On Playing Wordle . . .

[karnaknives]

Wordle 580 4/6

 

[sgt1372]

Sorry for the confusion...guess I should have just used a real example like "4/6*"

No apology needed but you could have just said that an asterisk (*) after the score denotes that the game was played in the "hard mode."

 

[sgt1372]

01/20/2023: Wordle 580 3/6





16 choices after 1 and 2 after 2. Didn't consider both choices.
Just "saw" the word that turned out to be the answer and chose it.

Current NYT Average: 3.5
WordleBot's Score: 3

01/19/2023: Wordle 579 4/6 MUCKY

35 choices after 2 and 2 after 3. The other choice
was MUGGY. Thought MUCKY was more likely.

A tough puzzle given these results:

Final NYT Average: 4.5 (+0.1)
WordleBot's Score: 5

 

[fishface5]

Bot par
Wordle 580 3/6

 

[madcap_magician]

Wordle 580 3/6*

 

[madcap_magician]

01/19/2023: Wordle 579 4/6 MUCKY

35 choices after 2 and 2 after 3. The other choice
was MUGGY. Thought MUCKY was more likely.

A tough puzzle given these results:

Final NYT Average: 4.5 (+0.1)
WordleBot's Score: 5

A little surprised to see you go with MUMMY first, it was a past Wordle, and the triple letter didn't hedge much. On the other hand, I went:

LEAST
IRONY
HUGGY (slang-y, but let me rule out HUBBY, HUFFY, HUGGY, BUGGY, MUGGY)
PUPPY (I should have gone with DUMMY before PUPPY, but at this point I was wrongly sure it must be PUPPY)
DUMMY (Went with this over MUCKY because I got it in my head that the Wordle editor might be playing passive-aggressive games...)
MUCKY

 

[r8shell]

Should have done better after getting 4/5 letters on the first word

Wordle 580 4/6

Yeah, I had to do a lot of shuffling, too.

Wordle 580 4/6*

 

[sgt1372]

A little surprised to see you go with MUMMY first, it was a past Wordle, and the triple letter didn't hedge much. On the other hand, I went:

MUMMY was just the 1st word that occured to me.

Was just going for something that would fit the "___ U ___ ___ Y" pattern and that might point me in the right direction.

Which it did.

 

[Richard338]

Wordle 581 4/6

 

[Crazy Canuck]

Wordle 581 3/6*

 

[Cvrobinson]

Wordle 581 3/6

 

[JTB_5]

Wordle 581 4/6*

 

[jlauffer]

Wordle 581 4/6

 

[karnaknives]

Wordle 581 3/6

 

[sgt1372]

01/21/2023: Wordle 581 4/6






2 choices after 2 and 1 after 3.

Current NYT Average: 4.1
WordleBot's Score: 4

01/20/2022: Wordle 580 3/6 ALTER

2 choices after 2. The other word was AFTER. Didn't
think of it. Just "saw" ALTER and chose it.

Final NYT Average: 3.5
WordleBot's Score: 3

 

[Cvrobinson]

2 choices after 2. The other word was AFTER. Didn't
think of it. Just "saw" ALTER and chose it.

Final NYT Average: 3.5
WordleBot's Score: 3

if you had thought of alter after after, would you have chosen to alter alter to after in afterthought ?

 

[sgt1372]

if you had thought of alter after after, would you have chosen to alter alter to after in afterthought ?

I think I would have chosen ALTER regardless because AFTER was the more common word.

 

[fishface5]

Hmph
Wordle 581 4/6

 

[r8shell]

Wordle 581 4/6*

 

[madcap_magician]

Wordle 581 3/6*





This word makes me smile for reasons I can neither explain nor defend.