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As many have mentioned, it seems much more efficient to focus on eliminating letters, which means that the second word should not be very green at all. Also, s
by Grustaf 5y ago
As many have mentioned, it seems much more efficient to focus on eliminating letters, which means that the second word should not be very green at all.
Also, since there's only one word a day, I think we can assume that it's chosen manually, and it won't be some archaic anglo-saxon tool for shoeing horses or something, it will be a relatively common word.
- tomlockwood 5y agoI think it's chosen based on a random number generated from the date - but one of the most recent games had the answer "REBUS", which I've never heard or read before. But yeah, the target list has many more common words in it than the list of all possible guesses.
- Grustaf 5y agoThat is not an uncommon word though, I'd venture most school children know it. You probably read rebuses in school but just forgot about it!
- tomlockwood 5y agoIt's a common word? What's your source for that claim?
- Grustaf 5y agoKindergarten? https://kidpillar.com/free-rebus-puzzles-for-kids/ https://kidpillar.com/free-rebus-puzzles-for-kids/
- tomlockwood 5y agoThis website looks like it's target audience is five year olds, to you?
- Grustaf 5y agoIt was just a random google result, but we definitely did rebuses in pre-school at least. The rebus concept is actually a precursor to actual writing, historically speaking. Both in Mesopotamia/Egypt and in the Chinese civilisation, writing developed through a rebus phase. So it's a very natural thing, that's why it's so child friendly.
- tomlockwood 5y agoThat's all cool, why's it a common word, though?
- Grustaf 5y agoWhy? I mean most pre-schoolers probably play with rebuses, simple crosswords etc. It's just a common concept in the world that most people have come across. Unlike say an obscure linguistic term like nisba.
- tomlockwood 5y agoOh I get that they exist, commonly, I just see no evidence to suggest the word is common.
- edhebert 5y agoFor the creator of Wordle and their partner, who obviously have some love of word puzzles, REBUS (a picture to word puzzle) would be a familiar word.
- oceliker 5y agoI am pretty sure the list is sequential. If you look at the list in the Javascript code of the game and Ctrl-F today's word, you'll see the previous dates' words are right before it. Here's tomorrow's word (spoiler alert, obv): https://pastebin.com/sfQ7x5ya https://pastebin.com/sfQ7x5ya
- yardstick 5y agoIt’s chosen from a sequential list of words in the source code. Each word was vetted by the woman this game was originally made for. See the NY Times article: http://web.archive.org/web/20220106042510/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/03/technology/wordle-word-game-creator.html http://web.archive.org/web/20220106042510/https://www.nytime...
- speg 5y agoIt says it is designed for hard mode, in which I believe you must use your green (and maybe yellow?) letters.
- Grustaf 5y agoOh, didn't know there was modes.