Guess today's word of the day
17I got it in 13, post how you did -
https://hryanjones.com/guess-my-word/
Feel free to keep this thread up for future words, I wonder if we’ll get better at it.
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I got it in 13, post how you did -
https://hryanjones.com/guess-my-word/
Feel free to keep this thread up for future words, I wonder if we’ll get better at it.
I gave up. Words are not my strong suit.
@RiotDemon
It’s not words. It’s math. But with letters instead of numbers.
/giphy letters not numbers
@RiotDemon how are you with the language of dance?
KuoH
@UncleVinny I don’t really dance, so probably as crappy. The closest I get nowadays is skating to the beat at the roller rink.
@RiotDemon @UncleVinny
no more Queen of the Roller Derby?
Ah. So I found out you can click the little calendar and go back to get new words.
I still suck.
As of 12:33 on 1/4/20, the current word I got in 56s and 9 guesses.
@thejackalope @thejackalope Woo-hoo - that’s pretty good!
Kind of a stretch…
I gave up after 20
Likewise. I had 80% of the word correct, though.
8 guesses. I thought it would take me more like 50.
You got it!
(15 guesses in 5m 18s)
@Ignorant that is about my stats too
Bath
You got it!
(21 guesses in 6m 39s)
This is ever so slightly on the fun side of frustrating.
Yay! 12 guesses in 4min 21sec. Almost 420. Bah.
Pretty fun little word game.
It took me more guesses (18) than everyone here who got it it, but substantially less than the average time (39 s)
I don’t think that was a conscious decision on my part (trying to optimize speed versus minimize guesses), but I did get start to get antsy if it took me more than a second or two to type the next word.
Normal:
You got it!
(8 guesses in 45s)
@hansendavis excellent score!
11 guesses. Thought it might take longer also.
and 22 for the “hard” word but I cheated a bit at the end …
and now I regret it so I will take the blame …
@stolicat ooh. I guess I’ll have to go back and try the other levels.
WOOHOO I DID IT!!
Went to a previous day, I got it after 7 minutes and 23 seconds! SUPER PROUD of my non scrabble (or ANY other type of word game) playing self!
You got it!
(11 guesses in 4m 44s)
You got it!
(9 guesses in 1m 31s)
@callow
Damn, you are a whiz at this!!! I am now addicted!
Been doing the ones from 3 months ago!
You got it!
(10 guesses in 1m 45s)
2019-01-03
You got it!
(9 guesses in 56s)
2019-12-25
Second day (1/3) words
Normal:
You got it!
(10 guesses in 1m 24s)
Hard:
You got it!
(26 guesses in 7m 18s)
And I didn’t cheat this time.
@stolicat how did you cheat?
@stolicat @tinamarie1974 I’m really proud of you for not cheating.
KuoH
@tinamarie1974 first time I did a hard I typed the four letters I had into google which gave a list of words starting with those, so I didn’t have to think of actual words myself. I’m so embarrassed.
(14 guesses in 2m 1s)
Meh.
I thought it would be guesses based on definition clues or something, not a game of alphabetical hi-lo.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@DennisG2014 There’s a bit of vocabulary skill involved, especially in the hard category, as only valid words are allowed for guesses and when you get past the first four letters it gets tricky to keep coming up with real words. A little bit.
@DennisG2014 @stolicat I tried starting in the middle with “meh”, but it didn’t recognize that as a word. Maybe we need to protest.
So now I start with “me”.
@DennisG2014 @phendrick @stolicat start with ma as that tells you which side of M at all you are on.
@stolicat I said, “meh”…
12 guesses but I forgot N comes between M and O (yeah duh). My excuse is that I am tired and today has really, really sucked.
I got today’s word quickly.
You got it!
(6 guesses in 1m 5s)
And the hard one too!
You got it!
(18 guesses in 2m 58s)
15 guesses must be my normal.
You got it!
(15 guesses in 3m 42s)
Finally got both in under a minute, socially distanced here at home - even had one of those little trophies for a few minutes before the usual unbelieveable ones posted.
btw, the completion boards are now showing the guesses, which is kind of fascinating to see how other people got to the word.
Normal:
You got it!
(9 guesses in 45s)
Hard:
You got it!
(10 guesses in 59s)
You got it!
(12 guesses in 3m 26s)
12 guesses in about 2min 40sec. That’s fun! I’d keep playing.
KuoH
/giphy bang head
I gave up right before the correct word! I did really good with 15 trys then just got stuck. So close and yet SO far! Thanks for posting this game/riddle or whatever it’s officially called, i’m just bummed that I have to wait until tomorrow to try again! Of course i’m going back to try my skills on the harder word! Thanks again for the cool new thingy!
BTW; I’m not even a gamer kind of girl! …jus sayen.
You got it!
(13 guesses in 1m 47s)
You got it!
(8 guesses in 2m 47s)
I tried again for the “Hard” word:
You got it!
(12 guesses in 5m 38s)
You got it!
(12 guesses in 4m 3s)
Today’s word, 16 guesses 2m2s
8 guesses in 1m 51s. Think I’ll stop there. Who’s the “meh” at 52s?
@walarney I’m at 56s. Don’t see anyone at 52s.
@mike808 that would be yesterday, now. (Or maybe several days ago, depending
)
Tonight’s word, 8 guesses in 45 secs. Hard word, not so good, 26 in 3:41.
@djslack that ties you for best, I think
Yes. I think once you understand the process, your time will improve to a certain extent until you reach a limit based on typing time vs blunt luck in word choices. Sudoko or solving a Rubik’s cube is sort of like that. If you understand the mechanics, it makes it easier.
(wish I knew the overall parameters for the word though… 3 letters, 4, 5? That could be a big difference in my word choice/guess)
Holy crap, today’s was easy!!
You got it!
(4 guesses in 26s)
@tinamarie1974 shaddup
You got it!
(14 guesses in 4m 50s)
@therealjrn I mean give me this one. I totes sucked every other day
@therealjrn @tinamarie1974 WhooHoo good job TM!
@chienfou @therealjrn Thanks. I was SHOCKED!!
@chienfou @therealjrn @tinamarie1974 special fireworks for this …
@chienfou @stolicat @therealjrn ooohhhh I
fireworks. So pretty!!
really suck today
You got it!
(18 guesses in 2m 10s)
@chienfou
14 guesses in 1m 16s
@mike808
/giphy hat’s off!
@chienfou 15 guesses 3 min 10 seconds
8 guesses in 3 min 2 sec
11 guesses in 2m 9s
@OldCatLady eight guesses is the bomb!
Normal
You got it!
(10 guesses in 25s)
Hard
You got it!
(20 guesses in 2m 19s)
New record for Normal difficulty
Normal: (13 guesses in 1m 9s) Meh
Fairly lucky on the normal today:
You got it!
(7 guesses in 27s)
Damn. I didn’t get it. Get it?
17 guesses in 1m 47s.
I did better on the hard word today.
15 guesses in 1m 25s.
OMG… I totally f’d up today. Had words on either side that were SOOO close but could not imagine the one between… Finally just gave up!
Sixteen.
/giphy sixteen
/giphy 15
12 guesses in 4m 19s
I got a little better the second day:
You got it!
(10 guesses in 1m 14s)
Got the hard one in 24. At least this time I remembered my alphabet in the proper order.
@Kidsandliz yeah I did the hard one today, too. It’s fun! At my parties people would totally get into that game. Make everyone do it blindfolded
KuoH
That’s pretty cool
You got it!
(11 guesses in 1m 30s)
not sure why mine point a different direction…?
@chienfou what exactly is it that you have that’s pointed in a different direction? There may be treatment available …
@stolicat weird… my little exploding ice cream cones (WTF are those anyway) were pointed to the left yesterday when I initially posted them…
That is fun, but 17 guesses. Sad
I did poorly today - I should have woken up a bit more:
Normal:
You got it!
(17 guesses in 1m 58s)
Hard:
You got it!
(24 guesses in 4m 3s)
@stolicat I’m just ahead of you on the leaderboard:
You got it!
(17 guesses in 1m 53s)
Normal
You got it!
(12 guesses in 1m 7s)
this could be addictive…
First: You got it!
(16 guesses in 2m 18s)
Harder: You got it!
(20 guesses in 4m 20s)
and yes, you can scam the system…
You got it!
(1 guesses in 0s)
@chienfou
@tinamarie1974 I’m thinking that’s how some of the top times/guesses are getting done…
@chienfou I would not doubt it, at least you are honest. I can confirm my scores are legit, although they are not impressive
@tinamarie1974 likewise. All the ones I posted above are my legit attempts. I only found out you could “cheat” accidentally when I was doing some other stuff at the same time and had to shut down my browser at work.
@tinamarie1974
Hmmm, those look kinda familiar
@chienfou haha. At least I am consistent, right?
@tinamarie1974 you are or ‘they’ are!
Normal: You got it!
(9 guesses in 57s) 01/04/2020
Hard: You got it!
(18 guesses in 2m 18s)
Normal: You got it!
(10 guesses in 57s) 12/07/2019
A little better today (1/05/20)
Normal:
You got it!
(11 guesses in 1m 3s)
Hard:
You got it!
(18 guesses in 2m 20s)
@stolicat 01/05/20
(16 guesses in 2m 10s) normal
(16 guesses in 2m 16s) hard
What is everyone’s favorite starting word?
Mine: “median”
@mike808 ma.
@mike808 @stolicat normal, but I keep meaning to hit up a real paper dictionary at the house to see what the median word actually is. (as well as the intermediate ones from there) Just because a letter is in the ‘middle’ of the alphabet doesn’t necessarily mean there are an equal amount of words before or after that letter.
@chienfou @mike808 true - much less in the xyz range than abc. I’m not sure I still have a paper dictionary in the house - maybe in a box somewhere …
@mike808 @stolicat
/giphy you’re gonna lose some “old fart” points for that!
13 (again). I prefer not to compete on time, it’s less fun for me.
01/04/2020
(7 guesses in 31s) normal
I can’t get this to work- can anyone else? It just says “Loading…” forever and that’s all I get
Back to normal.
You got it!
(13 guesses in 1m 42s)
I did poorly today, especially on the “hard” word.
(14 guesses in 2m 8s)
Normal:
You got it!
Hard:
(30 guesses in 13m 21s)
You got it!
@stolicat nah, you did good!
21 today. I hilariously did not try a much simpler word and instead tried all sorts of hard variations around it first.
Meh…
You got it!
(17 guesses in 2m 5s)
15 guesses in 1m 51s
I seem to have meh’d out at a plateau (a meh-sa?).
(14 guesses in 1m 27s)
1/7/20 - You got it!
You got it!
(9 guesses in 57s)
This may be a new addiction, thanks.
hard
You got it!
(21 guesses in 2m 53s)
Not that anyone cares… but it wasn’t working for me because I guess it must only work on mobile, not desktop? It works in my phone! Woop woop!
@moonhat So far all mine have been on a desktop… YMMV
Sometimes my brain just freezes.
(16 guesses in 1m 54s)
@cinoclav I know, it’s annoying - I’ll get three letters and for some reason the brain cannot come up with a simple 4 letter word like “stop” because I’m trying things like “stoot”.
You got it!
(11 guesses in 1m 12s)
final guesses were where I fell behind.
Definitely my fastest game yet.
You got it!
(13 guesses in 36s)
Dang. 14 guesses in 1m 4s.
11 guesses in 1m 16s.
You got it! 13 guesses in never mind how long.
@OldCatLady
/giphy yippie
/giphy sexy man
Decent today.
Normal: 13 guesses in 1m 3s
Hard: 25 guesses in 2m 48s
@mike808
You flew through that one! I think i only got it twice in one minutes time. I am totaly addicted to this now. I go back through the calender an play weeks worth of words at a time. It’s AWSOME!! Thanks to whoever posted this game, you rock!!
Yay!
You got it!
(11 guesses in 39s)
Normal: 13 guesses in 1m 19s
Hard: 18 guesses in 6m 6s (I took a break.)
@dave 11 and 15 for me… didn’t pay attention to times
Today’s hard was only 9 guesses.
Normal
You got it!
(13 guesses in 1m 6s)
Hard
You got it!
(13 guesses in 2m 29s)
Not quite sure how i got both in same amount of guesses
. Aiming to crack a minute next time 
.
Hard: 10 guesses in 52s
@mike808 8 guesses, 20 seconds.
“normal” took me more than twice as long.
This is not my typical performance.
Normal
You got it!
(22 guesses in 1m 41s)
Hard
You got it!
(17 guesses in 1m 25s)
Im getting worse
@TrevorAM You guys probably should be hitting that pot-infused soda so much at the office. @Dave probably needs to lock that stuff up.
oh, lucky, so lucky today - personal best on the hard word:
You got it!
(9 guesses in 34s)
normal word kind of sucked, tho …
You got it!
(19 guesses in 2m 20s)
Normal
You got it!
(13 guesses in 1m 12s)
Hard
You got it!
(13 guesses in 51s)
Next objective: Get both in under a minute
Normal: 24 guesses in 2m 14s
Hard: 11 guesses in 2:23
Normal got me.
Hard: 15 guesses in 1m 32s
Normal
You got it!
(5 guesses in 10s)
Hard
Gave up
I was so excited i got the normal word so quick, i couldn’t focus on the hard word
3/10
Pretty good on Normal,
not great, but not bad on Hard
@stolicat
Normal: 6 guesses in 19s
@mike808 @stolicat
Normal: 12 guesses 49 seconds
Hard: 13 guesses 1 minute
@mike808
You got it!
(8 guesses in 1m 4s)
First time ever trying hard:
You got it!
(14 guesses in 2m 32s)
3/11 - Sucked on Normal:
You got it!
(26 guesses in 2m 33s)
but did pretty good on Hard:
You got it!
(12 guesses in 57s)
@stolicat
Normal: 22 guesses, 2m 7s
Hard: 20 guesses, 2m
Agree – sucked.
You got it!
(24 guesses in 4m 30s)
Off my game today.
Normal: 20 guesses in 3m 56s
Hard: 21 guesses in 1m 56s
normal: (20 guesses in 3m 20s)
hard: (18 guesses in 4m 59s)
stupid work sidetracked me on hard.
Normal
(10 guesses in 40s)
Got interrupted going for the hard and lost my time.
Off day.
Normal: 20 guesses in 3m 51s
Hard: 20 guesses in 1m 47s
Normal
You got it!
(10 guesses in 25s)
Hard
You got it!
(19 guesses in 1m 17s)
Normal
You got it!
(6 guesses in 12s)
Hard
You got it!
(11 guesses in 51s)
Goal of completing both in under a minute: Accomplished
@TrevorAM Congrats. So are you done now with this game so you can keep your record unblemished and not break it by backsliding? Or now are you making a more ambitious goal of say, maybe, 30 seconds?
@Kidsandliz Next goal will be to get both on the first guess. Though maybe i should concentrate that luck on something better? Winning the lottery perhaps.
@TrevorAM While you are at do you plan to win the lottery too?
yay, new time best for Hard:
You got it!
(12 guesses in 25s)
and momentary top time spot on the leader board:
normal was pretty meh, tho …
You got it!
(18 guesses in 1m 27s)
All the “Worlde” craze reminded of this game. I used to love playing this every morning!
Day 1315: No records were broken
Took 17 guesses. Meh.
This was a fun one!
I guess I was lucky today.
You got it!
(15 guesses in 3m 5s)
You got it!
(11 guesses in 47s)
You got it!
(11 guesses in 1m 1s)
Harder word:
You got it!
(20 guesses in 5m 14s)
I failed today
You got it!
(16 guesses in 2m 34s)
@tinamarie1974
15 guesses in 1m 30s normal
24 guesses in 4m 29s hard
You got it!
(13 guesses in 1m 4s)
2020-01-17 16 guesses in 1m 38s
@mike808 I guess you’re Mik?
You got it!
(10 guesses in 53s)
Close. 13 guesses in 57s
Hard: 14 guesses in 1m 23s
You got it!
(3 guesses in 15s)
@walarney O M G
I did not do so well
You got it!
(16 guesses in 1m 53s)
@tinamarie1974 They put me at the bottom of the board with one of these: “
lucky?” Which is accurate, but feels a bit like they’re casting aspersions.
@tinamarie1974 @walarney
Did worse than you today.
21 guesses in 2m 28s
Hard: 27 guesses in 3m 19s
Normal: 16 guesses in 1m 17s
Hard: 14 guesses in 1m 32s (Yay, me!)
You got it!
(11 guesses in 2m 47s)
vast improvement over my first play
You got it!
(15 guesses in 1m 31s)
meh…
Normal
You got it!
(13 guesses in 1m 36s)
Hard
Gave up
17 guesses… of course it didn’t help that I guessed one word twice and accidentally picked a guess that already would have been eliminated. Oh well.
Normal: 10 guesses in 41s
Hard: 13 guesses in 1m 2s
Normal was hard today. Grr.
Normal 21 guesses in 3m 35s
Hard 21 guesses in 2m 6s
Someone smarter here can correct me, but assuming you used a binary search algorithm of sorts and assuming there are approx. 170,000 words in the Oxford Dictionary, it should take a maximum of 18 guesses to find the correct word? Granted this is assuming no human errors in using this method, but it is interesting to think how little that number is.
@TrevorAM Well you’d have to figure out the RIGHT guesses to keep it that low. Starting with Ma makes sense to me. Tells me before M or not. If before then I try Ha.
@TrevorAM Having a good vocabulary to start with gives you an idea of the spelling distribution of words which is not exactly a binary search in a strict sense. Words are constrained by vowels and letter pairs for the most part as well.
@Kidsandliz Yes, i spent what could be considered “too much time” trying to build a tree of guesses, with no luck
. I originally thought starting with a word beginning with “M” would be correct too, but now i am curious how the alphabet might skew either direction (i.e. more words start with “A” than “Z”).
@TrevorAM I was mostly thinking of Ma only because there is no word M. Actually thinking about it we could start with I for the same reason - no other word starting with I is shorter. I don’t think M is in the middle. I was mostly trying to figure out how to eliminate and entire alphabet litter and either to the right or left of it. There is, as you say, probably some systematic way to figure this out. Calling Watson!!
Normal
You got it!
(9 guesses in 43s)
Hard
You got it!
(14 guesses in 1m 1s)
You got it!
(18 guesses in 3m 18s)
/giphy arggghh!
@chienfou Oh wow, I never would have guessed “arggghh”
@therealjrn I would have been better off if I had guessed “arggghh”…
You got it!
(12 guesses in 1m 19s)
damn… did way better on the ‘hard’ word today than the normal one!!
13 guesses way too slow
hard 21 guesses - pitiful
Today was not a good day.
Normal: gave up.
Hard: 18 guesses in 4m 40s
Normal: 10 guesses in 2m 14s
Hard: gave up.
Normal: 15 guesses in 1m 55s
Hard: Gave up. Had some really obscure words in there but that one wouldn’t come to me.
Normal: 14 guesses / 2min 30sec
Normal: 13 guesses in 54s
Hard: Yes, it was. 30 guesses in 5m 13s
3/12 - this thing can make a fool of you, really embarrassed my self today
Hard:
You got it!
(24 guesses in 11m 20s)
Normal:
You got it!
(20 guesses in 1m 47s)
Normal: 13 guesses in 1m 3s
Hard: 28 guesses in 3m 41s
@mike808
Normal: 16 guesses 1m 6s
Hard: 18 guesses, but 4m 10s
Apr 9
Normal 13 guesses in 57s
Hard 18 guesses in 2m 45s
whoo hoo… feeling hot today!
You got it!
(10 guesses in 38s)
@chienfou on the other hand…
hard:
You got it!
(32 guesses in 7m 1s)
Been a while since I played. Nice return back to the game.
You got it!
(9 guesses in 32s)
(17 guesses in 2m 1s) bah.
12 guesses in 1m 58s
Hard: 27 guesses in 5m 35s
Yay again, new personal # of guesses for Hard:
Sharing the little trophy with two others. It’ll be gone by morning, though …
but really sucked on normal:
You got it!
(21 guesses in 1m 59s)
You got it!
(9 guesses in 1m 27s)
fingers don’t want to type today…
@chienfou
Same here. 16 guesses in 2m 46s
One of these days i will guess the word on the first try…statistically that should happen at some point…right?
@TrevorAM You’re joy will be short lived. I’ve done that, or close enough to it. It calls you a cheater and doesn’t record your score on the leaderboard.
You got it!
(11 guesses in 3m 2s)
I slowed a lot toward the end
https://hryanjones.com/guess-my-word/board.html?difficulty=normal
Started randomly swiping on my phone for words.
grit, number, left, jack, hunt, hate, hint, heart, haze, hear, heal, hazer, haziest, head… You got it!
(15 guesses in 2m 15s)
Too bad there’s no easy way to share scores like in Wordle.