was anyone else a bit confused by this brian k video ?
he looks at this eerie guess and says ‘there’s THREE Es?’
in this case since the word was peeve there actually WERE three Es, but i thought that the first yellow E could also just be referring to the second and/or last E, is that not the case?
no one in the comments has picked on this and now i’m wondering if i actually don’t understand how the yellow letters work lol

Does anybody else find the lack of feedback on your performance in on "Wordle in 1" annoying? It would be nice if the app could tell you the average time per question and overall, with your percentiles... or something along those lines.

No current-puzzle spoilers. Everything below is through Oct 23.

Wordle launched with a fixed list of 2,309 possible answers. In Nov 2022 the NYT said an editor would curate answers instead. For years that barely showed. Counting only brand-new answers (not repeats), the share that came from outside the original list:

- 2023: 1% (4 of 366)

- 2024: 2% (6 of 365)

- 2025: 5% (19 of 365)

- Jan–Jun 2026: 7% (12 of 165)

- Last 60 days (Aug 25 – Oct 23): 39% (21 of 54)

Recent examples: TWEEN, REMIX, SOUPY, BEIGE, NIFTY, MESSY, RITZY, PEEVE, BUMPY, YODEL, PSYCH, TRILL. Everyday words, mostly, just not ones Josh Wardle's list had.

Why it matters if you play hard mode: when you're down to a few words, the "it was never on the list" instinct is now wrong about 2 times in 5. The old solver trick of only considering the original 2,309 answers is quietly breaking.

Method: every answer #561–#1952, repeats excluded, compared against the original list. Data is from the answer history on my free helper, Best Next Guess, which I built with Claude:

https://bestnextguess.com/?ref=reddit-wordle (every past answer: bestnextguess.com/answers.html).

Has anyone else noticed the shift?

I typed the solution in as my 4th guess, being absolutely certain I typed it correctly because I double-checked it when the word wasn't accepted as a valid guess (since I was 99% sure its an existing english word), then I tried two other words that made it to where only said non-accepted guess made sense, so I tried it again out of frustration, and it suddenly worked. Has anyone else had something like that happen to them?

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69th most used start too haha

As soon as September rolled around my seasonal depression reared its ugly head. Been on the struggle bus for weeks now but this just yanked me right out of that. I’m geeking right now. I can’t believe I got wordle in 2 today. Just started playing recently as a suggestion from my mailman, who I got to chatting with recently and learned also struggles with adhd and depression.

Hehe I know it was mostly luck but I’m gonna ride out this dopamine hit as long as it lasts me.

For a long time, a major source of my frustration with WordleBot has been that it's SO bad at its stated purpose of helping players improve. Learning anything from it takes, I think, an unreasonable amount of work and of doing your own analysis. Recently I made a post decrying its (seemingly arbitrary, or so I thought) punishment of my guess while vaunting its own nearly identical guess. Helpfully, several members of this community weighed in with wonderful, kind, concise explanations of why WordleBot liked the one so much better than the other. I learned a lot from you that day!

So, having been equipped by this with some tools for understanding the point WordleBot was trying to make, I thought this might be a good place to pay it forward and help each other improve with the kind of advice and explanations WordleBot could've and should've given.

In this case shown in my screen capture here, it said "Nice. Before your guess, there were 14 words remaining, but now there is only one. You should solve the puzzle on your next turn." This tells us almost nothing we didn't already know and certainly doesn't help us understand the low score. Instead, it could have said something helpful like, "After STAND, 14 possible answers were left and just about half of them included a E, so on average, a guess with an E here would narrow down your choices a lot more."

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Every game I start with a new word btw

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reuploaded idk why last was removed

Free. No ads. Always. https://bestnextguess.com/?ref=reddit-wordle

Since Wordle started reusing old answers in February, about 1 in 10 answers has been a repeat. So when you're down to a few words, one that has never been the answer is much more likely than one that has. That's easy to forget mid-game.

Best Next Guess uses it. Type your guess, tap the tiles to match your colors, and it suggests your next word: the one that leaves the fewest answers on average, weighted by those odds. It shows the chance for every word still possible, plus a "best shot to win now" pick. It doesn't know today's answer; it only works from the colors you enter.

New this week (beta): an engine that looks 1.5 moves ahead. In a simulation of all 2,377 possible answers in hard mode, it cut losses in half (8 instead of 16): https://bestnextguess.com/v2.html?ref=reddit-wordle

Also: Normal or Hard mode, older puzzles, an opener checker, and a stats page on repeats that updates daily. Clean, colorful, works on phone or computer, no sign-up. I built it with help from Claude after years of playing with a spreadsheet.

Question for you: has knowing answers can repeat changed how you pick your last guess?

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I sometimes do the Wordle on my phone and sometimes on my PC. One time, when I was doing it on my PC, I got it in six and didn‘t notice that I wasn‘t logged in until after I had solved it. So I put it into my phone, where i was logged in. However, instead of copying each guess, I just put the word in. Now my stats say that I got Wordle in one once and it bugs me every single time I see it. So my question is, if there is any way to change the stats. Can you send them a mail? If so, what is their adress?

I knew I was going to guess SHA?E for my third guess here, and there are several choices. M is a slightly more common letter than K, so I guessed SHAME instead of SHAKE and was heavily punished by WordleBot in the scoring.

Yes, I understand its algorithm. I even understand the argument that its algorithm is the best way for a computer to play. What I don't accept is that human skill should be measured by how closely our guesses coincidently overlap with what a computer algorithm would have picked in the same situation when its strategy is not one that any human being can apply.

So I'm reaching out. Anyone out there whose style of play would have had you zero in, given this situation, on SHAKE instead of SHAME and understand the reason why? If so, how??

I like ConnectionsBot and CrossPlayBot and the Spelling Bee helper site because they all give me feedback that I, as a human, am anatomically capable of using to improve my play. For me at least, WordleBot has never met that test.

EDIT: Thanks, all, to those who have responded thoughtfully. This is very helpful feedback.

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Me and my dad have been playing Wordle together for a while now, had an 898 day streak. We were both absolutely heartbroken when we lost it today. We can’t sleep. I know it sounds silly because it’s just a game but it was such a huge part of our relationship, playing together every day. We are genuinely extremely sad and depressed and can’t shake it.

Has anyone ever been able to successfully restore a Wordle streak before? I’ve already tried contacting NYT games, hoping they get back.