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[kuruman]

I self-impose hard mode rules on myself, but when I get to third guess:
AUDIO
EARTH
HATCH
and think through the possibilities:
BATCH, CATCH, LATCH, MATCH, PATCH, WATCH
then i think the "hard" thing to do is narrow those down as efficiently as possible, so my fourth guess bypasses "hard mode":
BALMY which I know is wrong, but...it leaves only one of those six choices.

I don't see how it leaves one of the six choices. You have 6 words where you know the last four letters and you are looking for the first, which is different in all 6. To exclude all but one, you will have to form a valid 5-letter word using 5 of the 6 first letters in your candidate list. When they are all consonants, as in this case, it cannot be done.

 

[kuruman]

Wordle 977 3/6

 

[gmax137]

I don't see how it leaves one of the six choices.

You're right, but in this case it left only one - because it showed "M" to be a correct letter. As @Orodruin said above, "BLIMP" would have been a better guess (ie, more informative) than my "BALMY."

 

[fresh_42]

Wordle 978 4/6






Choose wisely. This was a good seed word. That's your chance to guess it in 1.

 

[Orodruin]

That's your chance to guess it in 1.

Nope! No such luck.

Wordle 978 3/6

 

[Herman Trivilino]

Wordle 978 6/6*

 

[kuruman]

Wordle 978 3/6

 

[gmax137]

Wordle 978 3/6

 

[fresh_42]

Wordle 979 3/6

 

[OmCheeto]

Wordle 979 4/6






Well there's a first for me. After my second guess, only 4 words remained. But apart from the yellow and green letters, every single letter in the four words was unique.

 

[kuruman]

Wordle 979 3/6

 

[gmax137]

Wordle 979 3/6

 

[Herman Trivilino]

Wordle 979 3/6*

 

[Herman Trivilino]

My beef with ”hard mode” is that it removes the choice. You cannot make the choice of risking it or not.

That's true, but I don't like to make a guess that I know is wrong. And hard mode prevents me from making stupid mistakes.

 

[Orodruin]

That's true, but I don't like to make a guess that I know is wrong.

Depends on how you see it. I don’t like a rule that prevents me from making a guess that is better in terms of expected guesses to the solution.

I tend to go for lower expected guesses first and lower variance second. For example, if there are three possible words left and guessing either wont distinguish between the other two - I will go for a wrong guess that is guaranteed to resolve the degeneracy.

And hard mode prevents me from making stupid mistakes.

So it should be called ”easy mode”?

 

[Orodruin]

Close call

Wordle 980 6/6

 

[fresh_42]

Wordle 980 X/6








Too many possibilities.

 

[Orodruin]

I mean, from here it took me three ”informational guesses” to rule out everything. I was certain when I wrote the last guess, but at guess 6 it is always scary thinking you might have missed something.

 

[OmCheeto]

Wordle 980 5/6







According to Wordlebot, 8.3% of players ended up not solving todays puzzle.
Other nasty games where lots of people did not solve the puzzle:
795 VERVE 5.3%
730 KAZOO 5.3%
712 JAZZY 11.9%

Had I not done so well with my first guess, which left me only 14 possible solutions and a bit too much confidence, I would gotten it in 3 or 4.

 

[kuruman]

Wordle 980 4/6

 

[Herman Trivilino]

For example, if there are three possible words left and guessing either wont distinguish between the other two - I will go for a wrong guess that is guaranteed to resolve the degeneracy.

Then you'll get it in exactly two more guesses. The alternative is take a guess and you only have a 2 in 3 chance of getting it in two more guesses, but you have a 1 in 3 chance of getting it in one more guess. I prefer to play the odds.

Edit: Plus, there's a chance there are choices other than the three you think.

So it should be called ”easy mode”?

For me, yes.

 

[Herman Trivilino]

Wordle 980 X/6*

 

[Orodruin]

Then you'll get it in exactly two more guesses. The alternative is take a guess and you only have a 2 in 3 chance of getting it in two more guesses, but you have a 1 in 3 chance of getting it in one more guess. I prefer to play the odds.

That was my point. Expectation value is the same so then I minimize variance.

 

[Orodruin]

Wordle 980 X/6*

Now don’t you wish you could make informational guesses?

 

[gmax137]

Wordle 980 5/6

AUDIO
SHINE
MITER
PROOF
PIPER

After my word 3 I saw ten valid words. So I felt OK picking a test for word 4.

 

[Orodruin]

Now that feels more like usual …

Wordle 981 4/6

 

[fresh_42]

Indeed.

Wordle 981 4/6

 

[OmCheeto]

Wordle 981 3/6

 

[kuruman]

Wordle 981 3/6





Word 2 is a classic example of what @Orodruin calls informational guess. I excluded the 2 letters I already knew were there (no information here) and picked a word which gave me 4 letters that appeared more than once among the 8 remaining candidates. Word 3 was filtered as the only candidate left.

 

[Herman Trivilino]

Wordle 981 3/6*

 

[gmax137]

Wordle 981 3/6

 

[fresh_42]

Wordle 982 3/6






I'm so old, I still remember the last office on the floor.

 

[Orodruin]

Wordle 982 3/6

 

[OmCheeto]

Wordle 982 4/6

 

[Herman Trivilino]

Wordle 982 3/6*

 

[gmax137]

Wordle 982 3/6

 

[fresh_42]

Wordle 983 3/6

 

[kuruman]

Wordle 982 3/6

 

[OmCheeto]

Wordle 983 6/6








blech!!!

 

[kuruman]

Wordle 983 3/6

 

[gmax137]

Wordle 983 4/6






I'm beginning to think they ALL start with S

 

[Herman Trivilino]

Wordle 983 4/6*

 

[Orodruin]

Wordle 984 3/6

 

[fresh_42]

Wordle 984 4/6

 

[OmCheeto]

Wordle 984 3/6

 

[kuruman]

Wordle 984 4/6

 

[gmax137]

Wordle 984 5/6

 

[Herman Trivilino]

Wordle 984 5/6*

 

[OmCheeto]

Wordle 985 3/6

 

[sbrothy]

Wordle 985 3/6*





I should have had that one in two. But yeah. 20-20 hindsight and all.

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