RogerS":jlo37dy7 said:
Yep, the foreigners in my family beat me today :evil:
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Yep, the foreigners in my family beat me today :evil:
Phil
Old Oak
Phil":3exqnsid said:
Cleared all history, cookies etc.
Loaded a new Wordle with answer same as yesterday no history. "Frame"
Not sure what went wrong ..........
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Watch out for bloody 'merkin spellings again.
Bob
Bob
Saw the clues, got it in two.
Very annoying that spellings that are wrong here are included.
Very annoying that spellings that are wrong here are included.
Dr.Al
Old Oak
Robert":2ea9yrc3 said:
I read somewhere that someone had gone through the source code and confirmed that not only are American spellings included, but English spellings (e.g. Mitre) are not.
Another one of those medieval words whose spelling has changed over the years.
Gill
Sapling
I also think Wordle has run its course with today’s word. That’s the end of it as far as I’m concerned too.
Alf
Sapling
What can I say? Prophecy and trend-setting are my crosses to bear. :eusa-whistle: :lol:Alf over a week ago":cow8lj6b said:
The odd US spelling doesn't bother me, just adds to the spice. You old buggers are far too intolerant. :? 
John Brown
Sapling
Once you know that US spelling is used it makes little difference.
In my opinion.
Anyway, since the New York times has bought the game, even if Josh Wardle had stuck to British English, it would've been changed.
Maybe you should try nerdle. No spelling, and I don't belie ve the numbers are large enough for confusion over what constitutes a billion. Although we all know we devalued ours for US/UK harmony many decades ago.
In my opinion.
Anyway, since the New York times has bought the game, even if Josh Wardle had stuck to British English, it would've been changed.
Maybe you should try nerdle. No spelling, and I don't belie ve the numbers are large enough for confusion over what constitutes a billion. Although we all know we devalued ours for US/UK harmony many decades ago.
Dr.Al
Old Oak
John Brown":20vzizow said:
The thing I don't like about nerdle is how often there will be lots of "anagrams" (if that's the right words). I did one a couple of days ago that the answer was something like:
45+32=87
Even once you've got the + and the =87 and know every other digit, you can have
35+42=87
42+35=87
32+45=87
all are valid sums. There are fewer valid patterns with a word than you can get with an equation.
Ywp, and I had one today where I had the '+' in the right place but the three digits the wrong way round. Even though the answer was the same it tells you it wants it in the correct order, which is unfair in terms of using up guesses.
Not feeling Nerdle in the same way as Wordle.
Not feeling Nerdle in the same way as Wordle.
John Brown
Sapling
Dr.Al":2r7y02gv said:
I agree. I've done the nerdle on a few slow days lately, but I don't find it as engaging as Wordle.
Language is funny innit.
The bard used humor and humorous now we use humour but not humourous .
I am no linguist and would be happy to proved wrong.
The bard used humor and humorous now we use humour but not humourous .
I am no linguist and would be happy to proved wrong.
John Brown
Sapling
Yes, but it's well known that the bard didn't spell his own name the same way twice in his lifetime.
Gill
Sapling
John Brown":9i57k1fl said:
Indeed, his spelling was so variable that it was possible to confuse his writings with those of Christopher Marlowe, according to rumour.
Phil
Old Oak
Maybe give it a break .............
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Phil
Old Oak
I was determined not to waste my time.
But then again just one more .............. (like an alcoholic
one more)
I couldn't agree more Phil,
Then I do something clever, for me, that makes me think the game does have an element of skill and perhaps I should try again tomorrow to see if it was not a fluke
Then I do something clever, for me, that makes me think the game does have an element of skill and perhaps I should try again tomorrow to see if it was not a fluke
Phil
Old Oak
Andyp":1jfq6rqg said:
The alcoholic part? :lol: :lol: :lol:
Doug
Old Oak
First two words not a single letter today, thought I was gonna strike out.
Phil
Old Oak
Seeing as we are busy on language, this is what a friend from NZ sent
Heteronyms
.....this is brilliant
For all of you who wonder why folk from other countries have a bit of trouble with the English language.
This is a clever piece put together by a bored English teacher, who else?
Homographs are words of like spelling but with more than one meaning.
A homograph that is also pronounced differently is a heteronym. *You think English is easy?*
This took a lot of work to put together!
1) The bandage was *wound *around the *wound.*
2) The farm was used to *produce produce*.
3) The dump was so full that it had to *refuse *more *refuse*.
4) We must *polish *the *Polish *furniture.
5) He could *lead *if he would get the *lead *out.
6) The soldier decided to *desert *his dessert in the *desert.*
7) Since there is no time like the *present*, he thought it was time to *present *the *present.*
8) A *bass *was painted on the head of the *bass *drum.
9) When shot at, the *dove dove *into the bushes.
10) I did not *object *to the *object.*
11) The insurance was *invalid *for the *invalid.*
12) There was a *row *among the oarsmen about how to *row*.
13) They were too *close *to the door to *close *it.
14) The buck *does *funny things when the *does *are present.
15) A seamstress and a *sewer *fell down into a *sewer *line.
16) To help with planting, the farmer taught his *sow *to *sow.*
17) The *wind *was too strong to *wind *the sail.
18) Upon seeing the *tear *in the painting I shed a *tear.*
19) I had to *subject *the *subject *to a series of tests.
20) How can I *intimate *this to my most *intimate *friend?
Let's face it - English is a crazy language. There is no egg in eggplant, nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins weren't invented in England or French fries in France. Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat. We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.
And why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham?
If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth, beeth?
One goose, 2 geese So one moose, 2 meese?
One index, 2 indices?
Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend?
If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it?
If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught?
If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?
Sometimes I think all the English speakers should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane.
In what language do people recite at a play and play at a recital?
Ship by truck and send cargo by ship?
Have noses that run and feet that smell?
How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites?
You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down, in which you fill in a form by filling it out and in which, an alarm goes off by going on.
English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race, which, of course, is not a race at all. That is why, when the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible.
PS. - Why doesn't 'Buick' rhyme with 'quick'? AND If a male goat is called a ram and a donkey is called an ass, why is a ram-in-the-ass called a goose?
Heteronyms
.....this is brilliant
For all of you who wonder why folk from other countries have a bit of trouble with the English language.
This is a clever piece put together by a bored English teacher, who else?
Homographs are words of like spelling but with more than one meaning.
A homograph that is also pronounced differently is a heteronym. *You think English is easy?*
This took a lot of work to put together!
1) The bandage was *wound *around the *wound.*
2) The farm was used to *produce produce*.
3) The dump was so full that it had to *refuse *more *refuse*.
4) We must *polish *the *Polish *furniture.
5) He could *lead *if he would get the *lead *out.
6) The soldier decided to *desert *his dessert in the *desert.*
7) Since there is no time like the *present*, he thought it was time to *present *the *present.*
8) A *bass *was painted on the head of the *bass *drum.
9) When shot at, the *dove dove *into the bushes.
10) I did not *object *to the *object.*
11) The insurance was *invalid *for the *invalid.*
12) There was a *row *among the oarsmen about how to *row*.
13) They were too *close *to the door to *close *it.
14) The buck *does *funny things when the *does *are present.
15) A seamstress and a *sewer *fell down into a *sewer *line.
16) To help with planting, the farmer taught his *sow *to *sow.*
17) The *wind *was too strong to *wind *the sail.
18) Upon seeing the *tear *in the painting I shed a *tear.*
19) I had to *subject *the *subject *to a series of tests.
20) How can I *intimate *this to my most *intimate *friend?
Let's face it - English is a crazy language. There is no egg in eggplant, nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins weren't invented in England or French fries in France. Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat. We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.
And why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham?
If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth, beeth?
One goose, 2 geese So one moose, 2 meese?
One index, 2 indices?
Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend?
If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it?
If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught?
If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?
Sometimes I think all the English speakers should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane.
In what language do people recite at a play and play at a recital?
Ship by truck and send cargo by ship?
Have noses that run and feet that smell?
How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites?
You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down, in which you fill in a form by filling it out and in which, an alarm goes off by going on.
English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race, which, of course, is not a race at all. That is why, when the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible.
PS. - Why doesn't 'Buick' rhyme with 'quick'? AND If a male goat is called a ram and a donkey is called an ass, why is a ram-in-the-ass called a goose?
Phil
Old Oak
The Guess Distribution statistics are incorrect.
Mine was reset to zero when I cleaned up history and cookies the other day.
It reflects 1 for 3 whereas it should be 2 for 3 (3 yesterday and 3 today)
Maybe the NYT is the problem?
Phil,
Trying reading this out loud without hesitation.
I take it you already know
Of tough and bough and cough and dough.
Others may stumble, but not you
Of hiccough, thorough, laugh and through.
I write in case you wish perhaps
To learn of less familiar traps.
Beware of heard, a dreadful word
That looks like beard and sounds like bird;
And dead: it’s said like bed, not bead!
For goodness’ sake, don’t call it deed!
Watch out for meat and great and threat
(They rhyme with suite and straight and debt).
A moth is not a moth in mother
Nor both in bother, broth in brother.
And here is not a match for there
Nor dear for bear, of fear for pear.
There’s dose and rose, there’s also lose
And cork and work and card and ward,
And font and front and work and sword,
And do and go, and thwart and cart –
Come, come, I’ve barely made a start!
A dreadful language? Man alive,
I’d mastered it when I was five!
Trying reading this out loud without hesitation.
I take it you already know
Of tough and bough and cough and dough.
Others may stumble, but not you
Of hiccough, thorough, laugh and through.
I write in case you wish perhaps
To learn of less familiar traps.
Beware of heard, a dreadful word
That looks like beard and sounds like bird;
And dead: it’s said like bed, not bead!
For goodness’ sake, don’t call it deed!
Watch out for meat and great and threat
(They rhyme with suite and straight and debt).
A moth is not a moth in mother
Nor both in bother, broth in brother.
And here is not a match for there
Nor dear for bear, of fear for pear.
There’s dose and rose, there’s also lose
And cork and work and card and ward,
And font and front and work and sword,
And do and go, and thwart and cart –
Come, come, I’ve barely made a start!
A dreadful language? Man alive,
I’d mastered it when I was five!
Phil
Old Oak
Got through most of it .............. :shock:
:shock: Phil":1sszlnpl said:
Nope, there’s a warning that popped up that said the scores are based on cookies and if you clear them you will lose your cumulative score.
I saw it when it first popped up.
Pre coffee too!
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Any favoured strategies for the first guess?
I've tended to use yesterdays answer* but wondering about AUDIO or ADIEU for example to tease out most of the vowels to start with.
Have there been any instances of one letter used twice? I guess not as the results would be ambiguous say with one letter in the correct position and the second used one potentially in the wrong place.
*guaranteed not to get it in one go but gotta start somewhere!
Bob
I've tended to use yesterdays answer* but wondering about AUDIO or ADIEU for example to tease out most of the vowels to start with.
Have there been any instances of one letter used twice? I guess not as the results would be ambiguous say with one letter in the correct position and the second used one potentially in the wrong place.
*guaranteed not to get it in one go but gotta start somewhere!
Bob
Dr.Al
Old Oak
9fingers":3svpkmnr said:
I'm a bit variable with my strategy. I either use "DRAIN" and "THOSE" to get lots of useful letters sorted in two guesses, or I pick a word at random and see what happens.
Yes, there have been instances of a letter used twice. If you were to type in (say) "LEAVE" and the answer was "ELITE", the last "E" of "LEAVE" would be highlighted green; the first one would be highlighted yellow. If the answer was "GRAVE", the first E would be black.
Phil
Old Oak
TrimTheKing":3t86czs6 said:
I did clear out everything when it would not load the new day.
I keep my own log.
Phil
Old Oak
Stupid 3rd choice
Phil":rw3b4v5e said:
Odd. When they moved it to NYT mine just refreshed and worked as normal.