Anyone 'Wordled' yet?

Wordle 1,189 5/6

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Stupid MCQ!

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Wordle 1,189 5/6

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Whereas, I tend to use the same starter word each day, though if it does well for three or four consecutive days, it’s a trend which probably won’t continue, and I revert to my backup starter word.

As you rightly say, line one is just luck, even to the extent of one’s starter word.

If one were to take things way too seriously, it would quite easy to visit this topic before attempting Wordle, and look at results over the last week or so, to determine which starter word other folks are using and with what success. :flushed:

It’s just a bit of daily fun, with a bit of banter thrown in, nothing more. :+1:

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I’m not sure how looking at a set of green & yellow squares tells you what the starter words are, but I might be wrong.

Wordle 1,189 2/6

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Wordle 1,189 3/6

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Wordle 1,189 5/6

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Wordle 1,189 5/6

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Opened with a single word and discovered anchor letters in the first and fifth positions. Felt quite positive and jumped in with a second guess, same result, so now have eliminated six letters. So onwards and upwards and jumped right in with a third guess and now had three anchor letters while having eliminated a total of eight letters.

Took a moment to doddle and realized there were more options left then lines on the board. So as the old song goes ‘Que sera, sera …’

So jumped in with the fourth guess and same result as before…

With the fifth guess a beautiful field of green was layed out before me and a ‘Great!’ day lay ahead!

Yahoo… Life is Sweet!

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The same for me, except I haven’t scored Hole In One yet…
My starting word is often the one sounding most like the starting or the final word in Italian Parole…

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First go at our next word…

Wordle 1,190 3/6

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Wordle 1,190 4/6

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Not being able to sleep has resulted in an improvement on recent scores.

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A quick four here today.

Wordle 1,190 4/6

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Wordle 1,190 4/6

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Should have started with that.

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Wordle 1,190 4/6

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Wordle 1,190 2/6

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Get innnnnn!

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Wordle 1,190 3/6

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Wordle 1,190 3/6

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Wordle 1,190 4/6

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Wordle 1.190 X/6*

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It was, in fact, ironically

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Wordle 1,190 4/6

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A four here. I guessed that my alternative word for line four was unlikely to feature on Wordle. :slightly_smiling_face:

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