Have you heard about this word game? https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html

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But of cource GOG breaks the c/p and can't show it properly lol.

I followed that link and the first word I tried was not even recognised as a proper word; I guess the Americans do not use it. I managed to guess the word in three tries, which I think was very lucky. Quite a nice little game. I wish there would be a British English version too. Maybe someone knows of one.

You can blame the New York Times for it. The original game included British spelling variations, and a bunch of other words the paper found objectionable. Fibre is given as an example of an obscure or offensive word worthy of removal.

...what gives me an internet connection.

I was mindful of spelling in American but some words are simply not used over there.

The same for french speakers (one word every day) : https://sutom.nocle.fr/

Guidance on how to get the original version back:

https://leancrew.com/all-this/2022/02/resurrecting-the-old-wordle-for-procrastinators/

I'm surprised that the NYT considers the word "Wench" offensive. Perhaps it is in US English, but while considered to be slightly archaic, it's still acceptable in British English (unless you work for the Guardian, but I think they find most things offensive). That being said, if they're not going to allow the words as solutions, it's probably only fair that they don't allow them as suggestions (no way they're going to be right, so at least it saves a guess).

I guessed it in four. I have no idea how this game really works, but getting two letters correct on first try made me suspect the word is not predetermined, but generated based on the letters you use, so that the game is more "accessible" to a modern audience.

The list used to be predetermined, and I suspect it still is. It even prompted some a-hole to make a twitter bot spoiling the solution https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2022/01/beware-trolls-are-out-to-spoil-tomorrows-wordle-for-you/

According to statistics of my 40 days of attempts, I guessed the word on the fourth or fifth try most of the time.

Hmm...maybe I'm overestimating the chances of getting letters correct on first try.

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I Wurdle, but I don't yet Wordle, and may never ... though my wife etc tell me it is fun.

Wurdle in my context, is a Word Wall broken up into Wurdles ... a bit like word based hurdles. Many struggle with Word Walls, so Wurdles are a bit easier ... though you still need some skill to run the gamut of them.

It looks like Motus.

I seem to have a talent for this as I solved it in three tries again. Alright, two rounds is too low a number to say for sure, I admit it.

I give every attempt quite some thought and choose the first word very carefully using five different letters and a mix or common and semi-common letters, not a word like LETTER (which is too long anyway). Not sure if that is the way to go but it looks promising for now.

So, basically Mastermind made harder by increasing the number of colors and then made nearly trivial by aligning the response with the pegs they apply to and imposing an external validity check (must be a valid English word) Then made unplayable by being on-line only. How exciting. No thanks. For amusing uses of 5-letter English words, I much prefer the Standford GraphBase.

Unfair! It doesn't let me insert gibberish words, to find out fast which alphabets are in the word and which are not.

Oh well, at least it seems to have "boner" in its word list, as it accepted that as a valid word.