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Re: Playing every game of Wordle simultaneously

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Post by contravariant »

ktallett wrote: post #8
qingcharles wrote: post #6

ChatGPT Agent is pretty good at playing Wordle. It's banned from the official version, but it'll play the knock-off ones just fine for you.

What's the point? You play these games to improve your own mind, or for your own enjoyment.

No you see chatgpt is doing the thinking for us now, instead of using your own brain to struggle with a puzzle that is trivial to solve for a simple algorithm you can let a language model struggle with it for you! You get all of the enjoyment from solving a puzzle with an inefficient overly complicated general purpose solver, without needing to put in any work yourself!

Re: Playing every game of Wordle simultaneously

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Post by jibal »

LPisGood wrote: post #9
re wrote: post #2

> the list of 2315 valid secret words > 2315 was the original number of Wordle secret words. After the New York Times acquired Wordle, it was revised down to only 2309 secret words. The NYT puzzle is no longer beholden to any specific list for solutions. There's now a larger list (of 3200 words) that Wordlebot thinks are now likely to be solutions based on NYT word frequency data, but some recent solutions (like KEFI…

Which 6 words did NYT remove?

agora fibre lynch pupal slave wench

Re: Playing every game of Wordle simultaneously

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Post by lemmsjid »

ktallett wrote: post #8
qingcharles wrote: post #6

ChatGPT Agent is pretty good at playing Wordle. It's banned from the official version, but it'll play the knock-off ones just fine for you.

What's the point? You play these games to improve your own mind, or for your own enjoyment.

I enjoy wordle and wouldn’t automate it to replace my play. I also enjoy techie people demonstrating that you can automate X with Y tool. That’s another form of problem solving. Can’t those enjoyments exist simultaneously?

Re: Playing every game of Wordle simultaneously

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Post by renewiltord »

ktallett wrote: post #8
qingcharles wrote: post #6

ChatGPT Agent is pretty good at playing Wordle. It's banned from the official version, but it'll play the knock-off ones just fine for you.

What's the point? You play these games to improve your own mind, or for your own enjoyment.

Same as the point in watching dog play with ball. You can also play with ball for enjoyment but sometimes the enjoyment is in seeing the limits of something else.

Re: Playing every game of Wordle simultaneously

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Post by tantalor »

chriskw wrote: post #4
re wrote: post #2

> the list of 2315 valid secret words > 2315 was the original number of Wordle secret words. After the New York Times acquired Wordle, it was revised down to only 2309 secret words. The NYT puzzle is no longer beholden to any specific list for solutions. There's now a larger list (of 3200 words) that Wordlebot thinks are now likely to be solutions based on NYT word frequency data, but some recent solutions (like KEFI…

Good catch! I didn't know about this, I'll update the footnote. Anecdotally everyone I know was very surprised by KEFIR the other day.

Because it's not a f*ckin' English word!

Re: Playing every game of Wordle simultaneously

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Post by goopypoop »

renewiltord wrote: post #14
ktallett wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's the point? You play these games to improve your own mind, or for your own enjoyment.

Same as the point in watching dog play with ball. You can also play with ball for enjoyment but sometimes the enjoyment is in seeing the limits of something else.

It's like breeding a dog to have fingers so it can unplug your life support

Re: Playing every game of Wordle simultaneously

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Post by ghaff »

tantalor wrote: post #15
chriskw wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Good catch! I didn't know about this, I'll update the footnote. Anecdotally everyone I know was very surprised by KEFIR the other day.

Because it's not a f*ckin' English word!

Yet, it's on bottles that are sold in the grocery store. Yes, it's not really a common word as I commented at the time, but it's not really a word that I'd consider a proper noun or otherwise not legitimate.

Re: Playing every game of Wordle simultaneously

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Post by ghaff »

jibal wrote: post #12
LPisGood wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Which 6 words did NYT remove?

agora fibre lynch pupal slave wench

Not sure why pupal or agora would be removed. Fibre isn't common US spelling though that doesn't really seem to stop Wordle for other purposes. The other three I can see the Times removing them just because they may trigger controversy.

Re: Playing every game of Wordle simultaneously

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Post by renewiltord »

goopypoop wrote: post #16
renewiltord wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Same as the point in watching dog play with ball. You can also play with ball for enjoyment but sometimes the enjoyment is in seeing the limits of something else.

It's like breeding a dog to have fingers so it can unplug your life support

Enjoyment comes from it autonomously choosing to do so.

Look at little jeepeety, so cute.

Re: Playing every game of Wordle simultaneously

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Post by seany »

tantalor wrote: post #15
chriskw wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Good catch! I didn't know about this, I'll update the footnote. Anecdotally everyone I know was very surprised by KEFIR the other day.

Because it's not a f*ckin' English word!

You can say fuck on the Internet. It's fine
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