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Giving the bird to a passing mosquito.
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I did not like this one.
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The result, dear Watson, was evident from my investigations.
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Stupid one today, took me about 2 hours of pondering.
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Cut this one close
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2 4 5 progression. Bingo!
I play wordle ever day but my stats end up like this:
This is because it takes the first three guesses, the same every day, to get through vowels and major consonants so that I can properly guess based on matches and letters left. I -think- that’s how everyone is playing? Are there people out there who truly vary each word guess after the very first one?
At any rate, I’m sad that the game has evolved into repetition due to the way I play, I guess I’m asking if there is a different way I should be trying?
My first three daily guesses are:
STARE
POUCH
WINDY
I used to use a fixed set of starting words, but long since stopped doing that. I make a guess of an initial word, including very suboptimal ones like “defer” just for fun, and then go from there. That started before NYT forced you to register in order to see your stats. I didn’t register and not knowing my stats makes me more relaxed about ending a streak because I have no clue what my streak is.
I stopped worrying about streaks on about the second trip I went on and missed the solve of a puzzle I’d partially done due to flights, work, etc. But for sure I’m growing weary of the initial 3 word guesses, followed by me mentally going through the letters left for solves. It would be great if wordle started with a clue, thus more word one guesses would be possible. I know somewhere along the way they also expanded the dictionary of words they used. I wish they would either do that again or perhaps have a Wordle Plus or similar, where you could guess longer words.
I vary the first guess among half a dozen different words as much by mood as anything. After that it depends on the first result, but definitely not the same every time.
And I refuse to register with NYT for anything.
I dropped off playing since the sign in for stats, yay for 500 streak ending!
Anyhow no, I picked a random word each day and did hard mode so had to use any correct letters on future guesses.
Sounds like I need to ditch my method and learn to enjoy Wordle again with some variance.
I always use the same obscure starting word (salet - based on some MIT students’ analysis that those letters most commonly fall in the right place).
I start varying my approach with the 2nd try unless no vowels show up in try 1, in which case I use what I really don’t think should be a word, rougy, but wordle accepts and have then used all vowels except i.
Then I soldier on …
Probably what helps me the most is actually writing down possibilities instead of trying to do everything with my scant remaining brain cells. I owe that to having talked to my sister.
Different strokes for different folks & I like that there is still room for improvement after having played for a long time.
Plus as I’ve said before, anything I can do consistently correctly for a period of time makes me happy and counters my recognition that I’m a human bean who messes up a lot !
I don’t use salet because if I was the game designer, having seen that MIT analysis, I would deliberately program against it.
Chicken, egg (game designed by the son of a game designer on the back of a napkin then sold lock stock and barrel to NYT for buxx before the MIT students could think of their analysis).
I’m sure there are many other strategies that have been proven better. I just liked the idea and didn’t want to research strategies any further …
As gamers we need to support Salet for no other reason than it’s apparently some type of obscure ancient military helmet.
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There was no other option at that point.