Originally published at: Six things Wordle's creator got right | Boing Boing
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New challenge level: Each day, you have to start with the previous day’s word as your first guess. Worked really well yesterday (lucky choices), did pretty well today too.
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That’s going to be extremely tricky for those of us who can’t remember what we had for breakfast, let alone what yesterday’s wordle was.
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I go instead for a word that has multiple vowels, like “route.” I’m thinking that helps to establish more quickly which vowels the word has, and hopefully, where at least one of them is.
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Screen cap it. I do that anyway to share with my GF once we both have it.
My first two guesses usually have a total of 4 different vowels to knock most of them out.
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“Opine” has been a leader for me lately, but today’s really kicked my ass even though I got two letters out of the gate.
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Heh, right?!!
I set it aside, still on line 4 and working on it, ugh!
And thanks, Opine is a good one. Oh for a 5-letter word that uses all 5 vowels! 
Edit: Finally got it on line 5.
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I like how he change his name to Wardle so as to create the association with his game Wordle. Very clever.
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These are very encouraging for someone who only creates “finished” art/interactives as gifts. They do all feel incredibly satisfying, and so far it’s been the _only _ motivation that’s worked.
I keep a running spec for several video games I’d like to someday make, and anytime I feel like they are becoming stressful or strangers to me, I ask myself if I’m still designing the game I want to play, or am I trying to imagine some hypothetical market desires. It always grounds me.
After being burned by investing years of effort into learning “actionscript” and building several functional games in Flash (wah-wah) I’m pretty obsessed with avoiding platforms and instead building in javascript. Hopefully open-web does end up being a viable and long-term way to go.
P.S. I’m sure this has come up in the other Wordle threads, but if you google “wordle” is Wordles the logo…
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For me that has been the big one. Wordle is a new game every 24 hours. It is also the same game for all of those 24 hours. So it isn’t “discover something kind of nifty, play it a whole bunch, and now I’m done with it and move on to the next thing”.
It may be that if I had unfettered access I would have solved 365 puzzles in three hours and then never come back, and that with only one try a day I’ll still stop at 365 puzzles, but I’ve already talked on BB and other places about world far more times then I would have if it had been a one-day wonder for me.
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Funny, that’s the word that I chose when I first starting playing and it does work well.
Friend of mine mentioned that her favorite one to start with is Ouija due to the 4 vowels. Never occurred to me that would be a word in a word game as I figured it was a proper noun kind of thing. Don’t think you can play that in words with friends, for instance.
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Since there are now 100 different wordle aps on the play store, is there a way to tell which is the original?
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No app. Just the website.
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Great. Thanks!
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I haven’t tried it yet as guesses are so precious, but does every entry have to be a legitimate word? Can you just type “aeiou” in the first line?
Unfortunately, “and sometimes Y” won’t fit in any event.
If you like Wordle and frustration, try Absurdle. Absurdle: Adversarial Wordle @ Things Of Interest
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Yep, or at least one that’s in their list of legitimate words.
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Typically ETAOIN SHRDLU would be your goto but five letter words have slightly different distribution to the whole of English make the “e.t” thing a bit less of a lock in. T goes down and S goes up “rotes” would be a little better I think, U is quite a bit down. Also IIRC y is more common in five letter words than the corpus in general.
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