Wordle

[Sporting]

Pleasing feature in today's solution, although Guy Profumo and other strict pedants may disagree...

It was more unexpected than displeasing.

[WOM]

4 today. That seems to be my standard.

[Rogin the Armchair fan]

I was disgusted and probably won't play again.

[Evariste Euler Gauss]

"Pleasing feature", DG? I assume that was intended as a wind-up. Still, the puzzle is available on a "take it or leave it" basis, and I'll keep taking it. We've all been warned now.

[ad hoc]

It's a word. It's in the dictionary. It;s not the version of the word I would choose to use, but there's no argument that it's not an actual word is there?

[DCI Harry Batt]

I was a little bit cross about the kerfuffle meaning the internet was covered in spoilers. Apart from that, I was quite amused about people being cross.

[Evariste Euler Gauss]

Of course there isn't [Edit; any such argument, I mean, in reply to ad hoc]

[Evariste Euler Gauss]

I was quite amused about people being cross

Yes, there's no cause for actual crossness of course, it's just the way things are, given who the setter is and so on. It's all just a fun game. It was just a jarring moment for many of us (including a few on here) and I reckon DG's "pleasing" has to be a wind-up. It just felt a bit "wrong". I would put that better but I'm trying to avoid spoilers.

[Rogin the Armchair fan]

Cryptic clue rather than wind-up, I thought.

[DCI Harry Batt]

I missed the jarring personally, as I had seen chatter about the jarring and so was not only not jarred but actually got it in two.

[Evariste Euler Gauss]

Cryptic clue rather than wind-up, I thought.

Thanks Rogin. Exhibit no.94 in "why I hate crosswords".

[Sporting]

Cryptic clue rather than wind-up, I thought.

So can someone parse it?

[Discordant Resonance]

6 - had got letters 2, 4, and 5 in order by go 3, but that still left multiple possibilities.

[San Bernardhinault]

I was a little bit cross about the kerfuffle meaning the internet was covered in spoilers. Apart from that, I was quite amused about people being cross.

Agree.

[Evariste Euler Gauss]

Actually, were people "cross"? Or were they "pissed"?

[Evariste Euler Gauss]

On the basis that anyone who doesn't want their Wordle of the day spoiled knows not to look:

(19) Luke Christensen on Twitter: "Wordle 207 6/6 ⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜ ⬜ " / Twitter

[caja-dglh]

https://sweardle.glitch.me/

I am enjoying absurdle, which basically starts with any word and based on your guesses eliminates possible words from the wordle set until only one is possible or various letter sets become fixed.

[Duncan Gardner]

"Pleasing feature", DG? I assume that was intended as a wind-up. Still, the puzzle is available on a "take it or leave it" basis, and I'll keep taking it. We've all been warned now.

I genuinely like it while realising that you don't (and assuming that you aren't really wound up)

[Evariste Euler Gauss]

and assuming that you aren't really wound up

Assuming correctly, of course!

[Evariste Euler Gauss]

That "absurdle" game is really good!

[diggedy derek]

Yeah, it's great.

[Toby Gymshorts]

I enjoyed Absurdle. I feel like 8 guesses is pretty good (it's probably not).

[diggedy derek]

You can narrow it down to, say, only using one less usual vowel and then it'll usually be something ending with Y. Great fun.

[Discordant Resonance]

Even when you guess none correct in Absurdle, 5 is my PB to date.

[Wouter D]

Even when you guess none correct in Absurdle, 5 is my PB to date.

5 is my PB too, and guessing correct early in the game may not be ideal. This adversarial challenge is great.

Here be spoilers: Show

I started with DOILY, which gives you nothing, following with TAUPE, when you get the A in the wrong spot (and all other vowels are now gone). I tried WRACK as third word, which gave me ACK in green. I though that that was pretty neat, but then I found out that it wasn't. This game doesn't allow you to put in guesses where you do not use the letters you've already guessed correctly, and far too many options are still open at this point (SHACK, SMACK, SNACK, ABACK, KNACK, off the top of my head). I couldn't find a way to beat the adversarial game in fewer than six words by this route.

So on to my second approach, starting again with DOILY and TAUPE, but putting SNACK as third choice. This gives the A in the right spot and the S in the wrong one. Fourth guess was BRASH, which gives both the A and the S in the right spot. And then for the fifth guess, AMASS is the only option.