Anyone 'Wordled' yet?

Wordle 1,189 4/6

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I’ve always stuck with a selected starter word, in the belief that (i) it helps to take care to guess as many likely (or useful) letters as possible as early as possible, and (ii) sticking with the same starter word makes it easier to remember good candidates for the second word.

This conviction doesn’t seem to help, as my play is consistently mediocre, averaging around 3.8 over 600 games. I still find it strangely compelling, the only online game I play regularly.

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I play their Connections game too (the Connecting Wall in Only Connect), it serves to remind myself that American is a foreign language.

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Wordle 1,190 4/6*

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Wordle 1,190 3/6

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Lucky second line.

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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 3/6*

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No it wasn’t

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Interestingly, I also average 3.8 but I nearly always start with a random word ( only occasionally succumbing to using the French farewell to fast-track the vowels!)
I think a lot of folk probably average a similar level.

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Lucky strike again on line 3. That’s happening a lot recently for some reason :face_with_monocle:
Wordle 1,190 3/6

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Wordle 1,190 3/6

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Wordle 1,190 3/6

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That’s more like it.

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Wordle 1,190 2/6

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Wordle 1,190 4/6

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Opened with a single word and displayed two wildcards while eliminating three. I then decided to fall back on a habit of playing speed wordle and typed the second word. Result was turning one of the yellow boxes green, moving the last yellow box to the middle and it stayed yellow and now finding a new wildcard. I also used an incorrect letter from the first guess!

Once again demonstrating that ‘Speed Wordle’ does not work well!

Anyways on to line three where I took a guess and moved the two yellow letters over one square to the right. A lovely result with both turning green! I then jumped right in with my fourth guess and a field of green turned over and made it a ‘Splendid!’ day!

Playing slow is a better way to go… I need to go to the blackboard and write that out a thousand times…

Playing slow is a better way to go… Playing slow is a better way to go… Playing slow is a better way to go… Playing slow is a better way to go… Playing slow is a better way to go… Playing slow is a better way to go… Playing slow is a better way to go… Playing slow is a better way to go… Playing slow is a better way to go… Playing slow is a better way to go… Playing slow is a better way to go… Playing slow is a better way to go…

Yahoo… Life is Sweet

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Wordle 1,190 4/6*

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A very average late entry from the Fens today🤷🏻‍♂️

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Wordle 1,190 3/6

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Early bird and all that…

Wordle 1,191 3/6

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Wordle 1,191 2/6

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That’s two, two days running.

Woss goin’ on? :man_shrugging:

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Snap.

Wordle 1,191 2/6

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Wordle 1.191 3/6*

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And I thought that my three was something…

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