Wordle

Check it out, if you're one of the three people who haven't yet discovered this word game. (I only found it a few days ago, thanks to a post by a friend of mine.)

Comments

[Commenter_XY]

Use it a lot, PProfessor Volokh. You can adjust the settings so the font size changes by percent mentions. It is a nifty tool.

OSHA mandate 'shot' down. (pardon the pun)

[Noscitur a sociis]

What first guesses do you like? I've been happy with ADIEU, giving you a pretty good sense of the vowels, but I've been toying with SOARE since accidentally discovering it's on the word list.

[Dilan Esper]

I like RENTS

[Eugene Volokh]

Starting with LATER has worked well for me.

[bernard11]

RAISE works well.

Three vowels and two common consonants.

I wonder if there exists a guaranteed strategy, or if you could prove there must be one.

The game is something like "Mastermind," which was popular in the 70's. That game dealt with guessing a hidden row of colors, not a word, but had the same feature of learning (from your opponent, not a computer) which ones were in the row but incorrectly placed, which were right, and which were not in the hidden row.

[mtkesq]

RATIO also works well for that (used it today)

[iowatwo]

AROSE
hits three vowels

[Krayt]

Which wordle? There are 3 on Google Play, all by different studios, suggesting 1, 2, or all 3 are scam clones.

[Noscitur a sociis]

The one we're talking about is the browser-based version linked in the post.

Although if you want to circumvent the once-a-day limit (and don't mind not being able to send a message with the little squares), this version is also pretty good:

https://octokatherine.github.io/word-master/

[Eugene Volokh]

Not sure about phone apps; I play on the Web, at the link given in the post.

[tkamenick]

Meh. Babble Royale is more fun.

[Aladdin's Carpet]

This blowing up reminds me of the internet of 10 years ago. Its refreshing!

[Josh R]

They stole/ adapted it from Lingo (only be sure always to call it please "research").

[Leo Marvin]

Began playing six days ago. Opened with "STARE" each time, and solved on Try #4 six times out of six. Either I'm mediocre or my opening word is.

[Krayt]

Are you supposed to use only the letters presented?

I had weary, w was green, so was in the word and in the right spot. I tried world, and all were gray, which made no sense as w should have been green.

[Leo Marvin]

unpossible