- Wordle -

[DavidDetroit]

How do I make that "smudge" or is it not available to a regular member?

 

[Chippy_Tea]

How do I make that "smudge" or is it not available to a regular member?

Instructions below (use link not the text), as far as i know everyone should be able to use it.

https://www.thehomebrewforum.co.uk/threads/anyone-play-wordle.97695/post-1114445

 

[Pavros]

That's cos it's not - it deprives you of one of your limited chances to try one of the letters with a very skewed distribution in its "favourite" place in a 5-letter word, and getting green letters really reduces the list of possible "targets". Don't think just in terms of line 1, you're not going to be getting it in 2 lines anyway, and it's been calculated that on average even with "perfect" play, the average is 3.5 lines or so. So in golf terms, think of 4 lines as "par", and 3 is a "birdie".

[mild spoilers]
*Edited out spoiler for anyone who hasn't clicked the button on the original post *

This is interesting especially the percentages on positioning. I know when I was at school and we used to do some 'code-breaking' that there were 6 letters most commonly used in English but this was for all words not just 5 letter ones so I don't know how well it holds up for Wordle. My opening line uses 4 of the 6 but there is a word which uses 5, I'm just not sure how it would work after reading Northern Brewer's post. I might try it for a few as a test.

 

[Chippy_Tea]

Shaparak Khorsandi
@ShappiKhorsandi

Spoiler

Wordle 235 5/6 Absolute outrage.
It’s called the ENGLISH language (sorry. Mild wordle related xenophobia Normal services resumed shortly)

 

[Tess Tickle's Brewery]

So now I've finished having the monk on, I'm back with this morning's grid

Wordle 235 3/6

 

[UKSkydiver]

How do I make that "smudge" or is it not available to a regular member?

I had started a suggested "Wordle Spoiler" thread here that people could use to post and hide spoilers..... you could then post your spoilers on a spoiler specific thread and not have them in the main thread, but ironically @DocAnna thought it was a bad idea

I had a play with the spoiler code on there to see what was possible.

Simple text works fine with the "Inline" (smudge/fuzzy) spoiler code, but if someone wanted to post the graphic, it would need to be inside the the "standard" spoiler code. As Chippy says, they are in the drop down option on the formatting bar next to the smiley.

It's pretty easy to work out and I can post instructions on the other thread if needed.

 

[Northern_Brewer]

This is interesting especially the percentages on positioning. I know when I was at school and we used to do some 'code-breaking' that there were 6 letters most commonly used in English but this was for all words not just 5 letter ones so I don't know how well it holds up for Wordle. My opening line uses 4 of the 6 but there is a word which uses 5, I'm just not sure how it would work after reading Northern Brewer's post. I might try it for a few as a test.

For the Wordle answers it's either 3 or 8/9, depending where you cut off, and as I say before, you want to be looking more at getting as many of the top 10 in the first two lines, but allowing yourself to try and get the ones with skewed location distributions in their "favourite" locations to maximise your chance of a green square :

Spoiler: chart of letter distributions

 

[DavidDetroit]

other thread if needed.

No, thanks, that's cool. Instructions are solid.
Let's see if I got this. The answer to the ultimate question:

Spoiler: the answer to the ultimate question

42

 

[DavidDetroit]

I give up on the smudges. It's not you, it's me.

 

[scomet]

13 years ago I had a stroke that left me with the IQ of a boiled cabbage! I love it when words just jump out, my scrabble brain is returning. (neuroplasticity is real folks :-)
Wordle 236 2/6

 

[rbunsen]

Lucky today.
Wordle 236 2/6

 

[Tess Tickle's Brewery]

I was lucky too that I got the first letter on the first go. Strangely enough, I did yesterday as well.

Wordle 236 3/6

 

[Jim Brewster]

Wordle 236 5/6







Haha

 

[DocAnna]

A bit frustrating again today - I'm thinking of taking a wee bit of a break from sharing my attempts here. I do the Wordle for a bit of fun and for myself, but at the moment it's making me a bit frustrated when I can't get it in a 3 which is just daft I know
Wordle 236 4/6

 

[Tess Tickle's Brewery]

A bit frustrating again today - I'm thinking of taking a wee bit of a break from sharing my attempts here. I do the Wordle for a bit of fun and for myself, but at the moment it's making me a bit frustrated when I can't get it in a 3 which is just daft I know
Wordle 236 4/6

I feel the same - especially when you know you are really good at English. Annoying isn't it lol

 

[UKSkydiver]

I was a bit lucky on my first go - and the first time using this word as my first guess.

Wordle 236 3/6

 

[UKSkydiver]

I'm thinking of taking a wee bit of a break

#236 - It's a sign!

 

[scomet]

Well done Doc, just the thought of nerdle gave me a migraine..

 

[Northern_Brewer]

A bit frustrating again today - I'm thinking of taking a wee bit of a break from sharing my attempts here. I do the Wordle for a bit of fun and for myself, but at the moment it's making me a bit frustrated when I can't get it in a 3 which is just daft I know

You really shouldn't, that's a classic case of anchoring on an inappropriate target. As I said in #196 above, bots with "perfect" play or something near to it have an average of 3.5 or so, you really should regard 4 as "par" and 3 as a "birdie". I suspect that people will tend to post their good ones and somehow omit their not-so-good ones, so the average of the ones you see posted will have a much lower average than reality. Another example of "the Instagram effect". So for full disclosure, I got today's in 4 (and inside I'm cringing as this is the first time I've ever posted a Wordle-gram):

Wordle 236 4/6

 

[Tess Tickle's Brewery]

Oooo that's a bit brain stretching
nerdlegame 22 3/6

OOOOO I want a go! I wish there was a longer wordle one though than 5 letters as well.