On Playing Wordle . . .

08/19/2024: Wordle 1157 4/6

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44 choices after 2 & 7 after 3. Didn't think of the others. 🤷‍♂️

NYT Average: 4.0
Distribution:
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08/18//2024: Wordle 1156 -- LANKY

NYT Average: 4.2
Distribution: 2.1% in 2; 18.7% in 3; 55.3% in 4; 83.8% in 5; 95.6% in 6
Par 4
 
smills said:
I really wish that they had two daily puzzles. One regular mode and one on hard mode. I'd like to dip my toes into the water of hard mode, but not at the expense of my stats and streak for whatever reason. I respect you folks that manage to pull it off, though.
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I always played “hard mode” even when I hadn’t applied the setting. I’m honestly not sure how to play the “other” way. I can’t make sense of not using a letter once it’s “green”.
In addition I don’t use any helpers to tell me which words to use or not or how many choices there are available. ** I do find it interesting when others post those things, like "there were only 2 choices after 3 guesses", because it lets us know just how good, or lucky, or bad, our guesses are.
It’s all up to how you want to play and whatever works for you.
 
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karnaknives said:
I always played “hard mode” even when I hadn’t applied the setting. I’m honestly not sure how to play the “other” way. I can’t make sense of not using a letter once it’s “green”.
In addition I don’t use any helpers to tell me which words to use or not or how many choices there are available. ** I do find it interesting when others post those things, like "there were only 2 choices after 3 guesses", because it lets us know just how good, or lucky, or bad, our guesses are.
It’s all up to how you want to play and whatever works for you.
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Same here. I look at Wordlebot's analysis after I do the puzzle, to see all that info just because it's interesting.

Wordle 1,158 3/6*

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karnaknives said:
I always played “hard mode” even when I hadn’t applied the setting. I’m honestly not sure how to play the “other” way. I can’t make sense of not using a letter once it’s “green”.
In addition I don’t use any helpers to tell me which words to use or not or how many choices there are available. ** I do find it interesting when others post those things, like "there were only 2 choices after 3 guesses", because it lets us know just how good, or lucky, or bad, our guesses are.
It’s all up to how you want to play and whatever works for you.
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When I post that, I'm not 100% sure, but sometimes I will sit and crack Wordle using Excel. So I'll look at all possible letter combinations given my yellow and green letters. Then I'll write out all the possible guess words and eliminate the ones that haven't been used. I also have a gut feel elimination for words that are slangy or really technical. Sometimes this helps me find words I didn't think of, but it's still possible I missed some valid words, so I'm never totally sure.
 
08/20/2024: Wordle 1158 3/6

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43 choices after 1 & 2 after 2. Didn't think of the other word.

NYT Average: 3.8
Distribution: 4.5% in 2; 30.1% in 3; 73.3% in 4; 94.2% in 5; 99.0% in 6
Par 4

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08/19/2024: Wordle 1157 -- METER

NYT Average: 4.0
Distribution:
Par 4
 
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