Is it me or have the words being used changed in the puzzle? When Wordle first came up, all the words were, at least it seemed to me, uplifting or positive in nature. It seemed to change after the NYT bought it. It used to be a semi-clue I kept in the back of my mind, if I thought the possible solution was a negative word I knew that wasn't the solution.

I know the original puzzle had a 2,000 word database and perhaps the NYT didn't like the thought of re-using solutions?

I'm not complaining just wanted a little validation.

Today's solution would never have been used in the original game IMHO

experiment results

So I thought of experimenting with Wordle. I wanted to see if I managed to get the word in the 4th try, if I used ADIEU, BROCK and LYMPH as my first 3 words. I thought I'd experiment before actually mathematically calculating. Here are the results, and I think I can say it increases the chances by a huge bunch.

This experiment included me experiencing human errors. The number of experiments I conducted were 100. I used wordly.org

And also, if I'd get enough in the first 2 words, I'd directly jump to attempting the answer in the third.

I personally always use adieu as my first word. Slowly I developed a combination of 3 complementing words, adieu, brock then lymph. adieu to check the vowels. If there are none from adieu, Brock to check o and if there isn't o either, lymph to check for y. As none of their letters match, I eliminate 15 letters on spot. Usually I won't go till nymph, and get enough letters in adieu to try a new word. I'd usually only proceed to brock and lymph, when everything ends up in greens and greys. But I wanted to see if this combination can be used almost blindly, so ran this experiment. I proceeded till I got sufficient letters or reached lymph. Even if I didn't get enough letters, I'd stubbornly try to finish it in the fourth try by trying every combination. So, maybe even though you can finish it by the 4th try, it's not a feasible solution? If I wasn't stubborn, the results for 4 and 5 would have been close. I'm really bad at words, and usually can't do well in Wordle unless I just end up trying every single combination. I usually need as many greens as possible before I can think of what the answer could be. In this method, at least you have a 62% chance to get the word right in the first 4 guesses.

My go to starting word is farts, but i just never works. I have never gotten the word in two and all of my friends consistantly do. Should I keep traning or just next games

Wordle time! How'd you do?

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On may 5th I decided to do my wordle (latch was the answer) and had LATXX. one of the words I tried was Latin but apparently that's not on their word list. I just find this strange because I've made up words that I don't even know before and they get recognized, meaning their library obviously includes some very obscure things... just not Latin I guess... The worst part is Latin has MULTIPLE meaning. Latin as in the language, Latin as in the general style of music, and to refer to Latin American people.

This led me to look a bit more and it seems that it's just languages in general because I tried "Hindi" and it didn't work although "greek" does. So it seems most languages aren't considered words

I found an article that suggests playing JUNKS, WHOMP, CALYX, and FRITZ to eliminate (or confirm) 20 of the the 26 letters and wirtually guarantee that you can find the secret word (with some chance of busting), and I immediately found that I could almost always find the word in 5, sometimes 6.

Later that night I started to wonder, though--why JUNKS and not BUNKS, given that B shows up much more often than J?

Wordle can't make everyone happy

I'm hearing complaints that Wordle is doing repeats already after about 2000 puzzles, saying there are thousands more five letter words.

Bro, some players bled from the nostrils when Wordle used CAROM and RUPEE. If those words are too obscure, I'm not sure there would be a good reaction when they get to GRIKE, WOALD, and BRIZE.

In my Wordle group, a few family members lost their streaks. I had three 6s and a 5.4 average.. pretty tough. How did you do?

How were your Wordle guesses today?

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