00:00We are wordlers here on the Andy Summer Show, and you may or may not be surprised to hear
00:06that some people cheat at Wordle.
00:08Why?
00:09Why?
00:10I will tell you that my competitive spirit leads me to that, and I feel like I'm not
00:16letting anyone else down by cheating because no one else is affected, but I hate when I'm
00:22on a good streak, and then I lose, right?
00:26So if you've never wordled, it's a five-letter word that you have to guess, and you have
00:32six chances to guess what that word is.
00:34You get no hints.
00:35You don't know if it's a verb, if it's a noun, nothing.
00:38So you're just randomly throwing words up to see if they'll stick.
00:43Right.
00:45But there has been a study done to see what state has the most cheaters.
00:50Oh, really?
00:51Yes.
00:52And it turns out the Northeast is where most of the cheaters live.
00:55I knew it!
00:56Yeah.
00:57So they figure this out because there's a company called Preply.
01:00It's an online language learning site, and they analyzed Google searches to find out where
01:07the biggest cheaters are.
01:08So these are people who Google Wordle hint.
01:12And it turns out that Maine has the most Wordle cheaters per 100,000 people.
01:18Wow, Maine!
01:19And I don't have to cheat very often in Wordle, but I don't want to break that streak.
01:27And I am a very competitive person.
01:29But again, it's not like I'm better than any of you if I get it right.
01:33Right?
01:33So I feel like it's not that big of a deal.
01:35Right.
01:36But I also think it's funny that Maine is number one.
01:40New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut are all up there.
01:46Maybe they're just really competitive, and they're all like sending in their group chat.
01:50Because when you initially said cheating, I thought they're just trying to get the word
01:54on the first guess.
01:56To be like, oh, look, I guessed it the first time.
01:58But I use the Wordle hint sometimes.
02:00Yes.
02:01And maybe they are doing that.
02:03Maybe some people are doing that as well.
02:05Because, right?
02:07Like we don't know at what point they are in the game when they Google Wordle hint.
02:11I'll be the first to say if I get to four or five, so you get six total guesses.
02:16Yeah.
02:17That's when I'll maybe ask for a hint.
02:19Or I'll call my dad, who does it every morning, and I'll be like, give me a hint.
02:23Well, and it just gives you like a hint to the word, you know, another definition.
02:27Or like, hey, this doesn't have any double letters in it.
02:30Right.
02:30Because maybe that's what you're missing here.
02:32So I think it's a different way to play.
02:35Now I'm realizing I cheat sometimes, so I'm trying to justify it.
02:38Yeah, sometimes you just need a little help.
02:39Sometimes you just need a little help.
02:41I'm not going to feel badly about this.
02:43Yeah.
02:43So Yolanda Del Pesos Ramos, the spokesperson for Preply, says,
02:49is that the hardest words aren't actually the most obscure words.
02:52They're the words that use, they combine familiar letters in unfamiliar words.
02:59Okay.
02:59So her advice, all right, if you're a Wordler, take her advice.
03:04She said, notice patterns, stay curious about words you don't know,
03:10and be willing to make an educated guess.
03:13I have to be honest, Yolanda, that does not help me at all.
03:15No.
03:15That is not.
03:16Do you guys start with the same word every day?
03:19I do.
03:20What is it?
03:20Yes.
03:21What is it?
03:21What's your word?
03:22I go audio every time.
03:24I like getting almost all of my.
03:27Do you use the Wordlebot?
03:29So every time I play.
03:31Oh, yeah.
03:31Within the game, every time when you finish, it'll score how you did.
03:36Oh.
03:37So if you're playing, like I play the hard version now.
03:40Yes.
03:40So if I find out that like there's an E in the last space,
03:44I can only type in words that have E in the last space, right?
03:49But before, if you're not, if you're just playing the regular way,
03:52it tells you that there are two words that are like 99%.
03:56They give you a score of 99%.
03:58One is Crane.
04:00And the other is, what is it?
04:05Stale.
04:06Oh, Stale.
04:06S-T-A-L-E.
04:07Or S-L-A-T-E.
04:08Actually, Stale gives you a lower score than Slate.
04:12Slate is the better one.
04:13I don't know why.
04:14I don't know why.
04:14It's the same letters.
04:15I mean, the S and the T feel like very common.
04:17I mean, we do a lot of hangman here in the studio.
04:19Right.
04:19S and T, very common of the consonants.
04:22And then, of course, A and E.
04:24I think C is also.
04:25That's like a quiet, it's a quiet letter.
04:28Hey, I'm pro new word every day.
04:30I just kind of start with the letter and go from there.
04:32And here's why it works.
04:34Because on Saturday, spoiler, the word was bleat.
04:38Yes, like the noise that a goat makes.
04:41It bleats.
04:42My first word, bleak.
04:44Nuh-uh.
04:44I was one letter off.
04:46And how did you even know that?
04:48Like, why would you even use the word bleak, right?
04:50It started with B, and I was like, well, what comes next?
04:53B-L?
04:53And then how can I make a word from that?
04:55That's amazing.
04:56Way to go, Sheehan.
04:57I'm proud of that.
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