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There are already copycats on the Apple and Google App stores. It is possible he could get those taken down.

He will sell eventually, but I think the not-so-obvious URL and simple design add to it right now.
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CrimsonNBlue wrote: Wed Jan 12, 2022 9:32 am There are already copycats on the Apple and Google App stores. It is possible he could get those taken down.

He will sell eventually, but I think the not-so-obvious URL and simple design add to it right now.
He needs to develop some sort of variant on it, it's just too easy to have staying power.

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Is this an App or website that youz guyz are playin? I wanna play.
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jhawks99 wrote: Wed Jan 12, 2022 11:47 am Is this an App or website that youz guyz are playin? I wanna play.
Link was in my OP: https://www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/

It went viral a few weeks ago after I think Jimmy Fallon said he loved it.
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I've seen it everywhere. I made a guess. Got two letters in green and then went totally brain dead. No idea what it could be.
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Ha! figgered it out. Got today's word in 4 tries.

Whatcha got, loosers?
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CrimsonNBlue wrote: Wed Jan 12, 2022 9:32 am There are already copycats on the Apple and Google App stores. It is possible he could get those taken down.

He will sell eventually, but I think the not-so-obvious URL and simple design add to it right now.
Hosting fees have probably jumped.
Put up some surveys.
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Wordle 208 3/6

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Same here fish.

Wordle 208 3/6

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Gah, took me 6. I had the right idea of what kind of word it would be but guessed the wrong one twice.
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Got very lucky with second guess. Don't know how Fish went from his 2nd to his 3rd. lol
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It feels like MasterMind with letters rather than colors. well, plus they have to combine to be an actual word too.
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NewtonHawk11 wrote: Thu Jan 13, 2022 9:12 am Got very lucky with second guess. Don't know how Fish went from his 2nd to his 3rd. lol
I was 95% sure the A needed to be #1, and that I needed to clear the B (among D, L and a few other things). I couldn't think of great options (that didn't involve duplicating something that I already knew was bad), so I shot my shot. Pretty lucky.
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Mrs 99 had to figure it out for me. I thought this thing was like wheel of fortune.
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jhawks99 wrote: Thu Jan 13, 2022 12:04 pm Mrs 99 had to figure it out for me. I thought this thing was like wheel of fortune.
I think that's where I get in trouble early sometimes. Letter hunting alone isn't going to cut it.
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CrimsonNBlue wrote: Thu Jan 13, 2022 12:07 pm
jhawks99 wrote: Thu Jan 13, 2022 12:04 pm Mrs 99 had to figure it out for me. I thought this thing was like wheel of fortune.
I think that's where I get in trouble early sometimes. Letter hunting alone isn't going to cut it.
Yeah. The first two moves are everything.
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jfish26 wrote: Thu Jan 13, 2022 12:17 pm
CrimsonNBlue wrote: Thu Jan 13, 2022 12:07 pm
jhawks99 wrote: Thu Jan 13, 2022 12:04 pm Mrs 99 had to figure it out for me. I thought this thing was like wheel of fortune.
I think that's where I get in trouble early sometimes. Letter hunting alone isn't going to cut it.
Yeah. The first two moves are everything.
I don't want to post my current strategy on move 1 and 2 b/c I think it's fun for people to figure it out, but I think my current strategy is best for definitely solving the puzzle in 6, but not great for solving it in 3--which the latter requires a good deal of luck.
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Helpful is a word with a lot of vowels to start.
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pdub wrote: Thu Jan 13, 2022 12:29 pm Helpful is a word with a lot of vowels to start.
Yeah, if you read around there are a couple "optimal" first words (which are hardly even words so much as relics of iterations in the English language). I don't use those, but I do have a few stock starters that are about what you'd expect (think of getting RSTLNE in Wheel, and add in a vowel).
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