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Guess the daily Wordle in one try using the tweet distribution

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Post by zerocrates »

imadethis wrote: post #24
Asraelite wrote: post #21

What are the "⬛ squares taking social media by storm"?

Huh, I thought HN stripped out emojis from posts. Has that changed, or is there a limited subset that are available?

The black and white squares are in the older Unicode "Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrrows" block so I guess they're allowed. Several things like that are sort of "retroactively" emoji... there's a "display as emoji" or "display as text" character you can put after them.

What HN does and doesn't allow seems somewhat arbitrary, things like the star emoji are in that same block and yet are not allowed as far as I can tell.

Re: Guess the daily Wordle in one try using the tweet distribution

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Post by nathancahill »

csours wrote: post #71
aidenn0 wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I always lead with STOAE so people don't have issues guessing my first one at least. I also tend to follow with UNLID if STOAE has zero or one hits.

ARTSY MODEL CHUNK here. It's not optimal, but it is pleasing to me in an aesthetic sense.

STEAM HOUND has been a winner for me.

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Post by function_seven »

gs17 wrote: post #80
balls187 wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I vary up my starting words to keep things interesting. Common ones for me are: MEATY, BISON, CHUMP, GROUP From yesterday's post on the state of the art, I tried SALET, but still took me 4 tries to get today's wordle.

I turned on hard mode, and it's really forced me to change how I play. You can only really have one "starting word" unless you match zero letters.

After seeing an asterisk in one of my friends' shares, I'm now forced to play on hard mode as well. I can't risk the peer-shame of skating on easy mode anymore :)

So that being said, I'm bracing myself for the curses-of-early-success this will lead me on. Right now I sometimes toss out a completely different word just to cover the search space. It has led me to quickly narrow down options. Am I screwed if my first guess matches on 2 letters? (Say, "___ES").

I guess that's why it's called "Hard Mode" to begin with.

Re: Guess the daily Wordle in one try using the tweet distribution

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Post by drdeca »

jcpham2 wrote: post #48

Can someone TL:dr what this Wordless thing is?

My understanding (I've never played it) is:

each day there is a 5 letter word. You have a limited number of guesses as to what word it is (iirc 6 guesses). When you make a guess, it marks each letter with something indicating whether the actual word had that letter in that position, whether that word has a copy of that letter (and not one you already found), or whether that letter does not appear in that word.

All of your guesses have to be words.

In hard mode, all of your guesses have to contain all of the letters which you got right in a previous guess.

At the end (if you get the word within 6 guesses?) you are given an option to share (on twitter mostly, I think) a representation of your game, in a way that doesn't reveal what words you guessed or what the final word was, just which positions had which of the 3 markings, which, in this share feature, are represented using emoji with the colored square blocks.

This results in many people posting grids of colored square blocks, followed some fraction out of 6.

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Post by zwieback »

Asraelite wrote: post #21

What are the "⬛ squares taking social media by storm"?

That was my question and it's still not answered well here. I guess people post the colors that led up to their solution but no the actual letters.

Might be good to add it to the original post for clarification. I play Wordle but didn't quite get what they were using for source data.

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Post by dalmo3 »

drdeca wrote: post #85
jcpham2 wrote: post #48

Can someone TL:dr what this Wordless thing is?

My understanding (I've never played it) is: each day there is a 5 letter word. You have a limited number of guesses as to what word it is (iirc 6 guesses). When you make a guess, it marks each letter with something indicating whether the actual word had that letter in that position, whether that word has a copy of that letter (and not one you already found), or whether that letter does not appear in that word. All of…

TL;DR of the TL;DR: https://www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/

Seriously, the quickest way to understand it is to just play the thing.

Re: Guess the daily Wordle in one try using the tweet distribution

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Post by ghostly_s »

jonny_eh wrote: post #77
lkbm wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, we know. We can also easily "solve" a crossword puzzle by waiting a day and just copying down the published answers. People are having fun solving puzzles in clever ways. This post is an exceptionally clever way of solving a puzzle in an unexpected way, using forensic data analysis, which is itself something of interest to a lot of us.

I know that, I'm just pointing out another clever way to solve today's puzzle :)

The point is it's not clever at all.

Re: Guess the daily Wordle in one try using the tweet distribution

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Post by dumbfounder »

csours wrote: post #71
aidenn0 wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I always lead with STOAE so people don't have issues guessing my first one at least. I also tend to follow with UNLID if STOAE has zero or one hits.

ARTSY MODEL CHUNK here. It's not optimal, but it is pleasing to me in an aesthetic sense.

STARE, CHIMP, BLOND or BOUND depending on how many vowels I hit. Sometimes FLUNK.
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