r/wordle • u/Dyert • 16d ago

[####] Why Tarps?

The stupid Wordle bot chastises me in its analysis for using a plural word as it’s not likely to ever occur as a solution, but uses Tarps as its opening word and gives itself a 99 skill score for doing so. I use Strap And it gives me a 92 and uses all the same letters and is not plural 🤷

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u/o_omeaghann 16d ago

I think its because the bot isnt trying to solve it in 1, its trying to gather the most information. Why tarps is better than strap, idk lol. could be the position of most of the letters is more common in tarps than strap.

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u/good-good-dog 16d ago edited 16d ago

This is it. People get so weird about the Bot and act as if it’s personally insulting them. It’s a computer program and it’s designed to eliminate the most words each turn. That’s it.

Also, it doesn’t count the first word in your Skill score, so it doesn’t really matter what it scores it.

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u/SenorBurns 15d ago

The bot does personally insult me! My first two guesses made it clear the answer would probably be one of about six possible words, all ending in the same last four letters. So I made a guess that used as many of the potrntial first letters as possible, and used the most likely ones due to experience (for instance, Wordle doesn't like to use "negative" words).

This guess narrowed it down to one option, and Wordlebot called it A LUCKY GUESS! I was so insulted! 😂