Mark’s opening word sequence currently: ABODE BOTHY CROFT DONGA GUNDY HOUSE IGLOO JACAL LODGE MANOR PLACE RANCH Theme: 5-letter words for various types of houses, in alphabetical order SHACK could be next
ELVEN is legitimate -- it's been around since Old English, as Tolkien certainly knew. Of course, before him it was normally a noun, with the same sense as ELF, particularly a female one. The earlier (Modern English) adjective is ELFIN.
Wordle by the Numbers - Seven Standard mode failure rate: 2.4% Standard mode average guesses: 3.9 Hard mode failure rate: 0.6% Hard mode average guesses: 3.8 Standard / Hard 09/21/2024 Seven 2.4% 3.9 / 0.6% 3.8 09/20/2024 Smoke 1.4% 3.9 /
STARE-SHEEP-SEVEN I was laughing at myself when what came to mind for the second guess was using a double letter already. But that turned out lucky today.
Same here. I wasn't expecting it to be right, but I needed to rearrange the letters I already had an get some new ones into the mix. It was all I could think of at the time.
The Shrinking Wordle-verse Words left after Ranch - 188 After Twine - 24 After Dozen - 3 (Seven, Queen, Lumen) After Queen - 1 After Seven - 0 Skill: 92/99 Luck: 27/99 Data is from Wordlebot.
@@nf1824Two of the first three comments today are announcements that one of their guesses was Semen. I hope that's not a trend. BTW, not a legal Wordle answer.
Once you're pretty lost on round 4, you gotta try a word that's just meant to get some more letters on the board, forgetting the already placed letters
The sad music had me a little bit worried, but I didn't really think this one going to get you. Glad I was right 🙂 I didn't get stuck too long thinking of SEVEN, but when i thought of it I was absolutely certain it had been the answer before. Tried it anyway because at that point i couldn't think of anything else.
People were thinking semen before seven? Really? ok. After the fourth guess I went to seven right away and it surprised me how long it took for him to think of the number. My first Wordle guess is often PIOUS or ADIEU as it helps with checking quickly for vowels. I also tend to look for more common letters first such as S, R, T, H, and N.
I got lucky with my 3rd guess after hunting around for some vowels: RAPID LOUSY EVENT SEVEN 🎉 yay I'd have had no hesitation using SEMEN, if I had thought of it! We are not known for being prudish in NZ. Lol
Im glad I'm not the only one who thought of that word. 🙈 Am i the only one miffed when the wordlebot analysis says "that's a valid word, matches all the clues so far, but I'll be give it a skill rsting of zero because I don't like it?"
CRATE > SHELF > SINEW > SEVEN. It took me forever to think of SEVEN though. I think Mark's right -- the short "e" made it easy to overlook that choice, especially after thinking of SEMEN.
Thank you for not choosing the word that now appears 100x in the comments... Maybe it's because I'm eating breakfast, I dunno, but UGH! Although it or ELVEN would have got you the answer on the 6th try, I think. Doesn't matter, we love the long videos too! 👏👏👏
I think the problem was that it is an Authors word, one devised by the writer Tolkien which he drew from old English in to its modern variant as we know it, so not so much that Mark disparages it as that he felt the puzzle setters were unlikely to use it as it is not an actual word.
@@UKStevieB I'm not sure I understand how we get from "an author devised it" to "not an actual word", though? Every word in English was invented by someone, a fair number of which were invented by authors. What makes something an actual word? The criteria that jump to mind for me (assuming we don't want to dive into linguistic technicalities) would be "in dictionaries", "has an agreed upon meaning" and "evidence of use by multiple people", and elven seems to fit all of those.
I am also going to weigh in on this discussion and disagree that he "devised" it. He modernized or revived it. While elvish or elfin are and were more commonly accepted terms, elven was used as an adjective for of or having to do with elves as far back as the 1300s. It isn't in many dictionaries due to falling out favor perhaps because it was considered a wrong usage of the word (which was based on the old English term for female elves), but calling it an author's word is an oversimplification. I do however agree that the puzzle setters may not consider it an actual word, due to the extended period in which it was rarely used.
@@fruitshuit We get from "Author devised" to being an actual word by its being accepted as modern parlance, the same as an expression such as "Catch22" being author devised and just in Joseph Hellers' book of the same name to being in accepted usage and understood by most. Due to Peter Jackson and the re-popularising of LOTR I agree with you that it has crossed that threshold, apparently Mark does not and thus feels it would be unlikely to be used in this kind of puzzle. I just do not feel that Mark was "disparaging" the word. Your mileage may vary.
I also actually guessed semen before I could think of a number, which I finally got in my last guess. Does that say anything about me? Anyway, Mark - you just made me feel so much better about myself. Thank you for being human every once in a while 💐
Just like me, with the difference I typed in "semen" without hesitation 😂😂😂 And I thought about seven more time than I should have. Funny thing a human's mind is.
MARVEL CHARACTERS BONUS ROUND DAY 134 DONNA-UNRIP-THENS-NEWSY-SEVEN I mean, I should've gotten it faster, but today doesn't seem a day for fast solves.
I wasn't going to try semen but I couldn't think of anything else quickly, and I figured it would confirm the place of my yellow E. Tread>Slope>Semen>Seven
Don't apologize Mark, the long ones are our favorites
Well, it's the first time I've got a Wordle answer in seven!
Mark’s opening word sequence currently:
ABODE BOTHY CROFT DONGA GUNDY HOUSE IGLOO JACAL LODGE MANOR PLACE RANCH
Theme: 5-letter words for various types of houses, in alphabetical order
SHACK could be next
If he played "SEMEN", then he would have taken one more try, but he would have finished it in under a minute...!
He would have to say "Seven dozen queens twine their way around the ranch covered in semen."
but would finishing in under a minute be good or bad in that context? :P
Both my friend and I played SEMEN for our 4th guess. We both knew it wouldn't be right but it gave us all the info to get in for the 5th guess.
@@animatorZed Good because it leaves the question of where the semen came from… the rancher or the animals?
i laughed when Mark said he refused to write semen because I did yesterday hahaha
I like the short videos, I like the long videos. I like all the videos as long as they end all green. 😊
I’m glad I’m not the only person who can get tripped up by sounding out the possibilities. Thanks, Mark, I feel better.
ELVEN is legitimate -- it's been around since Old English, as Tolkien certainly knew. Of course, before him it was normally a noun, with the same sense as ELF, particularly a female one. The earlier (Modern English) adjective is ELFIN.
Imagine if tomorrows answer is EIGHT , that would be fitting wouldn’t it
I was nervous for your streak, Mark! Whew!
CRASH -> SPOIL -> STUNK -> SEVEN
Unusual to find no vowels until the very end.
I love how half of this is meta-guesses about how Victorian the morals of the setters are.
@@DarklordZagarna I think it's more about being family friendly...and avoiding criticism or controversy.
Wordle by the Numbers - Seven
Standard mode failure rate: 2.4%
Standard mode average guesses: 3.9
Hard mode failure rate: 0.6%
Hard mode average guesses: 3.8
Standard / Hard
09/21/2024 Seven 2.4% 3.9 / 0.6% 3.8
09/20/2024 Smoke 1.4% 3.9 /
Made it in 4: shirt, spend, snake, seven. Not at all tempted to use the Latin word for "seed," either. 😺
STARE-SHEEP-SEVEN
I was laughing at myself when what came to mind for the second guess was using a double letter already. But that turned out lucky today.
I actually went for semen on the third try just for the useful letters and to test if it had a second e. Was really useful in the end >,
Same here. I wasn't expecting it to be right, but I needed to rearrange the letters I already had an get some new ones into the mix. It was all I could think of at the time.
So did I, once I thought of it I just couldn't think of another word that fitted with what I had at that point.
Useful in the end might be debatable for some, but I'm glad it helped you solve the puzzle. 😀
Same here :)
Semen is never useful in the end.
The Shrinking Wordle-verse
Words left after Ranch - 188
After Twine - 24
After Dozen - 3 (Seven, Queen, Lumen)
After Queen - 1
After Seven - 0
Skill: 92/99
Luck: 27/99
Data is from Wordlebot.
But, it coule be SEMEN too, after DOZEN. It was my third quess btw...
@@nf1824Two of the first three comments today are announcements that one of their guesses was Semen. I hope that's not a trend. BTW, not a legal Wordle answer.
@@HaldaneSmith Well, obviously it was legal because "Wordle" accept it as valid guess.
@@nf1824yeah but not all legal words are possible wordle answers
@@nf1824Many words are valid guesses but not valid solutions. Wordlebot reports only valid solutions.
Was that "hopefully" in the beginning jinxing it?
Once you're pretty lost on round 4, you gotta try a word that's just meant to get some more letters on the board, forgetting the already placed letters
The sad music had me a little bit worried, but I didn't really think this one going to get you. Glad I was right 🙂
I didn't get stuck too long thinking of SEVEN, but when i thought of it I was absolutely certain it had been the answer before. Tried it anyway because at that point i couldn't think of anything else.
People were thinking semen before seven? Really? ok. After the fourth guess I went to seven right away and it surprised me how long it took for him to think of the number. My first Wordle guess is often PIOUS or ADIEU as it helps with checking quickly for vowels. I also tend to look for more common letters first such as S, R, T, H, and N.
I went to the wire on this one!
"Elven" as a word predates Tolkein, though he certainly did popularize it in fantasy.
I got lucky with my 3rd guess after hunting around for some vowels:
RAPID
LOUSY
EVENT
SEVEN 🎉 yay
I'd have had no hesitation using SEMEN, if I had thought of it!
We are not known for being prudish in NZ. Lol
Dozen was just wrong by 5!
I’m surprised I figured out Seven before Mark did.
That's Mickey Mantle's number. SEVEEEEENNNN
oh that made me chuckle
ARISE
STEEP
SEVEN
I think we all thought of SEMEN
no lol
This is like the fifth 2-words in the last two weeks, good grief
I feel so much better. It took me forever to think of seven too.
Glad I'm not the only one who refused to play semen 😂
CLEAT - DOUSE - SHREW - SEVEN
Me, too! I couldn't believe the NYT Wordle Editor would use that one, lol.
Same. There was clearly no point in trying that.
I did come up with SEMEN on my run as well, and skipped it because it didn't fit the style of the NYT Wordle Editor, lol.
5 guesses on this one for me.
Under -> Given -> Haven -> Coven -> Seven
You went to hell and back on that one.
@@Darwinator No kidding, isn't HMH fun?
Im glad I'm not the only one who thought of that word. 🙈
Am i the only one miffed when the wordlebot analysis says "that's a valid word, matches all the clues so far, but I'll be give it a skill rsting of zero because I don't like it?"
No worries! I'd rather have a long video than a broken streak.
"elven" would have given "-even" which would probably have made this video a lot faster (if it's an accepted word) 😅.
Quite funny to see the master suffer as I more often suffer. Solved it quick as a flash myself, because got the S from the start:
AROSE
SUITE
SEVEN
I got it in an quick three too. It's always surprising to see Mark take longer than me. It's so rare.
Wordle In Three Minutes!
RANCH-STONE-SEVEN. Next up, we’ll try SHACK as the starting word.
RANCH NOISE UNSET SEVEN
damn i shouted out ELVEN and confidently skipped to the end only to be shocked i had missed seven
CRATE > SHELF > SINEW > SEVEN. It took me forever to think of SEVEN though. I think Mark's right -- the short "e" made it easy to overlook that choice, especially after thinking of SEMEN.
Thank you for not choosing the word that now appears 100x in the comments... Maybe it's because I'm eating breakfast, I dunno, but UGH!
Although it or ELVEN would have got you the answer on the 6th try, I think. Doesn't matter, we love the long videos too! 👏👏👏
I was shouting SEVEN for 2 minutes.
Seven was definitely playing hard to get. DK why is was so hard to think of. 🤔 Got it. Streak (150) still intact.
My strategy of always using an S in first two guesses has paid of well lately, going 233 after missing FULLY.
Stare > Shelf > Seven
Oh man, I was lucky on this one, that Seven came to mind but also that I didn't overthink the repeat letter.
Stare - Spend - Seven
nice game
There's some obscene jokes that can be made based on this video.
chare - point - seven
I did. Wasted a guess, totally worth it :D
'SEVEN DOZEN QUEEN(s) TWINE(d) their way around the RANCH.'
Not sure why so disparaging to the word "elven" whether or not it was a likely answer.
I think the problem was that it is an Authors word, one devised by the writer Tolkien which he drew from old English in to its modern variant as we know it, so not so much that Mark disparages it as that he felt the puzzle setters were unlikely to use it as it is not an actual word.
@@UKStevieB I'm not sure I understand how we get from "an author devised it" to "not an actual word", though? Every word in English was invented by someone, a fair number of which were invented by authors. What makes something an actual word? The criteria that jump to mind for me (assuming we don't want to dive into linguistic technicalities) would be "in dictionaries", "has an agreed upon meaning" and "evidence of use by multiple people", and elven seems to fit all of those.
I am also going to weigh in on this discussion and disagree that he "devised" it. He modernized or revived it. While elvish or elfin are and were more commonly accepted terms, elven was used as an adjective for of or having to do with elves as far back as the 1300s. It isn't in many dictionaries due to falling out favor perhaps because it was considered a wrong usage of the word (which was based on the old English term for female elves), but calling it an author's word is an oversimplification. I do however agree that the puzzle setters may not consider it an actual word, due to the extended period in which it was rarely used.
@@fruitshuit We get from "Author devised" to being an actual word by its being accepted as modern parlance, the same as an expression such as "Catch22" being author devised and just in Joseph Hellers' book of the same name to being in accepted usage and understood by most. Due to Peter Jackson and the re-popularising of LOTR I agree with you that it has crossed that threshold, apparently Mark does not and thus feels it would be unlikely to be used in this kind of puzzle. I just do not feel that Mark was "disparaging" the word. Your mileage may vary.
@@fruitshuit Elven does not meet your criteria. The word "Elven" is not in dictionaries.
SATIN > SHORN > SEVEN
Too caught up thinking about his semen, that kept him away from the solution.
I didn't play semen because America, and NYT especially, is too conservative to countenance such a word.
I also actually guessed semen before I could think of a number, which I finally got in my last guess. Does that say anything about me?
Anyway, Mark - you just made me feel so much better about myself. Thank you for being human every once in a while 💐
I've used both SEMEN and PENIS as guesses multiple times. One of these days, they're gonna be right.
I went semen before seven ..also got it in 5
RANCH->STONE->SEMEN->SEVEN. Next starting word is shack, I think
Mark had the right idea with "semen", but substituting a "v" just didn't come to mind.
Just like me, with the difference I typed in "semen" without hesitation 😂😂😂 And I thought about seven more time than I should have. Funny thing a human's mind is.
I don't say it often but I too went for semen. Also took me more than I minute
MARVEL CHARACTERS BONUS ROUND DAY 134
DONNA-UNRIP-THENS-NEWSY-SEVEN
I mean, I should've gotten it faster, but today doesn't seem a day for fast solves.
Seven, in five, in 3:30.
I wasn't going to try semen but I couldn't think of anything else quickly, and I figured it would confirm the place of my yellow E. Tread>Slope>Semen>Seven
weird-peach-lense-semen-seven yes, i did try semen.
I was in a similar situation but actually tried SEMEN. knew it wouldnt be the word but it helped me get SEVEN right after
I managed to get this surprisingly quickly with OTHER - SPIED - SHEEN - SEVEN which was also funny because I turned thirty seven on this day