Kraken wrote: ↑Fri Jan 14, 2022 5:37 pm
I don't understand "current streak" and "max streak." I've played 8 games. I won 4 of them in 4 tries and the other 4 (including today) in 5 tries. It says my current streak is 3 and max streak is 4.
I really only care about keeping my win percentage at 100, but those streak numbers baffle me.
The game seems to think you won 4, missed one, then won 3. Which is obviously odd if it also says you have a 100% win percentage. Someone eating your cookies?
I've played 10 days, and my stats show 10 played, 100% win, 10 current, 10 max.
Re: Wordle
Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2022 5:52 pm
by Jaymann
Any way to skip the wait for the next one?
Re: Wordle
Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2022 5:53 pm
by Isgrimnur
Proxy to somewhere that's after midnight.
Re: Wordle
Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2022 5:53 pm
by coopasonic
Kraken wrote: ↑Fri Jan 14, 2022 5:37 pm
I don't understand "current streak" and "max streak." I've played 8 games. I won 4 of them in 4 tries and the other 4 (including today) in 5 tries. It says my current streak is 3 and max streak is 4.
I really only care about keeping my win percentage at 100, but those streak numbers baffle me.
Kraken wrote: ↑Fri Jan 14, 2022 5:37 pm
I don't understand "current streak" and "max streak." I've played 8 games. I won 4 of them in 4 tries and the other 4 (including today) in 5 tries. It says my current streak is 3 and max streak is 4.
I really only care about keeping my win percentage at 100, but those streak numbers baffle me.
Kraken wrote: ↑Fri Jan 14, 2022 5:37 pm
I don't understand "current streak" and "max streak." I've played 8 games. I won 4 of them in 4 tries and the other 4 (including today) in 5 tries. It says my current streak is 3 and max streak is 4.
I really only care about keeping my win percentage at 100, but those streak numbers baffle me.
Sounds like you missed a day in the middle.
Yeah, this makes sense if the word 'streak' means 'of all possible games' rather than 'of games you've played' which is how I first took it. So Kraken didn't lose one, he just missed one.
Re: Wordle
Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2022 5:56 pm
by Jaymann
Isgrimnur wrote: ↑Fri Jan 14, 2022 5:53 pm
Proxy to somewhere that's after midnight.
LOL, yeah. Maybe it's sanity retention. I will wait.
stessier wrote: ↑Fri Jan 14, 2022 9:54 am
Missed my first one today playing on Hard.
Wordle 209 X/6
Spoiler:
ADIEU
COATS TARRY TAFFY TALKY TAWNY
I didn't realize there was a hard mode. Looks like that just forces you to use confirmed letters in guesses? Like once you know that the word starts with an S or B or what have you all subsequent guesses need to have that letter in the right position?
Yes, once a letter is green, you must have it in that spot in all future guesses. I read quickly and saw that you had to use the clues it gives in all future guesses. I thought that meant if you got a yellow letter, you had to include the yellow letter in the next guess in a new spot (because you already know it can't go there). I was wrong - you just have to use the letter, but you can repeat the wrong spot. I might still do it the harder way, though, to add to the challenge.
If you know it is the wrong spot and you need to use the letter, what is the logic of putting it in the wrong spot again? Any good reason to do that instead of trying to find the right spot for it?
Re: Wordle
Posted: Sat Jan 15, 2022 12:30 am
by Blackhawk
Early on it can be more beneficial to try and identify more letters than to start guessing. The ideal word to ID letters may repeat a wrong one that way.
Re: Wordle
Posted: Sat Jan 15, 2022 1:10 am
by disarm
Wordle 210 4/6
I really should have had this one in three
Spoiler:
PEARL
PATHS
PANDA
PANIC
Re: Wordle
Posted: Sat Jan 15, 2022 2:23 am
by Isgrimnur
Wordle 210 4/6
Spoiler:
Re: Wordle
Posted: Sat Jan 15, 2022 7:51 am
by msteelers
Back on track.
Wordle 210 4/6
Re: Wordle
Posted: Sat Jan 15, 2022 8:16 am
by coopasonic
Well I guess that was lucky...
Wordle 210 3/6
Spoiler:
ALERT
WASPY
PANIC
Re: Wordle
Posted: Sat Jan 15, 2022 8:44 am
by malchior
Wordle 210 4/6
Spoiler:
GUEST
AIOLI
VAPID
PANIC
Re: Wordle
Posted: Sat Jan 15, 2022 8:45 am
by LordMortis
BAM
Wordle 210 2/6
Spoiler:
my second guess was almost penis but I figured that would be wrong based on filters. I'm beginning to come around to the idea that the words are always common.
Re: Wordle
Posted: Sat Jan 15, 2022 9:56 am
by stessier
Wordle 210 4/6
Spoiler:
STERN CHUNK
FANCY PANIC
Re: Wordle
Posted: Sat Jan 15, 2022 10:02 am
by Zaxxon
Nicely done, LM.
Wordle 210 3/6
Re: Wordle
Posted: Sat Jan 15, 2022 10:09 am
by Zenn7
Wordle 210 4/6
Not as good as many of you fine folks, but I'm happy to get it right in 4 guesses.
Spoiler:
THEIR
BOUND
GAMIN (this was a guess, didn't know it was a real word; did that a lot in getting the final answer, bouncing around trying to see if something clicked in my head, finally did)
PANIC
Re: Wordle
Posted: Sat Jan 15, 2022 10:14 am
by Chraolic
I was curious about the odds of solving it in one guess so I looked it up and apparently there are about 12,000-13,000 five letter words in English, according to most online dictionaries. So it's statistically feasible if you use the same starting word for about thirty years.
Re: Wordle
Posted: Sat Jan 15, 2022 10:36 am
by El Guapo
Wordle 210 3/6
Fastest one yet. Does seem to help to use completely different letters in the second guess.
Spoiler:
ADIEU
PORTS
PANIC
Re: Wordle
Posted: Sat Jan 15, 2022 10:39 am
by Baroquen
Chraolic wrote: ↑Sat Jan 15, 2022 10:14 am
I was curious about the odds of solving it in one guess so I looked it up and apparently there are about 12,000-13,000 five letter words in English, according to most online dictionaries. So it's statistically feasible if you use the same starting word for about thirty years.
Yeah, but the guy who created it only used a list that is MUCH shorter than that. If I remember from the NYT article, he ran the list past his partner (or somebody) and eliminated a lot of archaic answers that he felt people wouldn't get. Or something like that.
I'll never know my streak number easily, as I do some of them here at home, and lots of them at work.
Today's was fine, though I think I should generally wait a bit until I'm more awake.
Wordle 210 4/6
EDIT: Added link to article (if it hasn't been included earlier in thread).
Re: Wordle
Posted: Sat Jan 15, 2022 10:43 am
by Blackhawk
I have three out of five. I'm totally stuck. By trying remaining letters (and backing out) I can guarantee that I can look at four out of five in the correct pieces, but I can't see a single word forming there. Four out of five visible after only three guesses. And I know it's something obvious.
I think it's time for a 'no chance' guess just to eliminate some letters. Rememember, me: SONITARE! Like the toothbrush, but with a T... also like a Toothbrush (see, I just mnemoniced.)
/edit - Paid off. Got one more letter confirmed, and three more eliminated.
Re: Wordle
Posted: Sat Jan 15, 2022 10:49 am
by Blackhawk
Blackhawk wrote: ↑Sat Jan 15, 2022 10:43 am
I have three out of five. I'm totally stuck. By trying remaining letters (and backing out) I can guarantee that I can look at four out of five in the correct pieces, but I can't see a single word forming there. Four out of five visible after only three guesses. And I know it's something obvious.
I think it's time for a 'no chance' guess just to eliminate some letters. Rememember, me: SONITARE! Like the toothbrush, but with a T... also like a Toothbrush (see, I just mnemoniced.)
/edit - Paid off. Got one more letter confirmed, and three more eliminated.
And I know it's something obvious.
Yup. And I knew the third guess was extremely unlikely, but I haven't had enough caffeine and didn't see another to try.
Wordle 210 5/6
Spoiler:
In retrospect, I think I blocked 'P' in the first slot, because caffiene-low me tried 'PANIR' earlier on (I was thinking of panier, probably.) It wouldn't accept it, and I think my brain said, "Nope, not a P."
I really need to do these after my tea has kicked in.
Re: Wordle
Posted: Sat Jan 15, 2022 12:20 pm
by MHS
Wordle 210 3/6
Spoiler:
PRONG
PINES
PANIC
Re: Wordle
Posted: Sat Jan 15, 2022 12:45 pm
by Bad Demographic
Wordle 210 3/6
Spoiler:
stern
valid
panic
I usually can hit around 4 or 5. Once it took me 6.
Re: Wordle
Posted: Sat Jan 15, 2022 1:05 pm
by The Meal
Wordle 210 3/6
I have this issue where I make non-optimal guesses (non-hard-mode compliant) because I do my first couple of guesses pretty quickly...
Spoiler:
STAMP
PEARL
PANIC
I repeated the A in the third position on my second guess, even though I had been told that wasn't correct. I do this about 80% of the time with my second or third guesses.
I took a while before the third guess (trying to get some of N, C, H into the word), but then as soon as I could add two of those letters to the mix, I submitted and was pleased that it went through!
Re: Wordle
Posted: Sat Jan 15, 2022 1:19 pm
by Jaymann
Wordle 210 3/6
Spoiler:
weird
tiNts
PANIC
!!
Re: Wordle
Posted: Sat Jan 15, 2022 3:05 pm
by Carpet_pissr
Wordle 210 4/6*
Re: Wordle
Posted: Sat Jan 15, 2022 3:27 pm
by Jaymann
I just noticed everybody is on the same one. I thought it would be random.
Re: Wordle
Posted: Sat Jan 15, 2022 4:58 pm
by gilraen
Jaymann wrote: ↑Sat Jan 15, 2022 3:27 pm
I just noticed everybody is on the same one. I thought it would be random.
Yeah, I accidentally clicked on someone's spoiler for today's puzzle, since it was before midnight my time, and I didn't realize the puzzle already rolled over. Tried playing some Absurdle but it appears to be broken today (will only let you click the "random guess" button but not put in any letters).
Re: Wordle
Posted: Sat Jan 15, 2022 5:30 pm
by Kraken
Ha, talk about lucky....
Wordle 210 2/6
Re: Wordle
Posted: Sat Jan 15, 2022 5:53 pm
by Zaxxon
Kraken wrote: ↑Sat Jan 15, 2022 5:30 pm
Ha, talk about lucky....
Wordle 210 2/6
Spoiler:
Clearly, you didn't panic.
Re: Wordle
Posted: Sat Jan 15, 2022 5:55 pm
by Archinerd
Wordle 210 3/6
Spoiler:
DINGO
PENIS
PANIC
I think I found the name of my punk band.
Re: Wordle
Posted: Sat Jan 15, 2022 7:13 pm
by Chraolic
I seem to do worse the more letters I have, I don't get how that works.
(will only let you click the "random guess" button but not put in any letters).