Nerd Pride Radio

Post your daily Wordle results in this thread. You can play it here: https://www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/

Thursday, Jan 20:

Wordle 215 4/6

Wordle 215 3/6





Btw, I've been playing a game like this for a decade now on the Roku, called Hogoword. here's a photo i shared to twitter in 2011:



Differences
- no one-game-a-day rule -- I like the event-based way this works. Good addition.
- no easy sharing - sharing with the colored boxes is fun, screengrabs not. Good addition.
- your guess has to be word - not only any word, but a word on its list, this makes me contemplate more between guesses, extending the game time but reducing my guess #s. I tried to guess ~"prixy" but it wouldn't let me, and didn't punish me either. Got to use my brain and not just strategies. Good addition.
- only five letter words -- the other app had 3,4, and 5 letter words. This was fun. 3 can be surprisingly difficult but it's fun that way too.

I'm that third type of person.

Wordle 215 4/6

I have never done this before and I cut and pasted it to see what would happen and this is what I got. I guess everybody is trying to guess the same word, So you can't post what your actual guesses were?
So basically mastermind but with words. I love it .

Yes. Totally Mastermind with letters. I said that to my son three days ago when he showed it to me.

Wordle 215 4/6

Wordle 215 6/6








Not great.

Friday, Jan 21:

Wordle 216 3/6

Wordle 216 5/6







I still suck.

Wordle 216 5/6







This was amusing because as you see, in guess 2-3 I forgot green ALSO means proper position, lol!

Dang those last few guesses, ammiright?

Wordle 216 5/6

I don't want to give up my complete strategy, but I always start with the same word (many vowels and high frequency letters) and if that's not very helpful, I use a second word with the remaining vowels and high frequency letters. I'm thinking of playing in Hard mode, which requires subsequent words to include identified letters and to include them in their proper places if that's been revealed. Right now I'm playing under those restrictions without actually turning it on, because I'm a scared little baby.

Hidden semi spoiler talk: Didn't expect them to pick that word out of the potential choices. Maybe they're picked at random but it seems a bit cheeky if not

My strategy I always start with the same word. I won't spoil what it is, although I did on twitter, ok it's rents but it's based on the Wheel of Fortune gimme letters.

I usually do a guess that could be right, but when it gets to the point where there's like two guesses left and three potential answers, I will often do a guess that has to be wrong to narrow down my choices.

Eg. if it's _AT. I might guess CUP, if it gives me a green, then I know it's CAT, if it gives me yellow, I know it's PAT, if neither, maybe it's OAT.

So the hard mode is having to guess things you know are proper once you have that information? This would be good for me because that's what I was trying to do and failed due to dumbness and no coffee. Both times I started with the word great for no particular reason apart from it having five different letters that seemed reasonably common. I did not realize there were deeper strategies but now we'll have to think of a good starting word!

Wordle 216 2/6




New record for me.

Nice job!! And you got THIS word on guess 2. Impressive!

I managed to guess a good first word that gave me exactly what I needed. I actually pick a different word every day, but I always pick a word that has five unique letters.

I also think I can guess Kyle's word order.

Eliahad wrote: ↑Fri Jan 21, 2022 8:37 am Wordle 216 2/6




New record for me.

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO the FIRE! Dang. Even if you did have a good first word, that's still impressive.

Eliahad wrote: ↑Fri Jan 21, 2022 9:36 am I managed to guess a good first word that gave me exactly what I needed. I actually pick a different word every day, but I always pick a word that has five unique letters.

I also think I can guess Kyle's word order.

Ooooo! That would be cool! Message me and I'll tell you if you're right!

Is it Pilot?

I also sent Kyle a guess about his word order for today, because I think his starting word is one of my Dad's favorite words from a similar game he taught us as kids.

Nope, I tried it, just now. I can get close but there isn't quite enough information to know I've gotten it right.

Unless...

I submit my guess to Kyle.

I'm answering everyone in private message as though it was a Wordle puzzle, and you'll have to get it in six.

Kyle Wordle Startle 216 2/6

Sat. Jan. 21

Wordle 217 4/6

Wordle 217 5/6

Wordle 217 4/6

Nice

Wordle 217 4/6

Wordle 217 4/6






I was so stoked when I got the first letter by picking an amusing first word. It did not help as much as one might have hoped!

Ahhh finally proud of this one:
Wordle 218 4/6

Wordle 218 3/6

Wordle 218 4/6






Was getting a little worried about this one

Wordle 218 3/6

Wordle 218 3/6

I love how I'm feeling all proud of this one and then all y'all come and slay it in three turns. Okay I'm proud of me for me no matter what you all elevated people are doing.

Absolutely be proud of you! The first two words guessed dictate so much about how the puzzle is going to play out. And you can't know which way they will send you until you guess them!

What he said. On this one, Dave and I obviously hit the same point after the second guess: we know the first two letters, and there's only one vowel left... honestly there was no other reasonable word that would solve it. So while there's definitely skill involved, there's also SO much luck.

Wow. First time it took me more than 4. This was rough. I had to abandon my informal hard rules strategy.

Wordle 219 6/6

Wordle 219 4/6

Okay, NOW I'm convinced of my powers:

Wordle 219 3/6

Damn yall. That's impressive. I just couldn't see it this morning.

Mine would have been 5 guesses if Wordle considered my homophone of the correct answer a valid word.

Wordle 219 4/6







"Wordle 219 X" is trending on twitter so knew this would be tough. Complete guess at the end, would not have gotten if misspellings were allowed. Forgot this was a word and realized I never had to spell it or see it in text.

I can't remember what word I put second but the first word was my own name, followed by something that had L and O and N in it, So maybe it was not the big stretch I think it is to get the right answer, but I'm still stoked because the gap between word one and word three was so enormous.

pretty sure Phoebe is six letters

Spoiler link, unsurprisingly it's currently the #1 looked up word on Merriam-Webster
https://www.merriam-webster.com/

Phoebe is just a derivative of something to do with the god Apollo. I'm not even sure it applies to me very well. Or maybe it does.

Wordle 219 5/6







I might have been able to get it in sooner, but I made a really dumb mistake in try 3.

doh! i've luckily caught myself before doing that a few times in the last week but assume that'll happen at some point. I'm both hyper focused and prone to simple mistakes, so that error is right up my alley