/lit/ - Literature

>>19944045
It's not particularly difficult to get a word in 6 tries

>>19944045
You seem pretty stupid because you put the E in the same place even though you knew it was wrong.
There's no way you can defend that E placement in line three.

>>19944065
As well as using an A in line 2.

>>19944045
Because it has nothing to do with reading and is designed to inflate the ego.

this one made me want to kms i said all possible words ending with -odge before i remembered you could use the double letter in the word

I stopped playing this when it was purchased by the NYT. You should too.

>>19944137
i didn't even know it existed before it was purchased by the nyt

>>19944065
>>19944075
the people that come on here to brag about how "easy" it is are never playing in hard mode funny enough

>>19944157
i'm 15/15 playing hard mode with an average below 4 guesses

>>19944144
>>19944137
why would nyk purchase this game what is their ROI

It's gotten a lot easier since I started getting spoiled every day.

>>19944299
value add to their puzzles portfolio

>>19944045
nice one you stupid mouth breathing cunt. I didnt want to play today anyway. 6 tries? Are you retarded?

>>19944045
you don't precisely understand how to play yet

>>19944065
>>19944075
haha op is not as smart as he thinks

>>19944045
do quordle, it is doing 4 words at the same time with the same guesses

>>19944299
Today's word: Dodge
A car company
It's a form of discrete advertising

>>19944137
I barely play the NYT edition. There is some wordle unlimited that I can play over and over again and not have to wait for 24 hours.

>>19946842
You've really cracked the code anon
They can cater exclusively to companies with 5 letter names that are also words!

>>19946880
Exactly
Soon the game will have a word letter-count option, enabling the other companies to join in the marketing scheme

>>19944137
Ooh the dastardly NYT

>>19944045
Here we go. Anon spoiling todayd answer for everyone. Thank god I did mine already today.

Also fuck nyt. They broke my 50 streak with their stupid domain change and the first thing they added to the site where trackers

>>19944045
I don't find it easy at all. I don't think it's related with a lit inclination. The words are all very simple.

>>19944045
Twitter midwits always complain about not getting the correct answer, every fucking day. How the hell do they do that bros?

>>19944513
My preferred combo is POWER - CHAIN - LUSTY, but this works pretty well too probably

>>19944299
>by installing this application you agree to give it access to
>Cookies
>Contacts
>Messages
>Internet
>Files
>Browsing history
>

>>19944045
>why this game is so easy?
>Six guesses
Tard

I am the stupidest pers n n this wh le b ard.

>>19944045
Can someone please explain why/how this game has become a fad? Even my tutor mentioned it and I feel like I was late to the party.

>>19946903
Why would you support the NYT?

>>19947054
>can someone explain to me why dummies get psyoped into shit phone games
why do you care? amogus

>>19944076
This, it is Mastermind with letters.

>>19947054
>overhear normalfag coworker talking about this the other day
>it's, like, so cool and, like, everyone is playing it!
>instantly know not to touch it

>>19947000
it's not even an app

>>19944137
Just get a third party app that gives you unlimited plays

https://www.wordleunlimited.com/?wardle=c2FnZXM

Got my shit rocked by today’s wordle. Fucking “dodge”

>>19944513
Niether do you. Why would you put an E last three times in a row? You already knew it was correct, you gain no information by putting it there again.

>>19947503
>he doesn't play hard mode

>>19947513
Ok, I see now. I've never played this game at all actually.

>>19947503
He's playing efficiently, only chosing words that end in e from that point on.

My first time playing it. No, I am never this lucky at anything else in my life.

>>19947054
You can only play once a day, so you don't burn yourself out by binging it. It lets you share your results with your friends in an aesthetically pleasing way, which stimulates conversation. My group chat with my friends became much more active after wordle, and most of it isn't about wordle.
>>19944045
The idea is to try to minimize the amount of lines required to win. It isn't that straightforward to find the guess that will yield the most information.

>>19944299
I looked into this - besides >>19944319 and >>19947000, they sell a subscription to a games service where for a weekly or annual fee you get premium features and access for a collection games. Even if they make no money from the purchase, it pads their library, will reduce user churn against that service, and will bring in a high-engagement app that will drive subscriptions and get repeated play driving eyeballs to this service.

Additionally, wordle guy didn't monetize with advertisements on his game - the NYT likely will. For a game like wordle with a middle-class and literate user base, the CPM on advertisements could be 1-4 bucks, on an app that has millions of daily players - even assuming only 1 million daily ad impresions and 1 buck CPM, that's $1,000 a day.

The NYT made an offer in the "low seven figures" (so probably a million bucks plus change) and this is pretty cheap for the NYT and pays back in about 2 years after interest on the above model, assuming enduring interest - so even without the subscription, just buying for ad revenue, it's probably still a good purchase.

From a business perspective, the decision makes tons of sense, even if it's strange looking externally.

>>19946842
NYT didn't change the source other than deleting WHORE and BITCH from the word list

The word is determined entirely by the current day, you can figure out what the word will be for any day in the future. In fact you could get the pre-NYT version and run it locally.

>>19944045

>>19948288

Fucking triple D

>>19948642
they also got rid of slave and lynch
I didn't know about them getting rid of whore and bitch

this is gonna be a slippery slope

>>19944045
You suck at wordle dude

I played this one on hard mode, and spent at least thirty minutes thinking only of words spelled with G_O_E before this occurred to me. I almost guessed Goethe kek. It would have been so much easier going off of a D instead of a G for the consonant.

>>19949528
do you not know what yellow means anon

>>19944045
Just played, this and got dodge as well. Stupid game.

>>19949468
>>19949528
Everyone got dodge? What is the point of this?

>>19949590
I do but I had to guess a word that had G, O, and E in it for the game to accept. So I couldn't type words like "agape" or "angle" because both only have two of the three confirmed letters.
I guess I could have used "oggle" depending on if the game would have taken an alternative spelling.
>>19949620
People typically don't share their results through a screenshot on social media, but instead through emojis you would only understand if you played the game that day. If you saw this thread before playing today's game, you would have been spoiled and miss the fun.

>>19947047
>chode

Just finished the latest one. Was a real fucking pig of a challenge, got it in 5.

>>19949672
So everybody in here is pretending to be smarter than OP when they just cheated, got it.
Even aside from that, you can only play once per day? It's retard shit.

>>19950347
Yes that is what you are you are also a unfunny, evil little troll.

>>19944045
It's easy to get the word in six tries, the real challenge is getting the word in as few guesses as possible. That's why it tracks how many guesses you needed. If your median number of guesses is four or more, you're not good at the game.

BRO WHAT THE FUCK
i guess i've finally been beaten by wordle

it's today's answer btw
I should have remembered that skill was already an answer a few days ago

>>19951403
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH I JUST REALIZED I ALREADY USED K IN THE FIRST ANSWER
WHY THE FUCK DOES IT ALLOW YOU DO THAT??? I THOUGHT HARD MODE MAKE IT SO YOU COULDN'T REUSE LETTERS THAT YOU ALREADY KNOW AREN'T IN

>>19944065
not op but I sometimes do that because it'll reveal new right/wrong letters and narrow down the word. In op's case it looks like he got 2 new letters from doing that.

>>19948288
>>19948661
lmao. cant wait til wordle gets added to the olympics. i will crush you bugs with ease.

>>19951403
I went through skill, spill, and shill and got it on the last guess, which was the only possible one left. I knew it was a word too but went with the more common ones.

>>19951403
>>19951413
Don't feel bad. I had a shit fourth guess. I was hoping it would be Switt for the /lit/ cred.

>>19951525
>I knew it was a word too but went with the more common ones.
that was my thinking when it was down to shill or swill and i went with the former because it's more common

>>19951403
wordy, tweak, swill
get fukt

>>19948838
They kept NEGRO but not SLAVE ?

ANOTHER FUCKING DAY ANOTHER FUCKING WORD WITH REPEAT LETTERS FUCK WORDLE SUCKS NOW

>>19952889
Git gud sucka

Easy 3 guesses if I i used champ first

>>19944045
>6 tries
Retard detected

NOOO I WAS TORN BETWEEN "SLIMS" and "SWILL" AND I PICKED WRONG

>>19953012
I put skill, shill and then swill on my last go. Fucking bullshit could have had it in four

Did it in five 8^)
DRIVE PAINS SLIME SKILL SWILL

>>19952981
Easy one guess if I used swill first

>>19944045

>>19953730
Fucking bullshit word. I ended up with S-W-I-L and plugged and chugged until the end. Never heard anyone use “swill” before

>>19953802

Cope

I was stuck between shill and swill.

Today I have redeemed myself. Sure hope you guys turn on hard mode.

>>19953781
>>19955092
fuck this game.

Why do you all play on easy mode?

>>19955112
I guess I'm retarded. Sorry /lit/

>>19950884
>game forces you to not waste your life binging it
This is a good thing. It only becomes bad when you get to pay to reduce the "cooldown" between playing.
You can also just search for the world archive and get access to all previously-released days.

>>19955210
we did it whitepillbros

>>19951420
he would have gotten the same letters with "erode" and also would have found out where the E is.

>>19944045
Fuck off pseud

>>19944045
I'm playing the Spanish version. Very nice and elegant game mechanics.

>>19944045
forgot picture

Fuck me today's one was a real cunt. Got it in 5. I'm not even going to drop you any clues because I want you to suffer.

>>19944045
>why am I so intelligent.

why can't I be this lucky in my life

phew, had to turn off hard mode to get this one.

>>19944045
play the lewd and naughty version called Lewdle

>see thread
>google wordle
>enter a bunch of random shit just to try it out
>4 hours until i can play again
never playing this dumb shit again

>>19956632
What's the word?

>>19956646
books

>>19956646
maybe bowls

>>19956646
I'm guessing it's boobs

>>19944065
throwing out words to find out letters is far more important than getting the correct placement and getting hung up.

>>19948338
You sound like a faggot

I got it right in less guess than yesterday. Fuck yeah

Wordle blows. Semantle is far better.

>>19957324
Pretty comfy. Let's see if you guys can beat me by guessing the word in fewer than 20 attempts.

>>19957369
It's hard, I keep thinking of it in terms of synonyms. I don't see how I'd have the same word as you but in any case I'm upwards of 30 guesses.

>>19957369
yeah im on guess 32 and nowhere closer than i was on guess 15 which still only has a similarity of 14
not sure what it wants from me

>>19957552
I gave up in the 60s and the word was not something I had associated with any of my closest guesses so, yeah, better luck next time.

>>19957557
And just by way of illustration my five closest words were: radar, formula, result, dogfight, strategy. The secret word is level.

>>19957565
wooooow that's complete fucking BS
I had panel (14.75), interface (14.56), wall (13.80), and pixel (11.66)
I was close to going the radar route I would have tried it next

But the thing is I also tried videogame, which was only 9.33, and fucking FLAT which it was was only 10.89. So I mean, for the word to be that, I was really being led astray

I used to love the gameshow Lingo, which wordle plagiarized. Best word to start with is "auger" followed by "toils."

>>19957640
It's actually "arose" followed by "unity"

It dumb

>>19957824
I got it in 4 tries instead of 3 cause I went bacon first

>>19957824
>>19957859
jesus you couple of smooth-brains

>>19957863

>>19957874

>>19957874
damn big brain

I don't really get the appeal of these games or soduku either but then I'm a fucking misogynistic freak

I don't really get the appeal of these games or soduku either but then I'm a fucking misanthropic freak

>>19957874
>double letter on first guess
Why

I think is supposed to be easy by design the times cant have games exposing the genpop as retards

>>19958781
I think it's a joke. He knew the answer already and he's callig us fools.

>>19957369
Fun game. It took me a long-ass time. I kept thinking it had something to do with going up, as I kept guessing things like 'ascend', 'ladder', 'rise' etc.

>>19958824
it took me 97 guesses and i even cheated with a thesaurus

What the fuck

ez

Its easy for everyone

>>19959068
>the word contains an A and an I
>make three guesses with neither A nor I

>>19959068
is this a joke post?
if not, consider reading the fucking rules

>>19958937
>>19958824
>>19957369
>>19957324
Shit game, I put height and altitude which are basically synonyms for the actual word yet it puts words far less related above it which throws me off completely. Waste of fucking time. Clearly whatever algorithm it uses doesn't sort words by meaning very well at all.

>>19959068
Fucks sake Anon.

>>19957369
I like it. A bit frustrating though, at least on my first game. Got it in 89, I had the 989/1000 word after 29 guesses high and then guessed dozens of increasingly complex similar words none of which exceeded that value. I guess it's probably used with high a lot in news articles which he's using. could probably do with accounting for some other factors

>tacit
never heard of it

https://www.theguardian.com/games/2022/feb/20/what-in-the-world-is-happening-to-our-beloved-wordle
People have started complaining about the difficulty.

>>19960328
I got it but I only had a vague recollection of the word existing. And also I was at a point where I tried every possible combination I had left

>>19960604
https://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/plymouth-news/wordle-definition-tacit-its-stumping-6692004
Oh no no noooo

>>19947311
The play limit is the only reason it is popular

What does it prove?
That you can dredge up five letter words?

>>19948572
Thanks anon

didn't know /lit/ was wordle-pilled

>>19961259
It's a word game; why are you expecting it to "prove" something? It's just a bit of fun to get your brain working in the morning.

>>19957369
Who has guessed today's word? 32 attempts and still nothing.

>>19961989
I got it in 84

>>19957369
>>19961989
what game

>>19962565
https://semantle.novalis.org

ez gg

>>19961766
Ok
And checked

>>19961766
How did you reach midnight before me, what are you fuckin Japanese? I got to my third guess and realized I had seen this spoiler. You need to regulate your wordle posting to east coast American timezones.

>>19962927
Australian. I posted that at midday; I'm not putting in the effort of remembering when mutts join the rest of the world.

>>19961989
it's worked me up into a nice little seethe. i'm already on #58, i'm working on #59 right now.

What's your favorite opening /lit/?

>>19963236
so is there a 4 word combo that eliminates all the letter?

>awkward finder before common finger
I've lost a step. I'm getting out of the game.

Taint nothing complicated about Tacit

I've been staring at this shit for 40 minutes and I can't think of a word that includes P and A and ends with E that doesn't include any of the letters I've ruled out.

>>19963595
package. fuck me.

Try dordle or quordle

Candy Crush-tier retard entertainment

>>19963944

>>19963944
this. pseuds game

Not going to read the replies, just posting to share my suffering. I don't know if my brain is being really retarded, or if I got really unlucky with my picks. Either way, I can't think of a single fucking word. Hard mode. This is a fucking nightmare, send help

Yup, I guess I'm tarded

>>19963944
>>19963979
t. anons who ragequit after realizing you can't figure out simple words

>>19962927
>>19962995
Why wouldn't it change at the same time for everyone? Considering people commonly share their games, this is a really stupid oversight. This thing got popular through social media. What the fuck

>>19964286
I was just being a cunt it didn't really bother me

>>19964293
It bothers me though. It's stupid that you can have your daily game spoiled unexpectedly because someone gets it hours earlier

gg ez

>>19961137
there's no excuse for a native speaker not to know the word tacit

>>19964164
othe....

2nd guess was pretty retarded but it worked

>>19964451
what's the purpose of this post, anon?

Quordle is pretty cool, and I like that it gives you an image like this to share

ez gg

>>19951420
>>19956928
you can do that without repeating wrong letters if your vocabulary is good enough
sorry to break it to you, anon

>>19964314
i'm not fluent in inglés

>>19944045

It also could have been dodgy or doggy or dozed, so it was easy because you got lucky.

today's was ez

>>19965617
triggered

>>19964601
it make it more interesting for sure, I always get 3/4

>>19964601
Ez I’m a goddam genius

>>19956928
So wrong there is no use talking to you. You are on a lower eschelon of intellect if you don’t realise you are throwing free information in the fucking garbage by reusing letters in the wrong spot

I guess I'm a lucky guy

>>19964464
it's not retarded if it works.

Thought this was pretty good for my first one

>>19944045
im a 84iq construction worker and this is easy as hell too

>>19968095
>>19968471
>>19968494
you're doing it wrong

>>19967205
i got it in 2 after REIGN and thought i was just lucky but from the looks of this thread i actually know how to play the game as well

>>19964464
wtf you Australian fuck, that was almost a full day ago and most people are only doing that one now, or not yet. could you hold off on posting so early out of consideration, or at least say the date?

>not playing on hard mode
ISHYGDDT

when I started I actually thought it was meant to be played like that by default

>past two have been spoiled for me
oh well there always tomorrow...

>>19969401
through this thread or somewhere else? if this thread, don't browse past a certain time of day. there are wild Australians lurking about.
it's retarded that it doesn't switch at the same time for all, independent of timezones. I bet a lot of people get spoiled through social media.

>>19969391
Yea I play on hard mode whether or not it’s on or off, I’m pretty sure hard mode is basically easier but more tedious

>>19969391
Hard mode is easy mode because it's more efficient

I give up retard game

it's another one of these

This game is weird sometimes.

I am never going to play this gay american game

>>19969855

Anyone get one first try?

>>19944045
If you're so smart, solve this one instead
https://rsk0315.github.io/playground/passwordle.html

>>19970264
This but unironically, I fucking hate yanks so much it's unreal

>>19970291
Yeah

>>19944045
step up my dude

>>19944045
>"Why is this game so easy guise"
>only gets the word on the 6th attempt
Pathetic

>>19970498
I kneel.

>avid reader

ez

>>19970698
>reusing incorrect letters
reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee


POINT
SLOTH
TROVE

>>19970498
almost got it first time

>4
Losing my edge, need to get my head back in the game.

>>19969855
>I am never going to play this gay american game
>>19970385
>This but unironically, I fucking hate yanks so much it's unreal

>>19971815
i tried north first

damn, close call.

>>19972700
And same story with the latest one

Hey everyone
Have a great day!

can someone please tell me why normans think this game is difficult?

>>19963236
I open with penis too 100% of the time

I mean

>>19970498
damn i thought i was slick

>>19973039
it's more about the streak

>>19973075
The fuck is trone

>>19968928
Enlighten me then

First time doing this. What's the point of this game? The most optimal strategy seems to be just covering as many unique letters in 5 tries and then scrabbling your way to the final word. There's no real skill to it, finding the word sooner is just luck.

>>19973096
>>19970498
losers

>>19974157
green means the letter is in the right place
yellow means the letter is in the word but in the wrong place
grey means the letter is not in the word
look at the colouring on the keyboard when you type in a new word - avoid the grey letters

it's like scrabble and how the point of scrabble is not just trying to make words but getting points tiles

>>19974168
smoothebraine

>>19974168
actually a smoothbrain. sorry, anon.

>>19972712
>not playing hard mode
seriously what are you guys doing

This game too easy

Am I retarded?

>>19974205
>you're doing it wrong
>here's the tutorial of the game
Huh? I was expecting some kind of trick.

Is this good for the first time?

>>19974550
well I'd say the point of the damn game is more to make your brain work, and maybe learn a new word every once in a while, rather than just throwing shit and the wall and seeing what sticks just to "win".
that's why you should turn on hard mode in the settings

>>19974596
you're a real smart fella, here's your (you)

>>19974604

>>19974445
a little, but maybe I'm the retard seeing as I don't know the words troke or trone. then again, you probably don't either. is trode from tread?

>>19974445
>trode
>troke
>trone
yeah you're kinda retarded

amerisharts will struggle with this one

>>19974758
got it in 4

>>19974445
dreadfully unlucky but you will find out they favour common words over rare ones

>>19970566
based

>>19974610
Yes, it is. After not getting trode and tripe, I just gave up and tried nonsense words
>>19974695
If you don’t know trode, you’re retarded

>>19968055
Funny that you are so rude yet also wrong.
It's an information theory problem and the game has already been solved. Sometimes the best word will have redundant letters, stick to literature pseud.

>>19974808
>If you don’t know trode, you’re retarded
I know trode but I know it's not common enough to waste a try on

This semantile game is so difficult it's annoying

first time, and yes my English vocabulary consists entirely of words learned from reading Fantasy books

>>19956656
There was a K in the fourth line that was incorrect.

>>19944137
>>19960604
>>19961137
>nyt removing words for being too obscure

fuck me, I hate normies

lol

fucking australia

I finally got it Semantile chads
Taking breaks in-between my guessing sprees definitely helps

>>19976310

How many games until I lose my ESL status?

>>19944045
>why this game is so easy?

Easy as shit

amusing to see the yanks seething on twitter

funny to see the yanks seething on twitter

Quordle bros... I did it...
96
48

>>19976310
Me too. Feels good.

>>19956640
Use the archive, faggot. It's like a newspaper thing too, not a mobile app. You're missing the point, smdh.

>>19978205
didn't quordle and wordle have the same word today?

>>19978878
yea
strange

>>19959096
>Clearly whatever algorithm it uses doesn't sort words by meaning very well at all.
What's the best programming language and shit for semantic similarity anyway? I'm interested in judging the similarity between two sentences but all the ones I've found are ass, surely google et al have something right? what about GPT-3?
>>19969855
The guy who made it, Josh Wardle, is Welsh.

nigga

i feel like im getting better

FUCKING DOUBLE DOUBLE LETTERS V I V I D

Lmao, I spent a good 15 minutes racking my brain after “Evoke” didn’t work

Today’s is really gonna piss people off

does anyone else just put in the first five letter word they can think of to start? I know people who try to optimize it by using words with multiple vowels and commonly used letters.

>>19980437
i do either that or penis
I dont try to minmax with audio

>>19980437
Yeah, I don't have a meta and I don't care for it

Best one so far

>>19980919
>>19982354
>sescamtle

>>19982354
I'm pulling my hair out with this one. I've got so many that are above 950.

rate me

Horseshit.

My retard brain needed 309 guesses.

>>19982661
come the fuck on

>>19944045
Lol I though it was the 2048 game... won a cutie on that one but lost it because she was a retard born of a retarded mother

>>19982661
>got it in 5

hahaha

heart
mould
vivid

>>19980437
yeah i would rather get a random word first try than stick to the same one to start

Sometimes lucky

This one was a bitch.

another double letter but it was easy

2
not one but TWO double letters
what BS this time

at least i got it i guess

Ultimate wordle strategy:
>BEARD is always the best first guess
>if E or A is in the wrong position, try HOUSE or HAIRY to help exhaust possible vowels
>if D is in the correct position, try an ---ED word
>try to guess a word with the letters R, S, N, or T based on available vowels
>if word does not end in ---ED, common endings are: ---IC, ---LY, ---CH, ---ER, ---ST
>once you have three letters in the correct position you've pretty much won the game and can brute force the answer

My first guess is always ratio

>>19982674
can't blame you anon I had a similar problem of getting close for a while before getting it
I did cheat by using a thesaurus desu

>>19984207
why?

>>19944045
hello, my Thai friend
"Why is this game so easy?" is what you meant to say.

>>19944045
SLAVE is not a word on nytimes wordle

didn't mean to hit enter for vigil

>wordle
>ctrl f
>mossad
>0 results
Yes yes the goyim don't know

>>19944045
this is an advertisement thread.

>>19984172
>using L twice

this game require iq 135 +

>>19985767
how do you know that?

Wasn't bad. I stopped to think for a while between guesses.

>>19986932
yeah i didnt want to but i was at a loss for anything else to try it was very few letters

well damn wasnt even expecting that, i didnt even spend time thinking probably took me like 2 minutes total

Do not miss find this game hard? I have never missed it

>>19944045
trash fucking game
>new york times
incompetant retards

>>19987439

>start with the greeks

>>19987623
we're friends now

>>19987324
>>19987623
>>19987654
Oh so these are the same for everyone?

>>19987658
yeah that's the point, it's a daily game.
watch out for the Australians though, for some retarded reason it's timezone dependent

>>19987773

Is good..

Another win under 100 guesses.
Semantle haters ITT just hate it because they're ESL and can only beat wordle

>>19988230
Ah you kangaroo-fucking prick.

this took me like 2-3 minutes to solve and I made a word staircase

Any other ESLs finding this game irritating in a way? It's not particularly hard, but my brain just defaults to my mother language when I'm searching for words.

>>19989653
Am German and most of the time I tend to have a better time with the English version.

Just so you guys know the best starting word is LATER. It's pretty broken. Do LATER and then like, SPOUT or SPOIL or something depending on what LATER yields.

It rarely takes me more than 4 guesses on "hard mode". Words with double letters are a bitch though (still got VIVID in 4 the other day)

>>19989653
I've been studying latin and I always think of latin words.

Today's semantle was pretty easy. I got it in 83 tries.

finally tried it out. game is alright, but i dont see why people are obsessed with it

>>19990143
51 bitch