Anyone playing wordle?

[T_R_Oglodyte]

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At the third word i suspected it was either chase or phase, but I thought there might be others I hadn't thought of. So I used chasm so that I could test another letter. Reflecting, that was a bad idea since there is no way that m could fit any solution. Didn't affect the outcome, as I then would have used chase as my third entry, and still would have arrived at phase in guess 4.

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[Rolltydr]

Four today.

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I just went with a random word to start, as I usually do. I hit the R in the correct position and also a T that was not. I wanted to see if the T was in the first position with my second guess and knock out a few more letters. With my third word, I wanted to find the vowel(s). I found the O by process of elimination and also got the T in the correct position. So, I had the ROT and just had to identify the first and last letters. I started looking at options and froth seemed like a logical choice. More coffee, please.

 

[tombanjo]

I'll celebrate this near disaster with a well poured draft beer. I was all in a lather as we approached a last guess.

Wordle 350 6/6

 

[Patri]

I’m impressed with you twos. Four for me.

 

[dsmrp]

5 for me. I suspected the vowel(s) for today, but didn't get the consonants fast enough

 

[clifffaith]

Three for me today. I’ve been very happy starting with one of my favorite words all week.

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STARE

 

["Roger"]

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[VacationForever]

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Braggart.

 

[Rolltydr]

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Very Good!

 

[Rolltydr]

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I do have to ask, did you come here first before playing?

 

["Roger"]

I do have to ask, did you come here first before playing?

No I did not. I never do. I'll explain my thinking in the new spoiler

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"Their" is one of the starter words that I often use. All my starter words have two vowels and a "T." In this case, looking at the results from the first line, I thought it fairly likely (not certain, fairly likely) that the word ended with a "th." The "r" could have gone a couple of places, but I thought the most likely spot was the second one with a letter in front of it (and only a few letters would work). Now I need a vowel to put in the third spot. It couldn't be an "e" or an "i" Again, not a sure thing, but it seemed like it would most likely be an "a" or an "o." From there, I got the right word.

Looking back at this explanation, why didn't I try the word "wrath"? To be honest, I didn't even think of it, otherwise I might have made it my second word.

 

[T_R_Oglodyte]

Wordle 350 4/6





Approach similar to Roger, but it took me longer to get there. Details in spoiler.

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After the second guess I knew that the only vowel was o, in the third position. Everything else was consonants. The third guess was a search for consonants. Sport is a word to search for consonants. (If the single o had been in position 2 or 4, I would have used ports or strop instead of sport.)

After the third guess, given the letters I had eliminated, I concluded the word did not start with "tr", and it also couldn't end with "tr", So that meant that either t or r needed to be in position 1 or 2. Nothing worked if the word ended in r, so r had to be the letter in one first two positions. In turn, that meant t had to be in the 4th spot, and h was about the only letter that could follow t that hadn't been eliminated. Turning to the beginning of the word, r didn't work in the first position, so that led me to "_roth". So it was either "froth" or "broth". I went with "froth".

 

[marmite]

Dumb luck for my first word having so many of the letters. I used to only rotate through a few words for my first word, now I randomly pick a new word each day.

 

[T_R_Oglodyte]

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After the second guess, I couldn't think of a word that had an e in both positions 2 and 5, and I couldn't see any way to put a y into the word. So I concluded the word started with "de" followed by three consonants. With the remaining letters, the only word I could think of was "depth", and it took me some studying to come up with that.

 

[tombanjo]

It didn't take a real lot of knowledge to get this, but a fair amount of guesses

Wordle 351 4/6

 

[Patri]

Four as well. I did have to think hard when it was clear there was only one vowel.

 

["Roger"]

Three today.

 

[Rolltydr]

Sheesh!
Took me all 6 today. I couldn’t do a spoiler if I tried.

 

[VacationForever]

Three today and it was very easy for me.

 

[clifffaith]

Four today.

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I will use letters that have already been rejected like the O in DEPOT when I’m trying to get known letters into the correct position.

 

[Rolltydr]

Three today and it was very easy for me.

I’ll quote you from yesterday, “Braggart”.

 

[dsmrp]

4 for me.
Anyone do the daily Jumble? It's in a lot of newspapers.
Today's word would be easy to unjumble.

Searching for words that fit previous Wordle games, I thought of a few words
that would make good Wordle ones. Palindrome words such as
"civic", I think would be challenging since you might not expect 2x2
of the same letters to be present. Can you think of other 5 letter palindromes?

 

[rickandcindy23]

Also three for me.

 

[rickandcindy23]

4 for me.
Anyone do the daily Jumble? It's in a lot of newspapers.
Today's word would be easy to unjumble.

Searching for words that fit previous Wordle games, I thought of a few words
that would make good Wordle ones. Palindrome words such as
"civic", I think would be challenging since you might not expect 2x2
of the same letters to be present. Can you think of other 5 letter palindromes?

Good point. Palindromes would be a challenge.

 

[T_R_Oglodyte]

4 for me.
Anyone do the daily Jumble? It's in a lot of newspapers.
Today's word would be easy to unjumble.

Searching for words that fit previous Wordle games, I thought of a few words
that would make good Wordle ones. Palindrome words such as
"civic", I think would be challenging since you might not expect 2x2
of the same letters to be present. Can you think of other 5 letter palindromes?

Not a palindrome, but "jazzy" would probably be pretty tough. Other tough ones might be "queue", "wryly", "gypsy". I think "paean" and "axiom" and "axion" would also be tough.

Words ending in "atch" are tough unless you hit on the "atch" pattern early. If you don't hit that by your third turn, there are lots of possibilities.

Words with a "oo" combination can also be tough, because there are so many possibilities. There's a high probability that you will get a green "o" pretty soon, and you will start building words by surrounding that "o" with consonants. So you'll burn through guesses. And once you catch on that there's a double "o", you may have too many remaining options.