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I seem to have found a bug (or the word list is drastically different from Wordle). The game says I have 3 possible words remaining, but every Wordle solver website says I only have 2 (and I only have 2 guesses remaining, so this is the difference between the game being winnable and not). The guesses I used for today were WRITE,BOODY,VOUCH,COMMA (and at this point the only two possible words are FOCAL and LOCAL, but it says that there are 3 possible words).

Another point of confusion is that the first row says 2318 possible words, but there only seem to be 2309 words in the dictionary in the code

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> every Wordle solver website says I only have 2

There are two different Wordle word lists--the set of legal guesses (roughly 13k) and the set of words in the solution list (roughly 2k). The latter list is curated to be a set of fair, interesting words, excluding plurals and more obscure words. Most Wordle solvers use knowledge of what words are in the Wordle solution database to pare down the set of "possible words". But with Don't Wordle, the "legal guess" list ends up being the more interesting one to show "remaining possibilities" for.

https://scoredle.com/ is a site that shows possible remaining words using the larger "legal guess" list, so you can see that you could have also guessed "SOCAS".

> Another point of confusion is that the first row says 2318 possible words, but there only seem to be 2309 words in the dictionary in the code

There were 2318 remaining possible words AFTER your first guess, which eliminated ~11k possibilities.

This may be a spoiler somehow, but one of my guesses was ZONAL, which appears to be valid based on what you’ve guessed so far? That could be the 3rd possible word. I don’t know if it’s in the Wordle list or not.

EDIT: this isn’t it - I missed the C in COMMA!

No C in ZONAL.

>The game says I have 3 possible words remaining, but every Wordle solver website says I only have 2

Once you finish the game, if you have any rows with 25 or fewer valid words remaining (shown to the right of the row), the word count becomes clickable. It will open a modal that will show you the valid words remaining after that stage of the game. I went ahead and entered your same sequence of words, and the the other word remaining was SOCAS. That is a valid word in the NYT official Wordle game.

>Another point of confusion is that the first row says 2318 possible words, but there only seem to be 2309 words in the dictionary in the code

There are different word dictionaries in the code.

I see, you have to be able to guess the possible list not just the answer list. This is very unfortunate and makes the game nearly impossible.

When I played I tried BOCCA without knowing what it means (I was probably half-thinking of Boccia), and it was accepted.

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/bocca

Edit: The sibling with SOCAS is right.

I managed to win by discovering COXAL was a word, through brute force.

There are three words that match - FOCAL, VOCAL, LOCAL - but of course you can't use 'V' in position one again, so that's a bug.

There are two dictionaries, and the second contains 2309 entries which are found in the 12974 entries of the first.

Possible: focal, local, socas

SOCAS?

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