Today’s wordle did me dirty (spoilers)

[Anonymous]

4 green tiles on my 1st guess… and I still didn’t get it. 😕

Sometimes it really is luck/chance!

[Anonymous]

Yup. I got 6/6. I was missing the 4th letter at guess #2. There were way too many options! It really is just a guessing game.

[Anonymous]

6/6 here, too. Solidarity!

[Anonymous]

The trick in those situations is to figure out all the letters which could be in that last spot, and then choose a word made up of several of those letters. Then you don't have to spend so many tries guessing.

[Anonymous]

Yeah you have to figure out how many consonants can work and then pick words to narrow them down. I used “packs” and “maven” today.

[Anonymous]

Yes, this Wordle called for a "sacrifice" guess to suss out some letters.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The trick in those situations is to figure out all the letters which could be in that last spot, and then choose a word made up of several of those letters. Then you don't have to spend so many tries guessing.

Can you elaborate? I’m not following.

[Anonymous]

6/6! I had it down to everything but the 4th letter by guess 2.

[Anonymous]

If you play in hard mode you can't do it. I had three choices left at guess 5 and lucked into the right one.

Not a fan of the ones that have so many choices.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The trick in those situations is to figure out all the letters which could be in that last spot, and then choose a word made up of several of those letters. Then you don't have to spend so many tries guessing.

Can you elaborate? I’m not following.

You guess a word that you know is not the answer, for the purpose of eliminating some or all of the possible letters in that last spot. Then on your next guess you have a good chance of guessing the answer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The trick in those situations is to figure out all the letters which could be in that last spot, and then choose a word made up of several of those letters. Then you don't have to spend so many tries guessing.

Can you elaborate? I’m not following.

At guess 3 or 4, when you had the broad outline of what the word might be, instead of trying to luck into guess the 4th letter, you could have done a throwaway guess that eliminated a bunch of consonants - something like MODEL could have helped. Or SMACK. Or something that got rid of two (or ideally three) possible consonants.

If you're playing in hard mode, however, you can't do it.

[Anonymous]

Started with my usual and had [G][B][G][B][G], which left me with 14 words. Took me to the 6th guess with 5 of my 6 guesses having a skill rating of 96 or greater.

Only 83.5% of the hard mode sample correctly guessed the word.

[Anonymous]

Here's an example that doesn't spoil today's word.

Let's say you guess the word BAKER and you get four green squares for the AKER.
Instead of guessing FAKER, LAKER, MAKER, TAKER, or WAKER on the next line, you could guess TWIRL, which would let you know whether the L, T, or W is in the word.

[Anonymous]

Don’t SHAKE it off

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The trick in those situations is to figure out all the letters which could be in that last spot, and then choose a word made up of several of those letters. Then you don't have to spend so many tries guessing.

Can you elaborate? I’m not following.

At guess 3 or 4, when you had the broad outline of what the word might be, instead of trying to luck into guess the 4th letter, you could have done a throwaway guess that eliminated a bunch of consonants - something like MODEL could have helped. Or SMACK. Or something that got rid of two (or ideally three) possible consonants.

If you're playing in hard mode, however, you can't do it.

Interesting. Never occurred to me to do this. Thanks for the tip!