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- 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.
- Not banal
I’ve been able to play a handful of the past words with internet archive for anyone interested https://web.archive.org/web/20220105234455/https://www.power...
I can only see the top 2 rows of the keyboard. Adjusting the window size doesn't fix it.
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The optimal starting word is ARISE, as it partitions the possible words most evenly across the different green/yellow/grey colour combinations
ARISE is good, but AROSE is better, and SOARE is the best: On average it eliminates all but 2264 out of ~12000 5 letter words. https://github.com/lalaithion/wordle
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.
Hah funny to see other people strategizing like this.. I did some research and (from what I found) the most common letters in English are: E, O, T, A, I, R, N, H, S (not in any order) So I came up with TRAIN and SHOVE as 2 starting words that use all those letters without repeats, plus V. WORLD is also a good one because it uses one of the most common starting letters (W, T, A, O, D) and one of the most common ending…
here is one I found today, you can have multiple tries, and chose word length
wonder what other innovations occur before we round back into scrabble
The game's great but I'm puzzled why no one mentions that this is a verbatim copy of Lingo, a 1987 tv show that's been adapted in many countries. I used to watch this in France where it was very successful. Once people got too good at 5-letter words, they ran 6, then 7, and finally 8 letters.
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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.
Yes that's what I meant, is it valid in Wordle specifically.
They have two lists of words: one is a list of possible answers, and another is a list of extra (valid) words which can be guessed (in addition to the words in the answer list). Sometimes it might be better to use a non-answer word as a guess: the best case gets worse (since you cannot win immediately) but the average case and worst case both get better.
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Hah funny to see other people strategizing like this.. I did some research and (from what I found) the most common letters in English are: E, O, T, A, I, R, N, H, S (not in any order) So I came up with TRAIN and SHOVE as 2 starting words that use all those letters without repeats, plus V. WORLD is also a good one because it uses one of the most common starting letters (W, T, A, O, D) and one of the most common ending…
Thanks for the hint, I used PLUCK for wordle 202 and got a very good start
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Hah funny to see other people strategizing like this.. I did some research and (from what I found) the most common letters in English are: E, O, T, A, I, R, N, H, S (not in any order) So I came up with TRAIN and SHOVE as 2 starting words that use all those letters without repeats, plus V. WORLD is also a good one because it uses one of the most common starting letters (W, T, A, O, D) and one of the most common ending…
Thanks for the hint, I used PLUCK for wordle 202 and got a very good start
Wordle 202 3/6
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11111- 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.