Wordle with SPOILERS

[Dogtrousers]

Is it my imagination or have we had an increase in single letter guessing games lately? I wonder if there has been a change in editorial policy?

Today was [B,C,D,F,G]ROWN

This interview with Tracy Bennett, Wordle Editor, says that she actively weeds out words with this kind of problem. I wonder if she's relaxed her rules. (Or if someone else is doing it now)

I also run through letters, so if you have a word that has very common letters, and you have four letters in place — like, for example, blank-o-u-n-d. That fifth letter — found, mound, round, sound — there’s like eight of them, I think. There are only six guesses so even if you have already figured out four correct letters, you still have more letters to guess than there are. So, that’s based on luck, rather than deduction.​

https://www.today.com/popculture/wordle-editor-tracy-bennett-interview-rcna64987​

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_ROWN is not as extreme as _OUND but all the same, it's not the most sporting of choices.

 

[Beebo]

I got lucky with my final guess.
But it must be hard to eliminate all these words.
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜⬜🟩🟨⬜
⬜🟨🟩⬜⬜
⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩
⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

 

[T4tomo]

Is it my imagination or have we had an increase in single letter guessing games lately? I wonder if there has been a change in editorial policy?

Today was [B,C,D,F,G]ROWN

This interview with Tracy Bennett, Wordle Editor, says that she actively weeds out words with this kind of problem. I wonder if she's relaxed her rules. (Or if someone else is doing it now)

I also run through letters, so if you have a word that has very common letters, and you have four letters in place — like, for example, blank-o-u-n-d. That fifth letter — found, mound, round, sound — there’s like eight of them, I think. There are only six guesses so even if you have already figured out four correct letters, you still have more letters to guess than there are. So, that’s based on luck, rather than deduction.​

https://www.today.com/popculture/wordle-editor-tracy-bennett-interview-rcna64987​

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_ROWN is not as extreme as _OUND but all the same, it's not the most sporting of choices.

single letter you say? I still only had _RO__ with one guess to go, having found them on guess 1. Actually thinking about it, I was eliminating 3 letters at a time (well some guesses were also checking repeated letters) so maybe was in a better position than getting 4 letters early. Although did have GDBC as the first letter in 4 wrong guesses, so maybe maybe not. there wasn't much choice for guess 6!!

 

[Dogtrousers]

Today's word was weird

 

[Specialeyes]

I'd love to think it's the NYT getting topical with the upcoming Presidential Election and they're quoting Tim Walz's "these guys are creepy and, yes, just plain weird"!

Let's see if we get 'Nazis', 'voter', 'count', 'steal' and 'fraud' over the next couple of weeks...

 

[Dogtrousers]

I'd love to think it's the NYT getting topical with the upcoming Presidential Election and they're quoting Tim Walz's "these guys are creepy and, yes, just plain weird"!

Let's see if we get 'Nazis', 'voter', 'count', 'steal' and 'fraud' over the next couple of weeks...

I was thinking more about Haloween, and expecting GHOUL SPELL and so on.