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[Mister T]

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

 

[Mister T]

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

 

[Mister T]

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

 

[Mister T]

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.

 

[Mister T]

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.

 

[Mister T]

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

Also known as a fourth guess?

 

[Mister T]

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.

 

[Orodruin]

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.

My point was that the software seems to be using a comma for everyone except me ... unless everybody else inserts a comma by hand.

 

[Orodruin]

Also known as a fourth guess?

Nah, what would have been my third guess had I followed my gut feeling was the correct. Instead I entered a different word for my third guess and only then entered what I thought of first as the fourth guess.

 

[gmax137]

Wordle 1,033 3/6

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 …

I had the same issue, only after my first guess. So I had two second guesses, lol

 

[kuruman]

Wordle 1,033 3/6

 

[Orodruin]

So I had two second guesses, lol

I guess we should not …. Second guess … ourselves