Anyone playing wordle?

[bizaro86]

6 for me today. Yikes!

@"Roger" you could have also had a 'Y' in that spot

 

[clifffaith]

Very happy to get out of my string of five and six word solutions. Four for me today.

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[dsmrp]

2 today!!!
Never had 3 letters in correct position on 1st guess before.

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I was going to use 'brine' as 1st guess, but decided to play safe and changed the B to a T. Somehow I thought today's word would have an I and E.

Anyway for 2nd guess, came up with drink, brink, bring and briny. I chose brink cause it would r/o the 'b' or the 'k'. Didn't think of 'wring' as @clifffaith, or I might have gone with bring.

 

[VacationForever]

4 for me today. I started at breakfast and was on line 2 when I had to head out. Came back 4 hours later and got it on the 4th.

 

[Patri]

Trine is a word? Learn something new!

 

[T_R_Oglodyte]

Three this morning.

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After checking vowels, I usually like to check S, T, and R promptly. So this lead me to to SPITE, which checked S and T, as well as trying E in a new location.

SMITE was an easy choice after guess 2.

 

[tombanjo]

I smile gently as wordle is vanquished in 4


Wordle 370 4/6

 

[Rolltydr]

It took me 5 this morning.

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I started with BATHE for no apparent reason. I got the E in the last position and a T. I wanted to see if the T was in the 4th position and also check a couple more vowels with ROUTE. It confirmed the T and eliminated the other letters. With the other vowels eliminated, I thought the third letter had to be an I and I tried ELITE. Nothing. Next SPITE got the S and I believe SMITE was the other option at that point so I nailed it.

 

["Roger"]

Five. It took me four tries with the last three letters correct. Lots of possibilities.

Like @Patri I did not know that Trine was a word.

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[clifffaith]

Four today. My third word was a random throw away word using none of the good letters found so far in order to both introduce some new options and narrow the choices left.

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[rickandcindy23]

Took me four today.

 

[bizaro86]

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Three for me today. Three consonants in the first guess left me looking for homes for two of them and a vowel. After SMITE put the M, T, and E in position I only needed the last vowel

 

[VacationForever]

Took me 5 today. I got 4 in the right positions on line 3, then it took another 2 guesses to replace that single letter. Not a common word for me.

 

[dsmrp]

4 for me.
I have never heard this word used in the present tense. More commonly in the past progressive ( I'm trying to learn Spanish, & grammar ) And not in my verbal vocabulary either.

 

[T_R_Oglodyte]

four today. Description in spoiler

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Guess 1 is a standard opener for me. I get A, D and E, all out of positions.

READS, guess 2, checks new locations for A, D, and E, as well as testing for R and S, two of most common consonants. Guess 2 gives me E, A, and D, in position. With EAD occupying positions 2-4, the only letters that could possibly follow D are S and Y.

But I already eliminated S, so the word must be xEADY. If that's correct, the possibilities are BEADY, READY, and HEADY. So, guess 3 is BIRCH, because that will suss out the missing letter. Or, if BIRCH comes back empty, I'll know I'm on the wrong path.

BIRCH gives me a hit on B, so the word must be BEADY.

[when you do Wordle just before going to bed, you miss somethings. Such as, I had already eliminated R with READS, so only HEADY and BEADY were options. So, instead of doing BIRCH, I should have just guessed one of the two options.}

 

[tombanjo]

My little eye spotted it at the very, very end.


Wordle 371 6/6

 

[Rolltydr]

5 for me

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I went ROGUE but it didn’t help much, getting only an out of position E. With the O and U out of play, I went for the A next with CLEAN. I was right but both are still out of position. FEAST got them in the correct positions and I had eliminated quite a few common consonants. With the letters I had remaining, I thought there was a strong possibility the word ended in DY so I tried HEADY and it proved my hunch. Now, BEADY was now the only remaining option.

 

["Roger"]

Four for me. Okay, but can't say that I am on a hot streak.

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[VacationForever]

2 for me today. First line which is what I use always, I got 4 correct letters in their right locations.

 

[clifffaith]

Took me five today.

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[rickandcindy23]

Took me four.

 

[T_R_Oglodyte]

Took me five today.

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Kudos. Although it took you five, I think your logic and approach was totally sound. You progressively worked to winnow down the possibilities, until by guess 5 there was only one answer.

Sometimes it just takes more guesses, and by hewing to a logical approach, as you did, you greatly increase the odds of arriving at solution within six guesses.

 

[T_R_Oglodyte]

Three today. As usual, logic in spoiler.

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Guess 1 was a standard opening, and guess 2 was a standard guess when that Guess 1 opener yields only an out of position U.

After Guess 2 I decided it was most likely that the word was in the form _US_Y. Not a given, because a word such as USURY would also work, but I'm going with the odds. S, T, and R are the three consonants I like to investigate first, because they are the most common, and RUSTY gave me US in a new position, as well as adding R and T in open locations. RUSTY also gave me a direct test of the _USTY root. If RUSTY didn't work , but the _USTY form was correct, then my next guess would have been a word such as BUGLE, which would allow me to test of three of those possible answers (BUSTY, GUSTY, and LUSTY).

RUSTY, though, turned out to be correct.

 

[tombanjo]

I must not be playing enough, on three I had 4 letters, but none in the right place


Wordle 372 5/6

 

[Rolltydr]

3 for me.

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I started with CLOUD this morning because I’ve been sitting in my sunroom for about an hour drinking coffee and watching the clouds float by overhead. That got me an out of position U. I find myself often wanting to see if the out of position letter is at the beginning of the word and so I did that with USHER. It wasn’t but it did identify the S and R also out of position. So, now I had RUS and wanted to see if that letter combination started the word. I went with RUSTY and, game over.