Wordle- Who is playing?

[E&Cmom]

Wordle 460 5/6

 

[Cannot_Wait_4Disney]

As many of you know I switched to wordlebot's suggested opening word yesterday and it suggested another one. So today I wanted to see if Wordlebot indeed changed its opener or just suggests another word rated the same.

Here was wordle's evaluation of my opening word.

The opening move of a wordle genius _____ is my favorite opening word of them all of all and a lucky one today, you've eliminated all but 8 words out of my dictionary. HAHAHAHAH Why thank you wordlebot!!! It only took you something like a kajillion plays by millions of people to notice. It would seem this is a permanent change from
Crane to Slate.

Well if I can find a strong second to go with it I'll change. I can't argue with success. Got it in two today. If not I'll go back to mine because even though my opening word was slightly suboptimal, the 1-2 combination was optimum for my play style. I like to get the more common letters out of the way both vowel and consonant whereas some others like to get vowels out of the way and lead with Adieu

Anyway,
G w Y Y w
G G G G G

 

[Deb]

wait-- you are saying there are only 8 possible words in wordle that don't contain at least one of the five letters in that second option? How is that possible?

 

[Cannot_Wait_4Disney]

wait-- you are saying there are only 8 possible words in wordle that don't contain at least one of the five letters in that second option? How is that possible?

I didn't say anything. Wordlebot did. And what it means is after I played my first word, there were only 8 solutions left. That won't happen all the time. But it did today. Hence why Wordlebot said It was lucky today. Wordlebot has all the solutions. I don't. And there are more potential words that will fit than than their are solutions. By the way if you play a word that isn't a possible solution wordlebot will tell you you have a nice vocabulary but that wasn't a potential solution.

3 notes.
1. The best word to play knowing all the solutions as wordlebot does may not be the best word to play not knowing them as we humans don't.
2. Wordlebot doesn't take play style into account. Some people are best if they find out the vowels first and thus play a vowel heavy word first. Others may do better with a different mix for their first word.
3. BTW you can only use Wordlebot AFTER you are finished to analyze how you did. It is not available during play.

Edit. I went to wordlebot before I played today and have more info The Expected number of solutions left after the first word I played is 119. So that's why Wordlebot said 8 was lucky.
The second word wordlebot played was not a possible solution left. In other words, Wordlebot played a throw away to reduce possibilities, I did not. I got it on a 13% chance according to Wordlebot. Wordlebot chose a 2nd that had the maximum chance to reduce the possibilities but had no chance at a 2. In golfing parlance, I went for a par 5 in two, wordlebot laid up. As stated before I do prefer going for it in early rounds. If it's round 4 and I'm in danger of losing, then I'll use a throw away word more often than not so as not to lose.

 

[jlmarr]

 

[LoveSpringsteen]

I don’t know what that means. The Thread was moved from Community Board to Game Board.

That’s why I couldn’t find it! I had to go click on an old like to find it. I understand it probably belongs here, but I like the Community page. . It’s where I most often hang out.

 

[LoveSpringsteen]

Wordle 460 3/6




I almost forgot to do the Wordle today. I’ve got to remember to go to the games page every day now. I never visit that page.

 

[SueInBoston]

Wordle 461 4/6

 

[Deb]

Wordle 461 5/6

 

[Jangles]

Wordle 461 3/6

 

[bobbiwoz]

Wordle 461 5/6

 

[LoveSpringsteen]

Wordle 461 4/6

 

[mickey916]

Wordle 461 4/6

 

[PollyannaMom]

Wordle 461 4/6






I made a robot face today

 

[PollyannaMom]

For anyone having trouble with the move to the Games Board, you can also find this under "watched threads" (either if your settings automatically watch any thread you post in or if you click the button to specifically watch this one.)

 

[mickey916]

For anyone having trouble with the move to the Games Board, you can also find this under "watched threads" (either if your settings automatically watch any thread you post in or if you click the button to specifically watch this one.)

I set a bookmark to open automatically to the watched threads page...makes it super easy.

 

[Wood Nymph]

Wordle 461 4/6

 

[TwoMisfits]

Wordle 461 5/6

Me, too, today...dang, back to my norm after a few days off it.
I should have had it one sooner b/c I had to waste a word b/c I couldn't think of any words that fit...then it came to me as a "duh"...

 

[Carol_]

Wordle 461 3/6

 

[georgina]

Wordle 461 5/6