Anyone playing wordle?

[VacationForever]

I took 6, and I kept trying with 3 correct letters in their positions by the 3rd line.

 

[slip]

4 for me today. I'm usually happy with a 4.

 

[T_R_Oglodyte]

Three

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Went back to LOUIE as a starter word. After guess 1 figured that the O was most likely in position 3, and surmised that L was more lilely in position 2 than position 4, which meant I was hunting on xLOxE. GLOVE was a second guess, confirming those assumptions;

That left me with ALONE and ELOPE as answers. So, I flipped a mental coin and I picked ELOPE, which was correct. Yesterday I had to flip a mental coin between POKER and POWER, and I selected POKER, incorrectly, based on gut feeling. Which to me reinforces that gut feeling isn't any more reliable than doing a mental coin flip.

 

[tombanjo]

That was tough. I managed to sneak out the window with 5


Wordle 401 5/6

 

[Patri]

Four. Lots of choices.

 

[slip]

I luckily pulled it out in 4.

 

[Rolltydr]

And 4 for me, also.

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I started searching for vowels with SUAVE and found the ending E. I bombed with my second word which was TWICE. (I don’t know. It seemed like a good idea at the time.) I now believe there is an O so I try PROBE and it proves me correct and also gets a P. With the letters I have remaining, I can’t think of any words where P would work in the 2nd position, so I’m looking at xxOPE. ELOPE is all I can come up with.

 

["Roger"]

Five today, but what was I thinking on my third entry? I had two letters correctly placed on the second try but moved them on my third try.

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[Rolltydr]

Five today, but what was I thinking on my third entry? I had two letters correctly placed on the second try but moved them on my third try.

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You needed more coffee!

 

["Roger"]

You needed more coffee!

You don't know how true that is. My coffee maker broke down. Suffering...

 

[clifffaith]

Three for me.

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[AnnaS]

Have not played in months - 4 for me today. Should have been three. Silly mistake - happy with 4

 

[Patri]

Faith, you really do come up with funny words. Plonk?

 

[clifffaith]

Faith, you really do come up with funny words. Plonk?

I think I’ve seen @VacationForever use plonk too. At least I knew it was a legit word when I used it the first time. I’ve been surprised several times by trying letter combinations that I really didn’t think made up a real word, only to have them be OK!

 

[VacationForever]

I think I’ve seen @VacationForever use plonk too. At least I knew it was a legit word when I used it the first time. I’ve been surprised several times by trying letter combinations that I really didn’t think made up a real word, only to have them be OK!

You are right, great memory! I used plonk, as a nonsense word and just in case it was valid.

 

[VacationForever]

Five today.

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[dsmrp]

3 today!

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The first 2 guesses were key, so that last 3
letters had to be 'ope'. Could think only o 2 words, elope and grope.

 

[tombanjo]

Today was easy. Three in a pinch.


Wordle 402 3/6

 

[Rolltydr]

I got it in 3, also.

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Started by searching for vowels with OILER and got the I in the 2nd position. FINCH came immediately to mind and it was a very fortuitous guess getting the INCH. CINCH and PINCH were the possibilities and I chose correctly today.

 

[Patri]

Congrats to you 3s. I was 4.

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["Roger"]

I actually struck out today. Three possibilities for the first letter and I chose the wrong two.

 

[rickandcindy23]

Got it in 3, Rick got it in four.

 

[T_R_Oglodyte]

Five today. Had to use an elimination word.

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After the second guess, I knew the only vowel was I, and there wasn't I in position 3. So three paths open.

• One I in position 3. xIxxx. A word such as PINCH or NINTH or SIXTH.
• One I in position 4. xxxIx. But with letters already eliminated, I couldn't think of any words that fit that pattern.
• Two Is, in positions 2 and 4. xIxIx. A word such RIVIT.

Of all of those, there were more xINCH options, than any other, so I decided to investigate that option. PINCH. confirmed that was the right path.

Now I had three guesses remaining, with four possibilities: CINCH, WINCH, FINCH, LINCH. Too many to try to eliminate them one-by-one. So I used FLECK as an elimination word. I would either hit on F, C, or L, leading directly to the correct word. Or if FLECK missed on everything, then the solution would be WINCH.

Actually, I didn't think this through. FLECK was guaranteed to give a C in position 4, no matter what. A better elimination word would have been FLOWN or CLOWN.

 

[clifffaith]

I was late getting up (thanks to Jax’s 4am cuddle session which is always followed by him bouncing off the walls which makes for a hard time sleeping) and was hungry when I did the puzzle, so I pretty much purposely blew off the first three words. Then I thought I recovered nicely for five.

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[slip]

5 today. Not bad since my first 2 words gave me nothing and my 3rd gave only 2 misplaced letters.