BS: Wordle

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 19 Jan 23 - 11:20 AM

Why not?

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 19 Jan 23 - 11:44 AM

No use asking me what my starter word was. I've forgotten within minutes. I did it in four today, about three hours ago, and can remember neither my starter nor the answer. I'm as likely as not going to pick a random word from whatever I'm typing or reading at the time.

I might look at this post for a starter for tomorrow. The candidates could be "today" or "might" or "could" or "start" (a slight cheat there...) or "cheat." All good. But not "going" or "there." I think I quite often use the second line to try to eliminate double consonants such as TH, CH, SH, ST, TR, CR, PR, PL, BR, WH, that sort of thing, depending on what happened in line 1.

But look what I've just done. I've added "think," "often," and "thing" to my starter candidate list. But not "quite."

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 19 Jan 23 - 12:17 PM

Yes, not the best of starts SRS.

I've had a go at that one and my second guess helped me.

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Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 20 Jan 23 - 04:18 PM

Back to a streak of one today.

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Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 20 Jan 23 - 05:43 PM

Four. A stupid guess deprived me of a three.

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 29 Jan 23 - 11:44 AM

The last few days have been a struggle, probably because of alternating my starting word. There is also an inclination from this editor, apparently, to try to avoid the most usual vowel appearances.

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Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 04 Feb 23 - 11:11 AM

My streak is back up to a puny 8.

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Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 21 Feb 23 - 02:01 PM

Every so often my streak is chopped off by a particularly dastardly word choice by the Wordle Editor. But for now my streak is up to 25.

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Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 21 Mar 23 - 11:57 AM

Wordle 640 5/6

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Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 21 Mar 23 - 12:19 PM

Woe was me today. I had all but the first letter in green on line 2. I reckoned that I had just four possible starting letters, so I started guessing.

You know what I'm going to say:

Did it in six. Grr.

I do it every day. I've a precise record of all my shots (how anal is that...). I've now done it 380 times, scores as follows:

In one: 1 (the word was "adopt")
In two: 16
In three: 103
In four: 141
In five: 91
In six: 21
Failed: 7

I seem to do a lot better when I get stuck than when I've got too many choices like today.

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 21 Mar 23 - 12:28 PM

I get it most often on the fifth line, next most often on the fourth. I suspect that is due to whatever technique I use (and I frequently accidentally reuse a letter; I know it's possible to set it so you can't reuse a letter, but I haven't done that.)

I've played 393 times and won 87% of the time.

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 24 Mar 23 - 09:02 PM

Played 348 times
Failed 1%
1 - 1
2 - 16
3- 92
4 - 122
5 - 83
6 - 32

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 28 Mar 23 - 11:51 AM

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Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 31 Mar 23 - 10:52 AM

Still sticking with it.

Wordle 650 3/6

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Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 31 Mar 23 - 01:46 PM

Everybody here did it in four today except me with five. Humph. I chose a silly starter word. I need a better strategy. As long as the word doesn't have repeat letters, or a Q, J, X or Z, I'll use it. My starter today got me five blanks. Growl.

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 01 Apr 23 - 12:29 PM

Ever since people noticed the editor occasionally chooses topical first words I pluck one out of the headlines that isn't on my list of starter words. I won't say it works better, but it hasn't killed the puzzle so far.

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 03 Apr 23 - 05:16 PM

It's been a rollercoaster week for me: best result was a 2 - I even had 4 correct letters in the right places in Line 1.But then my second ever failure, a 3 and a 4 and a 5!

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 03 Apr 23 - 05:46 PM

I got it in two today. Three greens and an orange that was an obligatory green anyway in line 1, and only a single possible option for the last letter in line 2. No skill, no crowing, but it didn't do my stats any harm!

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 10 Apr 23 - 04:33 PM

Today was a tidy one.

I've started looking for a five-letter word that applies to what is going on in my world and that seems just as effective as going off of a list of words with great vowels.

Wordle 660 3/6

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Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 10 Apr 23 - 04:52 PM

Wigs on the green round here when yesterday's word was revealed. "Snafu" - out of six people who nearly always succeed, I was the only one to get it (in four)...! I've never heard the word used this end, but I've been using it all day today!

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 11 Apr 23 - 12:09 PM

Me too: it seemed that half the world had never ever heard of it, while the other half just could not understand why these ignoramuses hadn't. Most of my friends that knew it seemed to have some sort of military background. And a bit unfair to use an acronym, though again knowing friends tell me it has wormed its way into British and US dictionaries!
Glad to be back to a 3 with a real word the following day!

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 11 Apr 23 - 12:44 PM

I doubted it would be word when I entered it, being an acronym (Situation Normal - All Fucked Up)

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 12 Apr 23 - 05:03 AM

A good swift three for me yesterday. Everybody else struggled (but finally got there after over half an hour). The moral of the tale is that "qu..." is never impossible! I always have it as an option at the back of my mind...

Subject: RE: BS: Wordle
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 10 May 23 - 09:33 PM

A very good word. And since in my first two guesses I got all of the letters, it was just a matter of arranging them.

Wordle 690 3/6

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