Wordle

[Paulatic]

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I’ve not noticed any more prevalence of American spelling. It’s been suggested this mornings was very 'English’ I can’t comment as I don’t know any Americans.
There is however a study in 'confirmation bias' https://twitter.com/mjshally/status/1495458810177245184

[Jdsk]

There is however a study in 'confirmation bias' https://twitter.com/mjshally/status/1495458810177245184

But there are only three letters in BMW and only four in AUDI...

; - )

Jonathan

[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.

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

That statement demonstrates profound ignorance. Last time I checked there were over 15,000 five letter words. Not every one of them has common everday use.

[Jdsk]

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.

That statement demonstrates profound ignorance. Last time I checked there were over 15,000 five letter words. Not every one of them has common everday use.

" Each daily game uses a word from a randomly ordered list of 2,315 words (out of the approximate 12,000 five-letter words in the English language)."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wordle#Gameplay

Jonathan

PS: I suspect that the list of accepted words is longer than the list of target words.

[freeflow]

Well you learn something every day....

[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.

That statement demonstrates profound ignorance. Last time I checked there were over 15,000 five letter words. Not every one of them has common everday use.

I've yet to learn a new word from playing Wordle. Maybe you have.

[mattheus]

I've yet to learn a new word from playing Wordle. Maybe you have.

I confess I did not previusly know the word "Wordle". So there's that.

[Ray]

One new word that arose for me was 'soare'. A good starter.

[richardfm]

One new word that arose for me was 'soare'. A good starter.

I missed that one, it would have been a new word for me.

[Chris56]

Had an interesting one the other day. Got 4 of the letters in the correct place on my 3rd guess:

S_ITE

The answer turned out to be "SMITE" but I couldn't resist guessing the 2nd letter as a "H" and it recognised it!!!

Normal stategy is to start with "Alien" and then either "Routs" or "Route"

[simonineaston]

There are a handful of 5 letter words that use 4 vowels, eg audio... useful as word #1 - or does it spoil the fun?

[rjb]

I usually play this over breakfast. There's a numeric version too which I prefer. "Nerdle" anyone here playing it.
I usually start with audio (thanks Vorpal for the hint), but may try my luck with some other suggestions.
Ps for nerdle fans I always start with 9x4/12=3. This indicates if the first 4 numbers appear in the solution.

[rjb]

I usually play this over breakfast. There's a numeric version too which I prefer. "Nerdle" anyone here playing it.
I usually start with audio (thanks Vorpal for the hint), but may try my luck with some other suggestions.
Ps for nerdle fans I always start with 9x4/12=3. This indicates if the first 4 numbers appear in the solution.

https://nerdlegame.com/

[Mick F]

As a throwaway statement, I said to our 12yo grandson, that the aardvark is the only animal with three A's.
He went away for a few minutes deep in thought, then came back with anaconda and alpaca.

Just thought I'd mention this, as you Wordle peeple understand wurds and speeling.

[Jdsk]

We have an African Grey parrot...

Jonathan