Wordle

[markmar]

Good one today!


Wordle 241 2/6

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[billshurv]

Wonder if that says something about you

 

[Mark Johnson]

Using same 2-starting-word tactic as mentioned in post #13 of this thread


Wordle 241 3/6

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[Cal Weldon]

When I grow up, I want to be smart like you guys.

Wordle 241 4/6

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[phase]

I used the words that were suggested in post #13, got it in three tries today.

I swear I’m just not that smart, but I have been known to have great luck.

 

[nr12]

Wordle 242 6/6

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A hard one today for me.

 

[markmar]

Blew up my streak this morning


Wordle 242 X/6

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[Mark Johnson]

More than one vowel today, woo hoo

Wordle 242 3/6

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[billshurv]

I'm staring at today's after the MJ cheats and really scratching my head. I'll feel an idiot when I work it out.

 

[billshurv]

I do. But I wouldn't have got that in 3

 

[Cal Weldon]

It's something I used to do for a living.
Wordle 242 3/6

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[Mark Johnson]

How is it a "cheat" to try the same two 5-letter combos, as your first two guesses, on every Wordle puzzle?

Every single "Codebreaking Fun!!" substitution-cipher puzzle collection in the airport magazine rack (aimed at ages 11 and above), tells you the frequency distribution of letters in the dictionary of English. All you need is someone as smart as Mrs. Johnson to take the top ten, most frequently occurring letters, and arrange them into two English words which happen to be allowable guesses according to Wordle. Piece of cake. The whole shebang took less than 90 minutes. Most of which was inept fumbling in Excel

Wikipedia has a nice article about it, and Google finds many pages with frequency tables (link). You don't have to visit the airport and buy a magazine.

 

[Cal Weldon]

MJ cheats

What are these Bill?

 

[billshurv]

If not a cheat, it's certainly gaming the puzzle.

@cal: first two guesses Scone and Trail (or other arrangements of those letters).

 

[Cal Weldon]

I think I get it now.

 

[Cal Weldon]

Funny how I am typing and come back to a post that would have stopped me from posting in the first place.

No MJ no cheating. MJ strategizing.

 

[billshurv]

Well then again there have been academic papers written on how to play 'guess who'

 

[Cal Weldon]

And Tic Tac Toe.
Personally Bill, I like to have a strategy as well. Maybe a little more adventuresome than Mark's but certainly not to the point of nr12. Looking at nr12 guesses 3 and 5 is beyond my ability. I have to rely on a process of elimination.

 

[phase]

It's something I used to do for a living.
Wordle 242 3/6

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Not bad at all!

Took me 4 tries today…

 

[nr12]

And Tic Tac Toe.
Personally Bill, I like to have a strategy as well. Maybe a little more adventuresome than Mark's but certainly not to the point of nr12. Looking at nr12 guesses 3 and 5 is beyond my ability. I have to rely on a process of elimination.

I don't concentrate always on using all known letters in my next guess.
My guess 5, as I remember was desperation paired with english not being my native language. As I didn't have all letters used in that word, I tried as many new letters I could. This was typing a word with 5 completely different letters that are not (yet) part of the solution. It turned out, that none of them was part of the solution. So now I at least knew what to not use.

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