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Excuse me if this observation has been made before, but I have noted that whatever the wordle of the day is or however improbable it would be as an opener (because of using infrequent or doubled-up consonants) the wordle bot always shows that word as around .5 of 1 percent of all the openers for that day. I can only conclude that approximately that percentage of all wordle players are - to put this kindly - employing information gained from another source. Or not so kindly - cheating. That’s not an unknown phenomenon when the stakes are high, but what are the stakes here? Is it that you brag to your friends that you got the day’s wordle in one guess, as if that were showing something especially brilliant (when, even if you did this honestly, it would be only the merest luck)? Or is it the same corps doing this game after game for the purpose of fouling up the Bot’s analysis of the day’s play? Is the intention to subvert the idea of the game itself? I have a hard time arriving at any rationale that makes sense.
I ask these questions not because I think they’re the most important ones in the world or because I’m personally perturbed by this phenomenon but merely as a student of human nature and because I’m simply curious. Does anyone know someone who does this? Or have other speculations as to the motivation of those who do?
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Maybe a few are cheating, but speaking from personal experience, I have often used the same starter word, but frequently just start with a 5 letter word that pops into my head and twice I have lucked into hitting the word on the first try. I prefer to think the statistical chance/probability of hitting the word on the first try is based largely on real players and not cheaters.
Eta: Per gemini, 10-14.5M people play it daily across all platforms. Can’t do statistical probability off the top of my head but surely there will be people who get the word on the first try by chance.
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Thanks for your thoughts, jym.
It must happen by pure chance once in a while, especially when the word of the day is a plausible wordle opener - i.e. one without seldom-used consonants like “j” or “z” or “v” and not doubling up any letter. Like you I use a different word as an opener every day, with full awareness that most of them are not optimal. That adds to the interest, and sometiimes these suboptimal openings turn out better than the usual ones. However, I would never use a word like “jazzy” or “jelly” or “puppy.” I suspect you wouldn’t either. But I have noted over many months now that no matter how ill-suited the word of the day is to being an opener it will always garner enough users to place it somewhere around the 15 to 20th most frequently used opening word and will comprise around .5 of 1 percent of that day’s openers. Then it will promptly disappear the following day. These percentages don’t change even when the word is a plausible opener. That too is suspicious.
I’m no mathematician, but I say only that if this game were played for stakes in Vegas, the House would explain this pattern in only one way - prior knowledge. But this isn’t Vegas, it’s just a game without stakes, so why would anyone do this?
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Identical with WordleBot.
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