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"Crisis" is a massively overblown word for this. And the "wordle community" is a drop in the bucket of regular players, and not remotely representative. I did
by furyofantares 9mo ago
"Crisis" is a massively overblown word for this. And the "wordle community" is a drop in the bucket of regular players, and not remotely representative.
I did have a similar reaction personally to the "exciting news" framing but I'm not actually sure it's wrong. The original list of words was an excellent list, and it's been over 4 years.
- teeray 9mo ago> "Crisis" is a massively overblown word for this. Given that it is Wordle, “panic” would be a far more appropriate word.
- alexfoo 9mo agoAlarm, dread, scare, shock, start, worry.
- hyperbovine 9mo agoAlarm is a good guess. On average I can solve a wordle in 3.6 turns when I start with this guess.
- ted_bunny 9mo agoRepeated letters are wasted utility. Wouldn't that make it suboptimal for a first move?
- muti 9mo agoSuboptimal - likely. There is some utility: a green letter is more useful than a yellow. Checking for a in two locations when a is a very commonly used letter is __useful__. Still likely much more useful to check for the presence of a fifth letter than a chance at knowing more precisely the location of an a.
- kQq9oHeAz6wLLS 9mo agoI used to use alert, until it was the word one day (got it in one!). Then I switched. Apparently I should switch back, since it could be the word again.
- CamperBob2 9mo agoI always used the previous day's word as the starting word. IMHO that should have been how the game worked all along.
- xnorswap 9mo agoWhy would you rob yourself of the chance of a wordle-in-one?
- CamperBob2 9mo agoBecause a wordle-in-one is meaningless. It doesn't mean you're any good at Wordle, the way a hole-in-one suggests you're good at golf. It definitely doesn't mean that you're a "Genius" as the game puts it, because you were operating with zero information and didn't employ any skill or intuition. It just means you burned some luck points on something that doesn't matter.
- butlike 9mo agoYeah but it's a wordle-in-one...
- badc0ffee 9mo agoDoes the wordle bot give you 0 skill, 100 luck in that situation? (It should.)
- CamperBob2 9mo agoI don't know, I never used the bot.
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- maxkfranz 9mo agoI used to use “stare” or “stale” as the starting guess when I played Wordle, thinking you’d want to start off with the most common letters, like R-S-T-L-N-E from Wheel of Fortune.