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April 26th, 2022 at 6:14:31 PM permalink
Wordle April 26 4 tonight kind of threw me for a bit
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April 26th, 2022 at 7:05:32 PM permalink
Regarding Smarty Pants...

When the user enters a puzzle number, and then clicks the red SUBMIT button, wouldn't it be advisable at that time for the system to clear out any prior guesses and feedback scores still on the screen?

I find myself doing this myself, which seems awkward. After I play a game, if I want to play again, I enter a new puzzle number and click SUBMIT... but then I find myself also taking the time to clear out the data on the screen from the prior game myself... since it just seems and confusing for those guesses and feedback to be there. The user shouldn't have to do that.

That's my only suggestion at this time. I've played half a dozen games and everything seems to be okay. I've tried to make it crash by entering letters in both uppercase and lowercase, by entering words with more than six letters, with numbers, with apostrophes, etc.

Oh, one more question. How much longer will we see "Solution Changed" in the Comment Section? I assume that comment is for us who have already solved a few of the puzzles from the past day or two. However, if a brand new user sees that comment, they probably won't know what it means.
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April 26th, 2022 at 9:31:08 PM permalink
Quote: EdCollins

When the user enters a puzzle number, and then clicks the red SUBMIT button, wouldn't it be advisable at that time for the system to clear out any prior guesses and feedback scores still on the screen?



Good suggestion, thank you. I just added code that when the user enters a game number, all fields except the game number get blanked out.

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Oh, one more question. How much longer will we see "Solution Changed" in the Comment Section? I assume that comment is for us who have already solved a few of the puzzles from the past day or two. However, if a brand new user sees that comment, they probably won't know what it means.
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I put it there to let the user know that clicking the "submit" button accomplished something. Kind of like how in Berlin if the player hits the crosswalk button, something happens, I think a light comes on that says something in German translating to "please wait." It feels good to know the system acknowledged that I'm standing there waiting, even if pressing the button may not reduce my waiting time.

In other news, games 1 to 5 are fresh words, not the same ones when the game was doing daily words. Here is my solution for SP game #1.



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April 26th, 2022 at 10:47:24 PM permalink
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April 27th, 2022 at 4:52:41 AM permalink
Three

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April 27th, 2022 at 5:00:43 AM permalink
Smarty Pants rookie. First puzzle solved in three.


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April 27th, 2022 at 6:21:09 AM permalink
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April 27th, 2022 at 11:03:10 AM permalink
Wordle 312 4/6

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April 27th, 2022 at 12:03:55 PM permalink




Decent score, but took me a long time.
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April 27th, 2022 at 4:00:20 PM permalink
Wordle 313 4/6*

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🟨🟩⬜🟨⬜ YGBYB
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Skill 90/100
Luck 59/100

Note: According to WordleBot, there is only one "99-pt skill" starting word in "hard mode", so that is why I haven't indicated how many letters are correct for my first guess.

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Turn 1: stream / ---W--
Turn 2: buckle / -----W
Turn 3: winged / B-W-BW
Turn 4: wooden / Correct!


Turn 1: skater / B--W-W
Turn 2: strong / BWBB--
Turn 3: sprout / Correct!
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April 27th, 2022 at 4:43:37 PM permalink
Smarty Pants game #3 -- score = 5



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April 27th, 2022 at 4:47:58 PM permalink
Delete spoiler didn't take
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April 27th, 2022 at 4:51:52 PM permalink
5 April 27 little rough
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April 27th, 2022 at 8:24:12 PM permalink
Smarty Pants #4 -- Score = 6.



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April 28th, 2022 at 3:01:08 AM permalink


Since only 100 words are currently used as a solution to the puzzles, this chart isn't very useful... but I thought I'd put it together anyway. (If the 100 words were known, a chart of those letters from those words would be somewhat useful.)
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April 28th, 2022 at 4:33:32 AM permalink
Quote: ksdjdj

Wordle 313 4/6*

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🟨🟩⬜🟨⬜ YGBYB
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Skill 90/100
Luck 59/100

Note: According to WordleBot, there is only one "99-pt skill" starting word in "hard mode", so that is why I haven't indicated how many letters are correct for my first guess.

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Turn 1: stream / ---W--
Turn 2: buckle / -----W
Turn 3: winged / B-W-BW
Turn 4: wooden / Correct!


Turn 1: skater / B--W-W
Turn 2: strong / BWBB--
Turn 3: sprout / Correct!

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But the picture you post does indicate how many letters you got right on your first guess. We can see the yellows and greens even if you don’t write the letters.
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April 28th, 2022 at 5:03:06 AM permalink
I wonder what the worst starting word could be. So, I tried one guess here. Took a shot at a bad second word too.

Wordle 313 X/6

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A Q, and double F, should make the rest of the puzzle harder I think. I tried busting out a bad second choice as well, to see what would happen. Slight misplay with SWEET, I knew there was no double E, but by then I just wanted out.

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April 28th, 2022 at 5:12:49 AM permalink
Quote: EdCollins

Since only 100 words are currently used as a solution to the puzzles, this chart isn't very useful... but I thought I'd put it together anyway. (If the 100 words were known, a chart of those letters from those words would be somewhat useful.)
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That shouldn't matter about the 100 words. They were drawn from a pool of thousands of words, which I randomly shuffled and took the first 100 that the average person who know what it meant.

As to Wordle, got a 4 today.







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April 28th, 2022 at 8:54:26 AM permalink
Quote: Mosca

I wonder what the worst starting word could be...

The absolute worst starting word in Wordle will depend upon the criteria used to determine what is considered "worst," just like there is different criteria to determine what is the "best" starting Wordle word.

For example, if you just want to find a word which, on the average, lowers the number of possibilities left, ROATE ranks right up there near the top. (I haven't found a better word.) ROATE, on average, will leave just 60.1 words remaining after it is played. (From the staring number of 2,308 possible words.)

That number is even better than WordleBot's favorite word, CRANE, which, on average leaves 78.7 words remaining.

However, leaving the fewest words remaining isn't necessarily "best," as you know. (According to WordleBot, "On average, more and smaller groups means faster solving.") One also could take into account and consider the best word is the one that leaves the largest number of "groups" that remain, or the word that leaves the lowest average group size, or the word that leaves the fewest "largest group," or the word that gives the most Bits of Information. (See WordleBot's analysis for some of these terms and comparisons of its chosen word and yours, for any Wordle puzzle.)

That being said, for whatever criteria is used, these words probably rank somewhere near the top of the worst starting Wordle words: IMMIX, JUGUM, KIBBI, KUDZU, OXBOW, PZAZZ, QAJAQ, XYLYL, ZIMBI, ZIZIT, ZOPPO, ZUZIM. (Yes, all of these words are valid Wordle guesses.)
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April 28th, 2022 at 10:06:18 AM permalink
Quote: Mosca

I wonder what the worst starting word could be.



I get the worst is FUZZY (which was the name of my beloved childhood teddy bear). This uses the method of awarding two points for a match in position and one point for out of position.

Here are the top 40 worst starting words. Wasn't #9 the solution about six weeks ago?

Rank Word Points
1 fuzzy 1919
2 fizzy 2139
3 jumbo 2194
4 jiffy 2229
5 jazzy 2230
6 whiff 2269
7 dizzy 2277
8 jumpy 2283
9 nymph 2382
10 buxom 2400
11 humph 2433
12 fluff 2439
13 unzip 2465
14 puffy 2471
15 affix 2487
16 pygmy 2508
17 bluff 2527
18 pizza 2536
19 gumbo 2573
20 lymph 2577
21 quick 2594
22 vivid 2611
23 mummy 2626
24 gummy 2629
25 inbox 2636
26 chump 2647
27 buggy 2661
28 mucky 2663
29 vying 2690
30 dummy 2707
31 guppy 2710
32 skiff 2713
33 widow 2717
34 thumb 2719
35 wimpy 2734
36 plumb 2737
37 dumpy 2740
38 humus 2742
39 glyph 2745
40 gruff 2745
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April 28th, 2022 at 10:33:15 AM permalink
Quote: EdCollins



Since only 100 words are currently used as a solution to the puzzles, this chart isn't very useful... but I thought I'd put it together anyway. (If the 100 words were known, a chart of those letters from those words would be somewhat useful.)
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Here is my list of the best Smarty Pants starting words, assuming all words in the list are equally likely to be solutions.

Ranks Word Points
1 BANTER 7623
2 BAITER 7616
3 BAILER 7509
4 BASTER 7495
5 BANDER 7479
6 BOATER 7419
7 BALDER 7412
8 CARTED 7373
9 BAITED 7334
10 CANTER 7329
11 BARITE 7326
12 CARIES 7238
13 BAILED 7227
14 BASTED 7213
15 BARGED 7206
16 CASTER 7201
17 CARTEL 7192
18 BANGER 7162
19 BLARED 7152
20 BONIER 7147
21 BOATED 7137
22 BLADER 7131
23 ANTLER 7110
24 RAISED 7101
25 BARLEY 7093
26 BATHER 7060
27 CANTED 7047
28 BRACED 7031
29 BARKED 7026
30 BARFED 7003
31 BADGER 6994
32 BANKER 6982
33 BAREST 6978
34 BIASED 6961
35 BASHER 6953
36 ARISEN 6950
37 DANCER 6945
38 BORATE 6936
39 SACRED 6933
40 VARIED 6928
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April 28th, 2022 at 11:40:09 AM permalink
Wordle 313 4/6

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April 28th, 2022 at 2:17:38 PM permalink
I just made an improvement to Smarty Pants, where the solution is broken into letter tiles and colored appropriately.

So far, I only made the change for the first turn. Please have a look at let me know if you find any mistakes. Once I'm happy I did it properly, I'll update the other seven turns.

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April 28th, 2022 at 2:41:42 PM permalink
Quote: Wizard

I just made an improvement to Smarty Pants, where the solution is broken into letter tiles and colored appropriately.

So far, I only made the change for the first turn. Please have a look at let me know if you find any mistakes. Once I'm happy I did it properly, I'll update the other seven turns.

Thank you.

Wow, that looks great. Much more appealing and user-friendly.

I did not find any mistakes in the three games I played.

If it's possible to lighten that shade of green just a tad, that would be better. It's a little hard to see the black font text against that dark green background. However, if that green were just a shade or two lighter, that would help.

Also, If it's possible to center the individual feedback letters, within those boxes, that would look better in my opinion. (Or reduce the width of the box so it looks centered?)

Spoiler for Puzzle #43:



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April 28th, 2022 at 3:10:29 PM permalink
Quote: EdCollins

Wow, that looks great. Much more appealing and user-friendly.

I did not find any mistakes in the three games I played.

If it's possible to lighten that shade of green just a tad, that would be better. It's a little hard to see the black font text against that dark green background. However, if that green were just a shade or two lighter, that would help.

Also, If it's possible to center the individual feedback letters, within those boxes, that would look better in my opinion. (Or reduce the width of the box so it looks centered?)
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Thank you for the suggestions. I just implemented them. Hopefully you like the new "lime" shade of green better.

Note to myself: chartreuse is another option. Speaking of which, I always confuse cerulean and chartreuse. Do women have that problem?

Updated turn 2 to the new format.
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April 28th, 2022 at 4:36:21 PM permalink
Smarty Pants is now completely redone in the new formal for all eight turns.

Here is my first game under the new format, with a score of 3.



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April 28th, 2022 at 5:41:06 PM permalink
Decided to swing for the fences and honor wizards teddy bear after my dismal 5 yesterday and almost no help from usual starting word. 2 today April 28 thanks Mike
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Quote: avianrandy

Decided to swing for the fences and honor wizards teddy bear after my dismal 5 yesterday and almost no help from usual starting word. 2 today April 28 thanks Mike


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Fuzzy thanks you. He still looks over me to this day, on a shelf in my house.
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April 28th, 2022 at 7:54:59 PM permalink
Smarty Pants #7 was a tough one. Took seven turns to see green.




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April 28th, 2022 at 8:41:37 PM permalink
Wordle 314 3/6*

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Luck 81/100

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Turn 1: STREAM / ---YYY
Turn 2: CAMPED / -GY-YY
Turn 3: MADAME / Correct!
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Wordle 314 3/6

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Wordlebot is now behind a paywall for me, on two different browsers, even after deleting cookies. NBD, just “internet annoying”.
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Three for me today in Wordle. I'm mad at myself because of a bad second turn.



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April 29th, 2022 at 5:28:27 PM permalink
Slight variation on my usual starting word which helped..only 2 choices after guess 2. Got lucky. 3 today April 29
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Wordle 314 3/6

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April 29th, 2022 at 6:13:40 PM permalink
Three on Friday
Wordle 314 3/6*

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STEAM
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April 29th, 2022 at 8:14:38 PM permalink
Wordle 314 2/6

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Used my usual starting word and . . .


roast
trash
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Wordle 315 6/6

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Phew. That was a tough one for me.
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April 30th, 2022 at 5:54:57 AM permalink
Tough one today. Five.



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April 30th, 2022 at 6:35:35 AM permalink
Five for me as well.

I came up empty on back-to-back probing words.


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April 30th, 2022 at 7:20:45 AM permalink
Wordle 315 6/6

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Now I’m trying their starting word. I like using my random starting word better.

CRANE
ARDOR
STARK
HARPY
GARUM
LARVA
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April 30th, 2022 at 11:08:40 AM permalink
I'm proud to say that Smarty Pants now has the same feature as in Wordle where the alphabet appears at the bottom, color coded to show that status of each letter. Below is an example. Keep in mind it's impossible to complete a game with any yellow in the alphabet (right?).

Please try it out and let me know if you find any mistakes. There is separate code for all eight turns, so something may work correctly for one turn, but not another.





Do you think I should arrange the alphabet in keyboard order, like Wordle does?

Thank you.
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April 30th, 2022 at 11:09:05 AM permalink
Today is a good example of how Wordle handles a double letter.
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April 30th, 2022 at 3:53:00 PM permalink
Lucked in to a 3 today April 30 tricky double letter
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April 30th, 2022 at 4:52:26 PM permalink
Wordle 315 4/6

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April 30th, 2022 at 4:53:49 PM permalink
P.S. you guys shouldn’t be giving off clues after you’ve solved the word of the day. Good thing I don’t read this first. But you’re saying too much.
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April 30th, 2022 at 5:03:01 PM permalink
Quote: Wizard

Do you think I should arrange the alphabet in keyboard order, like Wordle does?

If you were to put it to a vote, then I would probably vote Yes. My reason is, it's not often you see the alphabet with the letters A-M on one row and then the letters N-Z below it. These days, for many of us of course, it's much more common to see the alphabet displayed as it looks on a computer keyboard.

However, I got used to it after just one game. It won't be problem at all for anyone to immediately find the letter they are looking for, no matter how it's displayed.

Q W E R T Y U I O P
. A S D F G H J K L
.. Z X C V B N M

vs.

A B C D E F G H I J K L M
N O P Q R S T U V W Z X Y
EdCollins
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April 30th, 2022 at 5:12:16 PM permalink
If you DO change the format to resemble a QWERTY keyboard, you will have to see if you can slant the second and the then the third row a bit... so the A isn't directly underneath the Q... and the Z isn't directly under the A, for example.
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April 30th, 2022 at 6:01:42 PM permalink
Quote: HotBlonde

P.S. you guys shouldn’t be giving off clues after you’ve solved the word of the day. Good thing I don’t read this first. But you’re saying too much.
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My apologies Anne. Don't mean to detract and that is why I put my solution in a spoiler. Is their a reason why you don't post the words you use in a spoiler instead of the graphic?
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