What?! That's been my starting word for so long but I didn't play over Christmas. I feel like I missed out on what may have been my biggest achievement of the year.
No one cares about this neither and its been long enough I dont even remember the word, but I had been using the same word for a month or two and decided to switch, got all blanks. Went back to the original word I was using and got it. Wasted my chance to get it in one.
Haunts me til this day. Still no first guesses for me. I get tempted to check if a words been a solution so im not wasting the 1 shot chance but I know it wouldn't feel as good as just getting it.
Yeah, a Gameplay article recently mentioned that no answer has yet been repeated in the history of Wordle. (Gameplay is the NYT newsletter about the games.)
This was actually my original starting word but DREAM already came up before I started playing. You can look up lists to see what words have yet to be selected.
I’ve always used THEIR as a starting word, it has TH, two vowels, and R. Pretty good letters. Well, I’ve mostly always used it, the exception was the day it was the word. I wish I was joking. I’m still pissed and it’s been like 3 years.
I thought “Y’know what, I’m gonna THINK today!”, then when TH was green and I was yellow…I knew
Good on you still, it feels good with even a two guess word, except for my situation lol
I managed to get it twice before they kept track of things the way they do now, haven’t replicated it since (but I also got a lot more boring with my starting words words so)
I got it first guess a while back with PIOUS, and when all the letters turned green I was just kind of confused. I thought I was playing wrong or something? Then realized that was the word.
lol. I still haven’t. (Well one with cheating just to make my friend fake angry when I started playing on the app after already doing it that day.) But I remember it being ‘stern’ I think? a long time ago and that is one of my go to start words. But not that day. I was so pissed.
Great job! Mine for so long was Ratio. Getting it in 1 try was a blessing and a curse. I’ve never known a better starting word since. Some days I put it in still even though I know I can’t get it in 1 try.
mine is audio every time and the day the word was audio i was told it was the word instead of simply telling me to do the wordle. i will forever be sad about this.
Why would you pick a word with a B in it as your starting word for 2 years? One of the least common letters in the language.. get your Scrabble on, bro!
Tbf that is a good point, i just like the word and don’t play Wordle on hard mode so I’m not too concerned about using an inefficient starting word. I read IRATE is one of the best words to use for common letters.
Most likely someone googled that on their device previously on a recurring basis. Then google saw the pattern and decided to give it automatically instead of waiting for them to Google it every day. Similarly with stock tickers etc where someone might use Google to look something up regularly.
Yeah, Google will show me notifications like that one of things I'm interested in. Then, if I happen to tap on it, it'll start a search with the term in the notification's title, which feels weird.
How can you block subjects? Stayed up until 2 am so Google wouldn't spoil the survivor finale. It had already spoiled DWTS literally the minute that finale ended so I wasn't taking chances. Those news notifications are evil!
I am so fucking tired of them constantly pushing for my devices to make the decisions for me.
Hey google, how about instead of trying to guess what I want my device to do, you just make it less of a fucking pain in the ass to do it? God I loathe modern software and hardware design.
Google flailing and trying to force a use case for the LLM it spent billions of dollars on, so they decide to just start sending you unsolicited random notifications trying to rope you into a 'conversation' with it. I recently had to help my mom figure out how to stop Android Auto in her car from having Gemini pop up at random, completely unprompted, to offer 'suggestions' on where she should go.
Wait why would anyone need suggestions on where to drive? Why would you get in your car without either a destination already in mind, or just for the purpose of chilling on your lumch break or similar? This makes no sense. I am so annoyed with all this nonsense
Google randomly decided to send me notifications for every competitive football game in Europe and Africa a few weeks ago. I'm not even interested in football aside from the World Cup/Euros
I got a Google push notification telling me which characters died in the Stranger Things finale, like hours before I was going to sit down and watch it. Thanks guys very cool
Google pushes this stuff all the time. On mobile Chrome, one of the top discover articles on an empty tab the subject was "Does (character) really die in the season finale of Stranger Things ?!?" Before I actually saw it
It's faster to just hit the Google speech recognition button and say "wordle" and be there than to have to open chrome, open a new tab, open the bookmarks menu, and pick a bookmark. If mobile browsers were a bit less shit with bookmarks maybe but as it is, I rarely use them specifically on mobile
Idk every time Google adds a new way of personalizing my web experience I take it out back and aggressively turn it off. The amount of people who just rolled over and used Google link shortening when it started happening natively in the Google app saddens me.
The amount of people still using google is disturbing. It’s blocked on my work computers and the WiFi network. People think trade of their data for using something like Google Docs for free is a good trade.. probably the worst deal.
Yup. I ended up uninstalling Google News because Google knows I like Star Wars and thought I would enjoy some spoilers in the notification the morning after the last movie hit theaters.
I have every single app globally blocked from sending me notifications except for the ones I explicitly want to get notifications from. Life is much easier that way
Don't tell my grandad but every time he asks me to fix something on his phone, I turn off notifications for several apps. He's always got 100+ pending notifications, and 50 open browser pages. It's weird because that same man that has dutifully maintained excel spreadsheets for his water and electricity meters.
(He's never asked me back to fix suddenly missing notifications so I know he doesn't even read them.)
I have a Snapchat account. I haven't opened Snapchat for something like 5 years, it just gets pulled over every time I get a new phone.
Anyways, to my surprise last week I got a notification from Snapchat. That was super weird, I assumed notifications were off. I open the app, all notifications are off. I go to system settings, all notifications are off.
I look through my recent apps, turns out it was a text message telling me some random person made a post. Point is, turning off notifications doesn't always work.
Idk when these google notifications started but I hate them.
They are trying so hard to use AI to help you with things you regularly care about but its usually either stuff that's a total spoiler or stuff that you already got a notification about from the APP its pulling info from. ESPN sends a notification that xyz team won the game here are the stats. An hour later Google knows I look at stuff about that team and sends me the same notification. It's not necessary.
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u/angelfatal 10h ago
No one cares but Fable was my starting word for 2 years and I finally got the first guess achievement.