Wordle

[Cal Weldon]

Juan, I won’t begin to explain but being the smart man you are, I know what the the winky is for.
Cheers.

 

[Cal Weldon]

Bill, yes Mastermind with words.

 

[Cal Weldon]

Mark, excellent strategy. I often find myself going more direct. Good work.
Cheers.

 

[markmar]

Now it says something about becoming a member. I just googled it and went to the NY Times link. They give you unlimited words. Please tell me how I'm supposed to do this for real.

Cal,

Here’s the link I use: https://www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle

Mark, how do you show it like you did so as not to show others?
Took me five tries this time. And I don't know how you find out what # puzzle this is.

Cal,

when you finish the game it gives you your statistics. From there there is a Share button you press, then you can post out your results for folks to see.

thanks
Mark

 

[markmar]

Cal,

It seems that things are cutting over to NY Times branding. I get the old interface, my wife the NYT.

Word is the same for both views. When they make me subscribe to play this, I’m out.

Wordle 238 3/6

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[phase]

When I was young, we spent hours on end playing what we called word game. Same rules but it was always 4 letter words.
I was introduced recently to this new sensation and tried it today. Now I know it's beginners luck, but first time out I got it in 3 words.
I think I'll try again and let it bring me back to earth.
Who else is doing this?

My wife and I have been doing this for a couple weeks now, is fun, yet frustrating when you brain isn’t working. Always on the lookout for the unique, British spellings also, but haven’t had any yet.
I have a cousin who always gets it in three tries…

Haven’t signed up anywhere, just play off the site and don’t have any stats recorded.
I hope The NY Times isn’t going to start charging for it!

 

[Cal Weldon]

Took me five today. I made a careless error which cost me one.
In Mark's post 18 you can see he has 4 vowels out in the first two words so it's obvious this isn't his first kick at the can. I think I'll try ADIEU next time.

 

[Mark Johnson]

ABIDE has 3 vowels
ADIEU has 4 vowels
AUDIO has 4 vowels
AULOI has 4 vowels
AUREI has 4 vowels
OUIJA has 4 vowels
OURIE has 4 vowels

but, in my opinion, vowel count MAY NOT be the single most important criterion

 

[gjo1314]

Guys I'm also enjoying this mind sharpener.

 

[markmar]

Wordle 239 4/6

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[Cal Weldon]

Took me four as well. Might have been 3 but I had two choices for the middle letter and chose the wrong one. Argh!

 

[Cal Weldon]

Wordle 239 4/6

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[Cal Weldon]

Now in dark mode.
Wordle 239 4/6

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[Mark Johnson]

Wow, it looks so wrong when I click CTRL-V to paste. But then it posts reasonably nicely. Started with a permutation of CONES and TRAIL.

Wordle 239 3/6

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[Dave R]

Wordle 239 2/6

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[markmar]

Wordle 240 5/6

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Tough one today

 

[sthcoaster]

Yes. It’s a good brain teaser today!! Funny how some words don’t look right even when they are spelled correctly.

I’ve been playing Wordament since its launch in 2012 (any other players here on DIYA?) Nice to have a different kind of daily challenge with Wordle. Been following the commercial/development story as well. Nice 7 figure payday for the creator.

 

[Cal Weldon]

Good going on 239 Dave.

Yes today's took a few minutes alright.

Wordle 240 5/6

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[Dave R]

Good going on 239 Dave.

Yes today's took a few minutes alright.

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Yep, today's was 2.5 times as tough.
I had a lucky guess on 239.

 

[phase]

Today’s win came swiftly, makes up for the other day when I had stared at it for hours and never got it…
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