Wordle - Query re different words on same day

[Desiderata]

Really pissed off this morning.
I "discovered" Wordle 26 days ago and it has become part of my daily routine . I've been pleasantly surprised and a little bit proud of myself that I've got them all with an average of about 3.5...until today... my first failure ... what a kick in the guts ...not sure if I want to play anymore.

[48k]

Desiderata said:

Really pissed off this morning.
I "discovered" Wordle 26 days ago and it has become part of my daily routine . I've been pleasantly surprised and a little bit proud of myself that I've got them all with an average of about 3.5...until today... my first failure ... what a kick in the guts ...not sure if I want to play anymore.

That's a shame.

[Dave.]

Is it ironic that the answer is what you're feeling right now?

[Desiderata]

48k said:

Desiderata said:

Really pissed off this morning.
I "discovered" Wordle 26 days ago and it has become part of my daily routine . I've been pleasantly surprised and a little bit proud of myself that I've got them all with an average of about 3.5...until today... my first failure ... what a kick in the guts ...not sure if I want to play anymore.

That's a shame.

That's exactly the comment I got from Wordle when I failed... bds!
I had it down to a choice of two words on my last go, I did an eeny meeny and got the wrong one.

[Nimby]

I had 4 green letters after two attempts (1,2,3,5) and only just got it. Last chance was one of two possibilities and I guessed right.

[Desiderata]

Nimby said:

I had 4 green letters after two attempts (1,2,3,5) and only just got it. Last chance was one of two possibilities and I guessed right.

I had 3 green on my first go then worked out I had at least twenty possibilities to choose from. Took three more goes to get the 4th green, so one guess left for the last which I got wrong.
I play it on the "hard" setting, don't know if I would have got it on the "easy" setting either though.

[ajprice]

Nimby said:

I had 4 green letters after two attempts (1,2,3,5) and only just got it. Last chance was one of two possibilities and I guessed right.

Last line guess here too.



Why is the last letter left always the one that could be anything? I've had the same thing a few times now, I had a fail a few weeks ago (I think) when I had STO*E, that blank could make it store, stoke, stole, stove, stone... It annoyed me at the time and I can't remember which one was the right word now

[Turtle Shed]

Wordle is fun, but it's also frustrating under some circumstances.

Today a good ecample. Many would have gone green/grey/green/grey/green with their first guess, then it's just throwing darts at a board.

I got in five, could equally have been two.

[RacingPete]

Do you all play with hard mode on so you have to play previous letters that are in the word? If I get to two lines to go and there is possibility of 3 letters I just play a word with those 3 letters to make sure I get it. For example I played MOVED today

[ajprice]

RacingPete said:

Do you all play with hard mode on so you have to play previous letters that are in the word? If I get to two lines to go and there is possibility of 3 letters I just play a word with those 3 letters to make sure I get it. For example I played MOVED today

Yes I turned hard mode on, when I started playing Wordle I had no fails for a month, turned on hard mode and had a fail within a few days, and I like it that way.

[anonymous-user]

Nimby said:

I had 4 green letters after two attempts (1,2,3,5) and only just got it. Last chance was one of two possibilities and I guessed right.

Same for me. I was confident I’d get it in 3 but there’s about 7 words that got the 4 letters I had (second to last one missing )

[yellowjack]

Nimby said:

I had 4 green letters after two attempts (1,2,3,5) and only just got it. Last chance was one of two possibilities and I guessed right.

I got it OK. My two "openers" (OPINE and MAUVE) netted me three letters. By guess No 3 those three were in the right place, and I suppose I was lucky that guess No 4 was correct. I've had several attempts recently where I've only just got it with my last guess because there have been more possible answers than Wordle lines for a given partial answer.

I'm still annoyed that it breaks my "streak" on days when I can't access it. I know it's deliberate - to push people into opening the site every day - but it's annoying when I didn't get it wrong, I just didn't get to open the puzzle.

Chuffed to get Worldle in one guess the other day though. A country made up of loads of islands came up, and I slung PHILIPINES in as a guess, expecting to have to zero in on the answer somewhere more obscure, but right first time. I don't think that's happened since one of the big, obvious countries like Australia came up..

[ajprice]

yellowjack said:

Chuffed to get Worldle in one guess the other day though. A country made up of loads of islands came up, and I slung PHILIPINES in as a guess, expecting to have to zero in on the answer somewhere more obscure, but right first time. I don't think that's happened since one of the big, obvious countries like Australia came up..

I don't play Worldle but I saw a lot of stuff one day a few weeks ago when it was Monaco, and it's basically the shape of the track and docks

[Mr_J]

I was disappointed today because I got it in 3 guesses. I quite enjoy spending time over my morning coffee trying to get the answer. It was only when I sat there proud of myself that I realised I'd got lucky because there were a lot of potential answers.

It makes up for 35 days ago when my streak came to an end despite having 4 letters early on.

[Rh14n]

Not sure how many languages it's in but I have double the pain/pleasure doing it in Welsh as well - somehow more difficult as we have (despite popular belief) two extra vowels (W and Y) but fewer consonants (no Q, X, Z, K and V).

[FiF]

yellowjack said:

Nimby said:

I had 4 green letters after two attempts (1,2,3,5) and only just got it. Last chance was one of two possibilities and I guessed right.

I got it OK. My two "openers" (OPINE and MAUVE) netted me three letters. By guess No 3 those three were in the right place, and I suppose I was lucky that guess No 4 was correct. I've had several attempts recently where I've only just got it with my last guess because there have been more possible answers than Wordle lines for a given partial answer.

I'm still annoyed that it breaks my "streak" on days when I can't access it. I know it's deliberate - to push people into opening the site every day - but it's annoying when I didn't get it wrong, I just didn't get to open the puzzle.

Chuffed to get Worldle in one guess the other day though. A country made up of loads of islands came up, and I slung PHILIPINES in as a guess, expecting to have to zero in on the answer somewhere more obscure, but right first time. I don't think that's happened since one of the big, obvious countries like Australia came up..

Lucky to get it in 4 today. Had letters 1,3,5 after two, so many options at that point.

Sometimes Worldle is difficult even cheating with a map.

[Alex@POD]

Desiderata said:

Really pissed off this morning.
I "discovered" Wordle 26 days ago and it has become part of my daily routine . I've been pleasantly surprised and a little bit proud of myself that I've got them all with an average of about 3.5...until today... my first failure ... what a kick in the guts ...not sure if I want to play anymore.

First fail in 81 days today... one of the classic ones where I can't think of another word it can possibly be until I find it's not that...

Failed Worldle too, I knew exactly where it was but could not remember what it was called. I've managed 18 on the first guess out of 57 attempts so far, can't complain.

[Hub]

A lucky 6 today, with another option left!

Heardle in one though

[Alex@POD]

Hub said:

A lucky 6 today, with another option left!

Heardle in one though

Not heard of heardle before, I can honestly say I'd never heard that first bit though. Took me 3 guesses.

[yellowjack]

Rh14n said:

Not sure how many languages it's in but I have double the pain/pleasure doing it in Welsh as well - somehow more difficult as we have (despite popular belief) two extra vowels (W and Y) but fewer consonants (no Q, X, Z, K and V).

How does that work with FF, DD, CH, etc? Do they count as one letter or as two? I wish I'd kept up my Welsh lessons now, but back when I dropped it at school (when I chose my O Level subjects) it really wasn't a cool thing to do to learn Welsh unless it was spoken already at home.