Wordle

[Anachronismatic]

I wish I could quit Semantle - there's a point after about 150 guesses that it ceases to be fun. But I got my wife into it, so now we sort-of compete. I will quit Wordle once the win "streak" ends. It's funny that it got into the news because of its word-choice yesterday (fetus). People were going on about how triggered they were and how offensive it was. It's just a word. Now if they added some notable racial slurs, I'd understand. But it seems that taking offense to anything and everything has become our national pastime. So they changed the word. Really tough one, too. Not for number of guesses, but it took me 15 minutes just to come up with a third guess that fit the first two.

I was considering dusting off my handheld-OS skills and writing my own. I'd call it "Girdle" and it would be just like Wordle, only without the letters A, I, L, O and T. And if you guessed certain "offensive" words, it would pop up a snarky message and threaten to report you to the government.

[LLapp]

Semantle is the most annoying and most compelling of all of them. Today I got the secret word in 17 guesses! It usually takes me well over 100 guesses and it always makes me angry, but then I play again the next day.

[2cute]

The minute that happens, 100 duplicate sites emerge with similar names. I don't know if the NYT is headed in that direction, but my guess is that they get paid quite a bit for the information about who is playing Wordle, because that can get connected to the information the big information-sellers like Google and Facebook keep about you. They'd lose 90% of their daily players in one day (speculation, of course) and that revenue stream would dry up.

And then there are the clones like sedecordle and octordle and waddel (if you want to play using NFL player names, which sounds awful) and semantle, which is actually a lot of fun, but a horrible time-suck.

Oh, I've never heard of this. That would be cool if they made one for tennis players!

I play wordle every so often, so for me its not a 'horrible time-suck'.

[Anachronismatic]

Enjoy the archives while you can. Since NY Times bought out Wordle, they are now going to each of the archives sites and asking them to take the archives down. They had not yet gotten to yours, Synonymous, when I checked just now, but they removed the archive I had been using on the metzger.media site. I wonder how long before the NY Times requires one to pay for their subscription in order to play Wordle. A friend of mine thinks that will come very soon. Sigh.

The minute that happens, 100 duplicate sites emerge with similar names. I don't know if the NYT is headed in that direction, but my guess is that they get paid quite a bit for the information about who is playing Wordle, because that can get connected to the information the big information-sellers like Google and Facebook keep about you. They'd lose 90% of their daily players in one day (speculation, of course) and that revenue stream would dry up.

And then there are the clones like sedecordle and octordle and waddel (if you want to play using NFL player names, which sounds awful) and semantle, which is actually a lot of fun, but a horrible time-suck.

[2cute]

Oh 2cute, it's no big deal. Folks like this can't be engaged with anyway. In the absence of objective reality, there's just no percentage.

Thanks Timmy. Yep, you're right. You can't reason with the unreasonable.

[TimmyTee]

Oh 2cute, it's no big deal. Folks like this can't be engaged with anyway. In the absence of objective reality, there's just no percentage.

[2cute]

Let me guess: TimmyTee voted for Joe Biden, the incompetent racist who bribed Ukraine to stop investigating his son's criminal actions of buying influence through his father, Vice President.
Then Biden had the audacity - the stupidity - of boasting to cameras of his bribery of Ukraine.
And followers such as TimmyTee excuse it all away because they hate Trump so very much, and simply love millions of illegals coming across our southern border.....

It was a joke. Remember those?

I can see your a Trumplican & so far as an American you have every right to have your opinions, except, this site isn't meant for that kind of harassment. Here we discuss words, learning & SHARED interests. If you want to start a fight - go elsewhere!

[2cute]

Wordle archive site: https://www.devangthakkar.com/wordle_archive/?238

The advantage of this site (for the time being) is that you can play Wordle over & over. Its not just one game per day.

Enjoy the archives while you can. Since NY Times bought out Wordle, they are now going to each of the archives sites and asking them to take the archives down. They had not yet gotten to yours, Synonymous, when I checked just now, but they removed the archive I had been using on the metzger.media site. I wonder how long before the NY Times requires one to pay for their subscription in order to play Wordle. A friend of mine thinks that will come very soon. Sigh.

You can also play a Wordle like game on Play123 for free (you have to watch ads). I'd add the link but then this message would be flagged for spam, apparently 'I' can't add a link in a message on puzzlebaron.

[Synonymous]

Thanks for the info skeeter (fellow cryptonite). I guess Wordle will be like the drug trade, get you hooked and then charge for the "privilege" of selling you the Wordle drug.

[skeeter]

Enjoy the archives while you can. Since NY Times bought out Wordle, they are now going to each of the archives sites and asking them to take the archives down. They had not yet gotten to yours, Synonymous, when I checked just now, but they removed the archive I had been using on the metzger.media site. I wonder how long before the NY Times requires one to pay for their subscription in order to play Wordle. A friend of mine thinks that will come very soon. Sigh.

[Synonymous]

Wordle archive site: https://www.devangthakkar.com/wordle_archive/?238

[rasbury]

Every morning I read the New York Times online and at the end play the Mini-Crossword, Spelling Bee, Letter-Boxed, and now Wordle. The best thing about them is that they're all fun word puzzles, but since there's only one a day of each you don't get too obsessive or waste too much time. Wordle has been around a long time as a two-person game with pen and paper, each taking turns guessing the word chosen by the other one.

[skeeter]

There are several sites where you can play Wordle archives all the way back to Day One.

[hrossa]

I found out about Wordle from other cryptogrammers, and now I play it. I also enjoy Word Ruffle

[Fudi]

Love it, TimmyTee!