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1000th Wordle ?

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It is fun but can be frustrating - I try not to cheat. finally got it a normal distribution with a little skew - I came on-board late ! And Sophomores:  Beware the Ides of March ! Best Regards, Chuck, WB9KZY http://wb9kzy.com/ham.htm  

SLATE is working well

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 This morning I got the Wordle in 2 tries:   The bar graph doesn't show the failure bar which would be 46.   Update February 16, 2024:  maybe SLATE doesn't work that well after all: Best Regards, Chuck, WB9KZY http://wb9kzy.com/ham.htm

Salty

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I got an email from the NY Times about Wordle.  Basically the Wordle Bot says that slate is the best starting word.  So I started using slate instead of aegis a few days ago and today I got salty in 2 guesses: So maybe slate is better ?  Certainly letter position also is important in addition to letter frequency.  We'll see. I still intend to create a Morse code version of Wordle:  real soon now :) Best Regards, Chuck, WB9KZY http://wb9kzy.com/ham.htm

Wordle list

I started playing the Wordle game recently.   https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html    It's fun and although challenging, it's not impossible and especially not time consuming since it's one-a-day.  BTW, for no really good reason my first guess is usually AEGIS Anyway I naturally thought about possibly converting it to a Morse code format.   The first step (in my opinion) was to get the full list of words to date.  I've put them into a text file and uploaded to the cloud where I'll update daily. https://u.pcloud.link/publink/show?code=XZI7fVVZ7TnI69BQuAQjtg2SY1yzASRT4ngk I dunno if I'll actually create a keyer type version, the basis is there in the MegaPK-II but the word storage would be limited.  It might be better to have an external eeprom of a larger size that could be filled with a computer connection. A keyer chip plus an eeprom might also be used for something like a Morse book ?  A book in text format could be downloaded from Gu...