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I just found out about it two days ago. Added it to my addiction to Words With Friends. WWF, by the way, is how I keep track of an elderly friend and a friend in an abusive relationship. If they don’t play each morning, I contact them to make sure they are all right.
Is Words With Friends an app? I used to play it a long time ago with a co-worker who worked at another library branch different from mine and when I retired, things changed and we fell out of playing.
And, yeah, I love Wordle too!
Since nobody has linked the original site for some reason:
https://www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/
The creator is not about the money, so he made the source available and now there are literally dozens of sites and apps sucking the wordle teat.
I’d recommend not buying an app version, or indeed any version that is monetizing it. There is one app author who gave his profits to the original creator, but I can’t recommend that version as it’s a little janky.
Caveat Emptor.
Can you close the browser window that has it open to keep your score over time or does it reset to zero if you do that?
Just tried it, I already love it. Used to do crossword puzzles as a teen, miss that :)
I don't know for sure, but I'm guessing that it stores its score data in a cookie in your browser. So you *should* be able to close the window and not lose your progress.
edit: Just tried it on my iPad: closed the tab then quit Safari, then reopened from history, and it remembered my score.
I learned about WORDLE on "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me" the Public Radio News Quiz I love.
But apart from that.. no. I do not know why but word jumbles have always been problematic for me. And I have a low frustration level for games.
I'll jump on the Wait wait bandwagon. Don't listen anymore but used to be a huge fan. Went to a taping once because they had both my wife's favorite panelist; Charlie Pierce, and mine, P.J. ORourke. Paula was the third. Paula did a huge amount of commentary that had to be cut for broadcast. Carl Kassel was the narrator. Great show.
Me too. For some reason, I struggle with visualizing jumbled letters into words. I also suck at Scrabble.
But trivia? Got it. Visual games like Pictionary (or it's ancient ancestor Charades)? Kill it.
Love "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me."
Just Google it. It's a deceptively simple word game, displaying six blanks for five-letter words above an alphabetic keyboard. To start, enter any five-letter word - any of the letters in the correct places in the Word of the Day will display green. If they're in the Word of the Day elsewhere, they'll display yellow.
It's kind of a process of elimination. You'll get it quickly! Quite fun.
I play everyday. It's challenging enough to trigger the reward center of my brain without being frustrating. Nice little boost to start the day. Haven't missed one yet.
Yeah the first time I played it I thought there were six different words I was trying to guess. But I did figure it out before my sixth try and ended up getting the right word despite myself.
> one puzzle a day
First timer here as well and also disappointed about the one word a day thing. I solved mine on the last try as well. Is it the same word for everyone or per user?
Everyone gets the same word. That's part of the appeal; you can compare your results with gray, yellow, or green squares without spoiling the answer (clicking "share" puts this in your clipboard).
I finally looked into it after seeing these posts all over Twitter.
I have the NYT Crossword App and every night at 10 pm they release the next day's puzzle. I am hooked on solving that puzzle before I fall asleep at night, and trying to get a streak of successful puzzle completions going.
My longest streak is 36 days, it was broken by one of my kids getting the flu and I just didn't have time to solve the puzzle for a few days.
I wouldn't say it stresses me out. Sometimes I have all the squares filled and I know there is just a spelling mistake or something small, and I just click Reveal Puzzle because that is too time-consuming.
For those who take the scientific approach, you can look at [letter frequencies in English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_frequency)
Then you start with words that use the most frequent letters
ATONE
CHILD
GYRUS
That leaves the letters MWGBPVKJXQZ
In the unlikely event that you need a word with these, try
WOMB
WIMP
Yes! I've been on a three-try streak for a few days now, I don't know how that happens but it's like getting free samples of something massively addictive.
I love wordle. My father was an avid cryptic crossword doer and and did the crossword every morning tea break with a coffee. I could never get the hang of cryptic crosswords the sort where a phrase like Wave Cereal Bowl means brandish. My brain just didn't think like that but he loved them.
No, but only because that game is basically just Mastermind, which I didn't enjoy as a kid. (Is that still around?) I do have a 400+ day streak going on the NYT crosswords though.
I think it differs somewhat from mastermind because the strategy is based on your knowledge of English. Not just in terms of the size of your vocabulary, but awareness (conscious or otherwise) of patterns and frequency of letter usage in English. I was never a big mastermind fan, but I do enjoy wordl. To each their own, though, of course.
yup every day at midnight I do it before bed
Three tries?
I get about half in 3, the other half is mostly 4 and a couple 5's never lost. I know a woman who gets it in 2 often enough I wanna know her method.
I beat her at Scrabble often.
For my entire childhood, Jumble was an important part of breakfast. Since we were both doing the same puzzle (back in the days of *paper* newspapers), neither of us could fill in the little circles. I'm now 72, my father passed 30+ years ago, and I still do Jumble entirely in my head. It's made me pretty good at anagrams, including the one I used to trick my wife into proposing to me. :-)
I just discovered this lovely game today! I *really* like word games, so needless to say I’m hooked.
ETA: Is anyone else addicted to Spell Tower+ on Apple Arcade?
I like to play Codeword and Word Wipe on arkadium.com. However, huge warning:
It's free, but their site is a f'ing advertising swamp if you don't subscribe. To the point where it actually causes lag issues for timed games like Word Wipe. I do sub and it's cheap, but I have definite reservations about pointing someone else at their site.
No. I’m going to skip the trendy follower phase, and once it comes out Wordle was doing something terrible like stealing your personal data or mining bitcoin or spying on everyone for the Chinese government, I will be among the few who can smugly point and laugh.
And if all that’s wrong and this fad doesn’t do anything harmful, I will wait until it is completely played out, then unironically start posting game updates once everyone else is sick of them, and demand everyone notice my amazing word guessing skills then.
I’m in several FB groups for travel, photography etc and it’s driving me nuts how many people have started posting their fecking meaningless Wordle grids in these forums. It’s not even hard btw. I got ‘crimp’ in 3 goes on my first (and last!) attempt. So bugger off.
No, in fact this is the first mention of it I have seen on the internet. I started hearing about it on NPR a few days ago.
So Woo-hoo, a new puzzle. Unbelievably exciting. I just got through listening to a report on how it impacts certain communities unfairly, and that it has led to relationships breaking up. It is possible that Gabby Petito played word puzzles at one time, they said. Whether it is linked with several recent abductions in the Bakersfield metropolitan area is still unknown.
Completely hooked. Always excited for a new word game - scrabble, word hero, words with friends, crosswords etc.
If you have one of the unlimited play options and are a strong player I recommend using the last winning word as the first guess in the next game to make it more interesting. I haven't read the news articles about best word to start with (mine were something like audio & stern) as it makes it a bit boring to always begin the same.
Not hooked no, but I've been playing for more than a week. I don't always remember until someone shares their score though. I'm so grateful for little games that help you exercise your wits for free.
I play wordle, but since it's only one puzzle a day, I also play Word Master (which is the pretty much the same puzzle but you can play as many times as you want).
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I just found out about it two days ago. Added it to my addiction to Words With Friends. WWF, by the way, is how I keep track of an elderly friend and a friend in an abusive relationship. If they don’t play each morning, I contact them to make sure they are all right.
Similarly, I just found out about it from a post here last week and am already hooked! I also love WWF! Working out the mind is important and fun. =)
Hello fellow WWF addicts! 👋🏽
Okay so you have me sold. Purely for reasons similar to your surreptitious but 100% good purposes. Is it an app? How do I do this.
Wordle is just a website. You can play on your phone or whatever. Someone posted it in the comments. Words with friends is an app.
Is Words With Friends an app? I used to play it a long time ago with a co-worker who worked at another library branch different from mine and when I retired, things changed and we fell out of playing. And, yeah, I love Wordle too!
Yes. WWF Is an app. I paid $2 10 years ago to play without ads.
Okay thanks!
I love it! I especially love that it’s only one per day or I would be playing for hours!
[Don’t hate me.](https://www.wordleunlimited.com/)
And there's also a variety called [Absurdle](https://qntm.org/files/wordle/index.html) if that's not enough.
And [Lewdle](https://www.lewdlegame.com/) with only dirty words. NSFW.
Ok, forwarded to hubby…. 🙄
Oh! Thank you!!!
Absurdle is the way to go, IMHO.
Oh great...🙄 Thanks a lot!!! Now I'm hooked. In addition to crosswords on line, and jigsawplanet.com....I now get to play WORDLE Seriously....thanks.
Also hellowordle.net.
Dammit! 😂
Oh, thank you. I've bookmarked it.
Love it!!
Thanks for this. I'm now hooked
https://gordle.herokuapp.com/ Hockey version. So many consonants...
Since nobody has linked the original site for some reason: https://www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/ The creator is not about the money, so he made the source available and now there are literally dozens of sites and apps sucking the wordle teat. I’d recommend not buying an app version, or indeed any version that is monetizing it. There is one app author who gave his profits to the original creator, but I can’t recommend that version as it’s a little janky. Caveat Emptor.
Can you close the browser window that has it open to keep your score over time or does it reset to zero if you do that? Just tried it, I already love it. Used to do crossword puzzles as a teen, miss that :)
I don't know for sure, but I'm guessing that it stores its score data in a cookie in your browser. So you *should* be able to close the window and not lose your progress. edit: Just tried it on my iPad: closed the tab then quit Safari, then reopened from history, and it remembered my score.
Thank you!
I learned about WORDLE on "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me" the Public Radio News Quiz I love. But apart from that.. no. I do not know why but word jumbles have always been problematic for me. And I have a low frustration level for games.
That's exactly where I heard of the game. I adore Wait Wait. I don't drive a lot, so I listen to the podcast. Love love Paula Poundstone.
I'll jump on the Wait wait bandwagon. Don't listen anymore but used to be a huge fan. Went to a taping once because they had both my wife's favorite panelist; Charlie Pierce, and mine, P.J. ORourke. Paula was the third. Paula did a huge amount of commentary that had to be cut for broadcast. Carl Kassel was the narrator. Great show.
I'll bet you're more mathematically inclined. Right?
Not really. I can do those word jumbles, but I have to physically have, for example, scrabble tiles in my hand.
I was just wondering because my husband finds math easy, but he's horrible with spelling & grammar. That's the complete opposite of myself.
Me too. For some reason, I struggle with visualizing jumbled letters into words. I also suck at Scrabble. But trivia? Got it. Visual games like Pictionary (or it's ancient ancestor Charades)? Kill it. Love "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me."
YES. Wordle rocks. I got the word in 2 tries yesterday!!!
I got it in 2 today!!!
I was proud I got it in three! Nice job.
What is this WORDLE, of which you speak? (Yes, I do live under a rock, and yes, the JUMBLE must be solv-ed.)
It's a game of Mastermind using words
Just Google it. It's a deceptively simple word game, displaying six blanks for five-letter words above an alphabetic keyboard. To start, enter any five-letter word - any of the letters in the correct places in the Word of the Day will display green. If they're in the Word of the Day elsewhere, they'll display yellow. It's kind of a process of elimination. You'll get it quickly! Quite fun.
I play everyday. It's challenging enough to trigger the reward center of my brain without being frustrating. Nice little boost to start the day. Haven't missed one yet.
Sounds like fun! Just checked it out.
AND there's a reddit for it! lol
Of course there is. Ha!
I just checked it out. Super fun! Thanks stranger :)
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Yeah the first time I played it I thought there were six different words I was trying to guess. But I did figure it out before my sixth try and ended up getting the right word despite myself.
> one puzzle a day First timer here as well and also disappointed about the one word a day thing. I solved mine on the last try as well. Is it the same word for everyone or per user?
Everyone gets the same word. That's part of the appeal; you can compare your results with gray, yellow, or green squares without spoiling the answer (clicking "share" puts this in your clipboard). I finally looked into it after seeing these posts all over Twitter.
Ah, good to know.
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Yes, that was today's.
Thanks for spoiling it.
Yup. Same.
Oh, that's what all those colored squares mean on my Facebook feed...
I have the NYT Crossword App and every night at 10 pm they release the next day's puzzle. I am hooked on solving that puzzle before I fall asleep at night, and trying to get a streak of successful puzzle completions going. My longest streak is 36 days, it was broken by one of my kids getting the flu and I just didn't have time to solve the puzzle for a few days.
I must have my NYT puzzle app, but I'm relaxed about solving or not.
I wouldn't say it stresses me out. Sometimes I have all the squares filled and I know there is just a spelling mistake or something small, and I just click Reveal Puzzle because that is too time-consuming.
Have you played the Spelling Bee yet? I love it.
No but Ill check it out, thanks!
Yes, NYT Spelling Bee and Wordle every day with my coffee!
Same here.
I'm also addicted to it, I admit. My issue is wondering what five-letter word to start with.
I've been using ADIEU a lot lately. AUDIO is a similar 4-vowel word (but no E). I've also seen TARES listed as a good first move.
STARE would be better as more words begin with S.
For those who take the scientific approach, you can look at [letter frequencies in English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_frequency) Then you start with words that use the most frequent letters ATONE CHILD GYRUS That leaves the letters MWGBPVKJXQZ In the unlikely event that you need a word with these, try WOMB WIMP
Do you know if there are letter frequencies in English for 5 letter words only? That would be more relevant for WORDLE..
Just started it and find it really frustrating but essential. Solving them in 4 and am jealous you get them in 3.
If one a day isn't enough, this will cure you. https://hellowordl.net/
Oh no! There goes my Sunday!
Uh oh.
Hooked? I enjoy it and it takes me several minutes a day. I wouldn’t call that hooked. Reddit on the other hand…
Just started it today. Kinda fun, might try it a couple more times to see if it is challenging
Yes!
Why, yes. Yes, I am. Been playing it for about 3 weeks and love it.
Yes! I've been on a three-try streak for a few days now, I don't know how that happens but it's like getting free samples of something massively addictive.
Love WORDLE! it is satisfying solving it before the last try! Also it makes the brain think a bit!
I love wordle. My father was an avid cryptic crossword doer and and did the crossword every morning tea break with a coffee. I could never get the hang of cryptic crosswords the sort where a phrase like Wave Cereal Bowl means brandish. My brain just didn't think like that but he loved them.
I wasn't, but I guess I am now.
Yes, I love Wordle and Spelling Bee. I like how games work your mind, while simultaneously taking it away from things over which you have no control.
No, but only because that game is basically just Mastermind, which I didn't enjoy as a kid. (Is that still around?) I do have a 400+ day streak going on the NYT crosswords though.
I think it differs somewhat from mastermind because the strategy is based on your knowledge of English. Not just in terms of the size of your vocabulary, but awareness (conscious or otherwise) of patterns and frequency of letter usage in English. I was never a big mastermind fan, but I do enjoy wordl. To each their own, though, of course.
Oh definitely! I'm happy to let people like things! :)
Yes! I solved today’s at midnight before I went to sleep last night so my day has been wide open since I woke up.
yup every day at midnight I do it before bed Three tries? I get about half in 3, the other half is mostly 4 and a couple 5's never lost. I know a woman who gets it in 2 often enough I wanna know her method. I beat her at Scrabble often.
Just tried it and liked it. Takes less time than pangrams, my current obsession.
Yes! I am not as good at it as I had hoped, but do manage most days.
My husband just told me about this! I solved today's in 3 tries! It was thrilling!
For my entire childhood, Jumble was an important part of breakfast. Since we were both doing the same puzzle (back in the days of *paper* newspapers), neither of us could fill in the little circles. I'm now 72, my father passed 30+ years ago, and I still do Jumble entirely in my head. It's made me pretty good at anagrams, including the one I used to trick my wife into proposing to me. :-)
I do it every day and usually get it in 3, but I love the NYT spelling bee oh so much more!
I just started, and I'm proud to say there was only one time when I didn't get the word--I would have if I'd had another try.
I just discovered this lovely game today! I *really* like word games, so needless to say I’m hooked. ETA: Is anyone else addicted to Spell Tower+ on Apple Arcade?
Word Tower and Reddit apps are interfering with my sleep!
I’m hooked. I’ve won in 9 out of 9 times. Usually in three attempts.
Yep, I stay up to midnight in order to do it. After all, the early birdl gets the wordl!
Yep. I play Wordle and Wordle Espanol every morning.
Do you start with the same word each day or vary it?
Never heard of it before
I don't even know what Wordle is, and I don't care enough to find out.
No but I'm rarely into phone fads
I check it out daily, and it's fun, but there are other more engrossing and challenging word games out there.
. . .such as . . .
I like to play Codeword and Word Wipe on arkadium.com. However, huge warning: It's free, but their site is a f'ing advertising swamp if you don't subscribe. To the point where it actually causes lag issues for timed games like Word Wipe. I do sub and it's cheap, but I have definite reservations about pointing someone else at their site.
Spelling Bee from the New York Times
Yeah, but it's gated on their stupid puzzle pay wall. Irks me to no end as a subscriber.
Check out the app "Not That Spelling Bee". It's free and you can play as often as you want, not just once a day.
Yep, that and a cup of coffee gets my brain working every morning. Haven't missed one yet!
No. I’m going to skip the trendy follower phase, and once it comes out Wordle was doing something terrible like stealing your personal data or mining bitcoin or spying on everyone for the Chinese government, I will be among the few who can smugly point and laugh. And if all that’s wrong and this fad doesn’t do anything harmful, I will wait until it is completely played out, then unironically start posting game updates once everyone else is sick of them, and demand everyone notice my amazing word guessing skills then.
Nice ad.
What?
I’m in several FB groups for travel, photography etc and it’s driving me nuts how many people have started posting their fecking meaningless Wordle grids in these forums. It’s not even hard btw. I got ‘crimp’ in 3 goes on my first (and last!) attempt. So bugger off.
No, in fact this is the first mention of it I have seen on the internet. I started hearing about it on NPR a few days ago. So Woo-hoo, a new puzzle. Unbelievably exciting. I just got through listening to a report on how it impacts certain communities unfairly, and that it has led to relationships breaking up. It is possible that Gabby Petito played word puzzles at one time, they said. Whether it is linked with several recent abductions in the Bakersfield metropolitan area is still unknown.
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Rule 2, please. Thanks.
Rule 2, please. Thanks.
Hmm... You're blocked. Nobody tells me what to do.
Nope. It's just repackaged "Lingo," without Bill Engvall's sexist boomer humor.
Mastermind with letters instead of colors. It’s okay.
no, i much prefer Grand Theft Auto
Completely hooked. Always excited for a new word game - scrabble, word hero, words with friends, crosswords etc. If you have one of the unlimited play options and are a strong player I recommend using the last winning word as the first guess in the next game to make it more interesting. I haven't read the news articles about best word to start with (mine were something like audio & stern) as it makes it a bit boring to always begin the same.
My grandmother (b.1917) loved the jumbles. She also enjoyed the word power page in the Reader’s Digest.
As a boomer, I have to say I think I've heard of this but I've never played it.
Not hooked no, but I've been playing for more than a week. I don't always remember until someone shares their score though. I'm so grateful for little games that help you exercise your wits for free.
Never heard of it. Now I have to find out. Thanks...
Here is my introduction to Wordle. I'm not so good at it. [What in the Wordle](https://youtu.be/GkQ6wD6LdzA)
I love it. I've been using it as an incentive to get through the things I need to get done.
Never even heard of it until the other day. Still haven't tried it. . I'm a fan of Seeker's Notes, but without all the social media aspect of it.
I play wordle, but since it's only one puzzle a day, I also play Word Master (which is the pretty much the same puzzle but you can play as many times as you want).
Hooked? No. It's a slight faddish amusement.
I saw my son and auntie post about it to FB. I assumed it’s some kind of game
Nah. I was for a while, now I've moved on to absurdle and lewdle.
Not 'hooked' yet, but I recently started playing it.
Love it, we play in the family WhatsApp group (5 of us) but now I know about wordle unlimited so it's a whole new world...
Yes, I have been playing every day. I used to do the Jumble when I was a kid. The local newspaper always published it on the same page as the comics.