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I also got "caulk".

I think "shake" was the only one I have missed.

Someone wrote an article about this? It's so stupid!

If you had the sha-e wouldn't your next guess be something like "prick" to sort through more of the possibles? I wouldn't know, I don't play it.

Hindsight.

Taylordle 24 5/6

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This one was difficult.

4:. I suggested that to a distinguished historian on Twitter, and she "liked" it. It's only a possibility though, if you're not playing in hard mode.

I was briefly outraged when it didn't accept "lynch" as a word.

2: I lucked out on the letters to try.
4: I almost always play in hard mode, but you certainly don't have to.

Some programmer looked through all the word possibilities to figure out what word would be most helpful as the first try. I think they came up with "later".

When will they tell us?

What's hard mode, and do I play it, and how many comments for Apo to make an erection joke?

I do not play regularly, so don't take my advice, but I was considering, "oater" (a word I only know from crosswords) as an opening. I've been starting with rouse.

RIP Paul Farmer, an amazing individual: https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2022/02/21/1082117707/global-health-champion-dr-paul-farmer-has-died

8: NYT removed several words from the list when they acquired it. Slave and lynch were two that I saw specifically mentioned.

A surprisingly high number of people in my Facebook feed had never seen the word "tacit" before and got quite huffy about it.

Oh hey, the linked article is where I read it.

A couple weeks ago I was thinking through what words would make the worst wordles. SHALE was one of the ones I came up with, so I felt real smart when I failed to get SHAKE.

I went through a bunch of word possibilities and figures "CARES" was the best word. I used a list of ~2500 five-letter words from some webpage. I suspect the list is still too long since I don't think Wordle used five-letter words of the form four-letter + "S". I didn't feel like doing data cleanup since that's too much like the unpleasant parts of my job.

The full list of just under 13,000 legal Scrabble five-letter words is surely too long. My mom was annoyed at the word "tacit", I can't imagine the reaction to "zarfs" or "zymic."

I settled on "stare" as my first word. I'm guessing "s" is the common first letter and "e" is the most common last letter, and it's nice to get a letter in the right place on your first guess.

15.1. What about "trump"?

I use "peep" as my first guess. I've never gotten a second guess.

I had the "k" but still managed to do spake slake and snake before I got shake. It's an imperfect game. but some people have a lot of ego wrapped up in solving it.

12: Hard mode is the rule that you have reuse all the discovered letters for your next guess. It used to show up in the "Share" popup, putting a "*" next to the numbers. Maybe that's still the case?

21:. That is very silly, but I'm flattered.

Yes.
Wordle 247 1/6*

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Thanks, Moby. I was too lazy to confirm it myself.

No problem. I've been doing it daily and hadn't done today's yet.

I've been playing in "Hard Mode" without even realizing it, because that seemed to be the most fun and most challenging way to play. Even though I'm a programmer, I don't always RTM.

I also try to use a different first word every day, since that also seems more challenging (I assume I've sometimes used the same starting word, but only because I'm not keeping track).

I got "tacit" in 2 guesses.

"Hard" mode actually helps me because it does not let me make sloppy brain dead mistakes like using eliminated letters in my impatience. Whatever hardness it imbues by forcing you to use your found letters is dominated by that aspect for me.

in our daily family Wordle text thread, we call sequences like in 22 "guess fests."

My daughter switched over to the NYT later than the rest of us and was thinking her "agora" the day we had "aroma" seemed fishy. And apparently it was in fact a replacement word.

Hmm. Today's word, done in Hard Mode, no "*". I wonder why? Maybe the NYT doesn't give out stars? Maybe they know I should have gotten it in 3.

Wordle 248 4/6

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Wordle 248 3/6

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Yes, three is all you should have needed.

I got it in 2! I think this was the first time I got it that quick.

Wordle 248 1/6*

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It's easier with practice.

Quordle is the way forward, guys. Four words, nine guesses. Much more interesting.

Or Semantle - where you guess a word and it gives you a score based on its semantic similarity. Today's is WORLD and so you get high scores for PLANET and ENVIRONMENT but low scores for MINESHAFT and SORBET...

32: Feels doubly stupid because I had three of the letters on the first guess.
35: Sounds too complicated for my stupid brain (see above).

I admit I have only managed Semantle twice, and today's was a fluke because I got it first go, which was a bit disturbing.
Quordle is just tricky enough to be interesting - Octordle, weirdly, actually feels easier.

Semantle is very non-intuitive - so I got down a bit of a rabbit hole a couple of days ago. I got good scores for MOTHER but not for SON, FATHER, DAUGHTER etc, so I tried BABY and got a good score, then I tried all sorts of birth-related and medical-related words like MATERNITY, MIDWIFE, HOSPITAL, SURGERY, OPERATION, TRANSPLANT and so forth... all high scores but none of them right. The answer was MIRACLE which I suppose is semantically associated in news articles with lots of childbirth and medical concepts.

33: At first it seemed like a lucky guess, but then I couldn't think of any other possibilities given what I knew from my first word. I looked at it again after a few minutes, and I thought of two other words it could have been (and there are probably actually more, given my limited cognitive faculty), so it was a lucky guess after all.

Semantle is not a good game.

It's a great name for the shelf above the fireplace at a fertility clinic.

41: Especially if there's a target and a sign that says, "...So you aim, too, please."

Hard mode is the rule that you have reuse all the discovered letters for your next guess.

Do you have to preserve location if the correct spot has been landed on?

43: yes, if you get one letter in the right place, you have to keep using it in the same place for every subsequent guess.

I tried Quordle. I got 3 out of 4! The word I didn't get has a controversial spelling.

45: Just did it. Quite lame. We having all been doing dordle, but has resisted quordle so far...

Wordle 249 5/6

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They almost got me.

Hexadecordle or GTFO. I play wordle-Dordle-quordle-Octordle-Hexadecordle every day and usually get them all. The latter are very different games from Wordle because after you've gotten the first few words the strategy on the remaining ones is quite different from doing a single word from scratch.

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This was difficult.

49: Yeah, I took all 6 guesses to get it.

That's going to be another one people will complain about even though it's been shown that it was coming up in the pre-determined list.

Wordle 251 4/6

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Major PITA.

51: People complain about war, but have they ever experienced a tricky Wordle?

Wordle 360 1/6

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Something on your conscience?

54: I got it in two. Thanks for ruining my brag.

When we first discussed wordle here it was proposed as a good opening word and I've stuck with it for ~150 days. Now I need a new one. I was thinking teach then pious.

Allow me to be the first to recommend penis.

Not for Wordle, just generally.

That's allowed as a guess but I assume they removed it from the possible solutions list, just like they did with another potentially offensive word (maybe abort?) So you'll never get it on your first try if you keep putting in penis.

That's what she said.

Well steal my thunder why don't you says the guy who first suggested the word and has used iit for 154 days .

Wordle 360 1/6*steal

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Taylordle 149 1/6

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I stopped doing all Wordle-related stuff a couple of weeks ago because I accidentally deleted all my records from my phone, but I'm reliably informed that some people in the house failed on today's Taylordle, breaking a streak of well over 100 days.

I'm genuinely torn over whether the whole point of Taylordle was to stick with it for this moment and quit, or whether I just like it now.

On the internet, nobody knows you're Jake Gyllenhaal.

Well now I know you live with Maggie Gyllenhaal, that's the only possible explanation for someone not finding todays answer!

When the NYT took over, I started opening with "trump" and "email" and then quit after a few days.

I still do the official Wordle as part of my morning routine along with coffee, cereal, and doom-scrolling

I still do the wordle at night as part of my Quiddler, Set, Wordle, nighttime blogs, and then reading to sleep routine, on my kindle.

I just lie to myself about how I'll floss tomorrow and collapse.