A friend showed me Wordle. I was wracking my brain trying to remember a similar commercially-available game I’d played as a kid. Thanks to this article I know it was Jotto. However I don’t remember Jotto very well. Was the game play the same as Wordle?
As a child of the 1970s, I have to wonder whether my irrational, deep love for Wordle has to do with the fact that 1) I can absolutely count on each new Wordle happening as predicted, 2) at the same reliable time every day, and when it shows up 3) it never fails to follow through at being what it is, and 4) it hasn’t even once complained to me about the quality of my interaction with it?
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Entry sounds like an excellent first word!
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Especially for one’s very first puzzle!
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Don’t forget to smash that like button!
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I kicked off today’s with AISLE and ROUND. Realised later that’s all the vowells and 9/10 of the single-point scrabble tiles.
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Why no link to the actual site in the article? I guess I was the only person left that never heard of it before.
An article already about today’s word!
I tried it for the first time today. I was annoyed that I wasn’t paying attention to what the colors meant. The yellow letters on line 3 are not the same letters as the green ones on line four.
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I think you did well for your first time! Especially given your newness to the colors, and with such a hard word. Bravo!
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Mind you I was talking to a friend this morning how it got a lot less fun once you start being all focused on code breaking strategy!
The good thing is that having responsive second words is more important than a start. That said if I let myself I’d create a list of words for various letters missing and totally ruin the fun…
I’m guessing something along the lines of grep '^[a-z]\{5\}$' /usr/share/dict/words | grep '..x.e' | grep -v '[auistpq]' | ... is cheating?
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Order of occurence in the 5-letter words from SOWPODS is:
esaoriltnudycpmhgbkfwvzjxq
Easy to cover the first 10 in two guesses…
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Louie is an accepted word, and and has four of ‘em. That’s my first word, then tacky, to round up A and Y.
I don’t know if this is a good strategy but it’s worked out ok so far.
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Louie?!
Strange that the name of my cousin’s dog is also considered a word. 
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A Troll Bot Is Ruining Wordle By Forcing Innocent Players To See The Next Day’s Answer
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This dark tale begins earlier this month, as spotted by NME , when a software engineer called Robert Reichel decided to reverse engineer the game’s code out of pure curiosity. He chronicled his pursuit in a blog post, revealing that he had fathomed the algorithm that decided each day’s chosen word. From this, he was able to work out what the following day’s word was going to be, chosen by the algorithm from a static list, and thus get the game “right” first time, every time.
His mistake was showing off. Posting the method, he then concluded, “Try it out.” Which of course people did. And one person, as yet unidentified, thought it’d be a great idea to create a Twitter bot that used this information, then sniffed around for those posting their scores to their timeline, in order to reply to them spoiling the game for them for the next day.
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Christ, what a spoilsporting asshole.
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Boooo. I can forgive friends and randos making off handed comments that might give hits, but this is not nice to make a bot that goes being a dick. 
This is why we can’t have nice things.
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