Happy first birthday, Wordle! Here’s 5 ways you should improve

[admin]

Wordle celebrates its first birthday today, but how can it ensure people are still playing for years to come? Here's how the game needs to change.

Happy first birthday, Wordle! Here’s 5 ways you should improve : Read more

 

[ShawmK]

I would love to have some way of knowing whether the word I'm about to play is actually a potential solution.

The list of "official" solutions seems to be surprisingly random, and omits quite a few five-letter words that you would think would be perfectly valid options. As a result, I have occasionally wasted a move by entering what should be a plausible solution, only to be told later by Wordlebot that it wasn't on "The List".

I know that they have removed vulgar words, and also some provocative words like "SLAVE" and "LYNCH", but I have also discovered (the hard way) that some perfectly innocuous words are missing. TINGE, PRIMP and ROMAN are all words I have tried in recent weeks that are apparently not in Wordle's vocabulary. If I had known that in advance, I could have kept looking, rather than waste a move.

Even the removal of "vulgar" words seems to be a bit inconsistent. PUSSY is missing (which has a perfectly innocent meaning) but HUSSY is included (which only means one thing). And why have they removed PUSSY but kept SEMEN? I can't decide whether that's sexist...

Yes, I know it's "just a game" but this sort of thing irritates me, slightly.

Love your daily commentary, by the way!