Can you defeat the Wordle MASTERMIND!?

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I'm Scott Strosahl, and today I'm solving a new #Wordle variant called "Word 500". Word 500 is a lot like Wordle crossed with the classic game 'Mastermind'.
You can play Word 500 yourself at word500.com/
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[@baconmonke]

the fact that the difficulties use geometry dash rating faces made me laugh so hard hahah, also nice solve scott

[@ichmagheringway89]

Yeah same 😂

[@shalazoo8806]

Standard = poltergiest

[@frinpi7473]

nice stro-solve scott stro-solve

[@sunnywunny]

read top comment before video and now I'm excited (5.1k hours in gd moment)

[@baconmonke]

@@sunnywunny hahah nice i probably have around 1k and my hardest is acu, wbu

[@iBedwars]

never played mastermind, but this looks like a rly cool concept :D

[@phs125]

I only know because of the Dave Gorman bit

[@Æwastakenwasalsotaken]

Same

[@ldarrow]

Mastermind is a super fun game to play, you should try it sometime!

[@crumby1508]

i have it lol

[@josephanderson2781]

Hey Scott! My three starting words for all wordles are slate, dough, and pricy. it works super well

[@nerd5741]

Mine are "cants" and "oiler"

[@RubyPiec]

mine are "fades" "point" "rumly"

[@lnflixity]

Mines are proxy magic fuels or proxy manic fudge

[@BingusDingusJohnson]

Mine are “pinky” “bears” “mouth”

[@anna-zp4vi]

mine is just stare

[@Jodawo]

Congratulations on the new sponsorship. Definitely well deserved for all the work you have put into making these videos entertaining.

[@braisrg5]

So happy that you're getting sponsors now. Shows that the channel is really growing!!

[@rcdr898]

This might be my favorite of the wordle concept spinoffs. I also recommend Semantle, which is less about spelling and more about definition/meaning. Pretty neat.

[@captainemergency7477]

Wow I thought the same when I first discovered wordle!! I used to play mastermind a whole lot a few years ago and it’s funny how we both thought the same thing :)

[@privatepumpkin7095]

- Initial guess for line 4 of puzzle 1 is WISPY (haven't seen the answer yet) Didn't work :( the word was FISHY - Placing guess for puzzle 2, line 4 - DELVE Guess #2 for question 2 (it wasn't DELVE): PRIDE (PRICE works equally as well, but it's not my guess) After him guessing CLICK, PRICE is no longer possible, but PRIDE still stands! He guessed PRIDE, now the only other possible word I see is PRIZE, which is my guess. I missed it earlier GG! Got it right!

[@ellac9765]

Congratulations! Nice to see someone playing along with him.

[@soumyakundu896]

Cool Puzzle! I'll be trying this out too! Also, Day 2: Asking Scott to do the 4/5 word octordle challenge. and congrats on your sponsor!!!

[@12.28.]

Hey! You should try 64-ordle (or sixty fourdle) it’s really tricky! Love your vids btw :)

[@_Y-Z2]

that is a thing? •_•

[@12.28.]

@@_Y-Z2 yeah… I tried it and rage quit after the first 5 guess…

[@12.28.]

@@slippingslop lmao I was thinking the same thing

[@_Y-Z2]

@@12.28. can you give me the link, i can't find it

[@bup23]

Kilordle

[@pandaxx2932]

For Easter you should start with "BUNNY"

[@florianzellmer8735]

Hey Scott! I know that nasty liver gumbo has become sort of a tradition. Also it sounds pretty good. But playing today i noticed that gumbo uses some rather rare letters like g,m,b. What I first thought of was cough as a replacement, but maybe dough is worth consideration. They still use g, but including h and d or c seems profitable. What do you think?

[@StroSolves]

I like it 👍🏻

[@dnghn.design]

@@StroSolves congrats on sponsorship :) Well Deserved 😀

[@locomotivetrainstation6053]

I like using lyric hound and steam it has the top 15 most common letters

[@jonpumpkin]

Good idea, i didn't see that cus i use those letters can you give me some advice if it's not a problem? I use Stair Dough Money Lucky Bumps But i rarely use all the words, I use them in need when i don't get any or i get 1 or 2 letters

[@3_up_moon]

@@jonpumpkin first, i use least (but steal or stale would probably be better) then I use either proud or finch, depending on what happens with the first word. I also like the words mound, cough, and dough like the OP said.

[@waimariemclean2759]

I thought the first one was NAKED. I was so adamant and proud for getting the answer so quickly, only to be humbled at the end 😂

[@jadeyie]

the reason why it's called Word500 is bc you need a green-yellow-red value of 5-0-0 in order to win the game

[@dolphinhacks9244]

I’ve been playing mastermind with my grandfather for years with an old board of his and seeing wordle for the first time made me think a lot about that game, so finally seeing it in action is really cool!

[@roosterkid0380]

I was thinking stick as that would work too for the first one! And for the second verse

[@jillolantern7693]

i loved to play mastermind with my dad growing up and wordle reminded me of it as well! a lot of people didn't know what i was talking about when i would mention it so it's a relief to know others saw the similarities as well!

[@xDanKaix]

If we can avoid yellows then that’s good… *immediately gets 3 yellows*

[@Elite801]

Please try a new wordle variant I found called “Fibble”, it tells you one lie in the answer each guess. I found it very difficult

[@StroSolves]

It's on my list to try... 😉

[@DevinGamingYT]

You should try today’s (April 15th’s) Squardle! I did it, and it had some unique words!

[@chetbeasley]

i’m not even gonna lie, i have never seen this channel before, but seeing your enthusiasm after announcing your first sponsor was so cool to see! hope i put an extra bit of change in your pocket my man, your content is cool!

[@chetbeasley]

if i were to suggest CRATE TRACE REACT will show you if A is correct E and R are also possibly found in this

[@montygreen5030]

I love how you’ve come so far as a kind family friendly KZbinr and you deserve a sponsor for working so hard and building an audience so well done

[@legovr8481]

Damn, I love mastermind! You should do the speed run words, FLAME, BRICK, PODGY, and SHUNT!

[@SirButtonsMcMuffins]

For word500 they should make an expert mode were there is only 6 guesses

[@hamizannaruto]

That sound to be impossible and very luck based.

[@alexandermorgan9447]

You can play word500 in 8 different languages. Expert mode is solving it in a language you don't speak. Seems impossible but it's totally doable. 7 random guesses and then logic on the last word. Doesn't matter if you don't speak Portuguese, you can still guess "zebra" "pasta" "hotel" "email" "viola" etc and then solve on turn 8

[@hamizannaruto]

@@alexandermorgan9447 Impossible mode would be you having 3 guess.

[@alexandermorgan9447]

@@hamizannaruto I completed it in 2 turns once. Complete fluke meant my first guess was 4 greens

[@hamizannaruto]

@@alexandermorgan9447 + different languagd

[@terankehler575]

Congratulations on getting to the point of sponsors!

[@CarsonJay]

Heck yeah dude congrats on your first sponsor!

[@alundavies2055]

Please Can You Do Foodle, Where You Basically Guess Food.

[@Jewdperfect123]

Instead of using nasty liver gumbo, could you try other bumpy snail? It works well for me.

[@ofirnadel]

Congratulations on the sponsorship!

[@oskarlofving4163]

Tip! When you did CLICK you Said something smart about not to use extra letters so it would have been smart if you wouldve use L or I in a different position instead of the ”right” one bc if so you could se witch one was right or not, i know it also could have been C that was yellow or smt like that i just think that wouldve made it easier

[@blueflyaway5307]

You Need To Try Kilordle There 1000 Wordles But There Is A Twist That Makes You Get Myltiple Wordles At Once If All The Spaces Are Filled So You Dont Have To Use An Additional Guesso

[@uma295]

For today's wordle, can you try starting with haems, hames and ahems? It would be cool if you did! Thanks

[@Maepl]

Grats on the sponsorship!

[@Antwonio9]

With the three yellows in the second game, what you could have done was guess 1 letter on the same spot and two other letters on different spots, maybe something like "legit". If you had greens and yellows you could have maybe deducted more then

[@miecaf]

This seems like a cool concept, I might try it out

[@bmwmga7192]

I was thinking CASED for the first one

[@lotg1297]

Okay two suggestions! One I recommend you try Chessle it’s basically wordle but for chess and two I recomend you start with flame pound crwth and skiey trust me some of these sound ridiculous but they are all words

[@cdj4029]

This may be your best video yet. It’s super challenging and was really fun to watch! Good work Scott!

[@ichmagheringway89]

A sponsor?!? Congratulations Scott.

[@shrey7969]

Let’s gooo… couldn’t wait for this video🔥

[@yeetboi6244]

in this one wouldnt be like the opposite of wordle? You would want words that have the same letter multiple times

[@montrose315]

Hey Scott, I found a new wordle game called foodle and you have to guess five letter food words.

[@notabsy]

i think "naked" works too

[@Sparky0919]

I legit just tried it out and started with my usual starter which is slant and got it in 1 guess

[@lizzzylavender]

You know, liver gumbo sounds pretty nasty to me too

[@ARKGAMING]

That looks like a very nice concept

[@jonpumpkin]

Finally someone to mention Mastermind with Wordle. Originally Mastermind was A game like wordle you have 8 guesses and need to guess the combination of 4 out of 6 colours. Then you have different colours for right colour In the right spot and the ones in the wrong spot, like In wordle. Thanks Scott

[@hamizannaruto]

Stressfle and woodle are also wordle X mastermind

[@alexjenkins6023]

Start with Timed, Timer, Times. Should be interesting 😂

[@_xXTempestXx_]

I was thinking of waver after the first three

[@GioMetr1x]

Yessir my boy finally got a sponsor 💯💯

[@RackBrissell63]

You should try Kilordle (1000 Wordles)

[@griffinbrooks6748]

ooh, now i gotta code a wordle version for ya. :) thanks for the challenge… :D

[@hanna-writes]

The minute you got that result for Slime I was SURE it was gonna be Pride. Fully did the surprised pikachu face when that turned out to be incorrect, and I did not guess Prize before you haha

[@Maxobadaxo]

BRUHH Wordle 300 4/6 🟩⬜⬜⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 edit: This was mine today

[@killianobrien2007]

You got a literal L but still won

[@Maxobadaxo]

@@killianobrien2007 yeah lmao

[@nikhilreddy8550]

It boggles my mind that someone did not come up with this simple game (by that I mean WORDLE in general) a lot earlier. Someone comes up with it and we have multiple variations.

[@Joe_Payne]

They should have called it masterword

[@Joe_Payne]

I always loved playing mastermind

[@AIN17]

Can I have a link to the game please

[@ILuvTheMavs]

I think sometimes you try to hard to get the answer instead of utilizing guesses

[@kwanzdesigns]

Yessss, congrats Scott. Get that sponsor🥳🥳

[@nonksauws8800]

Wahoo! Scott’s got a sponsor! 💪 ❤️

[@DizzyRL]

Why do you put X’s instead of spaces?

[@StroSolves]

Most of these games won't let you put spaces

[@aggold6757]

how could it be click when only the L and I were in LIVER and there were 3 yellows in LIVER so click couldn't possibly be it or am i stupid?

[@AbbasKhan-vo6gr]

Stro I have a rather wide opening for a duotrigordle.. pls try this for once: HANKY, FLIRT, CODEX, BUMPS.. this covers 20 letters and I've been using it for some time.. I want you to speedrun using this!

[@MrEdwardCollins]

Ouch! CLICK was a terrible guess. It couldn't have been the solution, since we knew the solution will contain three of the letters from LIVER, and CLICK only contains two of those letters. Thus, CLICK was nothing more than a probing word, and with two Cs and a K, it was a very poor probing word. I also didn't like SLIME as a guess. That also couldn't be the solution (we know there is no S in the answer), so it also was a probing word, but at this stage there are better probing words than SLIME. After that, you were on track with your guesses of PRIDE and PRIZE.

[@emilyesnyman]

Before you guessed click I was considering the fact that it could be "price". Click obviously eliminated the c, so I thought maybe pride... And then you guessed it!😂 Ps. I was quite disappointed that my guesses were wrong tho

[@sneakyspy151]

I love your videos and watch them everyday! Day 2 of trying to get Scott to solve Kilordle. Kilordle is 1000 words HOWEVER you DONT have to manually type in words that you see that have all greens. ❤️

[@sneakyspy151]

I love your videos and watch them everyday! Day 2 of trying to get Scott to solve Kilordle. Kilordle is 1000 words HOWEVER you DONT have to manually type in words that you see that have all greens. ❤️

[@darrenpoppleton6661]

Me, after the first three guesses: fishy…fishy…FISHY…FISHY…FiShY!! The neighbours might be calling the cops. 😅

[@dusty_fill_edits]

Try the words GLIME BUFTY SPANK CHORD for your next octordle because they leave all the uncommon letters out

[@kurzackd]

such "luck". Such "skill" !!! :D

[@tynkertot]

13:04 You unintentionally found the I and E since you used S, L, and M in previous guesses.

[@Joe_Payne]

He did that on purpose

[@Yatoumori]

Todays new advanced word500 took me 'til my very last guess. Felt pretty tough to me.

[@supercool1312]

try starting with TRIAD and CHUNK

[@lorineforman3748]

This is awesome

[@kurzackd]

02:40. You're welcome.

[@dvrk001]

Why does this seem familiar to symble

[@aggold6757]

bruh in the first puzzle i came up with cased and a less family friendly word na _ ed update: ive never asked thus but would you want to start with cased for me in a wordle spin off at least?

[@aidanruggles5229]

I don’t know if you ever played/saw the word version of mastermind but it’s so challenging

[@faland0069]

there have been a lot of requests to do this, but i think i will say it anyway quordle, except you have to solve the first word before moving on to the next one. it might be too hard, but i dont know

[@adrianh6676]

Congrats on a sponsor!

[@kalebfelts9697]

You should do a symble using vozhd brick jumpy waqfs and glent

[@daddyray9425]

I just noticed because I'm replaying fallout 4 and this is just like hacking in the game

[@bupobm]

When you were guessing “CLICK” were you on Standard mode (no repeats)?

[@takumi2023]

Now I miss mastermind.

[@wp_scytheyt124]

difficulty faces brought to you by Geometry Dash

[@Sueghandis]

Paper works too

[@lukethompson7740]

Darn, after Gumbo I was thinking it would be cased, for the first one*.

[@AndGoatz04]

you grew up with master mind i grew up with Purble Place *we are not the same*

[@locomotivetrainstation6053]

I think LYRIC + HOUND + STEAM is better

[@shieldsdown227]

"and i dont think you're gonna be able to do a three constonant string with n or l and the beginning" ok so hear me out, if you count y then lyres exists

[@shieldsdown227]

also my frustration at him not remembering cakey

[@zeam-h3133]

My dad and I made up a game when I was little that is this but with only the yellows given as a clue and all calculated in our heads by memory

[@QuardGame]

Click couldn't be correct answer since on 2nd game we didn't use 3 letters from liver

[@OutsiderX2]

This should be called Mastermind with a 5 letter code with 26 different letters for the code.

[@NickShoust]

You ever play Pico Fermi Bagels back in grade school?

[@XCVIII]

Tbh wordle is just Lingo not really mastermind

[@Sam-kj9ui]

14:17 3 yellows in liver, and still gets surprised that click is wrong.

[@randomguy-oy5pf]

I think it is good to check first as many different letters as possible, later look if some letters repeat

[@isaiahu9679]

Masterminds and symble are almost the exact same thing

[@QwDragon]

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[@aa-yy1oc]

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