Because Wordle is a trick.
The trick is that it makes you feel far smarter than you really are. People are impressed with their own solutions.
It makes us sad to see people fall for the trick.
The trick is that it makes you feel far smarter than you really are. People are impressed with their own solutions.
It makes us sad to see people fall for the trick.
https://twitter.com/mmasnick/status/1481080702531928065
For me today, this makes me look real smart, I got it in 3 on hard mode
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But when I look at the odds, I doubt I'm smart. With knowledge given at step #2, I had a 1 in 5 (20%) getting it right on the third guess ("drinn" isn't in their word list)
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But when I look at the odds, I doubt I'm smart. With knowledge given at step #2, I had a 1 in 5 (20%) getting it right on the third guess ("drinn" isn't in their word list)
Presumably, the website records guesses, makes statistical studies, and can adjust their puzzles to be harder or easier. In other words, choosing a word like DRINK as the right answer rather than CRINK or PRINK. Is Wordle playing fair?
In any case, we get people impressed with their success when it's just statistics. Statistically, if my third guess were fair, I'd have guessed it on round #5, which is relatively bad. But I only tweet my #3 scores and not my #5s.
So we are being manipulated. I feel like the cat who gives me suspicious looks playing with the laser pointer, as if the game were completely rigged to make me feel good.
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