Wordling in 2023 (split from "The More or Less of Whatnot Thread 2023")

[metirish]

Has there ever been a Wordle thread ? Anyway I still play , just not with the same enthusiasm

[metsmarathon]

i stopped playing a few months ago, when (humblebrag) i got my rate up to 99% - there was an early miss before i happened on my favorite start word.

i was also quordling and octordling at the same time, and my process felt rote, rather than intuitive. maybe i was burnt out, but i also just wasn't feeling too much of a challenge. i'm just that good.

[metsmarathon]

basically, if you want to make quordle & octordle a lot less fun...

FIGHT
BUMPY
CLONK
READS

for wordle, i start with CLOMP, and then hard-mode around it.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Has there ever been a Wordle thread ? Anyway I still play , just not with the same enthusiasm

I quit back in April ot may.

[MFS62]

Our CPF-er Old Mole still plays it and displays it on Facebook.
I never have.

Later

[Edgy MD]

Currently working with a 97.1223% success rate. My last miss was J U D G E.

Appreciate any mind exercise, but I'm not sure the public needs to know how quickly I got B E L I E.

[metirish]

There is a Mets fan I follow on Twitter, he does midnight Wordle , apparently it's a thing, anyways , I wake up to my Twitter feed with him replying to people great 3, good 4 , I got lucky with my 2 , I had to mute him

[metsmarathon]

i think i quit after, once finally getting my success rate to 99%, my phone cleared it's cookies. and then it all seemed so pointless.

[Edgy MD]

There is a Mets fan I follow on Twitter, he does midnight Wordle , apparently it's a thing, anyways , I wake up to my Twitter feed with him replying to people great 3, good 4 , I got lucky with my 2 , I had to mute him

Midnight Wordle is fun. You take the first guess or two thinking your head is clear and alert, and by guess three, you suddenly feel mentally impinged, and you start to panic, which is silly, because it isn't a timed game. You can walk away, go to bed, and tackle it in the morning. That would make good sense, but with the panic and the mental impingement and the playing of a stupid game at midnight in the first place, good sense has long since fled the scene.

[Benjamin Grimm]

I've played each day for the last 370 days. My longest streak is 227 games.

I solved in in two guesses 14 times, three guesses 75 times, four guesses 178 times, five guesses 71 times, and six guesses 26 times. I missed it six times, most recently with JUDGE. (As I recall, my last two guesses were FUDGE and PUDGE.) My success rate is 98.38 percent.

I think the trickiest ones recently were KOALA and PIXIE. Both took me the full six guesses.

[Edgy MD]

A lot of good people got JUDGEd.

[batmagadanleadoff]

I haven't played in months. At some point, my stats got wiped out and every time I played a new game, my stats would reset to zero as if I was playing for the first time. This bug never got fixed, nor could I figure out how to fix it myself. There were some suggested fixes but I tried them all and none of them worked. Eventually, without the stats, I lost interest in the game.

[Fman99]

basically, if you want to make quordle & octordle a lot less fun...

FIGHT
BUMPY
CLONK
READS

I use CHEWY, BRICK, FLUNG, DIVOT, SWAMP - which leaves me one guess per word and only Q, X, J and Z unguessed. Sometimes I use DETOX instead of DIVOT to get the X in there.

[cal sharpie]

I misjudged JUDGE as well. My rate is at 99% Longest streak was 169.

[metirish]

I think my first fail was KNOLL , and IIRC that word caused a stink...anyway , my most often used starting word is SALET , I want to stop playing though, it's rather annoying at times , yet it is often the first thing I do in the morning.

[Benjamin Grimm]

I always start with HORSE. It's a word that hasn't been used yet, and it has a nice set of letters. (Wordlebot says it's a good opening guess as well!) I'm not going to deviate from it because one day that will be the word and it will give me my first hole-in-one. After that, if it ever happens, I'll switch to something else.

The other day, my completed set of guesses read HORSE HAPPY HUMAN, which was the name of my high school band.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

The only reason I kept playing was because I wanted my opening play to come up. POWER. Otherwise no fun in a game you win 98%

[Benjamin Grimm]

Otherwise no fun in a game you win 98%

That's a good point. But I keep playing because it's a nice little diversion that just takes a few minutes. I like the way it gets my gears turning.

[TransMonk]

I play daily even though I have a 99% rate. I always start off with AROSE and then TULIP. I don't remember my last loser but I'm sure I was peeved at myself for missing it.

[The Hot Corner]

I have never seen or heard of Wordling/Wordle. I am just not in the loop when it comes to games on my phone or computer. The last game app I used was the originl version of Angry Birds. I was hooked for about 6 weeks, but when I had to get a new phone and subsequently lost my levels, I quickly lost interest in going through them again and quit playing. In les than a month I removed the app from my new phone and never played again.

[Edgy MD]

Wordle is a word game you can find with the puzzles at The New York Times site. If you want to try it, it really doesn't take much more than one-three minutes out of your day.

"Worldling" isn't really a thing. Just a gerund I made up, though I'm sure others probably use it as well.

[kcmets]

I've never played, only knew about it 'cause it was a big thing for people
for some time to report how they did daily - here, there and everywhere.

And then the reports stopped.

[metirish]

I had a solid 4 this morning, could have been a 3 though 🤣

[Marshmallowmilkshake]

My Dad introduced me to Wordle in May, and its become a fun thing for he, my sister and me to do. We're a little competitive. What's fun is that they live in a different state, and it's become a way to make sure we all stay in touch with each other every day. We each text Dad our score, and then he announces the winner. I get his around 6:30 a.m. and then I peck away at it while I get ready for work, usually finishing it while in the drive-thru at Tim Hortons getting my coffee.

Now, one minor challenge is that Dad, as a retired senior, gets up early every day. And while the 6:30 a.m. text on a weekday is fun, getting woken up on Saturday morning.....

Took a little while to get the hang of it, so my percentage is only 92 percent and max streak is 37 -- which ended earlier this week. I mostly get it in four.

[Lefty Specialist]

Mrs Lefty is addicted and plays daily. I don't do it at all.

She once got it in one- her 'start' word was actually the word. She was stunned (and screenshotted it for posterity)