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Prole
Jan 13, 2022

Sid Vicious posted:

i start with trend idk why it only has one vowel and i kind of feel dumb about it now

Still got plenty of common letters though. So it'll narrow it down the same. Doesn't matter if you try vowels or consonants first.

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Wilkins Micawber
Jan 27, 2005

as we leave this existence
looking for another
Fallen Rib
TREND sounds good, it has a lot of that RSTLNE spice, plus a delicious vowel. Better than DIARY which I started with for some reason. Also, wheel of fortune sucks

Stanley Tucheetos
May 15, 2012

Wordle 209 5/6

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I got kind of lucky with my fourth guess and it still took me around 5 minutes to think of that final letter on my 5th try.

Blurred
Aug 26, 2004

WELL I WONNER WHAT IT'S LIIIIIKE TO BE A GOOD POSTER
Wordle 209 4/6

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Last couple of plays i've used a strategy where I just use the same three words to start with (using all five vowels and ten different conconants) irrespective of what hits I get. It obviously makes it impossible to get the words quickly, but it seems to work okay so far, and today I nailed the word immediately with a bit of an educated guess.

Also, it's possible to unofficially play through the archive of old puzzles here:

https://www.devangthakkar.com/wordle_archive/

I've probably played through about 40 of them, and the only one that's tripped me up so far was due to American spelling a couple of days ago. FAVOR :sigh:

Prole
Jan 13, 2022

Blurred posted:

the only one that's tripped me up so far was due to American spelling a couple of days ago. FAVOR :sigh:

That was sneaky af imo. Last time I saw a reaction as nasty as that on British twitter was when that dude left that woman's ice-cream cake out of the freezer on bake off

SLICK GOKU BABY
Jun 12, 2001

Hey Hey Let's Go! 喧嘩する
大切な物を protect my balls


Wordle 209 6/6

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Word was Tangy. Odd choice IMO.


(USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)

Somebody fucked around with this message at 11:55 on Jan 14, 2022

Mr Ice Cream Glove
Apr 22, 2007

Welp I thought I had it with

tango

Blow
Feb 10, 2004

Wordle
Wordle 201 2/6
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Wordle 206 2/6
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Wordle 209 4/6
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E:

10 Played
100 Win %
10 Current Streak
10 Max Streak

Blow fucked around with this message at 10:18 on Jan 14, 2022

Thorgot
Apr 4, 2010

SLICK GOKU BABY posted:

Wordle 209 6/6

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Word was . Odd choice IMO.

Spoiler!

Wordle 209 4/6

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SIDS Vicious
Jan 1, 1970


SLICK GOKU BABY posted:

Wordle 209 6/6

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Word was Odd choice IMO.

yo i literally said twice in OP not to post the word what the gently caress dude

Mr. Smile Face Hat
Sep 15, 2003

Praise be to China's Covid-Zero Policy
I always start with "FART" and then turn the comp off because it doesn't work.

I think "XYZZY" is actually a very informative word to start on.

Durzel
Nov 15, 2005


ez

Wordle 209 3/6

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Second guess was a complete fluke and I wasn't even 100% sure it was a word.

Am I right in thinking you can only do one a day? How am I supposed to get my fix? I'm already shaking.

Blurred
Aug 26, 2004

WELL I WONNER WHAT IT'S LIIIIIKE TO BE A GOOD POSTER

Durzel posted:

Am I right in thinking you can only do one a day? How am I supposed to get my fix? I'm already shaking.

I linked the unofficial archive above:

https://www.devangthakkar.com/wordle_archive/

Might be worth adding it to the op?

A Bakers Cousin
Dec 18, 2003

by vyelkin
Wordle 209 4/6

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SIDS Vicious
Jan 1, 1970


Blurred posted:

I linked the unofficial archive above:

https://www.devangthakkar.com/wordle_archive/

Might be worth adding it to the op?

done

Durzel
Nov 15, 2005


Blurred posted:

I linked the unofficial archive above:

https://www.devangthakkar.com/wordle_archive/

Might be worth adding it to the op?
Nice one, thanks :)

FogHelmut
Dec 18, 2003

Wordle 209 6/6

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Okay

Real Cool Catfish
Jun 6, 2011
Wordle 209 X/6

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I don’t like wordle any more

Jeza
Feb 13, 2011

The cries of the dead are terrible indeed; you should try not to hear them.
Where does it say what number wordle it is? It's quite fun, but I don't see myself doing it forever. I've done 7 in a row, all in 4 or 5 guesses, never more or less. I want an elusive 3 guess.

I feel like there's probably a technically correct starting word or two that covers all the most common letters. There's a bit of strategy in finding and using words with lots of unguessed letters even if you've found some already, but also reusing yellow letters to find where they go in the word.

The hardest part is when there's two of the same letter or resisting the urge to look up good five letter words that use the letters you haven't guessed yet :sweatdrop:

RoastBeef
Jul 11, 2008


Wordle 209 3/6

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SIDS Vicious
Jan 1, 1970


RoastBeef posted:

Wordle 209 3/6

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drat nice!

Fredrik1
Jan 22, 2005

Gopherslayer
:rock:
Fallen Rib
This one was hard

Wordle 209 6/6

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super sweet best pal
Nov 18, 2009

Wordle 209 4/6

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The old RSTLNE strategy works well in this game.

signalnoise
Mar 7, 2008

i was told my old av was distracting

super sweet best pal posted:

Wordle 209 4/6

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The old RSTLNE strategy works well in this game.

So what do you start with, RENTS?

Malcolm Excellent
May 20, 2007

Buglord
Wordle 209 4/6

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Can I play previous days for fun? This is a pretty neat game.

The Bloop
Jul 5, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
Wordle 209 6/6

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I wasn't taking it seriously at first




but this is good and fun and I will probably play it every day now

Thanks, Sid

JimbobDobalina
Aug 29, 2005

I will munch on your endocrine system
Wordle 209 3/6

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Good game.

The Bloop
Jul 5, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
What does it do with repeat letters?

like if the word was BUTTS

and you used a T

I'm guessing there is just no indication?

DickParasite
Dec 2, 2004


Slippery Tilde
Wordle 210 5/6

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Answer: 8==D~

YMB
Nov 8, 2009

in an unceremonious way
Another good site that offers unlimited randomly generated Wordles with customizable letter counts:

http://foldr.moe/hello-wordl/

I thought the higher letter count ones were impossible at first, but they become enjoyable pretty quickly. You can also play a daily version here where the random seed is just set to the current YYYYMMDD.

The Bloop posted:

What does it do with repeat letters?

like if the word was BUTTS

and you used a T

I'm guessing there is just no indication?

If the word was BUTTS and you guessed TRAIL, the T would be yellow.

If you guess TOTAL, you'd have a yellow T in position 1 and a green T in position 3.

If you guess TACIT, you'd have 2 yellow Ts.

If you guess TITTY, the first T would be grey, and the second and third Ts would be green.

YMB fucked around with this message at 15:47 on Jan 14, 2022

Blurred
Aug 26, 2004

WELL I WONNER WHAT IT'S LIIIIIKE TO BE A GOOD POSTER

The Bloop posted:

What does it do with repeat letters?

like if the word was BUTTS

and you used a T

I'm guessing there is just no indication?

There's no indication if you don't use the letter twice, no. If the word is BUTTS and you start with TABLE, it will highlight the T as yellow and you'd have no way of knowing that the word had two Ts. If you use the letter twice in the word, though, then it will treat the letters as normally, as if they were two different letters. If you try the word TITAN, for example, the first T will be yellow, the second will be green. If you try the word GREET, but the real word is TABLE, then only one of the Es will be shown as yellow, the other in grey.

actionjackson
Jan 12, 2003

Hey, I've played competitive scrabble (lol) since 2008, so I might be able to offer some tips to anyone having trouble. The first thing to think about is what are the most common letters in the alphabet, which are the letters in CANISTER. also it's most common to have 2 vowels 3 consonants or vice versa.

What I would recommend is your first guess be something from CANISTER without the C (i.e. AEINRST i.e. RETINAS/RETSINA/etc.), for example

RAISE/ANTES/ANISE/TEARS and so on

after your first turn, in most situations, you want to try the next most common letters - even if the word doesn't have them, it tells you a ton of info, for example try

CDL for consonants. if it looks like you will need another vowel, definitely O.

at this point you should be in pretty good shape, given you a few suggestions.

wa27
Jan 15, 2007

Wordle 209 2/6

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:cool:

Brother Tadger
Feb 15, 2012

I'm accidentally a suicide bomber!

Phew

Wordle 209 6/6

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actionjackson
Jan 12, 2003

hell yeah

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FPzero
Oct 20, 2008

Game Over
Return of Mido

Wordle 209 3/6

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Started with STONE today, I could be choosing the same start word each day but I haven't been so far and I'm still managing.

Edit: realized that posting my starting word without spoilers is kinda spoiling so i added them

AARD VARKMAN
May 17, 1993
Wordle 209 3/6

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Doctor Dogballs
Apr 1, 2007

driving the fuck truck from hand land to pound town without stopping at suction station


this happened
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Random Stranger
Nov 27, 2009



Wordle 209 6/6

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I screwed up on guesses 4 and 5, so I might have gotten it sooner.

My starting word is usually AEONS which gives me a pretty good foundation to work from.

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Cubone
May 26, 2011

Because it never leaves its bedroom, no one has ever seen this poster's real face.

Sid Vicious posted:

i start with trend idk why it only has one vowel and i kind of feel dumb about it now
I started 208 with "grift" lol


Wordle 209 4/6

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