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April 24th, 2022 at 5:38:47 AM permalink

Quote: rsactuary
Thanks for this. Took me 8 tries to get the word.

Feedback:

1. Non-words are allowed and I used one of my choices in this way to figure out where some letters went.
2. Would be helpful to have an alphabet list to know what letters you've gone through
3. Using a letter multiple times gives you a positive result (either B or W) even if only one instance of that letter exists in the word (I haven't tested this in Wordle to see how it's handled there). eg: I sued RATTLE as one of my words and I got "WW" for the Ts. A better result would be "W-"
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You're welcome.

1. Good point. I plan to check for valid words next.
2. So noted. I'll think about it.
3. Thank you. That was indeed scored incorrectly.

Update 1: I fixed the problem in your third point (hopefully without creating a new problem).

As to today's Wordle, I got a three (yay!).

Update 2: I solution to Smarty Pants 6, so you may enjoy a new game!

Last edited by: Wizard on Apr 24, 2022

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April 24th, 2022 at 5:43:07 AM permalink

Quote: rsactuary
3. Using a letter multiple times gives you a positive result (either B or W) even if only one instance of that letter exists in the word (I haven't tested this in Wordle to see how it's handled there). eg: I sued RATTLE as one of my words and I got "WW" for the Ts. A better result would be "W-"
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To expand on this, how would Wordle score the following:

Answer = BURRO
Guess = RADIO

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April 24th, 2022 at 7:10:16 AM permalink

Quote: Wizard
Quote: rsactuary
3. Using a letter multiple times gives you a positive result (either B or W) even if only one instance of that letter exists in the word (I haven't tested this in Wordle to see how it's handled there). eg: I sued RATTLE as one of my words and I got "WW" for the Ts. A better result would be "W-"
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To expand on this, how would Wordle score the following:

Answer = BURRO
Guess = RADIO
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Score - YBBBG

ETA: or did you mean it the other way, which would be:

Answer = RADIO
Guess = BURRO
Score = BBYBG

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April 24th, 2022 at 8:02:23 AM permalink

Some other examples may help.

Answer: BOOTS
Guess: STOOD
Score: YYGYB

Answer: SLOTH
Guess: BOOKS
Score: BBGBY
(The green O takes precedence over the yellow O.)

Answer: SLEPT
Guess: VERSE
Score: BYBYB
(The E to the left gets the yellow.)

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April 24th, 2022 at 10:45:38 AM permalink

Got mine in 3 today

Wordle 309 3/6

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April 24th, 2022 at 12:22:10 PM permalink

I wish there was a way to get hints on your Smarty Pants 6, Mike. I got four correct consecutive letters where they need to be on my second try, but can�t, for the life of me, think of another 6-letter word that has those exact letters in it.

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April 24th, 2022 at 12:27:21 PM permalink

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or did you mean it the other way, which would be:

Answer = RADIO
Guess = BURRO
Score = BBYBG
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Yes, I meant it that way, thank you. Why does the R in the third position of the guess yet the yellow and not the fourth position?

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April 24th, 2022 at 12:30:26 PM permalink

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I wish there was a way to get hints on your Smarty Pants 6, Mike. I got four correct consecutive letters where they need to be on my second try, but can�t, for the life of me, think of another 6-letter word that has those exact letters in it.
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Did you figure it out?

You can try every combination of two letters and surely you'll come across the answer. I'm often in this situation in Wordle.

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April 24th, 2022 at 12:37:21 PM permalink

Smarty Pants 6 spoiler for Puzzle #2, April 24, 2022

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April 24th, 2022 at 1:41:58 PM permalink

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Smarty Pants 6 spoiler for Puzzle #2, April 24, 2022

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Yes! The first posted Smarty Pants solution. Nice score too!

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April 24th, 2022 at 1:51:49 PM permalink

Thanks. It was fun because I felt like I was swimming in the dark. I knew what my goal was (get out of the water)... but I had no idea how to get there.

I had no idea what word list was used (ENABLE? SOWPODS?) what words may have been removed (plurals? past tense?) etc. I also wasn't yet sure what was a good six letter starter word to use, so I just picked one at random that seemed okay. (Since then I figured out better starter words, based upon a new six-letter word frequency list I assembled.)

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April 24th, 2022 at 1:55:36 PM permalink

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Quote: unJon
or did you mean it the other way, which would be:

Answer = RADIO
Guess = BURRO
Score = BBYBG
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Yes, I meant it that way, thank you. Why does the R in the third position of the guess yet the yellow and not the fourth position?
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Did you see my follow up with more examples? The third one in that post answers your question. For double letters in guesses, a green gets precedence then the left letter gets precedence.

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April 24th, 2022 at 2:32:03 PM permalink

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Did you see my follow up with more examples? The third one in that post answers your question. For double letters in guesses, a green gets precedence then the left letter gets precedence.
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Yes, thanks. Hopefully my game is scoring correctly now. Please let me know if you find a mistake.

In other news, I'm happy to say Smarty Pants 6 now checks that guesses are valid words. I use a list of 2,500 words found here. This list does include plurals. I would take them out, but I don't want to fuss with doing it by hand.

If anyone else wants to suggest a better list, I'm all ears.

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April 24th, 2022 at 3:29:23 PM permalink

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Quote: EdCollins
Smarty Pants 6 spoiler for Puzzle #2, April 24, 2022

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Yes! The first posted Smarty Pants solution. Nice score too!
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Well, it stumped me, but the scoring system did seem to work.

The L and D in those spots, and the A and S nowhere I had guessed didn't click. I'm going with Sunday puzzles are tougher as my pale excuse.

May the cards fall in your favor.

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April 24th, 2022 at 3:51:39 PM permalink

Quote: Wizard
I use a list of 2,500 words found here. This list does include plurals. I would take them out, but I don't want to fuss with doing it by hand.

It's no problem to write a short little macro and remove them that way.

http://www.edcollins.com/six_letter_non_plurals.txt

568 plurals were removed, bringing the number of words in this list down from 2,500 to 1,932.

I made sure to keep all words ending in S that are not plurals, such as ACROSS, CARESS, TENNIS, THESIS, etc. Note that I did not remove the 15 or so words that take an ES as a plural, such as BUSHES and DISHES and INCHES, etc.

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April 24th, 2022 at 5:23:01 PM permalink

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568 plurals were removed, bringing the number of words in this list down from 2,500 to 1,932.
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Thank you!!! I just replaced the old list with your shorter one.

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April 24th, 2022 at 6:47:12 PM permalink

3 today wordle April 24. I surprised myself

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April 25th, 2022 at 2:41:39 AM permalink

Yay, a three today!

Smarty Pants 6 game #3 is now ready.

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April 25th, 2022 at 3:32:25 AM permalink

Wordle 310 5/6

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This one took me a little while.

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April 25th, 2022 at 3:43:21 AM permalink

Smarty Pants 6
Puzzle #3, April 25, 2022

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April 25th, 2022 at 4:58:16 AM permalink

Except to test the feature out, I don't think I have tried "hard mode" seriously before this game (?)

Wordle 310 4/6* (*means "hard mode")

⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨 BBYBY
🟨🟨⬜⬜🟨 YYBBY
🟩🟩⬜🟩⬜ GGBGB
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

WordleBot
Skill 87/100
Luck 50/100

"dealt" is the best opening word when playing in "hard mode" .

Note 1: I used "crate" as my first guess, since that is one of the words I am used to playing, in "normal mode",
Note 2: I think there are about 5 "almost equally good" starting words, when playing in "normal mode"

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April 25th, 2022 at 5:12:15 AM permalink

Just wanted to test out the "recommended WordleBot starting word" for "hard mode", so put my PC's clock forward 1-day.

Wordle 311 3/6*

⬜🟩⬜⬜🟩 BGBBG
⬜🟩⬜🟨🟩 BGBYG
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Skill 94/100
Luck 77/100

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April 25th, 2022 at 7:38:51 AM permalink

Quote: ksdjdj
... Note 2: I think there are about 5 "almost equally good" starting words, when playing in "normal mode"

This is correct. WordleBot gives a equal Skill Rating of 99 to a total of six different starting words. Four words each received a Skill Rating of 98 and eleven words are given a Skill Rating of 97.

For all practical purposes, the differences between any of these 21 words is so minor it can safely be ignored.

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April 25th, 2022 at 8:53:16 AM permalink

My first wordle puzzle in a few days, I have been super-busy. I thought my third try was a stretch -I wasn't sure I was spelling it correctly -but I couldn't think of any other word that fit.

Wordle 310 3/6

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ROAST
NAMES
ASKEW

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I fixed your closing spoiler tag.

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April 25th, 2022 at 5:06:05 PM permalink

Three for me today as well. My second guess helped, though I have a feeling that'd never be a solution.

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April 25th, 2022 at 5:16:55 PM permalink

Some thingmesed up with spoiler.delwte post

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April 25th, 2022 at 5:20:34 PM permalink

Go figure something seemed a little off 3 tonight April 25

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April 25th, 2022 at 6:55:46 PM permalink

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Quote: HotBlonde
I wish there was a way to get hints on your Smarty Pants 6, Mike. I got four correct consecutive letters where they need to be on my second try, but can�t, for the life of me, think of another 6-letter word that has those exact letters in it.
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Did you figure it out?

You can try every combination of two letters and surely you'll come across the answer. I'm often in this situation in Wordle.
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Unfortunately I did not solve it yesterday 😢 (I gave up after the second word) The 6-letter word puzzles are hard!

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April 25th, 2022 at 6:56:09 PM permalink

Wordle 310 4/6

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April 25th, 2022 at 6:59:09 PM permalink

Mike, today I tried your 6-letter game again and is says I entered an invalid word. It�s 6 letters, so not sure why I go that error message. I�m happy to inbox you a screenshot of the word I guessed with the error message.

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April 25th, 2022 at 7:45:37 PM permalink

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Mike, today I tried your 6-letter game again and is says I entered an invalid word. It�s 6 letters, so not sure why I go that error message. I�m happy to inbox you a screenshot of the word I guessed with the error message.
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Please send me the screenshot or just tell me the word you tried. It's possible my list is missing legitimate words.

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April 25th, 2022 at 7:56:32 PM permalink

Quote: Wizard
Quote: HotBlonde
Mike, today I tried your 6-letter game again and is says I entered an invalid word. It�s 6 letters, so not sure why I go that error message. I�m happy to inbox you a screenshot of the word I guessed with the error message.
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Please send me the screenshot or just tell me the word you tried. It's possible my list is missing legitimate words.
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I noted the same thing. "Coarse" was the word I used that was not found.

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April 25th, 2022 at 8:21:45 PM permalink

Turns (Guesses): 3
spread / ---W-W
flight / -W-W--
golden / Correct!

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April 25th, 2022 at 8:37:52 PM permalink

First of all, I enjoyed my first play of "Smarty Pants 6".
But, is there a way you can make it so that someone can play past games? (maybe like a drop down menu or something similar?)

Note 1: I am not a programmer, so I don't know how hard / time-consuming this is for such a "small change".

Note 2: I already tried changing the time in my PC, and that didn't work (like it does for Wordle).

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April 25th, 2022 at 8:50:57 PM permalink

I know that when I was playing around with Smarty Pants, I put in what I thought was a common word, and it wasn't on the list. Wish I could remember what it was.

Maybe I'll have to look for another list.

I'm thinking of taking Smarty Pants off the word of the day system. Maybe I'll randomize the word every game or have the player enter an integer that will get mapped to a particular word. That way people could play competitively, like comparing scores for, say, game #523. I am open to all suggestions, but keep in mind that Javascript is not my strong suit, so nothing too complicated.

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April 25th, 2022 at 8:55:40 PM permalink

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(snip) ...or have the player enter an integer that will get mapped to a particular word ... (snip)
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If it is "easy enough to do", the above sounds like a good idea.

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April 25th, 2022 at 9:28:17 PM permalink

I think I found a very solid list of 6,936 six-letter words. In fact, many I have never heard of. I does have coarse. Please have a look by clicking the spoiler button, if the topic interests you.

1,682 of the words end in S. Many of those are plurals or the present simple form of verbs, like drives. Ed was kind enough to do that with my current list. Care to see what you can do with this. Thank you!

abacus
abates
abbess
abbeys
abbots
abhors
abides
abodes
aborts
abuses
access
acorns
across
actors
adages
adapts
adders
addles
adepts
adieus
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adonis
adopts
adores
adorns
adults
agaves
agents
agings
agrees
aiders
airbus
aisles
alarms
albums
alerts
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aligns
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alleys
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allows
alloys
alphas
altars
alters
always
amazes
ambles
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amines
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ananas
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angers
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animus
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ankles
annals
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annuls
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antics
anvils
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aphids
appals
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aprons
arches
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argues
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armies
aromas
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arrows
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askers
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assess
assets
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births
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boards
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buries
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drafts
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drives
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oodles
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ushers
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wrecks
wrings
wrists
writes
wrongs
xhosas
yachts
yearns
yeasts
yields
yodels
yokels
youths
zebras

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April 25th, 2022 at 10:00:28 PM permalink

Quote: Wizard
Care to see what you can do with this. Thank you!

233 of those 1,682 words that end in S appear to be non-plurals.

233 NON PLURALS
abacus
access
across
adlibs
adonis
airbus
allies
ananas
animus
arches
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asians
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azores
aztecs
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brutus
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callus
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cultus
cyprus
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dallas
dashes
debris
defies
denies
dermis
discus
dishes
duties
eddies
egress
emboss
engels
envies
etches
excess
exodus
faeces
famous
fishes
fizzes
flatus
flexes
fluxes
foetus
fracas
freons
fungus
furies
fusses
fuzzes
ganges
gashes
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genius
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gobies
gratis
gushes
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halons
harass
hashes
herpes
hiatus
hisses
hoaxes
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hooves
hubris
hushes
iambus
ibexes
ibises
icarus
inches
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inuits
iraqis
irises
itches
jewess
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juries
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knives
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ladies
lashes
lasses
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lilies
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malays
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miosis
misses
missus
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navies
ngunis
nimbus
obsess
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onuses
onyxes
oodles
opuses
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oryxes
oscars
osiris
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porous
posies
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railes
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resits
rhesus
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rubies
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rushes
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selves
series
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status
stress
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tarsus
taxies
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testes
testis
texans
thames
themas
thesis
thomas
thymus
tidies
tigris
todies
tories
tosses
typhus
uboats
unless
uranus
uterus
uturns
varies
venous
versus
walrus
washes
wishes
wolves
xhosas

The remaining 1,449 words appear to be plurals of known five-letter words.

1,449 PLURALS
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abbess
abbeys
abbots
abhors
abides
abodes
aborts
abuses
acorns
actors
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addles
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adieus
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ampuls
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angles
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ankles
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antics
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aphids
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asters
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averts
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elects
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faiths
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fibers
fibres
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fields
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finals
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firsts
fivers
fixers
fjords
flakes
flames
flanks
flares
flasks
flecks
fleets
flicks
fliers
flings
flints
flirts
floats
flocks
floods
floors
floras
flours
flouts
fluffs
fluids
flukes
flumes
flutes
flyers
foehns
forays
forces
forges
forums
founds
founts
foyers
frames
francs
franks
frauds
freaks
friars
friers
frills
frisks
frocks
fronds
fronts
frosts
froths
frowns
fruits
frumps
fryers
fudges
fugues
gables
gaffes
gamers
gauges
genets
genres
ghosts
ghouls
giants
girths
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glares
glazes
gleams
gleans
glides
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gloves
glyphs
gnarls
gnomes
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gonads
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gourds
graces
grades
grafts
grails
grains
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ochres
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posits
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prises
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psalms
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pylons
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quakes
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quoits
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quotes
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ravers
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remits
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repels
reruns
resets
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reuses
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revues
rhymes
riders
ridges
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rights
rinses
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risers
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rivers
rivets
roasts
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robots
rodeos
rogues
romans
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rounds
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sabres
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salons
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satyrs
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savers
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scarfs
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screws
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serifs
serums
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severs
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shares
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shirts
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skirts
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skunks
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smiths
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strops
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stumps
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styles
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sweets
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tenets
tenors
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theirs
themes
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thirds
thongs
thorns
threes
throbs
throws
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thumps
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tigers
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tildes
timers
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tithes
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tonnes
topics
totals
totems
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towels
towers
toxins
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tracks
tracts
trades
trails
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traits
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trials
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udders
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umbras
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unties
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uppers
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ushers
utters
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venues
verges
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vinyls
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visors
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April 25th, 2022 at 10:06:28 PM permalink

6,936 six-letter words seems like a good number of words to use. Not too sparse... but not too many.

Note that the ENABLE word list contains 15,920 six-letter words.

SOWPODS has even more... 22,157 six-letter words.

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April 26th, 2022 at 1:13:56 AM permalink

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April 26th, 2022 at 2:26:05 AM permalink

Quote: EdCollins
Quote: Wizard
Care to see what you can do with this. Thank you!
233 of those 1,682 words that end in S appear to be non-plurals.

233 NON PLURALS
abacus
access
across
adlibs
adonis
airbus
allies
ananas
animus
arches
armies
asians
athens
azores
aztecs
babies
bashes
basses
bathos
biases
biceps
bodies
bosses
brahms
brutus
buries
bushes
busies
buzzes
bypass
cactus
callus
campus
cannes
canvas
capris
caries
cashes
caucus
census
chorus
circus
cirrus
cities
citrus
coaxes
coitus
copies
corpus
cosmos
crises
crisis
crocus
cruxes
cubans
cultus
cyprus
czechs
dallas
dashes
debris
defies
denies
dermis
discus
dishes
duties
eddies
egress
emboss
engels
envies
etches
excess
exodus
faeces
famous
fishes
fizzes
flatus
flexes
fluxes
foetus
fracas
freons
fungus
furies
fusses
fuzzes
ganges
gashes
gasses
genius
gneiss
gobies
gratis
gushes
haggis
halons
harass
hashes
herpes
hiatus
hisses
hoaxes
holies
holmes
hooves
hubris
hushes
iambus
ibexes
ibises
icarus
inches
inlaws
inuits
iraqis
irises
itches
jewess
jinxes
joyous
juries
kisses
knives
laches
ladies
lashes
lasses
laybys
levies
lilies
litmus
loaves
losses
lynxes
madras
malays
mantis
meshes
messes
minxes
miosis
misses
missus
mosses
mucous
mushes
naples
navies
ngunis
nimbus
obsess
odious
onuses
onyxes
oodles
opuses
orgies
oryxes
oscars
osiris
pastis
pathos
patois
pelvis
pities
plexus
pluses
ponies
porous
posies
precis
primus
purims
pushes
rabies
rachis
radius
railes
rashes
recess
relies
remiss
resits
rhesus
riches
rubies
rumpus
rushes
sashes
saudis
saxons
selves
series
sirius
stapes
stasis
status
stress
stylus
swazis
tarsus
taxies
tennis
testes
testis
texans
thames
themas
thesis
thomas
thymus
tidies
tigris
todies
tories
tosses
typhus
uboats
unless
uranus
uterus
uturns
varies
venous
versus
walrus
washes
wishes
wolves
xhosas

Thank you Ed!

I just updated Smarty Pants to have a list of 5,487 words, as opposed to the previous 1,933. The only words ending in S in my list are those in your list.

In case anyone asks me, what was your policy with present simple verbs? For example, I notice you didn't include DRIVES, but you do include DASHES? My best guess is if you dropped the S and it was on some five-letter list of words, you didn't allow it. Since DASHE isn't a word, it made the list. Am I correct?

By the way, my list ultimately came from here, of course only taking the six-letter words.

Also, the Smarty Pants word of the day has been updated.

"For with much wisdom comes much sorrow." -- Ecclesiastes 1:18 (NIV)

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April 26th, 2022 at 2:34:37 AM permalink

Quote: Wizard
Quote: EdCollins
Quote: Wizard
Care to see what you can do with this. Thank you!
233 of those 1,682 words that end in S appear to be non-plurals.

233 NON PLURALS
abacus
access
across
adlibs
adonis
airbus
allies
ananas
animus
arches
armies
asians
athens
azores
aztecs
babies
bashes
basses
bathos
biases
biceps
bodies
bosses
brahms
brutus
buries
bushes
busies
buzzes
bypass
cactus
callus
campus
cannes
canvas
capris
caries
cashes
caucus
census
chorus
circus
cirrus
cities
citrus
coaxes
coitus
copies
corpus
cosmos
crises
crisis
crocus
cruxes
cubans
cultus
cyprus
czechs
dallas
dashes
debris
defies
denies
dermis
discus
dishes
duties
eddies
egress
emboss
engels
envies
etches
excess
exodus
faeces
famous
fishes
fizzes
flatus
flexes
fluxes
foetus
fracas
freons
fungus
furies
fusses
fuzzes
ganges
gashes
gasses
genius
gneiss
gobies
gratis
gushes
haggis
halons
harass
hashes
herpes
hiatus
hisses
hoaxes
holies
holmes
hooves
hubris
hushes
iambus
ibexes
ibises
icarus
inches
inlaws
inuits
iraqis
irises
itches
jewess
jinxes
joyous
juries
kisses
knives
laches
ladies
lashes
lasses
laybys
levies
lilies
litmus
loaves
losses
lynxes
madras
malays
mantis
meshes
messes
minxes
miosis
misses
missus
mosses
mucous
mushes
naples
navies
ngunis
nimbus
obsess
odious
onuses
onyxes
oodles
opuses
orgies
oryxes
oscars
osiris
pastis
pathos
patois
pelvis
pities
plexus
pluses
ponies
porous
posies
precis
primus
purims
pushes
rabies
rachis
radius
railes
rashes
recess
relies
remiss
resits
rhesus
riches
rubies
rumpus
rushes
sashes
saudis
saxons
selves
series
sirius
stapes
stasis
status
stress
stylus
swazis
tarsus
taxies
tennis
testes
testis
texans
thames
themas
thesis
thomas
thymus
tidies
tigris
todies
tories
tosses
typhus
uboats
unless
uranus
uterus
uturns
varies
venous
versus
walrus
washes
wishes
wolves
xhosas

Thank you Ed!

I just updated Smarty Pants to have a list of 5,487 words, as opposed to the previous 1,933. The only words ending in S in my list are those in your list.

In case anyone asks me, what was your policy with present simple verbs? For example, I notice you didn't include DRIVES, but you do include DASHES? My best guess is if you dropped the S and it was on some five-letter list of words, you didn't allow it. Since DASHE isn't a word, it made the list. Am I correct?

Also, the Smarty Pants word of the day has been updated.
link to original post

Like Wordle, you should have smarty pants accept many more words as valid guesses than could be answers. Would make your valid guess list broad, maybe try Snowpods list that Ed notes above.

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April 26th, 2022 at 2:39:59 AM permalink

Quote: unJon
Like Wordle, you should have smarty pants accept many more words as valid guesses than could be answers. Would make your valid guess list broad, maybe try Snowpods list that Ed notes above.
link to original post

I would definitely do that. Many words on the allowed list now I never heard of. One thing I like about Wordle is the actual solution words have all been in everyday usage, at least in the 50+ times I've played.

At the moment, I am thinking of culling about 100 good words and have the player pick a number that will get randomly matched to one of them for the solution. In the future, I'll either replace or add to that list.

"For with much wisdom comes much sorrow." -- Ecclesiastes 1:18 (NIV)

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April 26th, 2022 at 3:01:55 AM permalink

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April 26th, 2022 at 7:47:18 AM permalink

Quote: Wizard
...In case anyone asks me, what was your policy with present simple verbs?

I didn't do anything special with verbs.

Here's all that I did.

I obviously did not want to do anything manually. Too many words to do that. So I first started with ENABLE's list of words. I sorted the list by length and extracted from it all of the five-letter words. Then, I looped through your list of six-letter words ending in S. For each word in that list, I checked to see if the first five letters of that word matched a word in ENABLE'S list of five-letter words. If so, this five-letter word takes an S to form a plural.

So yes, you are correct. That's why DRIVES from your list is considered a plural, since my code found the word DRIVE, but DASHES, which is also a plural, made the list of non-plurals because there is no DASHE. So yes, only five-letter words that take an S at the end to form a plural, were removed. ARCHES and ARMIES and BABIES, etc, remained.

There is one problem, however. I forgot to consider the five-letter words that end in S that take an S at the end to form a six-letter word, that are NOT considered plurals. You should add these back in by hand. There are only five of them. ABBESS, ASSESS, CARESS, DURESS and MORASS. According to the ENABLE word list, ABBES, ASSES, CARES (of course), DURES and MORAS are all words. Yes when you add an S it makes a new word which is not a plural.

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April 26th, 2022 at 9:03:56 AM permalink

Thanks again, Ed. You've gone way beyond the call of duty already so I hate to ask more of you. However, if you ever want me to add back in some words, just give me a list.

In other news, I added the feature I mentioned earlier where the user enters a game number (1 to 100) and the game will match that to one of 100 pre-approved words by me. These were chosen to not be too obscure.

With that, I'm finally able to play the game legitimately myself as I didn't memorize the 100 words, let alone which one was assigned to which number. In playing it the first time, I find this a lot harder. Not having the list of letters I'm sure is part of it.

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April 26th, 2022 at 9:08:27 AM permalink

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