A "Wordle-ish" game

[SmartMersenne]

By the way, I also warned about this before:

Originally Posted by SmartMersenne

On top of everything, I hope that there are no mistakes among the above scores.

[Dobri]

Originally Posted by henryzz

Apparently, I have proved that I am useless at scoring. I have scored lumberjack on two separate occasions and missed that.

SCHIZOTYPY is indeed my word.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schizotypy
...

I stopped guessing after commenting about the 'C letter because my custom Wolfram script was returning an empty set for selected words which were obtained from https://www.dcode.fr/longest-word-solver.

Here is an extract from Wikipedia about certain aspects of schizotopy: "Both the unusual experiences and cognitive disorganisation aspects have been linked to creativity and artistic achievement."
So, Henryzz is good in my book.

[SmartMersenne]

Originally Posted by Dobri

Here is an extract from Wikipedia about certain aspects of schizotopy: "Both the unusual experiences and cognitive disorganisation aspects have been linked to creativity and artistic achievement."

Good, I can start using this excuse, but I don't think people will buy it.

Btw it is schizotypy not schizotopy

[SmartMersenne]

Originally Posted by henryzz

mastermind - 3 yellow 0 green
lumberjack - 0 yellow 0 green
winnowings - 3 yellow 0 green
hypophysis - 7 yellow 0 green
fiftyfifty - 3 yellow 1 green
visionists - 3 yellow 1 green
equalizing - 2 yellow 0 green
physiotypy - 3 yellow 5 green
tumblerful - 1 yellow 0 green
squintiest - 1 yellow 2 green
physiology - 5 yellow 2 green
physiocrat - 6 yellow 1 green


Apologies. The others have also been checked.

Not trying to beat a dead horse but "physiocrat" should have 7 yellows and 1 green.

[SmartMersenne]

Originally Posted by SmartMersenne

I think words_alpha.txt (or words.txt) under

https://github.com/dwyl/english-words

maybe a better choice as it has 370K (or 467K) words.

Going forward let's use one of the dictionaries in this github directory.

[Dobri]

Originally Posted by SmartMersenne

... Btw it is schizotypy not schizotopy

Well spotted, 9 green indeed.

[kruoli]

May we come back to the original topic? We could of course spawn a new thread with mastermind-like rules.

My personal opinion: It is more fun to not use a word that it as difficult as possible.

[EdH]

Originally Posted by SmartMersenne

Good, I can start using this excuse, but I don't think people will buy it.

Btw it is schizotypy not schizotopy

Neither of which is in the list in the github reference.

Originally Posted by kruoli

May we come back to the original topic? We could of course spawn a new thread with mastermind-like rules.

My personal opinion: It is more fun to not use a word that it as difficult as possible.

Although I'm tending toward not participating often due to this becoming more of a programming exercise than a mind puzzle, I tend to agree that if mastermind is prefered, a separate thread should be started (or the title changed).

[SmartMersenne]

Originally Posted by EdH

Neither of which is in the list in the github reference.

I think this was already established at the outset.

Originally Posted by EdH

Although I'm tending toward not participating often due to this becoming more of a programming exercise than a mind puzzle, I tend to agree that if mastermind is prefered, a separate thread should be started (or the title changed).

Good idea.

[cxc]

I would prefer to split the mastermind variant, the last word having been rather fiendish to solve, unfortunately. (My next guess would have been phytosophy, which I found through various brute forces of possible anagrams, but these searches were all in vain as they lacked the letter C as an input). Mastermind can be solved algorithmically (there’s a very efficient one by Knuth) but I would prefer to see simpler examples that don’t require extraordinary methods.

I am using a couple of scripts, but typically to verify my work after I’ve gone to the effort to find viable guesses with my head. For example with joyride, I came up with provide and bromide as possible guesses (and discovered after I double checked that outride and joyride were also possible words).

[SmartMersenne]

Originally Posted by cxc

I am using a couple of scripts, but typically to verify my work after I’ve gone to the effort to find viable guesses with my head. For example with joyride, I came up with provide and bromide as possible guesses (and discovered after I double checked that outride and joyride were also possible words).

I am doing the same for wordle. If I can guess the word on my own before I run out of options or tries, I do so. If all else fails, I use my script.