Wordle

Wordle should also tell you your average solve time. Tho would prob ruin the enjoyment of doing it

I’d say yes and they come from a pool of options that hit a certain frequency of use and aren’t offensive / crass etc

Still not had boner

I thought I read somewhere that the list of Wordle words is made up of ones he thought his wife would know. I.e it is not a list of every 5 letter word (this might be wrong btw)

Is this frequency theory proven anywhere?

It was ‘elder’ the other day, which many of us struggled with following more frequently used words.

My understanding is that if it’s in the ‘word list’, as in it allows you to guess it, then it could be the solution. I’ve no idea, though, if the word list is referenced randomly each day to assign a solution, or if it is biased in some way (frequency, wife says it all the time, etc).

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He should be held to account!

Listen, you got banged out and you just need to suck it up.

Really you should be locked out of the thread

Pleasing...

Wordle 234 2/6*

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It’s Wordle itself that I need to be locked out of.

(My point stands. Details on the game need to be surfaced.)

To add some forum fun to this we could say the first person to get say a 3 bang each day, chooses the starting word that we all need to use the following day

There was a NY Times article about it. IIRC there are ~12000 5 letter words and he got his partner to go through the ones she knew which was ~2500. Those 2500 were randomised to be the answers but the guesses can be any legit word. So the answer will always be reasonably common and there are loads of obscure words that never will be the final answer but are obviously still useful as guesses. But there is no reason skill should be more likely than swill or argon less likely than train. I think.

I'm starting to feel the same. I've been playing an infinite clone version while on the train past few days.

Elder the other day was a real struggle for me. Only had one guess left, eureka moment when I was so sure it must have been 'older', much disappoint.

If both skill/swill or train/argon are in the shorter list then they are equally likely (1 in 2500ish)

Wordle 234 3/6*

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A friend did it in 2/6, his opening word finally delivered

Thank you for taking my shrieking seriously enough for a considered response. This is calming.

However, you stated that, of a total of ~12000 words, ~2500 are not just more likely than the remaining ~9500; the ~2500 are the only solutions in the game. That would contradict the final statement on skill/swill.

IIRC there are ~12000 5 letter words and he got his partner to go through the ones she knew which was ~2500. Those 2500 were randomised to be the answers but the guesses can be any legit word. So the answer will always be reasonably common

This tallies up with my experience and what I posted a few days ago about 'trying to be too clever'. In my experience the answer is more likely to be a common/simple word than a more obscure word. So skill is more likely than swill and train more likely than argon.

You're welcome! I'm assuming the partner (on whose knowledge we rest), being an avid word puzzler, will have heard of both skill and swill so both are likely to be the answer at some point in the next 6 years. But sdill (if that was a word for something like a Moldovan nose flute) would not. That may of course be wrong.

Further to this conversation, here are the Jan 2022 solutions:

Wordle 226 Jan 31 2022 – LIGHT
Wordle 225 Jan 30 2022 – WRUNG
Wordle 224 Jan 29 2022 – COULD
Wordle 223 Jan 28 2022 – PERKY
Wordle 222 Jan 27 2022 – MOUNT
Wordle 221 Jan 26 2022 – WHACK
Wordle 220 Jan 25 2022 – SUGAR
Wordle 219 Jan 24 2022 – KNOLL
Wordle 218 Jan 23 2022 – CRIMP
Wordle 217 Jan 22 2022 – WINCE
Wordle 216 Jan 21 2022 – PRICK
Wordle 215 Jan 20 2022 – ROBOT
Wordle 214 Jan 19 2022 – POINT
Wordle 213 Jan 18 2022 – PROXY
Wordle 212 Jan 17 2022 – SHIRE
Wordle 211 Jan 16 2022 – SOLAR
Wordle 210 Jan 15 2022 – PANIC
Wordle 209 Jan 14 2022 – TANGY
Wordle 208 Jan 13 2022 – ABBEY
Wordle 207 Jan 12 2022 – FAVOR
Wordle 206 Jan 11 2022 – DRINK
Wordle 205 Jan 10 2022 – QUERY
Wordle 204 Jan 9 2022 – GORGE
Wordle 203 Jan 8 2022 – CRANK
Wordle 202 Jan 7 2022 – SLUMP
Wordle 201 Jan 6 2022 – BANAL
Wordle 200 Jan 5 2022 – TIGER
Wordle 199 Jan 4 2022 – SIEGE
Wordle 198 Jan 3 2022 – TRUSS
Wordle 197 Jan 2 2022 – BOOST
Wordle 196 Jan 1 2022 – REBUS

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Rebus!!!

No SNOOP yet

But once the 'common' 2500 words have been set, there's equal likelihood of them being the answer. So if both swill and skill are in the answer list, either will have the same chance of being right. eg Older and Elder.
I suppose it's down to how wide one's knowledge of 5 letter words is compared with the setters'. But you're probably right in general - I guessed Elver in the Elder one so guilty of exactly your point!

What percentage of the Jan solutions would you say are ‘common/simple’ words?

Some of those answers for Jan have me in shambles! REBUS, TRUSS, BANAL, SHIRE...

I guess we are totally at the mercy of one person's education, background and vocabulary. So it's not about generally common words, just common/simple to the developer's partner.

Apparently the ~2500 word list is readily available from the source code should you want to actually verify whether swill/skill are both present