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Wordle 1,214 5/6*

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Not pretty. ?:)

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Blah I got the last two letters first and then drew blanks. :smile: Then again I am not playing with a full deck.
Wordle 1,214 X/6

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gmax137 said:
Wordle 1,214 4/6

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That's barely in my dictionary.
In mine neither. It really had me confused.

I'm sure I dont have to confess that
COREY
was a totally blind guess.

The beauty of the "heuristic" approach. :smile:
 
dwarde said:
Blah I got the last two letters first and then drew blanks. :smile: Then again I am not playing with a full deck.
Wordle 1,214 X/6

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Odd thing about Wordle 1214 is that it had the worst global mean score since I started keeping track of such things from game #564.
24.3% of global players did not solve the puzzle.
Only 3.6% of global players solved it in 3 guesses, while 57% of PF players solved it in 3.

Wordle 1214 2024-10-16 at 11.28.42.png


ps.

Wordle 1,215 4/6

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OmCheeto said:
Only 3.6% of global players solved it in 3 guesses, while 57% of PF players solved it in 3.
Even without being told this factoid, I would not think that PF members who solve Wordles are very representative of the average Wordle solver ...
 
Orodruin said:
Even without being told this factoid, I would not think that PF members who solve Wordles are very representative of the average Wordle solver ...
True, but this was out of the ball park better.

The World vs PF:

Count of PF average minus World average
PF vs the World in Wordle 2024-10-16 at 22.49.05.png


I'm not sure why HOUND gave us so much trouble. No double letters. No rare letters.
 
OmCheeto said:
I'm not sure why HOUND gave us so much trouble. No double letters. No rare letters.
It is not necessarily that it causes PF people trouble as much as it might be easier for others. If our expected average is not that different for a particular word, variation in the PF sample (which is rather small) could easily affect our result to the worse.
 
Wordle 1,216 3/6

⬛🟨🟨⬛🟨 [CLASH] 3 left: HAZEL HALVE LATHE
🟩🟩⬛🟨🟨 [HAZEL] dang!
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 [HALVE]

I was torn between HAZEL and HALVE. I finally went with the more romantic beautiful hazel eyes.
 
Wordle 1,216 5/6*

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Again, I'm not too proud. I mean HAYLE? I'm surprised it accepted it really.

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Wordle 1,217 4/6

⬛⬛⬛🟨⬛ [CLASH] 158 left
🟨🟨🟨⬛⬛ [INTER] filter - 3 left: STING STINK STINT
🟩🟩🟩🟩⬛ [STING] most probable
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 [STINT] 2nd most probable

I could have chosen a filter word on 3rd — like GECKO — for a guaranteed solution in 4 but decided to go for the kill, testing my theory of the most probable solution chosen by a human. :nb) In the end, I got the same result. :cool:
 
Wordle 1,217 5/6*

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Still ain't pretty but at least I didn't do any stupidly obtuse guesses. IMHO. Except maybe STING should gone before STICK..?

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jack action said:
In the end, I got the same result. :cool:
… which, I have to point out, is the actual prediction (on average) when assuming fully random. If you got a worse result on average, that would be evidence in favour of picking words not likely to be selected by an editor.
 
Wordle 1,218 4/6

⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ [CLASH] 464 left - might have to try a new seed word, this one seems off lately
🟨🟨⬛⬛🟨 [IRONE] filter- 18 left
🟨🟩⬛🟩⬛ [RIVET] filter and possible answer - 4 left: FIBER FIXER PIPER WIDER
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 [FIBER] most probable - my program suggested FIXER as my next guess but I preferred this one.