You guys playing wordle?

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Originally Posted by ötzi

Been sticking with "stare" as the opener for a while now.

I'm not a fan of these ones where you can be one letter off and it's still a word so it's just guessing, like "bloom" and "gloom" where you already have the "loom". There was one a couple days ago where I went three lines just changing the one letter, I'm blanking on what it was right now but whatever., I could have had it on the 3rd line if I was lucky but ended up on the 5th.

I think it was discussed somewhere up there ^^ but say you get a couple letters gold on the opener, what about guessing a word that doesn't have those letters so you knock more letters out? Not sure I'm explaining this well but say I start with "stare" and the "t" and the "a" go gold.

If you guess a word that doesn't use those two letters, is that legit? Like say "pound", with no letters in common with "stare" but it gets two more vowels and and three more consonants in play? Feels un-legit but I dunno. It also doesn't get you any closer to knowing where the "t" and the "a" belong, so there's a downside to it too.

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In "hard mode" you can't do that, but if you don't play in that mode, that's definitely a good strategy, if not entirely "purist".

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Originally Posted by Aldo

feels better when you get it off your chest no?

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It's always good to get things out in the open, ya know?

I do. Suppression fuels a girth of angst.

Haha. Almost got reamed but that one

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Originally Posted by ötzi

Huh. I've kinda felt that if I get letters on the opener I have to use them on the next (and subsequent) guesses.

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Me, too. I think the "use the first two guesses as feelers" could potentially be the better overall strategy, but I'd still rather shoot for solving it in two guesses occasionally.

"Hard mode" should be called "crapshoot mode." It's "hard" because it's a bad strategy that relies on luck.

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Originally Posted by I've seen black diamonds!

"Hard mode" should be called "crapshoot mode." It's "hard" because it's a bad strategy that relies on luck.

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I don’t think that’s true at all. I play hard mode and can almost always get it in four or less. I’m like 135/137 overall in hard mode.

Hard mode is harder. It’s no less strategic.

I play hard mode and I'm not sure it's that much harder.. I'm 133/135 and those 2 I missed still piss me off.

Wait, people lose? huh.

“Lose not on list “


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Originally Posted by phatty

I play hard mode and I'm not sure it's that much harder.. I'm 133/135 and those 2 I missed still piss me off.

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Marginally harder. Probably marginally better chance of never losing in easy mode, but hard isn’t that tough either as I’m 138 and 1. And the one was one of those single letter guess a thons. I think the real challenge is getting it in 3

Quordle is a LOT harder if you want a challenge

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Originally Posted by mcski

And the one was one of those single letter guess a thons. I think the real challenge is getting it in 3

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Both my misses were ones where it could be a ton of options. The last time I had 4 letters in the correct spot by the 2nd guess and still missed it.

I finally passed where my 2s & 3s are more than my 5s & 6s. Trying to keep my average under 4.

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Originally Posted by phatty

Both my misses were ones where it could be a ton of options. The last time I had 4 letters in the correct spot by the 2nd guess and still missed it.

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Yeah, those fucking suck. I guess at that point you should just go with something completely different to use more letters, but that's tough to do.

Yeah, in easy mode you can pick a word that eliminates all the possible letters to guarantee a hit on number six. In hard mode not so much

I didn’t know there was a hard mode and an easy mode. I’ve generally been playing it hard, if that counts, but recently I’ve dabbled with ignoring any hits for my second word. AEROS and TUNIC, or similar. Seems to get me there in approx the same guesses, but helps eliminate the PROSE WHOSE MOOSE GOOSE LOOSE NOOSE nonsense (though notably not really with the examples provided).

Now that I know there’s a hard way and an easy way I’m all hard way from here on out.

I don’t see the point in ignoring hits.

Also. Reusing a dead letter? Yeah. I guess it works. If it were a timed contest it might make sense. But I enjoy looking at the leftovers and the hits and finding the answer. Mostly I get it in three. But I may take a few minutes racking my brain. To me that’s the fun.

https://dontwordle.com/
It's a good inversion of wordle. I found it surprisingly difficult and failed more than I've won.

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Originally Posted by Core Shot

I don’t see the point in ignoring hits.

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If you get three out of five on the first guess (which happens often with my start word) you’re limited to 10 more letters to sort out the answer to use a total of 15 different letters. If you use ten different letters up front and still only get three hits (obviously less likely), you have 8 letters left for a total of 18 different letters.

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It would all flow even more nicely into a probability chart, too, at least insofar as identifying hits.

I was one day away from changing my opening word, it wasn't working well, and then today I got it in two so I guess I'm staying with it for a while

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Originally Posted by Mustonen

If you get three out of five on the first guess (which happens often with my start word) you’re limited to 10 more letters to sort out the answer to use a total of 15 different letters. If you use ten different letters up front and still only get three hits, you have 8 letters left for a total of 18 different letters.

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That's why it's not Hard mode.

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Originally Posted by ötzi

That's why it's not Hard mode.

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Yeah. Didn’t know that was a thing. Without being defined (or just by being ignorant), that’s like tying your shoelaces together to play basketball. I get it. Hard mode for me, man, here on out.

Yeah I thought I was just a masochist until a couple days ago.

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Originally Posted by abraham

https://dontwordle.com/
It's a good inversion of wordle. I found it surprisingly difficult and failed more than I've won.

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That’s a fun one.

Share
Shade
Shake
Shame
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Shat the bed on that one.

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Originally Posted by This End Up

Share
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Shat the bed on that one.

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Heh.
Finally got in three.
Son got it on four.
Not easy today. Haven’t played in a while but we’re on family vacation.
It’s a simple challenge

"Tryst" the other day was interesting. I got it in 3 because I had done ATONE and got the T, then TULIP and still got only had the T, but in the right place and I had already used AEIOU. So I knew there were no vowels and it started with T. It just took some staring time from there.

The thing I like about Wordle is line three.

You used vowels. And common consonants

What’s left. Wrack your brain.
It’s good fun.

Four should be easy. But sometimes it takes me a few minutes. Study the leftovers and the known.

What do you mean, UTARD is not a word???

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^^^ Made me go check to see if TBARS was really a word.

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Originally Posted by Mustonen

^^^ Made me go check to see if TBARS was really a word.

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That first guess was TEARS. You can tell from the keyboard selections.

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Originally Posted by spanky

That first guess was TEARS. You can tell from the keyboard selections.

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I figured that out. TBARS wasn’t a word.

Utard on a tbar is pretty cryptic I guess.

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Originally Posted by Core Shot

I don’t see the point in ignoring hits.

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Originally Posted by Mustonen

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I was so pissed today.

I got today in 6 but missed the other day

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Originally Posted by ötzi

Utard on a tbar is pretty cryptic I guess.

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Short for Tranny Bar. Rumor is that Donny Osmond likes to hang out in them and sing Go Away Little Girl.

But…

That’s only a rumor

Yeah, one of my initial guess words was the actual word. Don’t worry this was from last week.

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PENIS worked well for me as starting word earlier this week.

Starting words are key
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