Any Wordle players hereabouts?

[OldWEB]

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[Jackiemac]

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[PancakeBill]

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[LarsMac]

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[jymbee]

No WAY!
Try double consonant to get a least one green, and end up with...

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[OldWEB]

I end up with all green.

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[krazeehorse]

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[LarsMac]

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A bit slow on the uptake this morning.

 

[Jackiemac]

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[PancakeBill]

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[jymbee]

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[jymbee]

Hopefully not too much info for anyone who hasn't played today, but this is just too weird! Working through the game and it came up with this. Ever seen anything like this before??

 

[OldWEB]

Wordle 1,863 3/6*

 

[krazeehorse]

Wordle 1,863 5/6*

 

[Jackiemac]

Wordle 1,863 4/6*

 

[LarsMac]

Wordle 1,863 4/6*

 

[LarsMac]

Hopefully not too much info for anyone who hasn't played today, but this is just too weird! Working through the game and it came up with this. Ever seen anything like this before??

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I've never seen whatever that is. I'm curious.

 

[jymbee]

I've never seen whatever that is. I'm curious.

Yeah, me too. Google Lens was totally clueless:

The answer to this Wordle-like puzzle is the phrase "ALL THE WAY".
Based on your current board clues, the first three words are locked in as "A", "L" (making "ALL"), and "THE". The remaining letters on the keyboard and word constraints fit the classic idiom perfectly.

Did you win the game?

Similar image posted to Reddit produced a pretty lively discussion but no answers:
https://www.reddit.com/r/wordle/comments/1g0dtzk/why_does_this_happen_sometimes/

I would think that it's not all that rare of an occurrence but after some quick searches I only found ONE other mention of something like this.

The almighty AI wasn't much help either. After a LONG, rambling theory about coding bugs as possibilites, i threw up it's hands and came back with:

I haven't seen another screenshot where letters are systematically replaced by common words like "IN", "THE", "AND", and "WITH".

That's a very distinctive failure mode.

As a software bug, it's fascinating because it looks less like graphics corruption and more like a dictionary or token table being used where the alphabet table should have been. I've never seen a public report with this exact symptom, so your screenshot may actually have captured a very rare transient bug.

 

[jymbee]

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[OldWEB]

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