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[jack action]

Wordle 1,134 3/6

[FRITZ] 61 left
[LENGS] filter word; 3 left: CHIDE JUICE WAIVE
[JUICE] The trifecta: possible answer, filter word, and the more pleasing and appealing to my eyes!

I have now upgraded my script to include past answers. Without this, there would have been 113 left at the first guess (same filter word suggestion though) and 7 with the second one. This way, I would have most likely made it in 4.

Why the chosen first guess? The script now gives me one of the possible answers as a first guess (not including past answers). Therefore, having it in 1 guess is a possibility. Through the last few trials with the script, the first guess seems to be irrelevant to the outcome, especially with known past answers (as demonstrated here).

 

[kuruman]

Why the chosen first guess? The script now gives me one of the possible answers as a first guess (not including past answers).

What criteria does the algorithm use for picking your first guess among all others?

 

[jack action]

What criteria does the algorithm use for picking your first guess among all others?

Random. More precisely:

shuf -n 1 futureanswerlist.txt

 

[gmax137]

Wordle 1,134 4/6

 

[edwardII]

Wordle 1,134 4/6

 

[fresh_42]

Wordle 1,135 4/6

 

[OmCheeto]

Wordle 1,135 4/6

 

[jack action]

Wordle 1,135 4/6

[RALPH] 196 left
[NOISE] 4 left: GUSTO SMOCK SMOKY STOOD
[SMOKY] Possible answer, filter word, and the more pleasing word. Wrong one this time.

Spoiler: Rant

When SMOKY is an option, how could anyone not be influenced by this:

All I could hear in my head was the banjo!

 

[kuruman]

Wordle 1,135 4/6

 

[gmax137]

Wordle 1,135 2/6


I picked the right one! To be honest I saw SMOKE and SMOCK but not SMOKY

Wordle 1,135 4/6

[RALPH] 196 left

I don't think proper names are valid words. OTOH, [RALPH] can be a verb, albeit slang.

 

[jack action]

I don't think proper names are valid words. OTOH, [RALPH] can be a verb, albeit slang.

IIRC - from my browser history - this is my source for the possible answers:

https://dagshub.com/arjvik/wordle-wordlist/src/master/answerlist.txt

It also seems to correspond to this list. Both have RALPH on them.

 

[gmax137]

Both have RALPH on them.

I would never have used RALPH as a guess. Apparently it is not as slangy as I thought. A quick check through the list you linked shows no "SUSAN" but does show "HARRY." Again, HARRY is a name but also a verb ("persistently carry out attacks on"). I will have to watch for that in the future.

 

[edwardII]

Wordle 1,135 5/6

 

[Herman Trivilino]

Wordle 1,135 5/6

 

[fresh_42]

Wordle 1,136 3/6

 

[Orodruin]

Wordle 1 136 2/6

 

[OmCheeto]

Well this is weird. I tallied up all my seed words that I've used at least 5 times and BLARE came out with the best score.
weird is 2nd from worst as it was my seed when I first started this delightfully weird little game.
Also interesting is that Wordlebot's seed word of choice, SLATE, was 21st on my list.
SHADE provided my only legitimate hole in one.
There were 78 words used less than 5 times, 52 of which were used only once.

rank	seed	1	2	3	4	5	6	∑	μ​	σ​
1	BLARE		3	2	2			7	2.857	0.8997
2	SLICE		1	9	2			12	3.083	0.5149
3	SPARE		3	10	5			18	3.111	0.6764
4	SHADE	1	1	3	4			9	3.111	1.0541
5	CRONE		2	3	3			8	3.125	0.8345
6	SAUCY		1	3	2			6	3.167	0.7528
7	SKIER		1	3	2			6	3.167	0.7528
8	STRAY		1	5	3			9	3.222	0.6667
9	HONEY		1	5	1	1		8	3.250	0.8864
10	ARISE			5	2			7	3.286	0.4880
11	AROSE		1	9	3	1		14	3.286	0.7263
12	SUAVE			12	7			19	3.368	0.4956
13	SKATE			5	3			8	3.375	0.5175
14	DAIRY		1	3	4			8	3.375	0.7440
15	AIDER			3	2			5	3.400	0.5477
16	NOISE		1	4	5			10	3.400	0.6992
17	SHALE		1	21	12	2		36	3.417	0.6492
18	SHARE			4	3			7	3.429	0.5345
19	SUITE			4	3			7	3.429	0.5345
20	DAISY		1	2	4			7	3.429	0.7868
21	SLATE		4	12	8	4		28	3.429	0.9201
22	BRACE		4	2	5	1	1	13	3.462	1.2659
23	SAUCE		3	17	20	1		41	3.463	0.6744
24	TEARY		3	10	13		1	27	3.481	0.8490
25	CRANE			4	4			8	3.500	0.5345
26	STARE			4	4			8	3.500	0.5345
27	SNORE			5	2	1		8	3.500	0.7559
28	SANER			18	14	2		34	3.529	0.6147
29	MEATY		3	9	8	4		24	3.542	0.9315
30	RAISE		1	16	7	5		29	3.552	0.8275
31	ROAST		1	3	4	1		9	3.556	0.8819
32	LEANT			3	4			7	3.571	0.5345
33	GRACE			4	2	1		7	3.571	0.7868
34	CAGEY		1	10	7	4		22	3.636	0.8477
35	SWORE		1	2	5	1		9	3.667	0.8660
36	SABRE		1	2	3	2		8	3.750	1.0351
37	SAFER			7	7	3		17	3.765	0.7524
38	FAIRY		2	2	7	3		14	3.786	0.9750
39	SLIDE			3	2		1	6	3.833	1.1690
40	SOAPY			3	3	2		8	3.875	0.8345
41	SLIME			3	5	2		10	3.900	0.7379
42	SOBER			1	3	1		5	4.000	0.7071
43	WEIRD		5	48	117	56	18	244	4.139	0.8872
44	POISE				2	3		5	4.600	0.5477

 

[OmCheeto]

Wordle 1,136 3/6

 

[jack action]

Wordle 1,136 4/6

[DRYER] 62 left
[IOTAS] filter - 4 left: SEWER SHEER SNEER SUPER
[SHEER] filter - looked better than SNEER

 

[kuruman]

Wordle 1,136 3/6

 

[Herman Trivilino]

Wordle 1,136 4/6

 

[gmax137]

Wordle 1,136 4/6

 

[edwardII]

Wordle 1,136 3/6

 

[Orodruin]

Wordle 1 136 2/6

I just realized, this finally put my all time mean below 4. I was at 4.5 at some point in the beginning before taking it a little more seriously and its taken time to correct.

Also

Wordle 1 137 3/6

 

[fresh_42]

Wordle 1,137 4/6

 

[OmCheeto]

Wordle 1,137 3/6

 

[kuruman]

Wordle 1,137 4/6

 

[jack action]

Wordle 1,137 5/6

[SILKY] 113 left
[OVATE] filter: 11 left
[PRAWN] filter: 2 left
[LAGER] I felt it was drinking time somewhere in the world; apparently not!


That was a nasty one with this seed word. Tried it again with a new random seed word, SIREN (6 left), and I would have gotten it in 3 without any guessing or luck needed.

 

[gmax137]

Wordle 1,137 3/6

LATER
RELAX


My second guess seems kind of stupid, given the low frequency X, but it left me with *ERAL, which helps a lot.

 

[jack action]

Wordle 1,137 3/6

LATER
RELAX


My second guess seems kind of stupid, given the low frequency X, but it left me with *ERAL, which helps a lot.

It wasn't stupid at all as you were left with 6 possible answers (FERAL GLARE PEARL RELAX RELAY RENAL). Not only your second guess was a possible answer, but it was also a filter word that left only one possibility, no matter which of the 5 other words would have been the answer.