Anyone playing wordle?

[DaveNV]

Five for me. Too many first-letter choices before hitting the right one.

Wordle 391 5/6







Dave

 

[VacationForever]

Five for me today. Wasted the third line, just careless.

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[T_R_Oglodyte]

Three today.

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After guess 1, I suspected the word contained two Os. TROOP tested for two Os. I also like to test for S, T, and R early. so that was another reason to use TROOP instead of other words that would also have tested for two Os.

TROOP gave me the R and confirmed that there were Os in positions 2 and 3. I could not think of any words that fit the xOORY pattern, so I figured the word must be ROOxY. ROOMY was the only word that seemed to fit.

That's the logic, but there was still a lot of luck. My two Os assumption for guess 2 could easily have been wrong, in which my guess 3 would have been a hunt word for A, E and U (GAUZE?). That most likely meant I wouldn't have been ready to try to solve until guess 5.

 

[slip]

Three today also.

 

[tombanjo]

Getting the 4th letter right meant there was lots of space for the rest

Wordle 392 3/6

 

[Rolltydr]

Three today.

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After guess 1, I suspected the word contained two Os. TROOP tested for two Os. I also like to test for S, T, and R early. so that was another reason to use TROOP instead of other words that would also have tested for two Os.

TROOP gave me the R and confirmed that there were Os in positions 2 and 3. I could not think of any words that fit the xOORY pattern, so I figured the word must be ROOxY. ROOMY was the only word that seemed to fit.

That's the logic, but there was still a lot of luck. My two Os assumption for guess 2 could easily have been wrong, in which my guess 3 would have been a hunt word for A, E and U (GAUZE?). That most likely meant I wouldn't have been ready to try to solve until guess 5.


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Also smart, and somewhat lucky, going for the Y in your first try! That’s something I very rarely do, but if it’s there, it’s a tremendous help.

 

[Rolltydr]

4 for me.

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I went for common consonants with BURST getting an R and then searched for vowels with RADIO, getting the R in the right position and an O with my 2nd attempt. I wanted to test for the E next and tried RECON. Nothing. At this point, I’m thinking there are 2 O’s and most likely a Y. With the letters I had remaining, ROOMY looked like a very good possibility and it was.

 

["Roger"]

Four for me.

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[clifffaith]

Five today.

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[rickandcindy23]

Four for me today.

 

[VacationForever]

Four today.

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[Patri]

Four.

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[bjones9942]

I named that tune in three today!!! Woo me!!!

 

[DaveNV]

You guys are killing it. Four for me today. Might have had it in three, but I took a shot and guessed wrong.

Wordle 392 4/6






Dave

 

[T_R_Oglodyte]

Four today. Totally bombed on guess 1 and guess 2 was only marginally better.

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For variety I decided to stray from my usual opening gambit and tried for consonants instead of vowels. STREP works for me with that approach, because it looks for S, T, and R, which are usually the first consonants I hunt for, and it uses E, the most common vowel. Alas, nothing.

For guess 2 I reverted to hunting vowels, and DOILY seemed like a good choice, testing for O, I, and Y, as well as two more common consonants. Well, at least I got a Y in position 5. And now I knew an A and/or U were lurking somewhere. And having already eliminated S, R, and L, I knew the word wasn't a sneaky 2 Y word, such as WRYLY or SLYLY.

For guess 3, VACUA was the only word I could come up with that included both A and U without using an already eliminated letter. VACUA would also verify that the word didn't have two As.

VACUA was a good choice, giving me A and C in positions 2 and 3 to go with the Y in position 5. With letters already eliminated (STREP and DOILY weren't complete wastes), the only letters that could possibly fit in position 4 were H and Y, so my answer was down to -ACKY or -ACHY. I couldn't think of any word that fit the -ACHY profile, but using available letters WACKY fit.

Bingo.

 

[Rolltydr]

4 for me, also.

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Starting with CLEAR found C and A both out of position. Opposite of TR, I decided to hunt consonants with my 2nd try and went with PATCH. That got the A in the correct position and eliminated the CH combination as a possibility. I almost went with WATCH instead of PATCH, which could have lead me to solve it in 3, but I didn’t want to waste a letter looking for a W. Next, I tried MANIC thinking the Wordle gods may be trying to pull a fast one with one of the few words ending in C, but they were not. So, now I know the word is xACxx. WACKY came to mind almost immediately and that was, indeed, the correct answer.

 

[tombanjo]

A rather strange or odd word. Still, got it in four.

Wordle 393 4/6

 

[VacationForever]

Five today. Blah.

 

["Roger"]

I seem to be stuck of four lately (which isn't that bad a place to be). After my first two words were pretty much failures, I was glad to have made it in four.

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[rickandcindy23]

Three today for me.

 

[VacationForever]

Didn't we have this word before, a couple of weeks back?

 

[clifffaith]

Five today.

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[VacationForever]

Five today.

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Your 4th is the same as my 4th.

 

[Patri]

Two. My weird starter word paid off.

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[rickandcindy23]

Didn't we have this word before, a couple of weeks back?

I don't think so. I do the puzzle every day and this was the first time for that one. But I have to say that a lot of words seem very familiar. I remember one that I thought was a repeat and asked Rick if we had that word before, and he said it was a word almost idential with the same letters. I think it was revel and lever that I had confused. He has a good memory for things like that.