The trouble with Wordle...
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The better you get at Wordle, the less time the problem amuses you for. How about trying to avoid 'winning', using the same rules - only use real words, must continue with greens, must reuse yellows but never repeat the position of them, and see how many tries you can do without getting the right word. Much more challenging! :cool:
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The better you get at Wordle, the less time the problem amuses you for. How about trying to avoid 'winning', using the same rules - only use real words, must continue with greens, must reuse yellows but never repeat the position of them, and see how many tries you can do without getting the right word. Much more challenging! :cool:
That's called "Hard mode" isn't it?
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The better you get at Wordle, the less time the problem amuses you for. How about trying to avoid 'winning', using the same rules - only use real words, must continue with greens, must reuse yellows but never repeat the position of them, and see how many tries you can do without getting the right word. Much more challenging! :cool:
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The better you get at Wordle, the less time the problem amuses you for. How about trying to avoid 'winning', using the same rules - only use real words, must continue with greens, must reuse yellows but never repeat the position of them, and see how many tries you can do without getting the right word. Much more challenging! :cool:
"The better you get at Wordle, the less time the problem amuses you for." I find the same for Sudoku as well. Perhaps that's true for most puzzles (except CCC of course!)
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The better you get at Wordle, the less time the problem amuses you for. How about trying to avoid 'winning', using the same rules - only use real words, must continue with greens, must reuse yellows but never repeat the position of them, and see how many tries you can do without getting the right word. Much more challenging! :cool:
It already limits you to real words. Having to use letters that you already know, but not necessarily in known locations, is "hard mode". I play that now and also try to do what you describe. I'm now on a streak of 121 in Ravi's version and recently ran into QUEUE. Hard mode (at least in Ravi's version) has a smaller set of words that removes most plurals and past participles, which can make choosing a follow-up challenging. In the daily, my average hovered around 3.7 before switching to hard mode. Ravi's game doesn't track history, but I'd guess my average is around 4.3 playing the way you describe.
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It already limits you to real words. Having to use letters that you already know, but not necessarily in known locations, is "hard mode". I play that now and also try to do what you describe. I'm now on a streak of 121 in Ravi's version and recently ran into QUEUE. Hard mode (at least in Ravi's version) has a smaller set of words that removes most plurals and past participles, which can make choosing a follow-up challenging. In the daily, my average hovered around 3.7 before switching to hard mode. Ravi's game doesn't track history, but I'd guess my average is around 4.3 playing the way you describe.
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The better you get at Wordle, the less time the problem amuses you for. How about trying to avoid 'winning', using the same rules - only use real words, must continue with greens, must reuse yellows but never repeat the position of them, and see how many tries you can do without getting the right word. Much more challenging! :cool:
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Does Wordle use plurals? I've only been playing a couple of months, but so far I've not seen one as the answer.
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I switched Ravi's version (which he says uses Wordle's word list) to Easy and also Standard, and both of them accepted LIONS as the first guess. A word not in the list gets rejected, so the answer is probably that Wordle has plurals. But I don't recall seeing one as the daily word either.
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Couldn't do that, completion issues. Wordle is like the game Mastermind but with letters instead of colors.
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That was also my first reaction, although the difference is that the guess has to be a proper word.
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