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Friday Fun Thread for December 16, 2022

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Any interest in Wordle here? Also a test of the spoilers. EDIT: spoilers don’t work.

Scoredle 5/6, 2022-12-20

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⬜🟩🟩⬜⬜ >< (62)

⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ >< (26)

⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ >< (2)

⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨 >< (1)

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 >!!<

The first three words are my December trio, and haven’t failed me yet. They eliminate the fifteen most statistically significant letters, usually bringing my remaining words down to below five.

Got it in 3 (not sure how to replicate what you did). My general approach is to try to guess the letters RSTLNE first, a la Wheel of Fortune. And after the first guess, I try to make use of the info I got in previous guesses (that way I have fewer points of uncertainty). I also try to prefer more common words over less common ones (e.g. if I have L__R_ I'm going to guess liars, not lucre). Overall, my average is 3.9 guesses per word, which certainly could be better but I'm not unhappy with it either. I generally do better than my wife at any rate, which is the main thing! ;)

Today (Wednesday) my December starting three handed it to me on a silver platter. Wordle 550 4/6:

⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜

⬜🟨🟨🟨⬜

⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜

🟨🟨⬜⬜🟩

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Still have no idea how you're doing the squares, lol. But at least this time I'm not on mobile so I can copy/paste yours. TBH my second guess was crap (see below as the spoiler tags are weird AF when used inline), but it helped nudge me in the right direction so I guess it worked out.

nadir

The Share button on NYT's Wordle works for generating the Unicode characters of the standard Wordle squares. Scoredle, a tool you can use to see how many legit words remain after each guess, has multiple share-copying options, including Reddit markdown.

Your turn. How do we do spoilers on The Motte?

Put || around the text you want to spoiler. Note that's double bars on each side, not a single bar on each side. I tried it for the hell of it because that is the spoiler formatting in discord, and hey it worked!

In that case, my December starter three are CHIME PLANK FUDGY, of which the first and third are holiday words. At some point I plan to go through one of the Historical Wordle sites and compile a report of how well this trio statistically winnows possibilities.

It looks like Scoredle has a Discord spoiler mode, so I’ll use that here.

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