WORDLE

[Triweasel]

Wordle 541 4/6*

[Lucy]

Wordle 541 4/6

[Lucy]

@SteveWhite

@Macroman

Some of the other games like Dordle and Octordle will tell you right away if your guess is not a valid word. You can keep a session of one of these open like scratch paper. I don’t think of this as cheating,

No, I wouldn’t think of that as cheating either. Nor does that make much difference. In Wordless, if I try to guess something it thinks is invalid, it tells me - after the guess tho not before - that it’s an invalid guess and rejects it. But it doesn’t count it as a guess. My mainly non-serious complaint is the it allowed a guess Indidn’t think was an English word. Not only was it wrong, I didn’t get much helpful info.

I don’t think it’s cheating, either. This is fundamentally a form of solitaire, and i advocate for playing by whatever rules make it the most fun for you. I often use an online anagrammer, because I’m not good at that, and it’s more fun for me when i do that.

[SteveWhite]

Two things I would consider cheating, but OTOH why would I care if someone cheats by my thinking?

1. Studying / reverse engineering GoA results posts to help solve the puzzle.
2. Playing the same puzzle in two browsers, especially if then pasting the second result only.

Rarely I use excel spreadsheets, self-created and single-use, to list possible combinations. Not cheating, IMO, since not substantially different from creating a handwritten list, which I wouldn’t consider cheating.

[Lucy]

@Lucy

I often use an online anagrammer, because I’m not good at that, and it’s more fun for me when i do that.

Also, when I started doing this, my scores didn’t improve to speak of, but I solved the puzzles in a lot less time. Basically, I had been moving around little carboard tiles on my desk, and that worked, but was tedious.

But even if it improved my scores, it’s still doing the puzzles in the way that’s most fun for me.

@SteveWhite

Two things I would consider cheating, but OTOH why would I care if someone cheats by my thinking?

1. Studying / reverse engineering GoA results posts to help solve the puzzle.
2. Playing the same puzzle in two browsers, especially if then pasting the second result only.

I can see the first being fun for someone who isn’t me. That’s still playing the game, just a different game than what most of us play. The second is no longer playing solitaire, it’s showing off a fake score to other people. I agree that that’s cheating. Using the list (that used to be publicly available, but presumably isn’t any longer) is also cheating.

[Macroman]

@SteveWhite

Studying / reverse engineering GoA results posts to help solve the puzzle.

That could provide a lot of information, especially if you know people’s starter words. I would also consider cheating reading the web “hint” posts that commonly give a letter or two from the word and tell you how many vowels there are.

[IPD]

Wordle 541 4/6*

[Breadmaker]

Wordle 541 3/6

[NerdAlert]

Wordle 542 3/6*

[knoath]

Wordle 542 4/6*

[vjvj]

Wordle 542 4/6

[meep]

Wordle 542 4/6

[PatientZombie]

Wordle 542 3/6

[SteveWhite]

Wordle 542 3/6*

[PatientZombie]

[T-roy]

Wordle 542 3/6*

[IPD]

Wordle 542 3/6*

[Snikelfritz]

Wordle 542 2/6

[Triweasel]

Wordle 542 4/6*

It was a tossup between guess 3 and 4. I chose poorly.

[knoath]

That looks like a side view of one of those plunge pools where you can sit down or stand up in the water.