Wordle?

Teetonetal · January 2022

Seems I default to American spelling these days, got it in 4 and didn't notice it was American...

stratman3142 · January 2022

Teetonetal said:

Seems I default to American spelling these days, got it in 4 and didn't notice it was American...

First time I failed to get it today. Probably because of that. At least that's my excuse.

mrkb · January 2022

In 3!

vasselmeyer · January 2022

Hmm. I wouldn't have got it without the American spelling clue. In 5 today.

DiscoStu · January 2022

Bloody Yanks! I had 3 letters on my second line but took all 6 to get the answer cos of the stupid spelling.

CoffeeAndTV · January 2022

In two, yesterday’s was four. The hint about the spelling helped.

TTony · January 2022

4 again for me today - the US spelling tip helped hugely, I'd certainly not have done it in 4 without that tip.

DCS222 · January 2022

Got it in 3, but was lucky on the second guess getting the 2 end letters adding to the 2 (yellow) vowels in my first guess, kinda obvious after that. I never come on these threads before doing it, as I don’t like hints or spoilers, I’d rather get it wrong.

tony99 · January 2022

in 3 boom!

goldtop · January 2022

B*gg*r. Shouldn't have logged in here first to see the clue about US spelling.

Deliberately didn't go for the obvious 5-letter choice, and got it in one.

JerkMoans · January 2022

Foreign spelling? I twigged and passed but, really. I mean. Come on.

HerbieTheRadDorklift · January 2022

My mrs got one in 2 guesses yesterday. I don't know what "it" is or what "wordle" is but she told me and I saw this thread.

TheOtherDennis · January 2022

I twigged the American spelling eventually but still got it wrong because by the time I'd worked it out, I only had one option left.

Not sure why the chap who created it uses American spelling, though, cos he's Welsh!

JerkMoans · January 2022

TheOtherDennis said:

I twigged the American spelling eventually but still got it wrong because by the time I'd worked it out, I only had one option left.

Not sure why the chap who created it uses American spelling, though, cos he's Welsh!

Presumably these foul variant spellings are more prevalent worldwide.

Grangousier · January 2022

I think he's playing with us - it does seem like he's choosing words that are less likely to include common "starter word" letters.

Of course, this could just be me being paranoid, and the words are randomly chosen from an open source dictionary that just happens to be US English.

goldtop · January 2022

^ If the words are plucked at random, then we should expect to see a lot of quite unusual words. That said, the 5-letter requirement keeps things at the simpler end of the vocab scale.

TTony · January 2022

goldtop said:

That said, the 5-letter requirement keeps things at the simpler end of the vocab scale.

See what you did there

JerkMoans · January 2022

DCS222 · January 2022

Is that a message @JerkMoans ?

littlegreenman · January 2022

4 again today. Wouldn't have got it without the Americanism hint though.

Philtre · January 2022

Caught out by American illiteracy.

vasselmeyer · January 2022

Bloody hell. Took me six today. I took nearly 15 mins staring at the last line and the unused letters before I got it.

tony99 · January 2022

Wordle 208 2/6

oh the little square thing doesn't work here, that's a shame

in 2 today, pretty good for me!

steveledzep · January 2022

Tough one today. Got it in 5.

sinbaadi · January 2022

There's a whole lot of pot luck involved in the first guess that obviously determines how easy the next guess is. There's no way of knowing if it's Ships or Shims or Shins unless you have played those letters in earlier guesses.

Mostly I have been solving in 4ish, a few in 3 and a couple in 6.

tony99 · January 2022

anyone had 'pure wordle' yet?
where you guess it in one?

DiscoStu · January 2022

vasselmeyer said:

Bloody hell. Took me six today. I took nearly 15 mins staring at the last line and the unused letters before I got it.

Haha me too! Just couldn't see it.

goldtop · January 2022

tony99 said:

anyone had 'pure wordle' yet?
where you guess it in one?

Yesterday - but only because I (stupidly) checked this thread before playing and saw the US-spelling clue. I immediately thought of 'color', but then decided it was too obvious.

Swings and roundabouts: today took 6 guesses. Also the first time I really thought about repeating a letter that was already valid.

bloodandtears · January 2022

goldtop said:

Also the first time I really thought about repeating a letter that was already valid.

Took me 4 today, but yeah I wasn't expecting repeating letters to be a thing either,, doh!

Shrews · January 2022

Tricky today, but got it in 5

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