Anyone playing wordle?

[T_R_Oglodyte]

2 today - The Search for Vowels

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there are occasional mentions of searching first for vowels vs. consonants vs. who cares. I'm a vowel searcher; that's just my preference. Sometimes that doesn't work. Sometimes it does. Today it worked spectacularly, as it should when three out of five letters are included in the vowel set.

Today I want back to ADIEU, yielding an out of position U. Vowels I haven't looked for are O and Y. So I want my next guess to be a word that has U in a new position, and that also includes O and Y. I thought immediately of LOUSY and YOUTH, and decided to go with YOUTH.

 

[VacationForever]

Three today, makes up for the 5 and 6 in the last 2 days.

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[VacationForever]

Three for me. I heard a good first word during a lecture yesterday and used it.

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I must say you use some of the words that I have never heard of.

 

[slip]

4 today, not bad. I'll take it.

 

[dsmrp]

4 today. I did think of a new starter word for vowels.

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[T_R_Oglodyte]

three. This required some noodling.

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As usual, guess1 was vowel hunt. There aren't any single vowel words that end in E, so I knew there was another vowel somewhere. The missing vowel options were A, a second E, or Y.

Guess 2 was planned to identify the the missing vowel, as well as put the R in a new location. Both A and the second E came up empty, so I knew I was missing a Y. I also knew that I needed an R in position 1 or 4.

I don't believe there are any words that start with Y and end in E and don't have at least one more vowel. Nor could I find any words that fit the pattern RxxYE. So, the Y needed to be in spot 2 or 3. I could not come up with any word that matched with xYRxE or with xxYRE. So now I was focusing on a RxYxE pattern.

That was a stumper; I was flummoxed until I realized that the word could begin with RH.

 

[slip]

5 today. I was hoping for 4 but my 4th word gave it to me for a 5.

 

[tombanjo]

It's like a jungle sometimes
It makes me wonder how I keep from going under
with 5/6 on the wordle page
and everyone guessing letters is a craze
I should drink more coffee before I attempt
another feat like that again

Wordle 411 5/6

 

[Rolltydr]

Five for me.

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Ok, TR, you convinced me to go for vowels and look what happened! Nada!

I opened with AUDIO and, as you can see, no green or yellow squares. Well, it does pretty much guarantee an E and maybe a Y so that’s where I went next. JERKY (the beef kind, not the personality, ) did indeed yield the E and Y plus an R, all out of position. I’m thinking the Y has to be in position 2 or 3 and maybe the word ends with ER. CYBER fits the pattern and just seems like a very Wordle word. I convince myself that’s the answer and, of course it isn’t, and doesn’t even get any of the letters in their correct positions. At this point, I make a dumb mistake (more coffee, please) and try EVERY, forgetting the Y has already been ruled out for position 5. Sheesh! So, I regroup and carefully look at my board. With my remaining letters, I’m looking at RxYxE or xRxYE. Like TR, I finally realize the word can start with RH and I see RHYME has to be the word.

 

[Patri]

Four.

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[clifffaith]

Three today.

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[VacationForever]

Three today but took me ages. For a while, my thinking cap couldn't find a word that could fit the 4 letters established after the 2nd line.

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["Roger"]

Three today. With the letters that I had and those I had eliminated on my first two tries, it went fast.

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[rickandcindy23]

Five for both of us. That was a tough one. I love it when you play the first two words and nada. At least it eliminates 10 letters.

 

[dsmrp]

It was a tough one. Took me all 6, even with DH helping after the 3rd guess!

 

[tombanjo]

A bit funky, but no snags

Wordle 412 4/6

 

[T_R_Oglodyte]

Four today, as well.

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I'm an admitted vowel hustler, but if I get two vowels in the first guess, I figure the odds of finding more vowels are small enough that I'm better off focusing or finding consonants at that point instead of seeking more vowels, SURLY fits by putting the U and Y in new positions, while hunting for common consonants S, R, and L.

After guess 2 the remaining options I saw were:

• BUMPY.
• BUGGY.
• BUNNY.
• BUDGY (not sure this is even a word).
• BUFFY (not sure this is even a word).

DOGMA, guess 3, was an elimination word. It tests for BUGGY, BUMPY, and BUDGY. DOGMA yielded an in-position G in position. And of the available words, the only one that had a G in position 3 was BUGGY. So that became my guess.

 

[Rolltydr]

Four today, as well.

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I'm an admitted vowel hustler, but if I get two vowels in the first guess, I figure the odds of finding more vowels are small enough that I'm better off focusing or finding consonants at that point instead of seeking more vowels, SURLY fits by putting the U and Y in new positions, while hunting for common consonants S, R, and L.

After guess 2 the remaining options I saw were:

• BUMPY.
• BUGGY.
• BUNNY.
• BUDGY (not sure this is even a word).
• BUFFY (not sure this is even a word).

DOGMA, guess 3, was an elimination word. It tests for BUGGY, BUMPY, and BUDGY. DOGMA yielded an in-position G in position. And of the available words, the only one that had a G in position 3 was BUGGY. So that became my guess.

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Very well played, TR!

It took me all 6.

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Maybe it’s just me but there seems to have been several words with Y lately so I tried a new starter word today. YODEL did indeed yield an out of position Y. With my 2nd guess, I wanted to move the Y and check for A and I. HAIRY got the Y in correct position 5 and ruled out A and I. So, there has to be a U, I think. I haven’t had enough coffee yet, so I just try FUNKY thinking the U has to be in 2nd position and maybe I’ll get lucky. I’m right about the U but nothing else. I see that GUSTY and MUSTY are possibilities and I try GUSTY. I get the G out of position. So, I either have xUxGY or xUGGY. I can’t think of anything with xUxGY but BUGGY or MUGGY are available. Of course, I choose the wrong one first but then get it correct on my last chance.

 

[Patri]

Geesh, I went through a lot of wrong letters to get it in five.

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[Rolltydr]

Wish I could say that!

 

["Roger"]

Four today.

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[VacationForever]

Five today.

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[clifffaith]

I crapped out today! Actually thought of the correct word for my sixth try, but after typing it in I liked the alternate word I thought of better, so changed it. No joy here!

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[dsmrp]

Strange, most of you got yesterday's word so easily, while I struggled. Today's the opposite, it came pretty quickly in 3.

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I went with my starter 'ocean' word again,
thinking it's gotta hit sometime on those vowels . But nope, so went hunting for I and U vowels. Got lucky on 2nd guess.
Buggy and Buddy were only words I could think of that worked. And since it's summer I went with 'buggy'.
Today's Jumble puzzle picture featured mosquitos which predisposed me to buggy too

 

[rickandcindy23]

I got it in 3, which was strange because I only had one letter in the right place after the second word (letter 2) and just guessed. It was a crazy guess. I think I read Rick's mind.