Bring it home.
Wordle 911 4/6*
Wordle 911 4/6*
🧩Anyone else here play Wordle?
- Thread starter Beeflips
- Start date
Wordle 911 3/6
Wordle 911 3/6*
An article from the NYT.
People like playing Wordle. In the past year, millions have played the game every day, and then shared, discussed and debated how they tried to win. For the first time, we’ve analyzed how people played in half a billion of those Wordle games and compared them with the strategies that our WordleBotrecommends. Below are four things we learned. 1. Of the top 30 starting words, ADIEU is the most popular but least efficient. Many, many words have been written about the best opening word for Wordle. Answering this question, in fact, was one of the motivations behind WordleBot’s development. In its robot brain, a handful of words — SLATE, CRANE, TRACE — are best. For human Wordle players, the most popular opening word by some margin is ADIEU. AUDIO, another four-vowel word, is the fourth-most popular. The strategy seems to make sense: Figure out the vowels, and the other letters will fall into place. Our new analysis shows, though, that starting with ADIEU or AUDIO puts human players at a disadvantage. How much of one? On average, players who started with ADIEU needed about a third of a turn more to solve their Wordles compared with players who started with SLATE.
2. People like holiday words: PARTY, HEART, BUNNY and GHOST. The bot always recommends starting with SLATE, which we realize can be boring. Human players, freed from the burdens of mathematical precision, can and do change their Wordle openers throughout the year. (Players often explain their daily selection in the Wordle Review.) Here are the top words that jumped in popularity on specific days:
3. The most difficult words for players often started with “J.” The hardest words to solve tend to be those that start with J, end in Y or have a double letter somewhere. The five most difficult words of the past 12 months, as measured by turns to solve:
4. SLATE is on the rise, while CRANE is getting less popular. People are still changing their starting words. SLATE, STARE and ADIEU have grown, while CRANE has fallen. Even top words still see spikes: ADIEU was featured in the Mini Crossword in August, for example, and jumped in popularity. |
Wordle 911 4/6*
OP
OP
Beeflips
(it's me...Greg) Returning some videotapes
Wordle 911 4/6*
OP
OP
Beeflips
(it's me...Greg) Returning some videotapes
Thanks Bill, great article!An article from the NYT.
December 17, 2023
By Josh Katz and Aatish Bhatia
People like playing Wordle. In the past year, millions have played the game every day, and then shared, discussed and debated how they tried to win.
For the first time, we’ve analyzed how people played in half a billion of those Wordle games and compared them with the strategies that our WordleBotrecommends. Below are four things we learned.
1. Of the top 30 starting words, ADIEU is the most popular but least efficient.
Many, many words have been written about the best opening word for Wordle. Answering this question, in fact, was one of the motivations behind WordleBot’s development. In its robot brain, a handful of words — SLATE, CRANE, TRACE — are best.
For human Wordle players, the most popular opening word by some margin is ADIEU. AUDIO, another four-vowel word, is the fourth-most popular.
The strategy seems to make sense: Figure out the vowels, and the other letters will fall into place. Our new analysis shows, though, that starting with ADIEU or AUDIO puts human players at a disadvantage. How much of one?
On average, players who started with ADIEU needed about a third of a turn more to solve their Wordles compared with players who started with SLATE.
Even worse: While 1.7 percent of SLATE starters failed to solve a Wordle on average, the chance of failure with ADIEU more than doubles, to 3.6 percent.
2. People like holiday words: PARTY, HEART, BUNNY and GHOST.
The bot always recommends starting with SLATE, which we realize can be boring. Human players, freed from the burdens of mathematical precision, can and do change their Wordle openers throughout the year. (Players often explain their daily selection in the Wordle Review.)
Here are the top words that jumped in popularity on specific days:
Another fun pattern: PARTY has a little spike every weekend.
- Christmas Day (Dec. 25, 2022): MERRY, GIFTS, PEACE
- New Year’s Day: YEARS, PARTY, HAPPY, FRESH
- Valentine’s Day: HEART, LOVER, CUPID
- St. Patrick’s Day: LUCKY
- Easter: RISEN, BUNNY
- Coronation of Charles III and Camilla (May 6): CROWN, ROYAL
- Halloween: GHOST
- Thanksgiving: THANK, GRAVY, FEAST
3. The most difficult words for players often started with “J.”
The hardest words to solve tend to be those that start with J, end in Y or have a double letter somewhere.
The five most difficult words of the past 12 months, as measured by turns to solve:
If you look by solve rate, the hardest Wordle puzzle was JOKER, with only 71 percent of players finding the solution.
- JAZZY (June 1): 5.82 turns to solve
- JOKER (April 25): 5.69 turns
- NANNY (June 3): 5.68 turns
- JUDGE (Dec. 26): 5.57 turns
- RIPER (Feb. 22): 5.52 turns
4. SLATE is on the rise, while CRANE is getting less popular.
People are still changing their starting words. SLATE, STARE and ADIEU have grown, while CRANE has fallen. Even top words still see spikes: ADIEU was featured in the Mini Crossword in August, for example, and jumped in popularity.
Too bad that could have been a 2. I can feel the aggravation.Wordle 911 4/6*
Nah, it's all good. But you're right, it could (and probably should) have been a 2. I coulda been a contender! Lol!
Near and dear to my Heart
Wordle 911 2/6
Wordle 911 2/6
Wordle 912 3/6*
Was it?
Wordle 912 3/6*
Wordle 912 3/6*
OP
OP
Beeflips
(it's me...Greg) Returning some videotapes
Started to wonder...
Wordle 912 4/6*
Wordle 912 4/6*
very humorous
Wordle 912 3/6
Wordle 912 3/6
Wordle 912 3/6*
Wordle 912 3/6*
Wordle 912 3/6
Wordle 913 6/6*
OP
OP
Beeflips
(it's me...Greg) Returning some videotapes
Wordle 913 3/6*
Wordle 913 4/6*