Anyone playing wordle?

[tombanjo]

A lucky start kept me clean and neat

Wordle 362 3/6

 

[Rolltydr]

Four for me.

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I opened with one of my favorite old starter words, AUDIO. I hit the A in the first position and also scored an O. AORTA seemed like a logical guess. The O was still in the wrong position but I got the R in the right place. So, unless the word ended in O, very unlikely I thought, it had to be in the 4th position. I tried ARROW to no avail. I was left with APRON. Good challenge for early in the morning.

 

[pedro47]

The Commander in Chief loved playing this game. LOL.

 

["Roger"]

Three today. It helps when they use a recognizable word (as opposed to yesterday). (I know, buck up. Quit your bitching.)

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[rickandcindy23]

Three for me today.

 

[Patri]

Three as well, but I sure made it hard.

 

[clifffaith]

Took me five, and I blame yesterday’s word on my fourth try even entering my mind.

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[dsmrp]

My short streak of 3 is over
4 today. I wasn't as careful with my 3rd word, but fortunately it had a similar word structure. I would have been mad at myself if my 3rd guess was really the answer and I didn't guess it.

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[VacationForever]

Got it in 4 today and took less than a minute.

 

[Patri]

In two. Starter word brawl. Up late babysitting grandchildren. I want to go to bed!

 

[T_R_Oglodyte]

Three today.

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I like four vowel starter words. Second guess puts the O in position 3. If the O is there, then there's a good chance it may be a one-vowel word. GLOWS worked, and also put the L in a new position. With the three greens on guess 2, I was ready to solve.

 

[tombanjo]

My little mind can’t conceive that no letters on first guess led to solving in three.
Wordle 363 3/6

 

[Rolltydr]

Three for me, also.

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OCEAN is one of my favorite places and starter words. Getting the N as the last letter and an O helped tremendously. BROWN narrowed it down to only one other option. BLOWN away!

 

["Roger"]

Its pretty much a me too day... three

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[clifffaith]

A poor showing at five.

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[dsmrp]

A lucky guess got it 3 for me,
after my 1st guess had zero letters.

 

[T_R_Oglodyte]

Three for me again. Discussion in spoiler.

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I've been trying different opening words, and I saw an article at CNET that suggested ROATE might be the optimal opening word. So I decided to try it.

My second guess was focused on on testing vowel locations, along with including a couple of common consonants.

After guess 2 it seemed straightforward, since the word had to be in the form C__AO. And CACAO was the only word I could come up with that met that pattern.

 

[tombanjo]

Wordle 364 5/6

It was YESTERDAYS word, but says 364 in the stats !!!

 

[Rolltydr]

Five for me and I’m very impressed by you guys that got it in 3!

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I started with BEACH, another one of my favorite places and words. I got the A and C both out of position. Next I went with FACTS which seemed like a good guess and it did get the A and C in the correct positions. Hmm, could it be WACKY? Darn! I was really hoping that was it. Now, I’m looking to see if the last letter could be a vowel. I’d been thinking it was more likely a consonant. I tried MACRO and hit the O. It was easy from there but I believe CACAO is the first time I’ve seen double, double letters in the word. At least, it’s the first one I remember.

 

[clifffaith]

Happy to have solved in six today! I was scrambling right to the end.

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[CPNY]

Happy to have solved in six today! I was scrambling right to the end.

Same here! I couldn’t believe it. Got it in 5

 

["Roger"]

Six for me. I thought that I had a good second word given what I started with and the letters eliminated. In the end, I was getting desperate for any word that would fit.

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First time that I resorted to @T_R_Oglodyte's strategy of a throw away word just to find a new letter (line #5).

 

[bizaro86]

I used my usual two starting words and ended up with 3 letters, none in the right place. I quickly saw a word that I thought worked and used it for guess 3, not noticing that letter 3 was in a spot I had already eliminated. Oops! But that got me the actual letter 3, which combined with having letter 1 in the right place constrained it to only one word I could think of.

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[rickandcindy23]

Four for me, and four for Rick.

 

[VacationForever]

Six for me today and I was sweating bullets after 4.