On Playing Wordle . . .

01/18/2023: Wordle 578 4/6

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2 choices after 2 and only 1 after 3.
Wasted a letter but it didn't matter.

Current NYT Average: 4.0
WordleBot's Score: 4

01/17/2023: Wordle 577 3/6 ADOPT

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4 choices after 1 and only 1 after 2.

Final NYT Average: 3.8 (+0.1)
WordleBot's Score: 3
 
Cvrobinson said:
whoever said the third times a charm 😡🤣🤣🤣
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Yeah, I've scored lower the two previous days because I went with the "more obscure" word, and then today I chose the "less obscure" word and had the same thing happen. My intuition is broken.
 
JTB_5 said:
Yeah, I've scored lower the two previous days because I went with the "more obscure" word, and then today I chose the "less obscure" word and had the same thing happen. My intuition is broken.
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It's hard because 'obscure' can mean a couple of different things when you're picking. In one way, I don't think this word is obscure at all, just uncommon, if that makes sense. Example: GELID would be an obscure word because it basically just means COLD, and it would be obscure and mostly pointless to use GELID instead. So it's obscure in the sense that it is almost never seen in normal writing or speech because there are other, much more common, words, that mean the same thing.

AORTA was an uncommon word in terms of 'how frequently does one use this word in normal, nontechnical conversation' (OK, not as uncommon as today's word, but the principle...), but it's literally the only word that means what it means, so in a sense it's not obscure, just that in normal writing or speech you rarely have the occasion to use it.
 
madcap_magician said:
It's hard because 'obscure' can mean a couple of different things when you're picking. In one way, I don't think this word is obscure at all, just uncommon, if that makes sense. Example: GELID would be an obscure word because it basically just means COLD, and it would be obscure and mostly pointless to use GELID instead. So it's obscure in the sense that it is almost never seen in normal writing or speech because there are other, much more common, words, that mean the same thing.

AORTA was an uncommon word in terms of 'how frequently does one use this word in normal, nontechnical conversation' (OK, not as uncommon as today's word, but the principle...), but it's literally the only word that means what it means, so in a sense it's not obscure, just that in normal writing or speech you rarely have the occasion to use it.
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This is true wordle nerdle material right here. I love it.
 
Am I the only one that just googles "wordle" each day and does it that way? No account, and my stats randomly reset here and there, but that's fine with me.

Also, anyone know why some of the results have an asterisk...X/6*?
 
jlauffer said:
Am I the only one that just googles "wordle" each day and does it that way? No account, and my stats randomly reset here and there, but that's fine with me.
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free account
jlauffer said:
Also, anyone know why some of the results have an asterisk...X/6*?
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hard mode, I play hard mode without the setting, every guess made could be the answer
 
jlauffer said:
Am I the only one that just googles "wordle" each day and does it that way? No account, and my stats randomly reset here and there, but that's fine with me.

Also, anyone know why some of the results have an asterisk...X/6*?
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I have it bookmarked and play it each day w/o an account and save all of my results to a spreadsheet.

I've got a free library account to the NYT which allows me access to WordleBot which I have to log onto each day after I play the game to report the results for the current and prior day's games.

X/6* is the designation used when you fail and take more than 6 tries to solve the word.
 
JTB_5 said:
This is true wordle nerdle material right here. I love it.
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The "obscure word rule" that I've mentioned and used previously does not seem as applicable as it once was.

I observed this trend while playing over 500 games prior to the appointment of the Wordle Editor, Tracy Bennett, on Nov 7, 2023.

Prior to this time, all of the words used in the game were derived from the original word list created by Wordle's creator, Josh Wardle, who either intentionally or unintentionally built in an apparent bias into the game which trended toward the use of words that were less common/odd/obscure (however you want to define it) than more commonly used words.

Ms. Bennett has abandoned the original word list and each word is now chosen by her and her choice of words does NOT appear to have the same "obscure word" bias as the original word list did.

So, while I think it should still be considered, I do not think that using the "obscure word rule" is no longer as useful as it once was.
 
sgt1372 said:
I have it bookmarked and play it each day w/o an account and save all of my results to a spreadsheet.

I've got a free library account to the NYT which allows me access to WordleBot which I have to log onto each day after I play the game to report the results for the current and prior day's games.

X/6* is the designation used when you fail and take more than 6 tries to solve the word.
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Sorry, the X was meant as a variable...number from 1-6. The asterisk was the question, which Cvrobinson Cvrobinson answered as indicating hard mode.
 
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