Look, people who want to cheat at Wordle can, easily (if they just pay attention).
I like the simplicity of the game, and, as I say elsewhere, I kind of use it as an indication of how my day will go (esp as an indication that I’m screwing up, bc in a few cases I’ve missed that I had used a letter before, even though it’s on the frickin keyboard on the page).
Wordle 236 4/6
Wordle 237 5/6
Wordle 237 4/6
Wordle 237 4/6*
Wordle 237 5/6
Self-imposed “hard mode”. Not sure I would have played it differently, though.
just awful today
Wordle 237 6/6
Wordle 237 5/6
Wordle 237 4/6
I thought this one was hard. The letters go together in unusual ways. I’m obviously not playing in hard mode. I went with the starting pair i used yesterday (court, means) and on the third guess i moved some of them around but also checked two new letters. Once i had all five letters it still took me a while to get it, though.
Hard mode doesn’t appeal to me. I used to love mastermind as a kid. Most of the other kids used “hard mode” even though the game says nothing about that. I thought it was usually worth “wasting” a guess that i knew couldn’t be the answer to get more information.
Good first guess.
Wordle 237 2/6*
Wordle 237 5/6
Touch and go there towards the end
Wordle 237 4/6
I’m dying to know what your first word was.
Cruel
I used my three starter words, instead of guessing
Is there any chance most people use the same first word every game and she’s able to figure out the word based on the group’s results? That’s the only non-cheating angle I can come up with.
Wordle 237 4/6
Thanks! I thought there weren’t any words I’d missed with those letters, but i had ruled out that placement of two of the letters in previous guesses.
Wordle 237 4/6*
Idk. At first she was getting 3s, 4s and 5s like everyone else.
Scrolling back through her posts, she got her first 2 on 1/16, then 3s and 4s, then another 2 on 1/24, with the comment “This has never happened to me before!!” Umm, yeah just last week, you forgot??
Then the next day a 1, followed by 8 2s a couple of 3s and 2 1s in a row. Which makes me think she’s just playing in two browsers and just posting from the second one. 