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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
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Paulatic wrote: 24 Feb 2022, 9:06amThere 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...

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richardfm wrote: 24 Feb 2022, 8:38am
freeflow wrote: 24 Feb 2022, 8:28am 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.
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freeflow wrote: 24 Feb 2022, 10:13am
richardfm wrote: 24 Feb 2022, 8:38am
freeflow wrote: 24 Feb 2022, 8:28am 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

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PS: I suspect that the list of accepted words is longer than the list of target words.
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Well you learn something every day....
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freeflow wrote: 24 Feb 2022, 10:13am
richardfm wrote: 24 Feb 2022, 8:38am
freeflow wrote: 24 Feb 2022, 8:28am 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.
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richardfm wrote: 24 Feb 2022, 10:13pm
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.
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One new word that arose for me was 'soare'. A good starter.
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Ray wrote: 24 Feb 2022, 10:17pm 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.
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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"
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There are a handful of 5 letter words that use 4 vowels, eg audio... useful as word #1 - or does it spoil the fun?
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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. :wink:
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rjb wrote: 28 Jun 2022, 11:01am 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. :wink:
https://nerdlegame.com/
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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. :D

Just thought I'd mention this, as you Wordle peeple understand wurds and speeling.
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Mick F wrote: 5 Feb 2022, 9:54amWe have an African Grey parrot...
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