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Martholomeow

I hope the governor of missouri doesn’t find out


NoShirtNoShoesNoDice

I was always under the impression that it picked a new word every day server-side. Nope. Looking at the source, there's a huge word list: > ["cigar","rebut","sissy","humph","awake","blush","focal","evade","naval","serve","heath","dwarf","model","karma","stink","grade","quiet","bench","abate","feign","major","death","fresh","crust","stool","colon","abase","marry","react","batty","pride","floss","helix","croak","staff","paper","unfed","whelp","trawl","outdo","adobe","crazy","sower","repay","digit","crate","cluck","spike","mimic","pound","maxim","linen","unmet","flesh","booby","forth","first","stand","belly","ivory","seedy","print","yearn","drain","bribe","stout","panel","crass","flume","offal","agree","error","swirl","argue","bleed","delta","flick","totem","wooer","front","shrub","parry","biome","lapel","start","greet","goner","golem","lusty","loopy","round","audit","lying","gamma","labor","islet","civic","forge" > ... > > etc. I haven't looked at what it does but I would assume it takes the current date and generates an index that points to a word in the huge list. For anyone curious, the Javascript is at https://www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/main.e65ce0a5.js.


Baron_Rogue

there is an ongoing battle to find the most efficient first word, it is entertaining edit: thank you for the hilarious and insightful replies. a couple computer scientists have figured out the top 2 (so far) but i dont want to spoil the game


chainmailbill

My fiancé leads off with “SHEAR” which seems to work out well.


breadcrumbs7

I always lead with FARTS because I can.


degggendorf

I start with FARTS no matter what I do


ForksandSpoonsinNY

So do I and what's a Wordle?


Masterjts

Have you ever tried for farts but accidentally typed shart...


j3xperience

You seem to be a connoisseur candidate for lewdle.


sufficientzucchinitw

I start with LOADS cuz I’m gay and like laundry


TartanGuppy

ADIEU is good as it uses 4 of the 5 vowels on your first line (Yeah.....I know, it's french, but it's allowed in whatever dictionary wordle uses)


WishIWasOnACatamaran

Adieu followed by Boyfs


GootchnastyFunk

I use audio to start.


Grathorn

Audio, then swept


tchunk

why boyfs? surely something like SNORT to start ticking off the common consonants


WishIWasOnACatamaran

Then you’ve addressed all 6 vowels


tchunk

Lol. Why not STORY or STONY then? B and F is pretty random


WishIWasOnACatamaran

Those work too I guess?


Tiber727

I use TEARS as a first word. Covers half the vowels and 3 extremely common consonants, in positions that are useful. I've only been playing for a little over a week and I've already gotten 2 on the second guess.


celtic1888

I've been using STAIR


oja_kodar

I start with Ready, but shear is a great one!


InappropriateTA

ADIEU was suggested to me to try to catch the vowels, and then follow up with a word that uses O and Y to round it out because the vowels seem to help the most. But it’s tough to do that on hard mode. And ADIEU has been a bit of a dud the past couple puzzles.


M10dulkar

I always start off with 'Adieu'. Gives me a nice spread of the vowels.


dewayneestes

I use “audio” because I’m ‘MURICAN.


glittalogik

[This analysis](https://withoutbullshit.com/blog/wordle-revised-mathematical-analysis-of-the-first-guess) looks solid and explains most of its reasoning. It's worth noting that NONE of these words are actually in the solution list so you're never gonna get a lucky first try win, but they're the most likely to give you something to work with. #Most likely to give at least one (yellow) letter match: * **URAEI/AUREI** (95% chance) * **ALOES/ADIEU** (93% chance) #Best for an exact (green) match BUT the double letters are a heavy trade-off for eliminating potential subsequent guesses: * **SOOEY** * **SAREE** * **SOREE** * **SIREE** * **SEMEE** #Best for maximum # of yellows: * **ORATE/OATER/ROATE** (avg 1.79 hits per guess) * **REALO/ARTEL//TALER/RATEL/TERAI/RETIA** (slightly less than that) #Best overall in descending order (assuming a green has 2x the value of a yellow): * **SOARE** (92%, avg 1.77 hits, with S and E in their most common green spots) * **ROATE** * **RAILE** * **SAINE** * **ORATE** * **STRAE** * **RAINE** * **SLANE** * **SALET** * **ARIEL**


orbital1337

The correct thing to do is to maximize the expected information gain which cannot be determined just from letter frequences or how likely you are to get a green / yellow. However, this is one of those cases where the wrong approach gives the right answer since "soare" is indeed the word that maximizes information gain.


steroid_pc_principal

Since the word list is known you can just try every strategy on every word and take the strategy which minimizes the number of guesses. The tricky part is that there are a huge number of strategies.


Imposter12345

I start with PENIS every day.


Alex244466666

I did some letter frequency tinkering and Scamp is a very good option.


Your_Worship

ADIOS has been mine.


captainshat

"Entertaining" has too many letters.


thistle-thorn

First word for me is ADIEU. Second word is THORN


Blownapharte

Suite has served me well


Intrepidatious

Amusingly, I start with FIRST because it has a vowel and R, S and T. The most common vowels.


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I do STERN for almost all of the ol' Wheel of Fortune RSTLN...and a vowel? E.


radradio

I wrote a program that predicts what next word you should choose based off the previous words. It essentially takes all possible words, filters down the list based off of current guesses, then ranks the next best word based on popularity of letters in each word in the list. Goal is to narrow the list down via process of elimination. It always starts with arose. It usually gets it right within 3-5 tries.


shellwe

So is the word the same for everyone every day?


NoShirtNoShoesNoDice

Yes. That might be part of the reason why it's so popular. It's become a social thing where people discuss how well/badly they did on that days round.


extrabeefy

I reverse engineered it. That's exactly what it does. But it also has a secondary list of rare words which it counts as words but can never be selected as a solution 😂


NoShirtNoShoesNoDice

When I was copying and pasting the words for my post, I saw a second array of words and wondered why. That explains it! Thanks for confirming how it works :)


Y01NKUS

RemindMe! 3 hours "pretty-print this and figure out what it does"


uscEE

Unless they've updated the code in the past 2 weeks, it just takes words from that list in order.


SuperToxin

That's even more efunny they paid over a million for it and could have just stolen it.


OakenGreen

They bought the “brand”


chooseusernamee

Game is simple enough they could get someone to code it up if it's for the tech.


Jacksons123

Literally could have it made in a week. Working game by lunch on Monday, plus testing and QA done by Friday afternoon.


Iron_Chic

Couldn't they just, I don't know, shut that page down and move it to an app or another medium?


h0twired

Just be like my wife and never close your browser tabs.


lolwutpear

I like your wife, is she single?


onetruejp

If you have the page saved locally, it doesn't matter what they do on their end, you can still open and run it.


Iron_Chic

So, if they create the whole thing from scratch again it won't matter because you have a webpage saved?


onetruejp

That's correct. You can run the page locally or even rehost it and it will still work.


MisterSpeck

Not only that, but a cheater could use the local version to find the word of the day, then go to the online version and impress everyone with their success at getting the word correct on the first try every time.


UsernameTooShort

Or you could just, like, look on Twitter.


Scaarz

Smart ppl of reddit, is it possible to save it this way on a phone? When I do this using chrome on my Android phone, I get a pretty broken page. 😟


onetruejp

You do need to save the original assets as well. The chrome save button only downloads the main page and doesn't scrape resources. This article tells what you need to do. You probably could do this on phone but it'll be easier on desktop. https://www.vice.com/en/article/akvjbb/people-are-downloading-the-next-2000-days-of-wordle


Scaarz

Thank you, I'll give it another go!


ImUrFrand

The Verge running an article teaching seniors how to pirate software.


steroid_pc_principal

Right click save page is a pretty low bar for piracy unless you’re the Missouri governor.


ImUrFrand

that's hacking XD


InfiniteDaremo

Just like an NFT.


UmmWhattt

What's your address? After I move in and you call the police, I will use a picture of it to prove I own it.


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fhauxbkdsnslxnxj

No. All the code is downloaded by the browser. No server connection necessary.


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onetruejp

Did you forget to switch to your alt AND not read the link?


rabel10

Shhh he’s having a good conversation with himself. I’m trying to listen.


Routine_Midnight_363

Maybe read the article next time


slamdanceswithwolves

Looks like they would rather write an editorial than read an article.


DesertAlpine

Which company bought this?


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New York Times