Wordle (Spoiler Alert)
Spoiler Alert: If you are really into Wordle and haven't played yet do not read
Today's Wordle has a nice ring to it
https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html
and not too surprising given that the NY Times Wordle editor is from Ann Arbor
https://www.today.com/popculture/wordle-editor-tracy-bennett-interview-rcna64987
Go Blue!!!
January 25th, 2023 at 1:13 PM ^
Yes, our family chided one another for not having this as our standard first guess.
January 25th, 2023 at 1:26 PM ^
My Buckeye friend busted. LOL
January 25th, 2023 at 1:51 PM ^
I mean, he's taken the M key out of his keyboard, right? So he couldn't have gotten it anyway.
January 25th, 2023 at 1:31 PM ^
My cousins are always posting their Wordle results. It just shows green and empty boxes at the top row, more green in the rows below, then all green at the bottom.
"Hey, I got this one in three tries!" is the caption. "Awesome" is the response.
I don't get it, so get off my lawn.
January 25th, 2023 at 1:58 PM ^
I shall attempt to explain, since you obviously are very interested in keeping up with this. The green boxes are letters that are guessed completely correctly. They are both in the word and guessed in the correct spot. Often you will also see yellow (or MAIZE, if you will) boxes. These are letters that are in the word but not guessed in the correct spot, so you need to move them around in future guesses to get a green box. When you see a green box all the way at the bottom, that means they got the word correct. The number of rows there are show how many guesses your cousin took to get the word. If there are 6 rows of boxes without 5 green ones at the bottom, they did not get the word and lost.
The way they share the results are showing you these colors so as to not spoil the word but still show the progression of their guesses. Hope that helps, old man. :)
January 25th, 2023 at 4:02 PM ^
Thanks... but you're still on my lawn!
I'm a FreeCell and Sudoku junkie. I've never been good with words and would not be sending business emails without spell check and thesaurus tools!
January 25th, 2023 at 4:18 PM ^
I like all kinds of puzzles. Can we sit silently on your lawn while slowly completing a book of Sudoku?
January 25th, 2023 at 6:21 PM ^
Yes. Would you like wine or beer?
January 25th, 2023 at 6:56 PM ^
Haha MGoBlog FTW
January 25th, 2023 at 5:10 PM ^
Ever try minesweeper?
January 25th, 2023 at 6:25 PM ^
A long time ago - like 25 years. Loved it, but stopped playing it after I got a new PC and couldn’t find the game.
January 25th, 2023 at 2:10 PM ^
Lol. Got it in two today and it is never my first word. :( As soon as I saw the combo I knew what it was. I generally solve in 4 but today's word made it easy for me.
January 25th, 2023 at 1:17 PM ^
I never played Wordle before, but given the context I got it on the first try.
January 25th, 2023 at 1:22 PM ^
Same here!
January 25th, 2023 at 2:50 PM ^
I'm embarrassed to say I was kind of struggling with it. I got all the vowels in the right place then wasted guesses on more common words. Then I saw this message board post and got it on the next guess.
January 25th, 2023 at 3:22 PM ^
Best to stop now and retire on top, don't risk ruining your Wordle legacy like Tom Brady.
January 25th, 2023 at 1:18 PM ^
How does wordle need an editor? Like obviously you need someone to make sure you don’t get too many tough ones in a row but still.
January 25th, 2023 at 1:29 PM ^
It doesn't. Frankly it was better when it was randomly-generated. Now it's kind of punny. Much as I appreciated the answer being HAPPY the day after the last OSU game (sorry, spoiler), it made it a little too easy to guess. I think they also did FEAST on Thanksgiving day or something corny like that.
January 25th, 2023 at 4:29 PM ^
How does wordle need an editor?
IDK but I want that job
*Punches in*
("Hmmm... how about 'truck' for today...")
*Punches out*
January 25th, 2023 at 6:57 PM ^
LOL TRUE
January 25th, 2023 at 1:25 PM ^
I was scolded by family for taking 4 tries- they said I had to turn in my fan card.
January 25th, 2023 at 1:27 PM ^
Which really important thing to the entire country (for a little while) was more ridiculous?
1. Popeye's spicy chicken sandwich
2. Wordle
January 25th, 2023 at 1:42 PM ^
3. pokemon
January 25th, 2023 at 2:16 PM ^
Every 5-10 year old disagrees with you.
January 25th, 2023 at 4:21 PM ^
hey hey hey hey, that shiny female cyndaquil was well worth my time.
...
I realize out of context this sounds like a phrasing problem.
January 25th, 2023 at 7:14 PM ^
Cyndaquil? Cough medicine for women?
January 25th, 2023 at 1:50 PM ^
Is the dress blue or gold? (In keeping with the Michigan theme)
January 25th, 2023 at 1:58 PM ^
I think X hit on the most ridiculous one as people freaking died trying to "catch" Pokemon on their phone. That was nuts.
The blue/gold dress thing swept the country but it was one of those things that nobody spent more than five minutes on. "Hey sweetie when you look at this dress, do you think it's blue or gold? Really? Oh I saw it differently, hey are we out of beer?"
Wordle if funny because everyone seems compelled to share their respective scores on the Twitters for some reason. And the only thing I give less of a shit about than your Wordle score is how your fantasy football team is doing or, in betting states, that you just hit (or barely missed) you 12 leg parlay that was going to pay big.
Popeye's spicy chicken sandwich was the most important thing in this country the day the pandemic hit back in March, 2020. That sure changed things up quick now didnt it?
January 25th, 2023 at 2:52 PM ^
I had to have a sit-down with one of my Direct Reports (a Columbia grad!!!) back then, which was basically me just saying 2 sentences --- "you're an adult, so I can't believe I have to say this, but if you miss one more client meeting because you are chasing Pokemons around, you're fired. That's it, bye."
January 25th, 2023 at 3:10 PM ^
Count me as someone who shares my score every day on Facebook. Three of my friends share their scores with me, and I have no idea why. I really don't care about their scores, and I'm sure they don't care about mine. For those who don't play, it's just a quick brain exercise with very little time investment. One word and you're out.
January 25th, 2023 at 2:04 PM ^
I don't think we needed to be killing each other for it, but that was a damn fine chicken sandwich.
January 25th, 2023 at 3:11 PM ^
Still is a great sandwich. Better than Chic Fil A’s chicken sandwich *ducks*
January 25th, 2023 at 3:12 PM ^
I still haven't had one. I have had a Chick Fil A sandwich and was underwhelmed. The secret is brining the chicken in pickle brine, if anyone's interested in trying the make their own.
January 25th, 2023 at 3:08 PM ^
anything to do with kardashians or lady gaga
January 25th, 2023 at 3:47 PM ^
Or Harry and Meghan.
January 25th, 2023 at 1:30 PM ^
For this reason, it took me WAY too long to get this one (4 guesses).
January 25th, 2023 at 1:55 PM ^
Same here. STARE is my first guess. Then I went ALONE, MAUVE, MAYBE, before I realized why there was a thread on it here.
January 25th, 2023 at 2:52 PM ^
I got hung up on guesses like NAIVE and RAISE that seemed much more likely. Thanks MGoBlog for helping me out.
January 25th, 2023 at 1:35 PM ^
This one stumped me -- and I had three letters in the right place on the first guess, but only the vowels. I got it on the third guess.
January 25th, 2023 at 1:38 PM ^
Same, same and same. [My first word is "R-A-I-S-E."]
January 25th, 2023 at 1:51 PM ^
That was my second guess and then after that, it took me over an hour to figure out the winning word.
January 25th, 2023 at 1:54 PM ^
Ha! Then what is your first guess, W-A-I-V-E?
January 25th, 2023 at 3:12 PM ^
Didn't even think of that. It was naive.
January 25th, 2023 at 1:42 PM ^
My brother sent me his results early this morning (he's 2 hours ahead of me) and typed out "HAIL" in the text as a clue. Dumb old me kept trying to fit "victor" in to the boxes. Ugh. Got it in three though. I'll take the birdie on that hole (we track it in golf terms: each Wordle is a Par 4).
January 25th, 2023 at 6:17 PM ^
You are right, Wordle is a par 4! I’ve never had and never will have a double eagle. It’s practically impossible to not finish in 6, a double bogey, in hard mode.
My brother and I use the same random start word and see who finishes first. I like picking terrible start words.
January 25th, 2023 at 1:45 PM ^
OK, we’ve already established that there are spoilers in this thread. What’s the word?
January 25th, 2023 at 1:56 PM ^
MAIZE
January 25th, 2023 at 1:56 PM ^
The answer that you seek is in that video...
January 25th, 2023 at 2:02 PM ^
Too much effort to watch that.
I was promised spoilers in this thread. Not hints.