Anyone playing wordle?

[clifffaith]

Four for me today.

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[dsmrp]

My usual 4. I fully expected my 3rd guess to be it but didn't get lucky.

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[T_R_Oglodyte]

Three this morning.

Wordle 442 3/6

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After guess 2, INTER was the only word that fit.

 

[tombanjo]

My complete and utter mastery of language allowed me to solve in two today. I'd like to bury any thought that this had anything to do with luck.

Wordle 442 2/6

 

[Patri]

Well, aren’t you two impressive? Five here. For my last guess, I was running through the letters for the second space, but placing the accent on the first syllable. Nothing worked. Then I adjusted my thinking….

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[Rolltydr]

Thought I had it in 3. It took 5.

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OCEAN got the E and N out of position, then INURE (I was trying all the vowels) got the IN in position, leaving me with either INREx or INxER. I couldn’t think of any words for the first but several for the latter, INFER, INNER, and INTER. I thought INFER was a great Wordle and INTER was morbid. What do I know?

 

[VacationForever]

4 today. I was very confident that my 3rd was correct.

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[clifffaith]

Four for me. But it took some time to get from third try where I had four letters to the solution.

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["Roger"]

Four today. Now that yesterday is over, I want to note that it seems about every two weeks they seem to use a word where the first letter can be one of a lot of different possibilities. There were at least six possible first letters to yesterday's word. Makes it hard when you have the last four letters correct.

 

[slip]

3 for me today.

 

[slip]

I started playing 10 days ago: I like it because I don't have the time to spend hours on a puzzle.

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I agree. Most of the time I am done in 2 minutes.

 

[T_R_Oglodyte]

Four.

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After guess 3 I figured that P was in position 5. And if I put P in position 5, then the only letter that fit in position 4 was another O. So I was looking at xxOOP. WHOOP was the only word I could come up with using available letters.

 

[tombanjo]

Amidst the cheers of my fans, I finish with a 5. While not a joyous victory, I saved my face again.

Wordle 443 5/6

 

[Rolltydr]

Four. Shoulda, coulda, woulda in 3 but refused to go with my first instinct.

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It’s a very bright, sunny morning so I opened with SOLAR and got an O. Next, CHOKE got the HO in 2nd and 3rd positions. I actually first thought of WHOOP but I talked myself out of it and tried PHONY instead. Idiot!

 

[Patri]

I’m with Tom. Blew one try because I forgot to use a known letter. So a five.

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[VacationForever]

Three today. After the second word, I scratched my head a little and came up with the third. Lucky or what!

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[clifffaith]

Five for me.

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["Roger"]

Four. I was running out of usable letters. It took a while for me to put the fourth (and correct) entry in.

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[Patri]

Five for-me.

Come on Faith. You still make me laugh. Phono?

 

[VacationForever]

@clifffaith Faith comes up with words which I didn't know existed.

 

[VacationForever]

Four. I was running out of usable letters. It took a while for me to put the fourth (and correct) entry in.

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That is X-rated! This is PG audience!

 

[slip]

Pulled out a lucky 4.

 

[T_R_Oglodyte]

That is X-rated! This is PG audience!

I thought Roger's last two guesses worked rather nicely in combination.

 

[dsmrp]

5 today. I wasn't sure the answer was even a word.

 

[T_R_Oglodyte]

Three.

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Some players, once they hit a green, continue to use that letter in all subsequent guesses. I often take a different approach. Looking at today's puzzle, my thought is that since I already know that position 2 is an A, I don't gain any additional information by limiting myself to guesses that have an A in position 2. But if I put another letter in position 2, I can find out whether or not that letter is part of the solution.

I took that approach today. After guess 1, I wanted to see of the U was part of an AU combination. So I wanted a word that had U in position 3. Apart from a U in position 3, I wanted a word that included a lot of other common letters. STUMP fit the bill.

Having identified an out of position T in guess 2, where I knew I already had an A, the next question was whether the T was in position 1 or position 5. If I put the T in position 1, the only word I could come up with was TAUNT. If I put the T in position 5, I could have DAUNT or TAUNT.

So, two possibilities. I tried TAUNT, and that was correct. But, I only arrived at a solution in three because my guess 2 included a T in position 2, which I knew couldn't be a solution.