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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.
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.
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 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 letters (E, D, S, T).
Some other good starting words for me have been RIVET, CANDY, PLUCK and BASTE.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
dayOffset = floor((today - 19 April 2021) / 864e5)
index = dayOffset % wordList.length
wordOfTheDay = wordList[index]
edit: It's literally just picking the next item in the array in sequence.
- 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 hope the third point stays unchanged too. Too many services out there optimize for engagement, the expense being the encouragement of addictive behaviors.
Seems like it would be important to note in the rules that letters can be used more than once even if they're green.
Looking forward to tomorrow.
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.
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...