Wordle Is a Love Story

Post by sbarre » Fri, Jan 07, 2022, 3:00 AM UTC

noxvilleza wrote: post #94

sbarre wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wonder if ROATE is even in the list of words. I'd never heard it and I'd like to think I have a decent vocabulary. The article says they whittled it down from 12,000 words to around 2,500 words, aiming for words that most(?) people would be familiar with.

Yes, it's in the list of guessable words - however it's not a valid answer word. You need to use the WORDLE word list in order to evaluate how good or bad your initial guess is, using another word list will provide distorted results.

Post by quickthrowman » Fri, Jan 07, 2022, 3:13 AM UTC

serverholic wrote: post #57

paxys wrote: post #16

- Fun - Simple - One puzzle a day, and everyone plays the same one so you can share and compare scores - No account creation, logins, ads, subscriptions, data mining All the right ingredients for going viral. I just hope the last point stays unchanged.

I feel bad that he isn't making a dime from this. I think people should be able to get something in return for creating value for others.

Post by [deleted] » Fri, Jan 07, 2022, 3:25 AM UTC

noxvilleza wrote: post #89

wenc wrote: post #4

What’s your optimal 5-letter starting word? Mine is HOUSE. It has 3 vowels (including E which is the most frequent in the English language) and S which helps test for plurals.

I did some analysis on this last week [ https://noxville.medium.com/raising-the-wordle-first-guess-b... ], ROATE left the lowest average valid answers (60.424) but 195 in the worst case. RAISE was the second best average (61.0) but a much better worst case of 168 words. Both are just heuristics, there might be a better word than either if the game were solved.

Post by tjpnz » Fri, Jan 07, 2022, 3:40 AM UTC

paxys wrote: post #16

- Fun - Simple - One puzzle a day, and everyone plays the same one so you can share and compare scores - No account creation, logins, ads, subscriptions, data mining All the right ingredients for going viral. I just hope the last point stays unchanged.

Post by seedless-sensat » Fri, Jan 07, 2022, 3:47 AM UTC

dotsam wrote: post #18

Tip: don’t look at the source if you don’t want to see the answers (I thought the words might be obfuscated but they’re not)