Anyone playing wordle?

[dsmrp]

I'm on a short roll of 3.

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I initially thought the word would have an E and maybe an A, cause the past few days had Os. But was wrong

 

[T_R_Oglodyte]

Guess a country instead of a word:

Worldle - Guess the Country

worldle.teuteuf.fr

 

[tombanjo]

I was going to ask Vanna White to give me some letters as I was running out of ideas.


Wordle 359 5/6

 

[DeniseM]

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[VacationForever]

4 today.

 

[bizaro86]

Did it 5 minutes after midnight local time, got it in 2.

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[T_R_Oglodyte]

got it in 2

same for me.

First time I've ever hit all of the letters on the first guess. Just had to rearrange.

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Decided to use a different first word this time. I was tired of using ADIEU.

I wanted a word that contained at least three vowels - a, e, and either i or o. Then the consonants needed to be from s, n, r, t, p, and l. I came up with OATEN, probably because OATEN appears in the NYT xword puzzle often enough to stick in my mind. If had considered the letters more carefully, I might actually have plugged in ATONE instead.

A lucky day to break my opening word pattern.

 

[Rolltydr]

You guys are good! Took me 3.

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Started with TRACE and hit 3 letters including the E in the last position. I tried BASTE, mainly to see if the T was in the 4th position. It wasn’t. It took a few minutes of thinking, and several sips of coffee after that, but I ATONEd for my earlier errors.

 

[tombanjo]

For all my sins are washed away. I have redeemed myself with two


Wordle 360 2/6

 

["Roger"]

I thought that I had a good shot at two given the limited choices of words after my opening word, but it took me three...

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[clifffaith]

I am impressed with all the two word wins! Took me three today.

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[VacationForever]

Took me 4 today.

 

[dsmrp]

Took me 3. I ran thru a lot of words to find something that fit for my 3rd guess.

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[T_R_Oglodyte]

Got it in two. Another lucky first guess.

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Again, just for variety, trying a different first word instead of ADIEU. Yesterday I used OATEN, with good results, so today I decided to try something different. sacrificing an A to have I, O, and E in the first guess. Luckily, I hit on four of five, with a green I in position 3.

 

[Rolltydr]

4. That wasn’t even fair!

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Great job, TR. I’m impressed!

CHOIR got me the O,I,R in the wrong positions. With ROILS, I was basically trying to see if R was in the first position and get at least one of the vowels in the correct position. I spent an inordinate amount of time between my second and third attempts trying to make something fit. I knew PRIOR wasn’t correct because an R couldn’t be in the last position but I finally went with it to see what it would get me in the other 3 positions. I had tried a few words but had written off the O being in the last position. PRIMO never entered my mind until I saw the results from prior.

 

[tombanjo]

Had to be smokin some top level stuff to come up with these


Wordle 361 5/6

 

[Patri]

Four for me from starter word bawdy. At three there were two choices. Both were less common words. Yes, someone is smoking something.

 

["Roger"]

Five...

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With my starting word and the limited number of words that could use the two correct letters in their position , I thought that I might get this one quickly. As it turned out, I barely got it. To be honest, "primo" is not a word in my vocabulary.

 

[clifffaith]

Five for me too.

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[dsmrp]

3 again. I actually thought of the answer for my 2nd guess, but then thought, nah, that's too "slang", and went with a more conventional word.

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For 2nd guess, I thought there might be a 2 consonant beginning to the word, and ran thru the combos. And with the O in potential last position, only word that fit was Primo. However I hadn't r/o the 'OI', so Moist covered it as well as more common consonants. Should have gone with my instinct this time...

 

[T_R_Oglodyte]

3 again. I actually thought of the answer for my 2nd guess, but then thought, nah, that's too "slang", and went with a more conventional word.

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For 2nd guess, I thought there might be a 2 consonant beginning to the word, and ran thru the combos. And with the O in potential last position, only word that fit was Primo. However I hadn't r/o the 'OI', so Moist covered it as well as more common consonants. Should have gone with my instinct this time...
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I think the logic on your second guess was very good. In the universe of possible solutions after your first guess, your second word eliminated many more possibilities. Had you put the answer in as your second guess, and it was wrong (with the odds heavily stacked against you), you wouldn't have begun serious elimination until guess 3.

 

[rickandcindy23]

Wordle 361 6/6

So frustrating today.

 

[VacationForever]

Took me 4 today and showed to my husband. The first thing he said was "Is that even a word?" and then he said "I guess so." I just looked it up, it is a real word for a different meaning from the slang which we know of.

 

[bjones9942]

My start word of 'STONE' got me the solution in 2 yesterday. Four today, but it only took about 3 minutes.

 

[T_R_Oglodyte]

Three guesses today.

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Continuing to use different starter words (i.e., something other than ADIEU, which I've been using since the start of this thread) to add some variety. Today's starter was Louie - 4 vowels and one common consonant. My new word approach today was not nearly as successful as I was with OATEN on Tuesday (hits on all five letters, all out of position) and MOIRE yesterday (hits on four letters, with one letter, I, in position).

With a single out-of-position hit generated from LOUIE, I decided to continue the vowel search. RAYON, guess 2, had A and Y, the two vowels not in LOUIE, tested a new location for O, and added two new consonants that occur frequently. That was a good second guess, giving four of the five letters, with greens for ON at the end of the word. I figured the word needed to have A in position 1, because the only other option was position 3, and I couldn't think of any words that are xxAON.

So, if A is in position !, then R has to be in either position 2 or 3. If R is in position 2, then the word might be ARGON. If R is in position 3, the word could be APRON. I went with APRON, and that proved to be right. If APRON didn't work, then ARGON would have been my next guess. [later note: if R is in position 2, ARSON would also work. Didn't think of that at the time. If I had, I probably would have guessed ARSON or or used a word such as GRASP to identify the missing letter.]