Is it bad that I kind of find myself almost…respecting how ludicrous it is?

on no, it's definitely award nomination level for the effort/effect, and we all know it's just an honor to be nominated. i'm not sure if it's a "you really like me" level or not though

Funny that you mention that--because CORER may have just survived an attempt at the throne. ROWER (01/19/25) was within inches, according to WordleBot. On the chart, it doesn't look that close because, for some reason, the summary.json that contains the NYT average didn't match up with the average shown on WordleBot that day. Regardless, it seems like CORER seems to take the edge.

Reference image: https://github.com/crtez/is_wordle_harder_or_am_i_just_stupi...

Interesting! No surprise, I hated ROWER too.

I don't know why, but words with an agentic suffix just seem.... Cheaper to me. It's like I want Wordle to be better than that so I don't guess them. Maybe it's the same for others.

Yep, BESET (3/39/2023) is the first data point that’s available, as far as I can tell. Any reason you didn’t like HUNKY?

There are a lot of words in Wordle that are a bit US focused. I've never heard someone outside US media use the word "Hunky", so wouldn't expect it to feature in the ~2500(?) common 5 letter words that Wordles are/were chosen from.

Strands and Connections are way worse for this. I'm British, my partner is Australian, about half the time the games are noticeably US focused, and maybe 20% of the time we just can't get them because it's about sports we don't have or slang we don't have or some cultural thing that just doesn't translate.

I wish The Guardian had a better selection of these games because we find their crosswords much better for example.

It's BS. Considered pejorative to Hungarians, so it never occurred to me to guess it. :-|

Thanks! And yeah, the data only goes back to the first (as far as I can tell) average that’s available—BESET.

There’s a couple of more quirks here and there that I’ve found-the NYT also tracks (for users that are logged in) the Unix time of completion for your Wordle each day.

I was originally planning on making a heatmap to show people’s completion time patterns, but since I was tracking my own times, I found that the NYT’s data on my completion times was erratic and occasionally incorrect (within the same day but off by hours) up until like 3 months ago? So it’s kind of funny to think that we can track bug fixes through simple data comparisons.

Is it an official API? I’m not able to find any links about it, if you could provide some I’d love to look into my own purchases.

It's apparently an API, although it's both difficult to find, and apparently only available through an email request to Albertsons. The website is here:

https://www.albertsonscompanies.com/amc/

The email request is at the bottom. mediacollective at albertsons

I was actually just looking at the calls the web site makes to a back end and using that.

If you get in touch with me (email or Blue Sky DM) I would be happy to think about how to share what I have so far, although it's not much at all.

Quick heads up, there’s a typo at “Create a uniqu flipbooke gift”.

They’re olde tyme flipbookes

Thanks!

I couldn't find a great source on the 85% number--it looks like the site seems to cite a Boston Consulting Group study that's recapped in this Harvard Business Review article: https://hbr.org/2009/09/the-female-economy. Looking at the consumer spending chart ~50% through the article, it says women account for 4.3/5.9 trillion $ of spending in the US, which is 73%--still high!

I was originally worried that my coding job would suck the passion out of me, but weirdly, it’s cut the other way. The banality of the work that I do for my job makes me appreciate my personal projects more, and makes me more galvanized to do coding that does bring fulfillment. I suppose this isn’t necessary desirable however, since it relies on your job being a chore.