Anyone playing wordle?

["Roger"]

Three also. A fortunate opening word let me get a tough word in three.

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["Roger"]

What to do when Wordle runs out of words. (Not so remote as one might think.)

Wordle will eventually run out of words. Here's what the NYT could do next

Wordle's editor reveals what could happen to the game in three years' time

www.techradar.com

 

[Rolltydr]

Eezy peezy threezy!

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[clifffaith]

Three!

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[m4travels]

Joining the threes

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[VacationForever]

I was deciding between the 2 words and used the "wrong" word first for the 3rd line. FOUR.

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[Sandi Bo]

In the FOUR crowd (not as crowded as all those three's - nice)!
Wordle 1,019 4/6

 

[jont]

another 4

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[slip]

An uneventful Four today.

 

[DaveNV]

Three. Nice!

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Dave

 

[LannyPC]

Five for me even though I had three greens on my secoond try.

 

[EJC]

Five for me even though I had three greens on my secoond try.

There was article online on March 30th by Jeremy N. Smith. It mentioned a Wordle strategy as follows: enter these four words (obviously takes up the first four lines): LIGHT, CANDY, POWER, BUMFS. Once you do that, ALL the letters in the answer will be highlighted. You just need to put them in the correct order. I tried it, and it worked! I'm too lazy to read all he previous threads to see if someone already mentioned this.

 

[tombanjo]

The fun of Wordle is trying to get it in the least possible, and coming up with words with the clues you are sequentially given. If you needed to solve it to defuse a bomb that was set to blow up a school bus convoy, then it would be useful, but even then, to unscramble a five letter word might take more than two guesses, or even possibly, may contain all 6 of the missing letters. A word like "Mamma" or other use of repeated letters would cause problems too.

It would be interesting to test it, to see how it works, but if you are that set on removing brain power from the solving, you could very easily just look up the answer anyway.

That being said, I have climbed to the top of this hill to die on with a five today.

 

[#1 Cowboys Fan]

There was article online on March 30th by Jeremy N. Smith. It mentioned a Wordle strategy as follows: enter these four words (obviously takes up the first four lines): LIGHT, CANDY, POWER, BUMFS. Once you do that, ALL the letters in the answer will be highlighted. You just need to put them in the correct order. I tried it, and it worked! I'm too lazy to read all he previous threads to see if someone already mentioned this.

ALL of the letters??? What about PIZZA ? QUICK ? JUMBO? EXTRA??? etc...............

 

["Roger"]

Three today. I was actually a bit surprised that my third word was correct. Just goes to show...

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[Rolltydr]

I also enjoy trying to solve the word with the least tries. I never use the same starting word(s). I like using the first word that pops into my head when I start the game and then trying to outthink the creator. For example, today I had a fairly productive first word getting the middle letter correct and one other letter out of position. For my second guess, I used double letters, which I normally wouldn’t do that soon. However, I thought it was a good guess and that if the word only included one of those letters, it would be a big help. My hunch was correct and I was easily able to solve it in three tries.

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[VacationForever]

Used all SIX today.

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[m4travels]

Three today

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[clifffaith]

Silly error on my third word took so many “good letters” away that I instantly thought of what turned out to be the correct answer. So not unhappy with my four.

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[DaveNV]

I used two of my normal starting words, and I had the first three letters of the word in the right place. Getting the other two letters was easy.

Easy breezy three for me today. (Don't ask me how I'll do tomorrow. )

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[LannyPC]

I solved it in two!

For those who might be curious, my first word was.............................................................................................CLAIM.

 

[EJC]

ALL of the letters??? What about PIZZA ? QUICK ? JUMBO? EXTRA??? etc...............

Good point!

 

[DaveNV]

Good point!

And if you stop to think about it, there are 26 letters in the alphabet, not counting letters that are doubled or tripled in the right word. So the four words you named is only 20 letters - far from being "ALL the letters in the answer" that could be in the word.

Dave

 

[EJC]

And if you stop to think about it, there are 26 letters in the alphabet, not counting letters that are doubled or tripled in the right word. So the four words you named is only 20 letters - far from being "ALL the letters in the answer" that could be in the word.

Dave

I guess I shouldn't have said "all the letters." In the one or two tries I did, those four words gave me all the letters. Here's an excerpt from the article: "Guess LIGHT, CANDY, POWER, and BUMFS. That's four guesses with 20 unique letters, including all five vowels. At that point--after only a few seconds of typing--you're pretty much guaranteed to know all the letters in the winning word. Some may already be in the right place." Now I suppose some posters will attack "you're pretty much guaranteed to know all the letters in the winning word."

 

[Sandi Bo]

THREE for me today.

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