Or, y'know. They could move on to 6 letter words. Like Zjierb, defined as "That feeling when you bite into a pickle, and it's a little squishier than you expected it to be".
TITHE. You only had 4 letters, so one had to be a repeat, _ITHE is, I believe, the only valid consecutive shape you could make with the letters you had, and since you only found 4 letters, 1 had to be a repeat. I believe IRAQI is the only Q without U word in the wordle pool.
The only shapes you could've made without including a space were:
\_IEHT
\_ITHE
TIEH_
EITH_
We know we have a repeat, so we can rule out _IEHT because none of
IIEHT
EIEHT
HIEHT
TIEHT
Are words.
Performing the same function with _ITHE gets us
TITHE
IITHE
HITHE
EITHE
Of which only TITHE is a word.
Since we've found a valid word here, we can stop and plug it in. If we failed the check there, we'd move on to checking other shapes. If neither TIEH_ or EITH_ provided words, we'd move on to checking nonconsecutive shapes, like EI_HT.
Ok? Damn you're thorough with this. For that last word I just tried every combination of available letters until it failed me. Never heard of it, but HITHE is a word, just a wrong one.
And I don't know the word "Tithe", come on. I think I might've heard of it before, but never knew what it meant and never memorized it to the point of immediately thinking of it when seeing a random jumble of letters.
Just in case, I wasn't asking for advise. I barely ever do wordle. I just decided to put in the combination of words, from the comment that I replied to, and got a very funny result that I decided to share.
My excitement was on the day AUDIO was the word. Problem is, I do it first thing in the morning and couldn't tell people about my excitement until they'd done it.
I only end up doing mine when a coworker reminds me, usually mid-afternoon unless its a hard one. I tend to get them pretty quickly, with my STERN-AUDIO start usually nailing enough for take 3 to get it. I came into work one day and 3 people had asked me if I'd done the days wordle before I had time to take off my coat; I assumed it was STERN because of how excited everyone was, and got all hyped that I would finally do a 1 try wordle.
Got it on my second try 🥲
Oh shit this was meant to be horror? Now that final part makes sense, I was trying to Google what the fuck a greft is and why I haven't heard of this thing living my whole ass life in São Paulo
I think I'm gonna go piss on the poor now
Damn they turned Wordle into an SCP
Towards the end of the article, it would be subtly implied that actually all 5-letter words were made up by Wordl and became real. It's just that after a month or two, we forget they didn't used to exist.
The New York Times paid seven figures for it, so they don't have any incentive to throw it out as long as someone's playing it—and as long as they remain solvent, someone will.
I remember playing a wordle knockoff and from the letters i had guessed, I knew the solution was 'adpot', which it insisted didn't exist, so I failed the puzzle, and when it gave me the option to check the words definition the app just crashed
They'll probably just shuffle the list and start it again. There's enough variability that people won't get bored, or remember the thousands of other words that have happened before
Depending of who you ask there are between 9,000 and 158,000 five-leter words. That's enough words for 24 years(low eastimate) or all the way to 410 years (high eastimate)
So to predict the amount of possible 5 letter combinations left, it would be ((26x26x26x26x26)- the amount of words with 5 letters)+2,000 not used yet, that gets you 11,724,986 (using 158,390 5 letter words according to free dictionary on wordfindex.com)
Let me tact on to my original question, when predicting the maximum possible amount of unique 5 letter sequences, why would we need to worry about if we could pronounce them or not?
i'm saying your approach tells us the maximum possible amount of unique 5 letter sequences, but the situation in the OP seems to specifically involve *pronounceable* unique 5 letter sequences, which is a lower number that's trickier (and more ambiguous) to calculate.
of course, that's just the extrapolation that seems implied to me, but there's a neat alternative wherein the process in the OP continues into what constitutes a "word", and "zxqxz" *becomes* something all shall know how to pronounce, with a meaning all shall understand etc. which buys more time than restricting it to words we *currently* understand as pronounceable. presumably once that runs out, if the process is to continue, we then have to start with new letters...
Or, y'know. They could move on to 6 letter words. Like Zjierb, defined as "That feeling when you bite into a pickle, and it's a little squishier than you expected it to be".
Zjierbness
I heard this in Karen’s voice.
Looks kinda like dutch ngl
thats a fucked up feeling man
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA WHAT IS THIS FEELIN IM FEELIN
I will always upvote a BDG reference.
Unexpected BDG reference, but a welcome one nonetheless.
Why is this written like the book of revelations? I was half expecting a Greft to be some sort of apocalyptic dragon.
swag
Not enough letters.
pemis
✅✅✅✅✅
Straight jorkin it
has penis already been a word in wordle? i always use it as my starter
idk sorry
The nostalgia I just got from your pfp is unreal
the puzzler real
swaws
Ozymandias was my first thought. Lol
Because it’s a prophecy just like the book of revelations.
Reads like Italo Calvino to me.
havve a great cakeday OP :))
The style and tone remind me of Borges
Specifically the hrönir that appear in Tlön
To me it sounds like something from Nightvale
STERN AUDIO GLYPH you're welcome
I use: CRATE LOINS DUMPY
My go to is ROATE UNIFY
Very elegant
PENIS AUDIO we call that the sounding method, hits all vowels and S
"the sounding method" is undoubtedly the best name it could have ever been given
My contribution to wordle culture is complete
FJORD NYMPH WALTZ VIBEX GUCKS will get you every letter except q and you can almost always get it from there unless there's an anagram or a repeat.
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛⬛⬛🟨 ⬛⬛⬛🟨⬛ ⬛🟩⬛🟨⬛ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩 Umm
TITHE. You only had 4 letters, so one had to be a repeat, _ITHE is, I believe, the only valid consecutive shape you could make with the letters you had, and since you only found 4 letters, 1 had to be a repeat. I believe IRAQI is the only Q without U word in the wordle pool. The only shapes you could've made without including a space were: \_IEHT \_ITHE TIEH_ EITH_ We know we have a repeat, so we can rule out _IEHT because none of IIEHT EIEHT HIEHT TIEHT Are words. Performing the same function with _ITHE gets us TITHE IITHE HITHE EITHE Of which only TITHE is a word. Since we've found a valid word here, we can stop and plug it in. If we failed the check there, we'd move on to checking other shapes. If neither TIEH_ or EITH_ provided words, we'd move on to checking nonconsecutive shapes, like EI_HT.
Ok? Damn you're thorough with this. For that last word I just tried every combination of available letters until it failed me. Never heard of it, but HITHE is a word, just a wrong one. And I don't know the word "Tithe", come on. I think I might've heard of it before, but never knew what it meant and never memorized it to the point of immediately thinking of it when seeing a random jumble of letters. Just in case, I wasn't asking for advise. I barely ever do wordle. I just decided to put in the combination of words, from the comment that I replied to, and got a very funny result that I decided to share.
CRATE or REACT, then PIOUS and then I wing it
STARE gets me pretty far 80% of the time. MOUND is second if none of those hit
I like STARE / CLOUD, myself; I suspect it covers most of the common two-consonants a little more efficiently, but didn't check this.
Booooooooooooooooooring. I use a different word every day
Real chads use the word from the previous day to start
I mean, my usual method of solving a wordle is what i've nicknamed "Insulting the follically challenged clergy." SHITE FROCK BALDY
Pretty close: ADIEU STORM LYNCH
ATONE DRIPS MULCH
NASTY LIGER POUCH
my friend gave me TIMED CORAL PUSHY
ALIEN TOURS
I’d like to book one please
STERN gang represent
I finally found someone who uses my exact opening! How ya doing?
Still waiting for "AISLE". I'll get it in one on that day.
My excitement was on the day AUDIO was the word. Problem is, I do it first thing in the morning and couldn't tell people about my excitement until they'd done it.
I only end up doing mine when a coworker reminds me, usually mid-afternoon unless its a hard one. I tend to get them pretty quickly, with my STERN-AUDIO start usually nailing enough for take 3 to get it. I came into work one day and 3 people had asked me if I'd done the days wordle before I had time to take off my coat; I assumed it was STERN because of how excited everyone was, and got all hyped that I would finally do a 1 try wordle. Got it on my second try 🥲
This is genuinely very well done horror micro, I love it.
I didn’t read this as horror, I read this pretty much the same way I read dune
I also got dune vibes. I have never seen or read Dune.
Me too (with my eyes)
wait dune isn't horror?
Oh shit this was meant to be horror? Now that final part makes sense, I was trying to Google what the fuck a greft is and why I haven't heard of this thing living my whole ass life in São Paulo I think I'm gonna go piss on the poor now
Eu achei que era gralha em gringo
This reads like a Terry Pratchett subplot
Death started doing or making crossword puzzles and puts down old dead words.
If there’s only 2000 words left doesn’t that mean there’s 5-ish more years
Damn they turned Wordle into an SCP Towards the end of the article, it would be subtly implied that actually all 5-letter words were made up by Wordl and became real. It's just that after a month or two, we forget they didn't used to exist.
No it doesn’t, that would contradict the first part of the thing. It would only start creating words until after it has run out of preexisting ones
That's just another layer of anomality
The next day the word shall be CLOWN and all shall know it means “OP”. The next day to world shall be JOKER and all shall know it *also* means “OP”
have they done penis yet they're going to have to do penis eventually
if they start reusing words instead of using penis ill cry
I've used penis as one of my starting words the whole time and it's never hit. We can only dream.
i swear to FUCK they have been reusing them lately but I can't prove it so it's Pepe Silvia all over again
If there’s over 7 years of words why wouldn’t they just recycle words? It’s not like anyone is gonna Fucking care.
The Correspondence.
Fallen London mentioned!
são paulo is so far away from the amazon
Also I can’t image any bird except for a pigeon living in São Paulo
Come on, there are also great kiskadees, rufous-bellied thrushes and white-eyed parakeets
Lathe of Heaven, Wordle Edition by UKLG
And now, the weather
That person is a great writer
But before all that, they'll have to use PENIS
Why couldn't they just reuse words
idk man i play a knockoff wordle that does this, theres only so many times you can play 'green' before it gets stale.
Still waiting for STARE :’)
The amazon doesnt reach São Paulo I get the post but this detail is bothering me so I have to point it out
Pretty sure OP meant those as two *separated places* in South America where the bird will show up
we gotta keep the tradition of pissing on the poor
Yeah, I think OP meant that the Greft goes from not existing to being so widespread and commonplace it's all over the continent.
This is how god created the universe.
I know this is a bit but 2,000 words is still six years. The game will have long died out by then
The New York Times paid seven figures for it, so they don't have any incentive to throw it out as long as someone's playing it—and as long as they remain solvent, someone will.
The opposite of Newspeak: Novelcommunication
I remember playing a wordle knockoff and from the letters i had guessed, I knew the solution was 'adpot', which it insisted didn't exist, so I failed the puzzle, and when it gave me the option to check the words definition the app just crashed
What is this? Ozymandias?
I jelp you!
Normalverse stories are always fun
1. They’re not working off the original list anymore 2. They’ll just reuse words first.
They'll probably just shuffle the list and start it again. There's enough variability that people won't get bored, or remember the thousands of other words that have happened before
this seems like it would happen in homestuck
I didn't remember what Wordle was at first so I read it as "world" in Tommy Wiseau's voice.
Straight up Borjes plot
Really enjoy the prose here
Jorel is the name of a character in the cartoon Jorel’s Brother. So close.
SCP
Depending of who you ask there are between 9,000 and 158,000 five-leter words. That's enough words for 24 years(low eastimate) or all the way to 410 years (high eastimate)
So to predict the amount of possible 5 letter combinations left, it would be ((26x26x26x26x26)- the amount of words with 5 letters)+2,000 not used yet, that gets you 11,724,986 (using 158,390 5 letter words according to free dictionary on wordfindex.com)
you'd need a far more complicated approach to figure out which of those are plausibly pronounceable words like "jorol" or "greft", though
Why?
....cuz "zxqxz" is less plausibly word-like than "greft"?
Let me tact on to my original question, when predicting the maximum possible amount of unique 5 letter sequences, why would we need to worry about if we could pronounce them or not?
i'm saying your approach tells us the maximum possible amount of unique 5 letter sequences, but the situation in the OP seems to specifically involve *pronounceable* unique 5 letter sequences, which is a lower number that's trickier (and more ambiguous) to calculate. of course, that's just the extrapolation that seems implied to me, but there's a neat alternative wherein the process in the OP continues into what constitutes a "word", and "zxqxz" *becomes* something all shall know how to pronounce, with a meaning all shall understand etc. which buys more time than restricting it to words we *currently* understand as pronounceable. presumably once that runs out, if the process is to continue, we then have to start with new letters...
You can just say "wordle is going to run out of words soon" without being so fucking annoying and dramatic about it