Anyone playing wordle?

["Roger"]

Three also

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[dsmrp]

My husband and I went to a concert last night, and did it together on a long shuttle ride back to parking. It was 5 past midnight when I took out my phone, so I missed Saturday's puzzle
We got today's/Sunday's puzzle in 3.

 

[clifffaith]

Four for me today. Couldn’t help but wonder if the word I often start with, but didn’t use today, would have got me there in three. I asked Cliff to start with it, but he took four too.

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Cliff used STaRe, pRoUd, TURnS,RUSTY

 

[VacationForever]

Took me only 15 seconds today and 3 lines and I chuckled while doing it and my husband asked what it was about. First line, first and last letter in the correct positions. Second line, last 2 letters were right but in the wrong positions. It left me with a single vowel which I had not tried but it was obvious.

 

[VacationForever]

Trying to figure out how to paste wordle outcome using spoiler... still testing...

 

[T_R_Oglodyte]

Four today.

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[Rolltydr]

Four for me, also.

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I have no idea why MISER popped into my brain this morning but I went with it and got the E ad R out of position. I tried to think of a word that would knock out the remaining 3 vowels and came up with ROUGE. If I had used route, I probably would have solved it in 3 but, if a frog had wings…I now had the R starting the word and O and E out of position. I didn’t know if it would allow RECON (short for reconnaissance) but tried it and it worked. Now, I had the RE in position and since the O couldn’t be in the 4th position, it almost certainly had to be the last letter. I just needed to fill in letters 3 and 4. It had to be RETRO.

 

[tombanjo]

Strangely, a rather new word. It is annoying have four second, and take 5


Wordle 373 5/6

 

["Roger"]

Three today. Three letters, while all out of place, in my opening word got me off to a good start.

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[VacationForever]

Four today. Got 4 letter right again after 2. I love my starter words.

 

[clifffaith]

Five today. Got carried away with an outré word and clicked enter before I realized one letter had already been rejected.

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[VacationForever]

I remember reading about how to "hide" spoiler here but I could not find it. Can one of you be so kind to list out the steps? I found "spoiler" under "insert" tab but could not get it to work when I did a preview. Thanks!

 

[clifffaith]

Four today.

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What is “louie”, and why is it a good Scrabble and Wordle word? When I looked it up it said Louie was a form of Louis, and proper nouns aren’t allowed in either game. Ack! As I typed this I went back to see if I couldn’t find it used as lower case. Turns out to be a man on man sex act.

 

[dsmrp]

4 for me, and I got 2 letters on 1st guess too!
My last 2 guesses same as Trog's.

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[dsmrp]

I remember reading about how to "hide" spoiler here but I could not find it. Can one of you be so kind to list out the steps? I found "spoiler" under "insert" tab but could not get it to work when I did a preview. Thanks!

Here's what I do after I select to insert spoiler:
1. Click Continue to omit entering text for spoiler title.
2. Add a line break or 2 between spoiler tags
3. With cursor positioned between tags,
click the picture icon to add-drop image/pix/screenshot of my Wordle game.

I crop my image in another app before adding.
Do not use the insert the thumbnail version to make the pix smaller.

 

[VacationForever]

Here's what I do after I select to insert spoiler:
1. Click Continue to omit entering test for spoiler title.
2. Add a line break or 2 between spoiler tags
3. With cursor positioned between tags,
add-drop image/pix/screenshot of my Wordle game.

I crop my image in another app before adding.
Do not insert the thumbnail version to make the pix smaller.

Thanks. I will try this tomorrow.

 

[T_R_Oglodyte]

What is “louie”, and why is it a good Scrabble and Wordle word? When I looked it up it said Louie was a form of Louis, and proper nouns aren’t allowed in either game. Ack! As I typed this I went back to see if I couldn’t find it used as lower case. Turns out to be a man on man sex act.

Louie is also an informal name given to a lieutenant in the military. And it's also a colloquial name for a left turn - "hang a louie at the stop light". (A right turn is a roger, and a U-turn is a youie.)

LOUIE is useful in Wordle because, like ADIEU, it has four vowels and a frequently occurring consonant.

Here's what I do after I select to insert spoiler:
1. Click Continue to omit entering text for spoiler title.
2. Add a line break or 2 between spoiler tags
3. With cursor positioned between tags,
click the picture icon to add-drop image/pix/screenshot of my Wordle game.

I crop my image in another app before adding.
Do not use the insert the thumbnail version to make the pix smaller.

If you're using a Windows computer, it's easy to use the Snipping Tool to make a snip of the completed puzzle. Then, in step 3 above, you put the cursor between the tags and press Ctl-V to paste the snip into the message.

To locate the snipping tool, use the windows search feature at the bottom right of the monitor. Below is a snip showing the location where you search for "Snipping Tool".

I use the Snipping Tool so frequently I keep it pinned to my task bar at the bottom of my monitor.

 

[clifffaith]

Louie is also an informal name given to a lieutenant in the military. And it's also a colloquial name for a left turn - "hang a louie at the stop light". (A right turn is a roger, and a U-turn is a youie.)

LOUIE is useful in Wordle because, like ADIEU, it has four vowels and a frequently occurring consonant.

We used to have an Australian gal run past us when we were taking our ocean trail walk. We about laid her flat the first time she ran up behind us and called out “on your Roger” because of course we startled and moved right to get out of her way expecting to be passed on the left.

 

[VacationForever]

If you're using a Windows computer, it's easy to use the Snipping Tool to make a snip of the completed puzzle. Then, in step 3 above, you put the cursor between the tags and press Ctl-V to paste the snip into the message.

To locate the snipping tool, use the windows search feature at the bottom right of the monitor. Below is a snip showing the location where you search for "Snipping Tool".
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I use the Snipping Tool so frequently I keep it pinned to my task bar at the bottom of my monitor.

First time using the snipping tool and it is pretty cool. Thanks!

 

["Roger"]

I snip in a different way from T R ...

On the keyboard, press the Window Logo key, the Shift key, and the letter S simultaneously. At that point, a rectangular box appears at the top of your screen. It gives you four choices as how to snip with the default being the ability to expand a box around whatever you want to snip. You do not have to choose it. Just expand a box around what you want to save. As soon as you are done, what is in the box is saved.

To put whatever you have saved wherever you want (in this case, into the Spoiler area), just click Control V and it appears.

 

[Patri]

Still practicing spoilers. Tougher on an iPad.

 

[T_R_Oglodyte]

Three today. Logic in spoiler.

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After seeing successes of other people hunting first for consonants instead of vowels, I decided to tack that way for guesses 1 and 2.

After guess 2, I thought the word would begin with DRO, and options I could think of with DRO as starter, with already eliminated consonants, were DROWN DROVE, DROOL, and DROLL. There's a 50:50 chance the word has an L (better odds than any other letter), so I decide to include an L in my next guess.

So I narrowed guess 3 to DROLL and DROLL, and it's a coin flip between which of those is better. On whim, I went with DROLL instead of DROOL, and I got it.

In retrospect, a better guess 3 would have been WOOLY, since that would have immediately indicated which of the four options was correct. (If WOOLY showed a W, the word would be DROWN. If WOOLY showed two Os and an L, it would be DROOL. If WOOLY showend one O and an L, the word would be DROLL. And if WOOLY showed neither a W nor an L, the word would be DROVE. )

So, if I had made that better guess, I would have ended up at four. But my actual guess 3 could easily have been wrong, and in that case I might have been looking at five guesses, maybe six, to solve.

Sometimes it better to be lucky than good.

 

[tombanjo]

The above is plain text, not a spoiler BTW.

An amusing little word in 4 for me

Wordle 374 4/6

 

[clifffaith]

Three for me, borrowing a new first word.

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[Rolltydr]

Five for me today and I felt good about it until I saw you smart people get it in 3. The word is not one I use very often, if ever.

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I started with OCEAN today and it got the out of position O. I used PIOUS next to identify any remaining vowels. No vowels but it got the O in the correct 3rd position. I was torn on my next guess but went with TOOTH and it didn’t get me anything. GLORY got the L and R out of position. Based on the letters I had already eliminated, I felt it likely the R was in the second position and the L was in fourth. DROLL fit that pattern and was, indeed, the word.