Since we had such a bountiful response to grammar, punctuation, and spelling topic, I thought there might be some fellow word nerds here. In this context, word nerds are people who play Wordle and its many offshoots. My sister and I play the following every day, add up scores, so see who wins for the day.
Anybody else playing these?
My wife’s undergraduate degree is in Linguistics, and I’ve caught the bug a little. I occasionally play Octordle… once I started on that Wordle just seemed boring.
I play Wordle while I eat my lunch every day at work…I didn’t know about these other things so I’ll be checking them out now!
My current wordle stats
Some day you’ll hit that lucky 1st guess!
Sorry I am 2 days late to this post because it was Masters weekend 
Wordle is the first thing I do every morning.
Ernie, she might enjoy Phrazle, which is a game in which you solve a phrase or expression. It works similar to Wordle in that the letters turn yellow and green, but with the addition of purple when the letter is in the phrase but not in the word.
Example of phrases would be “once in a blue moon”, “bite the bullet”, “take it on the chin”, kick the bucket", and the like.
Thanks for sharing your stats. I never created a NYT account, and I do my puzzles on a couple of different devices so I don’t have my exact stats. But I do keep a spreadsheet (I am an accountant, so of course I do). My average score for a solved word is 3.7. That doesn’t take into account the times I’ve tapped out after 6 guesses, but that’s been few and far between. Before NYT there was a wordle archive and I went back and played all of them to the beginning.
Logan, my sister’s already hit her lucky 1st guess. I have the original Wordle list and I was slated to hit mine sometime next year, but when NYT took it over they re-ordered the list of words, added some, removed some, so I don’t know when mine will happen.
Thanks! I just tried it, and got “off the cuff” in 4 guesses. I’ll show it to her tonight.
My daughter is 5.9 years old and learning to spell, so we do Wordle together most nights. She or my 3.9-year-old son pick the first word (often “truck” when it’s his choice). Then I have to scramble to find the next word, then I have my daughter spell it. It adds a neat handicap to the game for me.
Also I love crosswords. Thanks, mom.
Ernie, based on your puzzle it looks like you’re using a different version of Phrazle than I am. nothing wrong with that, most of these games didn’t trademark their names so there are more than one called the same thing. I play Phrazle on solitaired.com, and we get two phrases a day. Off the Cuff was not either of yesterday’s answers for me. It doesn’t matter until you’re comparing scores with someone else to be using the same site.
Also, you will all be pleased to know that Dumpster Fire was a solved phrase a few weeks ago.
One complaint I have about these games (and I hesitate to complain, they’re all free), is the lack of consistency on the keyboard. Some games have Enter on the left and Delete/Backspace on the right, while others are reversed. Only one of the games I play has the option to switch the keys.
Jason, I love that you’re playing with your kids. It would be a good idea to have a kid’s version, because so many of the words are a bit tough for a kid, including today’s. There are versions of Wordle and offshoots that use 4 or 6 letters. I find them more difficult. The 4 letters because there are so many options, and the 6 harder because, well, it’s harder to think of 6 letter words than 5 letters.
Outstanding.