Wordle daily word puzzle

If you want five new words a day try this one:

https://jamiespace.com/jumble.php

I didn't like waiting for only one word a day.  So I started from scratch and wrote my own script.

It also doesn't check for real words - so you can type in any letters.

New words at midnight.


I just found this thread but I can't figure out how to make it work.  I select my first word and none of the letters match at all but then I can't do anything more.  What am I doing wrong.  (Windows 10/Chrome)


are you clicking the enter key on the on-screen keyboard after you finish the word? Pressing the enter key on your real keyboard doesn't seem to work.

sac said:

I just found this thread but I can't figure out how to make it work.  I select my first word and none of the letters match at all but then I can't do anything more.  What am I doing wrong.  (Windows 10/Chrome)


Yes, ENTER seems to be the answer. : )  Onscreen or keyboard works for me (Windows 10, Firefox).


Words #3 and #5 were a bit tricky in today's JamieSpace Jumble - https://jamiespace.com/jumble.php

How did you do?

I'll probably add a tally for how many out of 5 were answered right.  And a countdown timer to when the new words will be ready.


The origins of Wordle are quite sweet:

Wordle Is a Love Story (NYT)

Josh Wardle, a software engineer in Brooklyn, knew his partner loved word games, so he created a guessing game for just the two of them. As a play on his last name, he named it Wordle.

But after the couple played for months, and after it rapidly became an obsession in his family’s WhatsApp group once he introduced it to relatives, Mr. Wardle thought he might be on to something and released it to the rest of the world in October.

I'm enjoying the one-a-day puzzle. It's a nice mental exercise while I'm having my morning cuppa joe.


Now it tracks how many out of the 5 puzzles you got right.  And if you're memory isn't great - you can play it a few hours later.  grin

1st word today was a little tricky - others not too bad:

https://jamiespace.com/jumble.php


So, my son wrote a program to optimize the best first guess, given the letter composition and placement of 5-letter words in a dictionary, though he did not use the game maker's specific dictionary. I opt not to guess his optimal word every time, but I can't now unknow it. (Actually, now he ran it again, using Wordle's two lists, one of words that are possible guesses and the shorter one of words that are possible answers; this did change the best first guess.)

For a variation on the game, check out Absurdle, which changes its word as you play to maximize the number of moves it takes you to get a word. Best I did so far was six guesses. https://qntm.org/files/wordle/index.html


Did OK today. I should probably retire from the game now. 



drummerboy said:

cheater

You're still jealous from Name That Tune. 


Guardian today has an article on how to optimise your guesses based on linguistic theory. I’d give the link but you’re all clever enough to find it anyway if you want it. cheese


joanne said:

Guardian today has an article on how to optimise your guesses based on linguistic theory. I’d give the link but you’re all clever enough to find it anyway if you want it.
cheese

I'm late to this party. Yesterday was the first time I played. As I was researching exactly what the heck this Wordle thing is, I came across an article explaining the concept. And the author shared the word he starts with almost every day. It was a pretty good tip grin


Here you go:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jan/11/secret-winning-wordle-word-game

ml1 said:

I'm late to this party. Yesterday was the first time I played. As I was researching exactly what the heck this Wordle thing is, I came across an article explaining the concept. And the author shared the word he starts with almost every day. It was a pretty good tip
grin


joanne said:

Here you go:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jan/11/secret-winning-wordle-word-game

ml1 said:

I'm late to this party. Yesterday was the first time I played. As I was researching exactly what the heck this Wordle thing is, I came across an article explaining the concept. And the author shared the word he starts with almost every day. It was a pretty good tip
grin

that's pretty much how I worked today. I got a vowel in the right position and I was almost certain the consonant had to move to either first or last based on the hard sound. 


Looks like sharing your results doesn't work here. I've been seeing a lot of people posting the block diagrams on Twitter lately.


I start as if I'm sharing to FB, take a screen shot then edit it. 


ml1 said:

I start as if I'm sharing to FB, take a screen shot then edit it. 

You can copy to share and then just paste.

Wordle 207 4/6*

ETA: Ha ha! I guess not! Showed up before I hit submit...


No screenshot needed.  One of the share options is copy and then you can paste.


sac said:

No screenshot needed.  One of the share options is copy and then you can paste.

Not here...


Yeah whatever graphic they are using doesn't seem to translate to MOL.


I can't brag about wordle, but...


drummerboy said:

I can't brag about wordle, but...

I can always unscramble the words, but sometimes I miss the pun. It's been that way since I used to do it in the paper, on paper...


Not sure if the Wordle Archive site was listed here already. For those who have recently started, which is most of us, here are the first ones Josh Wardle created. https://www.devangthakkar.com/wordle_archive/


was wondering how people play wordle. There seem to be two basic strategies. One is to use the first few guesses to find individual letters by not repeating any letters in those guesses. By the time you get to guess number 4, you should have several correct letters, though maybe not in the right slots.

The way I play is to always use found letters in the next guess.

not sure which is better.


here's a twitter thread about strategies. Not too many people agree with the opening tweet



drummerboy said:

here's a twitter thread about strategies. Not too many people agree with the opening tweet

I've been doing well with Wordle and that's exactly what my strategy has been. I alternate between two words that have four different vowels to start. 


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