Anyone playing wordle?

[billymach4]

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

Let's call that a Hawaii-Five-O!

 

[VacationForever]

Argh. Made a mistake on the third and got it in six. Nothing to write home about.
It wasn't easy, the word lies!

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[dsmrp]

5 for me.

 

[T_R_Oglodyte]

three today

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Got M and O in position on the first guess. Guess 2 was hunting for more vowels. I didn't hit on more vowels, which was actually quite helpful, as well as an out of position T in position 5, which was also quite helpful, as described below.

After guesses 1 and 2 I was pretty sure I had eliminated all possible words with O in position 2 as the only vowel. So I needed another O or a Y somewhere in positions 3, 4 or 5. The only place to park a Y was in position 5, and I couldn't think of any words that started with MO, ended in Y, and had a T in position 3 or 4. So I zeroed in on words that started with MO, had a T in position 3 or 4, and an O in position 3, 4, or 5.

With remaining available letters, I came up with two possibilities. MOOTS and MOTTO. I decided MOTTO was more likely.

 

[Patri]

Hard one! Five.

 

[Rolltydr]

Four, and thrilled to get it!

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I went searching for vowels and missed with HAUTE, but did get the T in position 4. I mainly wanted to see if a Y was in position 5 and try an O with SOFTY. Got the O in position 2 but no Y. So, after the T in position 4, I have eliminated E, H, and Y which would be the most common letters there. I tried to think of words ending in TI, TO and TT and wasn’t having any luck. I decided to try an elimination word using PRINT and found another T out of position. The T had to go in position 1 or 3, either TOxTx or xOTTx. As soon as I visualized xOTTx, I knew it had to be MOTTO.

 

["Roger"]

Four

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[clifffaith]

Five today. I had an inkling of where it was headed at four so used a word I knew was wrong to test my theory, which helped with the solution.

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[slip]

5 today for me.

 

[VacationForever]

5 today. 4th was on my mind all day yesterday.

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[dsmrp]

5 for me too

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[T_R_Oglodyte]

Three today.

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Today was particularly interesting and fun for me.

I've added BAYOU to my list of favorite opening words. BAYOU checks for four of the six vowels, so it ranks up there with ADIEU and LOUIE in that regard. Plus I think BAYOU is more likely to appear someday as the solution than ADIEU or LOUIE. (I saw a comment from someone one time to the effect that if ADIEU ever turned up as the correct answer, the WORDLE corner of the internet would probably collapse.) Anyway, BAYOU only netted an out of position O in slot 4.

Coming into guess 2, I hadn't checked for I and E, and I also needed to consider whether the word had a double O in positions 2 and 3, such as WOODS. MOIRE fit perfectly, since it checked for I and E, and if the answer word had an OO combination, MOIRE would give a green O in position 2. (But parking away the notion that word could have a disconnected double O, such as PHOTO.)

After guess 2 I figured that O was the only vowel in the word, and the O had to be in position 3 (with caveat mentioned above that the word might have O both positions 3 and 5). I also had an M somewhere in the word. So now it was time to hunt for consonants and to try to pin down the location of the M. S, T, and R are the consonants I hunt for first. R had been eliminated, so I was looking for a four consonant word that used S, T, and M, with the M not in position 1.

That led me STxMP. Since I already knew that O was the only vowel, that made STOMP a better guess than STAMP or STUMP.

Voila!

I wasn't actively trying to solve; with info I had, STOMP, CLOMP, CHOMP, PROMO, SMOCK, SMOLT, GLOMS and possibly others were all equally likely as solutions. To me that is too many active options to switch from investigative mode to solution mode. But STOMP would work well to winnow down the range of possible answers.

But sometimes those investigative guesses work out, as it did today.

 

[Rolltydr]

I struck out! Dangit!

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Great job, TR! Very well played.

For me, suffice to say I got down to my last guess with STOOP or STOMP as the options. I chose wrong.

 

["Roger"]

Three today. Completely different route from T_R_'s

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[Passepartout]

Got it in two today. Second time ever doing that.

 

[VacationForever]

Six. Sigh. It was what I did after I got it in Six.

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[Patri]

Four.

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[clifffaith]

I laughed out loud. Had no idea my third try was actually the right word!

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[dsmrp]

3 for me too.

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Likely the O was in 3rd position after 2 guesses. Only other word I could think of that fit was 'stoma', but it was too obscure...

 

[slip]

I got my first 2 today. Fairly lucky but I'll take it.

 

[T_R_Oglodyte]

Two - lucky day

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Used LOUIE as the starter, which netted U and E, both out of position.

Guess 2 was to try new locations for the U and E, and to begin hunting for consonants. I like to check for S and T early, and UPSET fit my criteria. I also thought about TRUES, but WORDLE hardly, if ever, uses verbs with that third person S ending. So, I went with UPSET. Sometimes you get lucky.

 

[slip]

3 today, always happy with a three.

 

[tombanjo]

last two days were difficult, so today, how could i be mad with a three ?

Wordle 405 3/6

 

[Patri]

This one did that to me. Lucky with four.

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[Rolltydr]

Hmmm, I must have needed more coffee. It took me 4.

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FREAK seemed like a good place to start this morning but only uncovered an out of position E. Next, I tried HELIO and added nothing. Next, I went with NUDGE and found a U also out of position. After an inordinate amount of time, I finally settled on UPSET, and I was a little because that is a word I use pretty often in the game so it shouldn’t have taken me so long.