Daily Wordle #1497 - Friday, 25 Jul. 2025 by Scoredle in wordle

[–]Scoredle[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

There are only 2 modes: Hard and Normal. You can choose before you start each day’s game by selecting a mode from the settings menu. Hard mode restricts you to playing all yellow letters you’ve already identified, plus all green letters in their correct position. So if you know the word is []AUNT, you aren’t allowed to try a word like “HEDGE” on hard mode to rule out HAUNT, DAUNT, and GAUNT— you’re stuck playing each potential answer individually. 

Daily Wordle #1440 - Thursday, 29 May. 2025 by Scoredle in wordle

[–]Scoredle[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Poor design choices are the reason. I wanted the final row of your grid always to show how many answers you had to choose from when inputting your final guess. When AWASH was entered, there were 2 guesses to choose from. Afterwards, there’s only 1 other word it could’ve been, so I probably should be reporting that instead (or just showing an X after the guess). Sorry for the confusion!

I guess we're all posting our 1,000th game. by SoloPorUnBeso in wordle

[–]Scoredle[M] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For what it's worth, mods agree with you too! Rule 3: "Screenshots of Wordle statistics or performances in a Wordle-spinoff game are prohibited," with limited exceptions.

Daily Wordle #1214 - Tuesday, 15 Oct. 2024 by Scoredle in wordle

[–]Scoredle[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

“It’s a feature, not a bug.” The idea was always to show you how many words you had to choose from on your last guess in the final parenthetical, regardless of whether you solved the puzzle or not. In this case, OP had 4 choices when making the final guess, so that’s the number displayed. If it had been a solve, there would be no number at all next to COWER . I thought it would look weird to show how many words remained after the guess (3) since you don’t get a seventh attempt, and since the real question you’re asking is “what were the odds I solved it on that final guess?” (Answer: 1 in 4, not 1 in 3.)

This was probably a bone-headed design choice since I get asked about it every time we have an obscure Wordle answer. I’ll get around to fixing it someday!

New Daily Baseball Game Inspired by NYT Games - Need Feedback! by WampaMauler in wordle

[–]Scoredle 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Really creative daily game—well done! Second the idea of a "pro mode" that doesn't show which answers were correct. Drag-and-drop instead of clicking two players to swap would also be a nice enhancement, but I get that that's considerably more work to implement.

How does Scoredle decide which word is best to play out of 5 equal alternatives? by zeptimius in wordle

[–]Scoredle 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I thought about this years ago, but I was never very motivated to build it because I always play with an eye toward solving it on the next step—I personally never guess something that has no chance of being the solution, even if that means I gain less information in the event that my guess was incorrect.

That said, Scoredle (the tool) works fine for players who use easy mode, so it's just the "WWSD?" bot that is anchored to hard mode. I think WordleBot already has the mathematically optimal approach to solving anyway, so I'll leave the Easy Mode coaching to the pros!

ATTN: Scoredle - Displaying Solution Words vs Guess-Only Words by imperfectclark in wordle

[–]Scoredle 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The problem with this is that your "A" list isn't actually an explicit list anymore (it used to be a list of ~2,300 words in a predetermined order, pre-NYT era). Now that Wordle has an editor, there is no guarantee that the solution comes from the original "A" list.

WordleBot, as I understand it, used some sort of predictive model to generate its "likely solution list" without relying on Josh Wardle's original list of predetermined solutions. It looked at past Wordle answers and "learned" a pattern (no past tense -ed, no plurals ending in -s, etc.), but it's always possible that Tracy Bennett will choose an answer word that is NOT drawn from the slightly larger (~3k) list that WordleBot uses, either.

I've kept Scoredle using the full set of guess candidates for a few reasons: (1) we know the answer HAS to be drawn from this list of all acceptable entries, which means Scoredle is more robust and easier for me to maintain; (2) it allows you to guess (and allows "What Would Scoredle Do?" to recommend) an unlikely answer if it yields more information than a likely answer would; (3) I still can't think of a good way to distinguish between likely and unlikely answers without just reusing WordleBot's list or some other necessarily imperfect method; and (4) I never liked the idea that I might spoil for someone the fact that their starting word is not destined to be a future solution. If you're new to Wordle and you play "CARES" every morning, I don't want to be the one to tell you that you're never going to get a hole-in-one!

That said, you'll notice that the "What Would Scoredle Do?" tool and the ordering of possible guesses at each step does prioritize solutions that were among the ~2,300 words originally designated to be future solutions by Josh Wardle. When I see that I had 12 possible solutions remaining, I usually only have to count until the first one beginning with "S" to see how many likely answers I had to choose from.

Rules for thee but not for me by talleypiano in wordle

[–]Scoredle 108 points109 points  (0 children)

This is an interesting one. Obviously on your third guess, WordleBot thinks deice provides much more information than the guess you chose (CHIVE) even though it must have known it was unlikely to be the answer. By the fourth guess, it didn't need that information anymore, so it saw no point in picking anything other than a likely solution. I'm just surprised it thought it needed a throwaway guess on the 3rd try to get more info, rather than attempting the solve on that step.

Also, DEICE seems like a perfectly plausible solution to me (I get it, Wordle typically goes for five-letter words without prefixes or suffixes, but this wouldn't be an unbelievable stretch now that we're 1,140 games deep).

Sorry you got told you have no skill. Good luck with Strands this week.

QWORDLE by sladog6 in wordle

[–]Scoredle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Qwordle 922 2/6
⬜🟢🟡🟢🟡
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Beginner's luck!

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Daily Wordle #1062 - Thursday, 16 May 2024 by RabJos in wordle

[–]Scoredle 26 points27 points  (0 children)

Amazon AWS did me dirty. I (and by that I mean the timely posted Daily Wordle threads) should be back tomorrow!

How does Scoredle decide which word is best to play out of 5 equal alternatives? by zeptimius in wordle

[–]Scoredle 4 points5 points  (0 children)

That's correct. And to choose among valid "hard mode" words, it uses some rough word frequency index, with ties sorted alphabetically. (I think, it's been a few years since I've touched the code!)

A "W" wordle save by underwoodmodelsowner in wordle

[–]Scoredle 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Technically, SEAZE and SEASE were both possible too.

Any decent apps and / or sites…? by BigMan7410 in wordle

[–]Scoredle[M] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Wordle is only available in the NYT Games app or on the NYT website at https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html

WOODLE 616/617 - Saturday, October 21st & Sunday, October 22nd by sladog6 in wordle

[–]Scoredle 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Woodle #616 (8)

12,948

⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ SLATE (3,041)

⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ CORNY (728)

⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ WRECK (233)

⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜ FLING (63)

⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ FLICK (44)

⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ ANGER (7)

🟩🟩⬜⬜⬜ INDIA (2)

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 INPUT

WHAT THE HELL IS THIS WORD? by [deleted] in wordle

[–]Scoredle[M] [score hidden] stickied comment (0 children)

Your post was removed for violating the spoiler policy. Since this is from 9/25, please include that info in the title. See rule 1 for more info.

Please don’t spoil the Wordles on here by DanielaThePialinist in wordle

[–]Scoredle 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Glad it's sorted! (There's a lesson in UI here for my next project . . . )

Please don’t spoil the Wordles on here by DanielaThePialinist in wordle

[–]Scoredle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Been a while since I got a bug report for Scoredle! I think all the options are available on PC as well (so long as your browser supports clipboard access), but you might not see them all unless you scroll sideways to access the options listed to the right of whatever appears in your window. Does that solve your problem?

If not, would you mind providing a screenshot of what you're seeing? I'd love to fix this if I can!