Wordle 1,039 6/6
This was a "Phew" for me. Faced with 7 choices and 3 guesses left, I went for the certainty of 6 score rather than guessing. Anyway, here is how I did 1037 at
@sbrothy's request. My pattern was
kuruman said:
After the seed word, I looked at the frequency and distribution of letters in the 56 remaining candidates for the choice of the second word. In order to maximize hits, the idea is to find a word with high-frequency letters and L in a position other than 2. See spreadsheet table on the right. The top letter L was the single hit in word 1 and, fortunately, the next four can be used to form DOILY which was the second guess.
Of the 56 candidates this left 5:
GOLLY, HOLLY, JOLLY, NOBLY, WOOLY
What I did next showcases
@Orodruin's observation about the value of informational guesses. I have 4 guesses left and 5 words. I looked for a word that violates the hard mode rule but provides information on which candidates can be excluded from the list. I chose
This was my burn word that guaranteed the answer in 4. It contains the first letter in 4 of the candidates. As it turned out, I got no hit which pointed to the only candidate that has none of the 5 letters in the burn word.
This could not have been done in hard mode.
By the way,
- If you're wondering what WHANG means, see here.
- If you're wondering whether WHANG was part of my vocabulary, the answer is No. I had my spreadsheet search the list of almost 13,000 words for a word containing GHNW and, luckily, it found one.
