Romier S Posted January 31 Report Share Posted January 31 News day! https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/31/business/media/new-york-times-wordle.html Wordle was purchased from its creator, Josh Wardle, a software engineer in Brooklyn, for a price "in the low seven figures," The Times said. The company said the game would initially remain free to new and existing players. "Initially".... Whooter and Magness 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magness Posted January 31 Report Share Posted January 31 Man what’s next - Bungie being bought by Sony?!? rustyjaw, Romier S, Angry the Clown and 1 other 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlbertA Posted January 31 Report Share Posted January 31 The Age of consolidation has arrived. Starhawk 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeyN Posted January 31 Report Share Posted January 31 Guess Words With Friends was out of their price range. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisBardon Posted January 31 Report Share Posted January 31 I thought you were making this one up at first... Seriously, good for Josh, but they could very easily have come up with a ripoff. I'm not sure there's anything there that's trademarkable, and worst case they could have just changed the colours and kept all the features the same. It's a pretty generic idea, that just happens to have an elegant web interface and a clever social hook. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh Posted February 1 Report Share Posted February 1 1 hour ago, ChrisBardon said: I thought you were making this one up at first... Seriously, good for Josh, but they could very easily have come up with a ripoff. I'm not sure there's anything there that's trademarkable, and worst case they could have just changed the colours and kept all the features the same. It's a pretty generic idea, that just happens to have an elegant web interface and a clever social hook. This way it comes with good will and you get the brand continuity. If NYT made their own, people would call them out for it and continue playing the original. This way they get the audience too. Easily worth 7 figures for the pageviews alone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graeme Posted February 4 Report Share Posted February 4 I got lucky today. Wordle 230 1/6 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 rustyjaw, Starhawk, Magness and 1 other 1 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rustyjaw Posted February 4 Report Share Posted February 4 Wordle 230 3/6 🟩🟩⬛🟨⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Also somewhat lucked out with the first guess Magness 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh Posted February 5 Report Share Posted February 5 14 hours ago, Graeme said: I got lucky today. Wordle 230 1/6 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 How Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisBardon Posted February 5 Report Share Posted February 5 I've been averaging 4, playing on hard mode: Wordle 231 4/6* 🟩⬛🟩⬛⬛🟩⬛🟩⬛⬛🟩⬛🟩⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 There's actually an interesting clone out there (absurdle) that takes a guess and then changes the word so that you have the minimum amount of information from your guess. Trick is to still be able to figure out the word. It's actually kind of a neat programming puzzle. Magness 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Tyner Posted February 5 Report Share Posted February 5 Having seen how hooked my wife has gotten on Wordle, I decided yesterday to code my own solver. It's not doing anything all that fancy but is reliably able to solve within 4 or 5 guesses, so I guess I feel accomplished! Magness 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JTello Posted February 5 Report Share Posted February 5 And naturally there's a math Wordle now, Nerdle. https://nerdlegame.com/ Major Warning Spoiler: My wife's solution. My momentarily satisfying one-upmanship . And my son (second grader) putting us both in our places! Spoiler https://imgur.com/a/HQ0ysro Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graeme Posted February 5 Report Share Posted February 5 14 hours ago, Josh said: How Just dumb luck of course. One of the words that I use regularly is plods. Sometimes plead or pleat. That day I decided to start with pleat, and that’s what it was. JTello 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh Posted February 5 Report Share Posted February 5 2 hours ago, Graeme said: Just dumb luck of course. One of the words that I use regularly is plods. Sometimes plead or pleat. That day I decided to start with pleat, and that’s what it was. Did you buy a lottery ticket? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Graeme Posted February 11 Report Share Posted February 11 Wordle now redirects to the New York Times site with a slightly redesigned version of the game. Your stats carry over. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dogbert Posted February 11 Report Share Posted February 11 31 minutes ago, Graeme said: Wordle now redirects to the New York Times site with a slightly redesigned version of the game. Your stats carry over. They carry over for some people. Didn't for me + others. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JTello Posted February 11 Report Share Posted February 11 In addition to Wordle, my wife and I have been competing daily at https://nerdlegame.com/ And https://worldle.teuteuf.fr/ Today I added https://www.dungleon.com/ We also have played https://flackr.github.io/crosswordle/ But only a few times, not daily Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graeme Posted February 11 Report Share Posted February 11 10 hours ago, dogbert said: They carry over for some people. Didn't for me + others. I’m sorry for your loss dogbert 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dogbert Posted February 11 Report Share Posted February 11 I actually busted today for the first time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graeme Posted February 11 Report Share Posted February 11 https://qntm.org/files/absurdle/absurdle.html Absurdle is an interesting take on the Wordle phenomenon. Instead of picking a word that you are simply trying to guess, it is actively trying to not give you a right answer or any clues. It does by taking the letters you guess and eliminates any words that it could using those letters until you’ve narrowed the list down to only a few possible words. I think the strategy may be to try and use uncommon letters first so that aren’t left with weird words that have to have z,x,q,j,y and u in it. JTello 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JTello Posted February 11 Report Share Posted February 11 25 minutes ago, Graeme said: https://qntm.org/files/absurdle/absurdle.html Absurdle is an interesting take on the Wordle phenomenon. Instead of picking a word that you are simply trying to guess, it is actively trying to not give you a right answer or any clues. It does by taking the letters you guess and eliminates any words that it could using those letters until you’ve narrowed the list down to only a few possible words. I think the strategy may be to try and use uncommon letters first so that aren’t left with weird words that have to have z,x,q,j,y and u in it. I saw this one, but hadn't yet tried it. I have it a go today, and got it in 7 tries, but I have no reference if this is decent or not. I feel like it could go on for a bit, so 7 felt good for a first try. My wife got it in 10, and her frustration was hilarious. "The word keeps changing? Who's the asshole behind the computer?!? .... OK, I know it's just like a program or whatever, but like really,... Com'on!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graeme Posted February 11 Report Share Posted February 11 28 minutes ago, JTello said: I have it a go today, and got it in 7 tries, but I have no reference if this is decent or not 7 seems pretty good. The minimum is 4, so only 3 more than that seems good. I’ve been around 10 mostly. I think it helps if you can wrap your head around that it isn’t changing the word, but that it just isn’t ever picking a word until you force it to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JTello Posted February 11 Report Share Posted February 11 Just now, Graeme said: 7 seems pretty good. The minimum is 4, so only 3 more than that seems good. I’ve been around 10 mostly. I think it helps if you can wrap your head around that it isn’t changing the word, but that it just isn’t ever picking a word until you force it to. Ahh, that's interesting! I did think it was a moving target. Good to know! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graeme Posted February 11 Report Share Posted February 11 As an example, here is a game I played just now, and then I replayed it again except for my last guesses. It plays out the same way, but I was pretty sure the answer was going to be fatty in the second game since I was going to guess taffy. If I had guessed taffy earlier though, it changes the game completely. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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