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[gmax137]

Wordle 1,027 4/6






I was sure my #3 was a winner. D'Oh. Looks like @jack action made the same pick for his #4.

Oh no! I looked at your spoiler before I realized it's (for me) tomorrow's puzzle.

I don't look at this thread until I have done the puzzle (I think I'm usually among the last). I don't want to see if everyone's getting it in three, or six. That's kind of a clue (if everyone had a hard time maybe it has a Q or X, or it's all vowels...)

 

[kuruman]

Wordle 1,027 3/6

 

[sbrothy]

Wordle 1,027 4/6






I was sure my #3 was a winner. D'Oh. Looks like @jack action made the same pick for his #4.


I don't look at this thread until I have done the puzzle (I think I'm usually among the last). I don't want to see if everyone's getting it in three, or six. That's kind of a clue (if everyone had a hard time maybe it has a Q or X, or it's all vowels...)

Yeah. Especially if you know people's start-words you risk getting a clue even if you don't want one.

 

[sbrothy]

Now watch out. I'm ahead of you americans by about 6 hours, so this is your tomorrow's puzzle.

Wordle 1,028 2/6*




And yeh. I might have been just a little lucky. A tiny smidge of luck :P

Spoiler

https://ibb.co/4jrf1rV

Which reminds me, I'll start varying my start-word or put the whole thing within SPOILERs in accordance with my comment above....

 

[Orodruin]

Wordle 1 028 3/6

 

[sbrothy]

Wordle 1 028 3/6

You also didn't need many clues. Are you keeping score with used words?

 

[OmCheeto]

Wordle 1,028 4/6

 

[OmCheeto]

Wordle 1,028 2/6*




And yeh. I might have been just a little lucky. A tiny smidge of luck :P

According to my calculations, you had 132 words to choose from, both previous and future game solutions. I find that interesting, as globally, 1% of the players today solved the game in 2 guesses.

I've never formally studied statistics but am curious if this means that globally, everyone averaged out to about 100 potential solutions after their first guess?

 

[Herman Trivilino]

Now watch out. I'm ahead of you americans by about 6 hours, so this is your tomorrow's puzzle.

Wordle 1,028 2/6*




And yeh. I might have been just a little lucky. A tiny smidge of luck :P

Spoiler

https://ibb.co/4jrf1rV

Which reminds me, I'll start varying my start-word or put the whole thing within SPOILERs in accordance with my comment above....

I don't think you need to add these caveats for Americans unless my stupid mistake keeps getting repeated. It doesn't take much effort on my part to be a bit more careful.

 

[Herman Trivilino]

Wordle 1,028 4/6

 

[Orodruin]

You also didn't need many clues. Are you keeping score with used words?

No. There was only one possible solution after the first two guesses.

Keep in mind that a white square also contains information.

Spoiler

After the two first guesses I know that it ends with Y, has an I that is not in the second position, no other vowels, and a bunch of common consonants are excluded. This left only one possible solution.

 

[jack action]

Wordle 1,028 5/6

Now watch out. I'm ahead of you americans by about 6 hours, so this is your tomorrow's puzzle.

Wordle 1,028 2/6*




And yeh. I might have been just a little lucky. A tiny smidge of luck :P

Spoiler

https://ibb.co/4jrf1rV

Which reminds me, I'll start varying my start-word or put the whole thing within SPOILERs in accordance with my comment above....

You use the same first guess as I do but I'm really curious about why you would choose that word as a second guess.

To my count, the first word left 749 possibilities. If your second guess wasn't right at all, it would have left you with 306 words, which is a lot. If my second guess CLONS wouldn't have been right at all, I would have been left with 48 words. In this case, I had only 15 possibilities left. Personally, I don't think too much and used the easy method of eliminating the most popular letters until I found at least 4 of them before guessing - unless I'm very lucky and a few fall into their right place.

Why choose such a word? The letters WYH wouldn't give you much information if they weren't in the word we are looking for.

This is not "a tiny smidge" of luck, it's "a hole-in-one on a windy day" kind of luck!

 

[gmax137]

Wordle 1,028 4/6

 

[kuruman]

Wordle 1,028 4/6

 

[Orodruin]

Wordle 1 029 3/6

 

[OmCheeto]

Wordle 1,029 4/6

 

[jack action]

Wordle 1,029 3/6

 

[sbrothy]

Wordle 1,029 4/6*






Should've stuck with my start-word. Ah well.

 

[kuruman]

Wordle 1,029 2/6

 

[gmax137]

Wordle 1,029 3/6


Diversifying vowels rather than going with my gut.

 

[Herman Trivilino]

Wordle 1,029 5/6

 

[sbrothy]

Wordle 1,028 5/6








You use the same first guess as I do but I'm really curious about why you would choose that word as a second guess.

To my count, the first word left 749 possibilities. If your second guess wasn't right at all, it would have left you with 306 words, which is a lot. If my second guess CLONS wouldn't have been right at all, I would have been left with 48 words. In this case, I had only 15 possibilities left. Personally, I don't think too much and used the easy method of eliminating the most popular letters until I found at least 4 of them before guessing - unless I'm very lucky and a few fall into their right place.

Why choose such a word? The letters WYH wouldn't give you much information if they weren't in the word we are looking for.

This is not "a tiny smidge" of luck, it's "a hole-in-one on a windy day" kind of luck!

Keep in mind that English is my second language and I don't really keep score of which words are used. So there's a lot of guessing going on here. I suspect that explains a lot. Sometimes though, no hits with the first word contains almost as much information as 3-4. As I wrote it was a pretty lucky shot! :P

As you almost wrote: ludicrously lucky.

 

[sbrothy]

Wordle 1,030 6/6*









See? Here I felt pretty darn stupid when it finally dawned on me. I'm pretty sure that's not a problem a native speaker would have. And that's not counting the obvious blunders I made, reusing letters, even though I have "hardmode" turned on.

Spoiler

https://ibb.co/tHYC8yV

I even tried to cheat but that didn't even help! That's pretty pathetic. I kinda panicked there at the end. We have a saying over here:

"Højt at flyve, dybt at falde".

(Almost) literally: "Flying high, falling far."

 

[OmCheeto]

Wordle 1,030 3/6

 

[jack action]

Wordle 1,030 4/6

 

[Herman Trivilino]

Wordle 1,030 4/6

 

[kuruman]

Wordle 1,030 4/6

 

[gmax137]

Wordle 1,030 3/6





I just let my gut pick my starting word, usually different every day, whatever pops into my head. This one was lucky! I think the answer today would have been a hard one without the two-letter headstart I got.

 

[Orodruin]

Wordle 1 031 3/6





Ah, symmetry!

 

[OmCheeto]

Wordle 1,031 3/6

 

[Herman Trivilino]

Wordle 1,031 4/6

 

[gmax137]

Wordle 1,031 3/6

Ah, symmetry!

indeed!

 

[jack action]

Wordle 1,031 6/6

 

[kuruman]

Wordle 1,031 4/6

 

[OmCheeto]

Wordle 1,032 6/6

 

[jack action]

Wordle 1,032 4/6

 

[Orodruin]

Wordle 1 032 4/6

 

[Herman Trivilino]

Wordle 1,032 4/6

 

[kuruman]

Wordle 1,032 4/6

 

[gmax137]

Wordle 1,032 4/6



info gathering

 

[Orodruin]

Wordle 1 033 4/6






Drat! That was the first word that popped into my mind after two guesses! After some thinking I decided to go for another third guess …

 

[OmCheeto]

Wordle 1,033 3/6

 

[jack action]

Wordle 1,033 6/6

 

[Orodruin]

Why does everybody have the comma in the Wordle number while I do not? Is it regional based on the client or platform based? (I am using an iPhone with Safari browser from Sweden)

Wordle 1 033

Wordle 1,033

Wordle 1,033

 

[sbrothy]

Wordle 1,033 3/6*

Spoiler

https://ibb.co/Pz1xP6w

 

[sbrothy]

Why does everybody have the comma in the Wordle number while I do not? Is it regional based on the client or platform based? (I am using an iPhone with Safari browser from Sweden)

Good question. I'd expect the English countries to use a period.

 

[Herman Trivilino]

Why does everybody have the comma in the Wordle number while I do not?

BIPM (IIRC the source correctly) recommends the use of a space rather than a comma (used in North America) or a period (used in Europe) to avoid confusion. That may be the reason it was developed that way in the software.

 

[sbrothy]

BIPM (IIRC the source correctly) recommends the use of a space rather than a comma (used in North America) or a period (used in Europe) to avoid confusion. That may be the reason it was developed that way in the software.

Oh yeah. I got that backwards didn't I?

Now I'm confused. Never mind.

 

[Herman Trivilino]

After some thinking I decided to go for another third guess …

Also known as a fourth guess?

 

[Herman Trivilino]

Oh yeah. I got that backwards didn't I?

Now I'm confused. Never mind.

I'm not sure if the UK uses the period or the comma as the separator.