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[gmax137]

Like you, I would see maybe two or three words out of the 23 words that you actually ended up having to choose from after your third guess:

Thanks Om!
Wow I would not have guessed there were that many (23) possible words. But reading thru the list, they are all (or mostly) "obvious." I am surprised I didn't "see" them, and so it must be dumb luck that I did see the correct answer.

 

[dwarde]

Just too many possibilities for a guy who has no strategy except a sometimes futile process of elimination.
Wordle 1,142 X/6

 

[OmCheeto]

Thanks Om!
Wow I would not have guessed there were that many (23) possible words. But reading thru the list, they are all (or mostly) "obvious." I am surprised I didn't "see" them, and so it must be dumb luck that I did see the correct answer.

I've often said to myself that this game is 95% dumb luck.
Doesn't take away from the fun though.
Ever play Roulette?
I've only played it once. Pretty sure it was Reno.
The best part of the game was interacting with my fellow gamblers.
Few other games were slow enough to have conversations.
Reminds me of the last concert I went to: Roger Waters
While the concert was up to my standards of brilliance, the couple behind me, from Algeria* and France made the event 10 times more pleasurable.
Connecting with people from around the world, with commonalities in thoughts..... <3
....
Don't get me going....

*It may have been Tunisia. Although I'm moderately well versed on where all the countries of world are, my dyslexia will booger the answer, 9 times out of 10.

 

[OmCheeto]

Just too many possibilities for a guy who has no strategy except a sometimes futile process of elimination.
Wordle 1,142 X/6

Just a minor background check on myself as to why I ended up not playing like this.

I used to be a nuclear power plant operator.
One mistake, and, BOOM!
Several god knows how many billion of dollars down the drain and 8 billion people pissed at me.

Hence, why I play in what I call 'safe mode' , much of the time.

 

[Orodruin]

This is when many times it is better to use a pure filter word rather than try to just fill in the blanks. That is, you pick a word that cannot be the solution, but it will filter out (preferably at least) four letters in one guess.

 

[kuruman]

Just too many possibilities for a guy who has no strategy except a sometimes futile process of elimination.
Wordle 1,142 X/6

If you have degeneracies, i.e. a pattern that admits many solutions, it is not a good strategy to guess the missing letters because there is a good chance to run out of guesses. A better strategy is what we have been discussing here, (a) write down all the candidates that fit your particular pattern (you will need the list of eligible words for this) and (b) design a filter that will discriminate among most of the candidates, preferably all.

For example, say that the letters in the first occurrence of your pattern , were _ L _ T E (not the actual letters in 1,142). There are 5 candidates ELATE, ELITE, FLUTE, PLATE, SLATE and only 3 guesses left. If you enter them alphabetically and the answer is PLATE or SLATE, you are out of luck.
Instead, you enter PAUSE as a guess 4 filter. This works because

1. If the answer is PLATE, then P should appear as correct in position 1 and A as somewhere but not in position 2.
2. If the answer is ELATE, then A should appear as somewhere but not in position 2.
3. If the answer is SLATE, then A and S should appear as somewhere but not in respective positions 2 and 4.
4. If the answer is FLUTE, then U should appear as somewhere but not correct in position 3.
5. If no new filter letters appear, then the answer is ELITE.

Thus, the filter removes the fivefold degeneracy and guarantees a solution in 5 guesses.

 

[Orodruin]

If the answer is FLUTE, then U should appear as somewhere but not in position 3.

U is in position 3 in both PAUSE and FLUTE …

 

[fresh_42]

Wordle 1,143 5/6

 

[kuruman]

U is in position 3 in both PAUSE and FLUTE …

Of course. I edited this message many times before posting and lost track of what's where. However, in this case it doesn't matter because U appears only in FLUTE and one can get it right even when one cannot count to 5 like me.

 

[Orodruin]

Wordle 1 143 3/6

 

[OmCheeto]

Wordle 1,143 3/6

 

[jack action]

Wordle 1,143 3/6

[LEMUR] 4 left: ENSUE FUGUE ISSUE VOGUE
[FUNGI] filter


First time I have had an issue with my program. The suggested filters were VEGOS and VLOGS, obviously looking for words with the letters GOSV. Both of them would have never filtered properly. I may have to revise the method to define the best filter word.

Human intervention saved the day again.

 

[kuruman]

Wordle 1,143 3/6

 

[gmax137]

Wordle 1,143 4/6

 

[sbrothy]

Wordle 1,143 5/6*







Sorry. I've had other stuff going on recently...

 

[dwarde]

Wordle 1,143 3/6

 

[Mister T]

Wordle 1,143 3/6

 

[Orodruin]

Wordle 1 144 3/6

 

[fresh_42]

Wordle 1,144 4/6

 

[OmCheeto]

Wordle 1,144 3/6

 

[sbrothy]

Wordle 1.144 4/6*

 

[kuruman]

Wordle 1,144 3/6

 

[jack action]

Wordle 1,144 3/6

[STILT] 30 left
[DRAVE] filter - 2 left: ANVIL CAVIL
[ANVIL] seemed more probable to be picked by a human

 

[gmax137]

Wordle 1,144 5/6

 

[Mister T]

Wordle 1,144 3/6

 

[dwarde]

Wordle 1,144 4/6

 

[fresh_42]

Wordle 1,145 5/6







I think the first three lines are a new record.

 

[Orodruin]

Wordle 1 145 4/6


2 left …
drat!

 

[OmCheeto]

Wordle 1,145 3/6

177 left
1 left


Guessing this was 99% luck as the global average was 4.6 today.

 

[kuruman]

Wordle 1,145 4/6

 

[jack action]

Wordle 1,145 3/6

[LATER] 32 left - suggested filter: HYMNS MYNAS
[HYMNS] filter - 2 left: MACAW MAFIA


Weird one. I feel like I cheated, yet I would most likely have got the same result if I didn't.

I saw the results of @fresh_42 and @Orodruin last night (for me). I noticed the first guess with few valid letters. I immediately thought there would be some rare letters in this word. Cannot unsee that.

I still tried to use a starter word that I would've picked anyway. For my 2nd guess, I was slightly attracted to MYNAS, but the H looked like a least occurring letter, so I went for it, influenced by what I knew. When stuck with the 2 words left, I knew the W was the letter I was looking for and chose that word. Without that previous knowledge, I would have gone for MAFIA and gotten it in 4.

The weird thing is if I followed my instinct and chose MYNAS, MACAW was the only possibility, and I would still have gotten it in 3.

 

[gmax137]

Wordle 1,145 6/6

I think the first three lines are a new record.

I feel ya!

Guessing this was 99% luck as the global average was 4.6 today.

I was glad to get it in six!

I saw the results of @fresh_42 and @Orodruin last night (for me). I noticed the first guess with few valid letters. I immediately thought there would be some rare letters in this word. Cannot unsee that.

I really try not to look at this thread in the evening. I don't want any hints.

 

[dwarde]

Wordle 1,145 6/6

 

[fresh_42]

I don't want any hints.

And I personally dislike "x possibilities left" comments. I don't want to know who is cheating.

 

[Orodruin]

I don't want to know who is cheating.

This is a single player game and we all play according to what makes it fun for us individually. Calling people cheaters because keeping track makes them enjoy the game more is a bit slanderous in my opinion.

If you do not want to do it personally that is one thing, but imposing those rules on others is not fair.