Defend The Indefensible: Wordle

Cool, cool. I get it most days too. Didn't get that one and felt injured that it was outside my frame of cultural reference so wanted to whine about it.

what is a good second word with TRACE? With CRANE there is TOILS

or PILOT

MOGUL?

SPOIL

Yeah, SPOIL seems good. Also thought about LIONS or LOINS, but those will never be the actual word.

LOINS (or NOILS) best, according to this

https://github.com/alex1770/wordle/blob/e298e35fbc044a8137da235a8940748770cefd2c/twowords-nyt20220316-best11099.txt

Anybody doing STRANDS? Seems a little too easy at first blush

https://www.nytimes.com/games/strands

today's is particularly easy, I've struggled once or twice (with us-centric themes of course).

I like strands a lot, but the hint usually gives too much away

I don’t understand the strategy of getting vowels first …

For me, Wordle's just too easy if you don't play on hard mode. Like you can just play three opening words that use the (more or less) 15 most common letters and then you'll virtually always guess it in the next one or two.

Much more challenging to have to use any greens or yellows you discover in your subsequent guesses

that's how i always played it until i discovered my "hack"!

I almost always play it with Hard Mode restrictions (though I've never actually chosen that setting). This isn't to make it harder for myself, but because I want to leave open the possibility of getting it in 2. But does that mean I'm less likely to get it in 3? Maybe I should switch up my strategy just for the sake of testing that.

i don't get clue 5 down of the mini crossword- ' it starts today'? i know what the answer is but was this meant for another time?

I don't usually do the mini, but I just did today's to see what you're talking about, and I don't actually see that clue.

I’ve played strands twice now and it’s way too easy, the unnecessary hint removes all interest. If they add it to the app I’ll play it every day obv

xp ok so I went to the info button (I'm on mobile browser) and got this! clue makes sense now

The Mini Crossword

Wednesday, May 1, 2024

By Joel FaglianoEdited by Sam Ezersky


but on my laptop browser I get today's.

oh wait I see the url on my mobile browser is dated for 1st May. never mind! must've gone to an old one by mistake!

if you want a harder Strands, try Celltower. No theme, and the letters can only go l-r and down.

https://www.andrewt.net/puzzles/cell-tower/?

and you don't know if you've got the right word until the end

For me, Wordle's just too easy if you don't play on hard mode. Like you can just play three opening words that use the (more or less) 15 most common letters and then you'll virtually always guess it in the next one or two.

Much more challenging to have to use any greens or yellows you discover in your subsequent guesses

My daughter's turned me on to Murdle, which is a Clue(do)/logic problem type daily game.

Not sure how long I'll stick at it but enjoying it at the moment

Murdle is fun. I have a book version.

I was pleased to get yesterday's Connections with no mistakes yesterday – even if it took me 10 minutes. Hair salon stuff was just what was left over – I'm usually too impatient to try to work out what the fourth category connection is once I'm sure of other three.

When I get the first three Connections correct I puzzle over the last group before revealing the answer. I would have puzzled over today’s blue group for a million years and not gotten it.

blue today for me was whales the clue list didn't seem that obscure?

Yes, in retrospect. Probably just me being not on the same wavelength.

I got blue first but green almost killed me today.

I didn't get any of them. Crashed out with 4 mistakes. Y'all are cleverer than me

I failed too, but I should've seen the green.

I've been enjoying orderup.xyz thanks to whoever recommended it here, it's usually not very challenging but today I learned that apparently British bathroom = head. As a britisher may I say "huh?" Apparently it's old navy slang, idk maybe I've read it in some 19thc novel but I've never heard anyone say it, maybe they still say it in the upper classes?

idk about britishes usage but head-as-toilet is definitely us navy terminology

got green and yellow in Connections but would never have got the Breach group

Yeah that one threw me too and I also crashed out without solving more than 2 rows, usually I get there. I'm blaming sunday hangover.

Prior to today, did any of you know that Miami was called the Magic City?

i had assumed that was referring to orlando, so i guess not

Yes, but only from Miami bass comps.

I didn’t think about it Orlando, my mind just filled in the name of the strip club and I assumed some city was called that.

I don't even remember yesterday's Connections, but today I got the restaurant courses easily, and then took a chance on sore spots. Then I failed. I would have never figured out the red- items or animal homophones on my own

I solved today's wordle in 4, which considering the final word, I thought my strategy was ok. I don't seem to get words in 3 guesses anymore

The wordlebot is a fraud. Given the first two guesses it chose, there was no way it would get it in three, there were so many choices, but it did get it

former penguins evan rodrigues and cody ceci making their presence felt

lol oops

wordle.xyz defeated me for the first time today

I don't seem to get words in 3 guesses anymore

yeah very infrequent for me now too

have been trying to be lightly strategic (1st guess still generally the first word that comes into my head, but second guess consciously trying to widen the net in a non-hard mode fashion)

but while I am probably getting it in 4 more regularly, this method feels like I'm getting far fewer 3s and 2s

Today's Wordle almost caught me out thanks yet again to fucking US spelling! ^%$%#$

sorry : /

Time for someone to start Wourdle

Trayce! SPOILER (if any mods around could they make it hidden text?)

Ha ha just got a hole in one. RIP my pure stats

Oh god sorry I didnt think it'd be much of a giveaway!