of code' problems or similar.

You must have a very limited vocabulary if you are learning new words when you play Wordle.

[rjb]

Unfortunately there are a few American spellings creeping into the solutions now and the blatant advertising for a Somerset cycle business yesterday.

Does anyone do Nerdle, wordle with numbers.