Wordle thread

[Hawkfan_08*]

This tourney can burn. I have been playing terribly for over two months now. I'm just 3 away from my 500 streak. I wasn't blowing it trying to get a bogey instead of a double.

Wordle 1,899 6/6

 

[gohawks50]

Wordle 1,899 5/6*







WordleBot
Skill 98/99
Luck 42/99

 

[prlyles]

Wordle 1,899 4/6

 

[pablow]

This was fun.

Wordle 1,899 6/6*

 

[Praguehawk]

Sorry, I can't help that I'm so lucky at picking first words.
Wordle 1,898 2/6

 

[dpic73]

Wordle 1,899 X/6*

 

[FLaw47]

Wordle 1,899 X/6*

Hard mode FTL.

Do you still get "Sea of Greens" for that?

 

[dpic73]

Hard mode FTL.

Do you still get "Sea of Greens" for that?

Not if you don't successfully solve the puzzle.

 

[NDallasRuss]

Wordle 1,899 3/6

 

[o_NoleinATL]

Beauty of a second, and guessed correctly on the 3rd

Wordle 1,899 3/6*





WordleBot
Skill 99/99
Luck 58/99

 

[Nittany.Lion]

With another eagle @Nittany.Lion goes to 17 under

View attachment 1413609

Due to all the drama, please pull my name from the tourney.

 

[dbjork6317]

Wordle 1,899 4/6

 

[o_NoleinATL]

Due to all the drama, please pull my name from the tourney.

ok, let me know if you want to continue

 

[o_NoleinATL]

@Nittany.Lion at 14 under has indicated he is withdrawing so we have a whole new tournament.
@FLaw47 and @o_NoleinATL share the lead at 8 under as we head to the 16th after the shocking news

 

[NDallasRuss]

@Nittany.Lion at 14 under has indicated he is withdrawing so we have a whole new tournament.
@FLaw47 and @o_NoleinATL share the lead at 8 under as we head to the 16th after the shocking news

View attachment 1414941

If I can get 10 more people to withdraw, I'll have a real shot at this!

 

[Nittany.Lion]

For the record.

The previous attempts at statistical analysis are wildly flawed.

Wordle has an answer-only dictionary (and an approved guess list with over 12,000 words) that started at about 2300 words; it has been updated over the years, and words are now being reused. If you parse that list to exclude all words with duplicate letters and include the 10 most frequently used letters I use most of the time (aeiorstnlc), you would get a list of 75-80 words.

From AI
While the mathematical limit yields over 30,000 randomized letter strings, there are roughly 350 to 450 valid Wordle-accepted (not necessarily on the answer-only list) words that can be spelled using exactly 5 unique letters from the set a, e, i, o, s, l, n, t, r, c. [1, 2]

These letters form the absolute best foundation for the game, since E, A, O, I are the most frequent vowels, and R, T, L, S, N, C are the highest-performing strategic consonants.

When excluding plurals ending in "S" and strictly filtering out verbs, the list of valid Wordle solutions (the actual hidden answers of the day, which the New York Times separates from the raw guess list) drops significantly.

Using only 5 unique letters from the set A, E, I, O, S, L, N, T, R, C, there are roughly 75 to 80 clean singular nouns and adjectives that fit the criteria.

Ai couldn't give me an answer when I asked, what are the odds if I eliminate all the Wordle-selected words that fit the criteria from my list of possible choices?

Anyway, as should be obvious now, the odds will be orders of magnitude less than noted in previous posts.

 

[dbjork6317]

Wordle 1,900 4/6

 

[hawkeyetraveler]

Wordle 1,900 5/6

 

[longliveCS40]

For the record.

The previous attempts at statistical analysis are wildly flawed.

Wordle has an answer-only dictionary (and an approved guess list with over 12,000 words) that started at about 2300 words; it has been updated over the years, and words are now being reused. If you parse that list to exclude all words with duplicate letters and include the 10 most frequently used letters I use most of the time (aeiorstnlc), you would get a list of 75-80 words.

From AI
While the mathematical limit yields over 30,000 randomized letter strings, there are roughly 350 to 450 valid Wordle-accepted (not necessarily on the answer-only list) words that can be spelled using exactly 5 unique letters from the set a, e, i, o, s, l, n, t, r, c. [1, 2]

These letters form the absolute best foundation for the game, since E, A, O, I are the most frequent vowels, and R, T, L, S, N, C are the highest-performing strategic consonants.

When excluding plurals ending in "S" and strictly filtering out verbs, the list of valid Wordle solutions (the actual hidden answers of the day, which the New York Times separates from the raw guess list) drops significantly.

Using only 5 unique letters from the set A, E, I, O, S, L, N, T, R, C, there are roughly 75 to 80 clean singular nouns and adjectives that fit the criteria.

Ai couldn't give me an answer when I asked, what are the odds if I eliminate all the Wordle-selected words that fit the criteria from my list of possible choices?

Anyway, as should be obvious now, the odds will be orders of magnitude less than noted in previous posts.

What's very obvious to me is that you're a cheater. At a game on the internet. Pathetic.

 

[longliveCS40]

I think it might have been the only option.

Wordle 1,900 3/6*

 

[Hawkfan_08*]

I'm just hoping to get back to even. What a disaster of a tourney for me.

Wordle 1,900 4/6

 

[EasyHawk]

Wordle 1,900 3/6*





WordleBot
Skill 76/99
Luck 46/99

 

[Lindemann]

Par isn't going to cut it.

Wordle 1,900 4/6

 

[Praguehawk]

Wordle 1,900 4/6

 

[Tenacious E_rivals41982]

Wordle 1,900 4/6*

 

[damayason]

Wordle 1,900 4/6*






WordleBot
Skill 77/99
Luck 41/99

 

[FLaw47]

Wordle 1,900 3/6





WordleBot
Skill 85/99
Luck 56/99

 

[pablow]

Wordle 1,900 4/6*

 

[FLaw47]

For the record.

The previous attempts at statistical analysis are wildly flawed.

Wordle has an answer-only dictionary (and an approved guess list with over 12,000 words) that started at about 2300 words; it has been updated over the years, and words are now being reused. If you parse that list to exclude all words with duplicate letters and include the 10 most frequently used letters I use most of the time (aeiorstnlc), you would get a list of 75-80 words.

From AI
While the mathematical limit yields over 30,000 randomized letter strings, there are roughly 350 to 450 valid Wordle-accepted (not necessarily on the answer-only list) words that can be spelled using exactly 5 unique letters from the set a, e, i, o, s, l, n, t, r, c. [1, 2]

These letters form the absolute best foundation for the game, since E, A, O, I are the most frequent vowels, and R, T, L, S, N, C are the highest-performing strategic consonants.

When excluding plurals ending in "S" and strictly filtering out verbs, the list of valid Wordle solutions (the actual hidden answers of the day, which the New York Times separates from the raw guess list) drops significantly.

Using only 5 unique letters from the set A, E, I, O, S, L, N, T, R, C, there are roughly 75 to 80 clean singular nouns and adjectives that fit the criteria.

Ai couldn't give me an answer when I asked, what are the odds if I eliminate all the Wordle-selected words that fit the criteria from my list of possible choices?

Anyway, as should be obvious now, the odds will be orders of magnitude less than noted in previous posts.

Look, I'm interested and trying to be charitable to you here. Is your perspective basically that "all of this information is publicly available and it'd be foolish to not take advantage of all of the information available to me?" Because I can understand that.

I do have a very difficult time understanding, though. how you can beat optimal play in a very large sample size.

 

[gohawks50]

Total disaster of a tournament for me!

Wordle 1,900 6/6*

 

[prlyles]

Wordle 1,900 5/6

 

[o_NoleinATL]

Happy with par, still had a couple shots according to the bot

Wordle 1,900 4/6*






WordleBot
Skill 78/99
Luck 53/99

 

[FLaw47]

Happy with par, still had a couple shots according to the bot

Wordle 1,900 4/6*






WordleBot
Skill 78/99
Luck 53/99

My birdie shot was the only word I could think of but there were apparently 5 or so more.

 

[NDallasRuss]

Man, I had to try everywhere for those first two letters.

Wordle 1,900 5/6

 

[Tenacious E_rivals41982]

Look, I'm interested and trying to be charitable to you here. Is your perspective basically that "all of this information is publicly available and it'd be foolish to not take advantage of all of the information available to me?" Because I can understand that.

I do have a very difficult time understanding, though. how you can beat optimal play in a very large sample size.

The thing is that this is supposed to be fun and we have always had a gentleman's/gentlewoman's agreement of no cheating. I mean, what is the point of this other than to have fun? To that end, I like seeing how well other people can do and seeing how I can improve my strategy, which is clearly not as good as others. Here is how I do it:

1. I always start with TASER on hard mode.
2. If I have no letters yellow or green, I guess "DOUGH". Otherwise, I try to pick a second word with as many unique common letters that fit with the results of guess 1.
3. If I somehow whiff on having any letters after two guesses, I pick "CLIMB". Otherwise, I try to pick a third word with as many unique common letters that fit with the results of guesses 1 and 2.
4. For the par shot, this is typically where I will double up on letters such as DD in BUDDY, if it makes sense.
5. For bogey, I usually kick one of my dogs first, and then make the best pick available.
6. For double bogey, I kick my other dog first, and then make my pick and hope my streak does not end.

 

[FLaw47]

The thing is that this is supposed to be fun and we have always had a gentleman's/gentlewoman's agreement of no cheating. I mean, what is the point of this other than to have fun? To that end, I like seeing how well other people can do and seeing how I can improve my strategy, which is clearly not as good as others. Here is how I do it:

1. I always start with TASER on hard mode.
2. If I have no letters yellow or green, I guess "DOUGH". Otherwise, I try to pick a second word with as many common letters that fit with the results of guess 1.
3. If I somehow whiff on having any letters after two guesses, I pick "CLIMB". Otherwise, I try to pick a third word with as many common letters that fit with the results of guesses 1 and 2.
4. For the par shot, this is typically where I will double up on letters such as DD in BUDDY, if it makes sense.
5. For bogey, I usually kick one of my dogs first, and then make the best pick available.
6. For double bogey, I kick my other dog first, and then make my pick and hope my streak does not end.

I use

Spoiler: Starting Word

SLATE

for every start. I am a competitive jerk, though, so after the last tourney I paid for a NYT games subscription and have been checking with the bot and playing the archive to try and improve my play.

 

[Tenacious E_rivals41982]

I use

Spoiler: Starting Word

SLATE

for every start. I am a competitive jerk, though, so after the last tourney I paid for a NYT games subscription and have been checking with the bot and playing the archive to try and improve my play.

I don't like using a starting word that ends with E, on hard mode, because that can lock you into a death spiral if you get a pattern like _ _ A _ E. But, maybe I need to rethink that.

 

[dpic73]

Wordle 1,900 4/6*

 

[FLaw47]

I don't like using a starting word that ends with E, on hard mode, because that can lock you into a death spiral if you get a pattern like _ _ A _ E. But, maybe I need to rethink that.

I do "hard mode" voluntarily until its obviously going to be a risk to my streak. The word from yesterday, I think it was, would have been a real problem for me.

 

[longliveCS40]

I don't like using a starting word that ends with E, on hard mode, because that can lock you into a death spiral if you get a pattern like _ _ A _ E. But, maybe I need to rethink that.

Interesting. I use a start word ending in E and play hard mode exclusively. I've definitely put myself into the situation you describe many times. Might be time to change starting words.