WORDLE – The Internet's Newest Favorite Game

[BoSoxGal]

Wordle 539 5/6*

[Bicycle Bill]

F O R    Y O U R    I N F O R M A T I O N  —
T H E    W O R D    O N    ' W O R D L E '

 
There’s a new wrinkle to Wordle.  According to The New York Times, which purchased the game from creator Josh Wardle in January 2022, a new Wordle editor has recently been installed, and that might affect how you play the game.

Wordle’s editor, Tracy Bennett, uses what the paper calls a “Times-curated word list” as a source of answers.  But unlike previous iterations of Wordle, Bennett appears to be using the zeitgeist to help choose words.

As Lifehacker.com points out, the game is now using themes.  For example, Bennett picked 'FEAST' as the answer for November 24 (Thanksgiving day).  November 23rd's answer was 'DRIVE', a nod to what people tend to be doing in order to be with family the day prior to the holiday.  In other words — or other Wordles — what’s happening in our culture could provide a clue as to the correct term on a given day.

“I'm still choosing words in a kind of arbitrary way, but also in a well-informed way,” Bennett told Ars Technica.  “I would call it intuitive, but it's really based on years of experience working with words from other puzzles.”

It may also help for players to know the week’s previous answers.  “[The answers are] varied lexically and semantically,” Bennett said.  “I don't want to have a week's worth of nouns, and I don't want to have a week's worth of words that start with A, that sort of thing.”  Gone, too, might be words that don’t necessarily weave their way in and out of conversation easily.  One recent answer, 'PARER', was critiqued for being too obscure.

So if you’re stumped, it may be a good idea to look around and see what’s happening.  Come December 25th, the answer probably won’t be as obvious as 'SANTA', but it could be 'JOLLY'.
............from MentalFloss.com

eta my results for today:

Wordle 539   4/6*






Daily Dordle 0320   7&6/7

     
     
     
     
     
     
     

Daily Quordle 320



     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     

     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     

Daily Octordle #320





Score: 61

-"BB"-

[datsunaholic]

Wordle 539 3/6*





Daily Dordle 0320 5&2/7





zaratustra.itch.io/dordle

Daily Quordle 320


quordle.com


















Daily Octordle #320




Score: 60

[datsunaholic]

Wordle 540 4/6*






Daily Dordle 0321 6&4/7






zaratustra.itch.io/dordle

Daily Quordle 321


quordle.com

















Daily Octordle #321




Score: 74

Daily Sequence Octordle #321




Score: 61

Daily Rescue Octordle #321




Score: 7

[BoSoxGal]

Wordle 540 4/6*

[No Greater Fool]

Wordle 540 3/6

[Bicycle Bill]

Wordle 540   6/6*








Daily Dordle 0321   6&5/7

     
     
     
     
     
     

Daily Quordle 321



     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     

     
     
     
     
     
     
     

Daily Octordle #321





Score: 67

-"BB"-

[datsunaholic]

Wordle 541 4/6*






Daily Dordle 0322 5&3/7





zaratustra.itch.io/dordle

Daily Quordle 322


quordle.com
















Daily Octordle #322




Score: 75 Six times had 4 letters.

Daily Sequence Octordle #322



⓮
Score: 80

Daily Rescue Octordle #322




Score: 7

[No Greater Fool]

Wordle 541 5/6

[MajGenl.Meade]

Wordle 541 6/6*
OK
Uh
Kidding!




Daily Dordle 0322 5&4/7






Daily Rescue Octordle #322



Score: 9
Easiest ever

Daily Sequence Octordle #322
Four tries at the first word (seeking only one letter) kinda threw me
And a wrong choice of 2 for word 4 sealed my fate (sob)
⓮
⓯ Score: 98

Daily Octordle #322

Three stabs to find one letter in word 4 and . . . curtains

Score: 74

[Bicycle Bill]

Wordle 541   4/6*






Daily Dordle 0322   4&5/7

     
     
     
     
     

Daily Quordle 322



     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     

     
     
     
     
     
     
     

Wouldn't that just frost you?  Your opening guess is one of the words, and it still takes you seven more tries to get the rest of them!

Daily Octordle #322





Score: 64

-"BB"-

[Joe Guy]

Wordle 541 4/6*

[Bicycle Bill]

Wordle 542   4/6*






Daily Dordle 0323   7&3/7

     
     
     
      ◄ oh, shit ... here we go again.
     
     
     

Daily Quordle 323



     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     

     
     
     
     
     
     
     

Daily Octordle #323





Score: 60

-"BB"-

[BoSoxGal]

I forgot to solve yesterday’s puzzle!

Wordle 542 4/6*

[datsunaholic]

Wordle 542 4/6*






Daily Dordle 0323 7&3/7







zaratustra.itch.io/dordle

Daily Quordle 323


quordle.com















Daily Octordle #323




Score: 68

Daily Sequence Octordle #323




Score: 68

Daily Rescue Octordle #323




Score: 8

[MajGenl.Meade]

Wordle 542 6/6*




So often I go with the second word I thought of
. . . and the first one was right all the time!

Daily Dordle 0323 5&6/7 Nothing of interest

Daily Quordle 323
















I put the correct word in column 3 and the matrix rejected it. I abandoned the screen and then went back and the same word worked. I am thinking of writing a novel about this

Daily Octordle #323



Score: 61

I'm saving Rescue and Sequence for a surprise ending to the novel.

[Joe Guy]

Wordle 542 3/6*

[Bicycle Bill]

Wordle 543   4/6*






Daily Dordle 0324   6&4/7

     
     
     
     
     
     

Daily Quordle 324



     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     

     
     
     
     
     

Daily Octordle #324





Score: 76

-"BB"-

[datsunaholic]

Wordle 543 3/6*

Strike one
Fouled to left
Into the center field bleachers

Daily Dordle 0324 3&5/7
Thinking this isn't a good starting word (I use the same for all puzzles in a day)




zaratustra.itch.io/dordle

Daily Quordle 324


quordle.com




Note in 5 guesses I never got a second letter for word 1.











Daily Octordle #324




Score: 82
Not when it takes 8 tries to get the second word.

Daily Sequence Octordle #324




Score: 67

Daily Rescue Octordle #324




Score: 8

[MajGenl.Meade]

Wordle 543 5/6*






Daily Dordle 0324 5&4/7



Two good guesses
I'd say

Daily Quordle 324


Quite pleased at working out the first word. Eventually

















Daily Rescue Octordle #324

Lost the plot here and then was surprised to have run out of turns

Score: 7

Daily Octordle #324 Oh frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!



Score: 52