Have you been Wordle-ing (no spoilers please)

[winjim]

Wordle 209 5/6

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[Dogtrousers]

Another 4 for me.

 

[SydZ]

Wordle 209 5/6

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[davelincs]

Wordle 209 3/6

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I seem to do well in this Wordle game, better than quiz of the week

 

[stoatsngroats]

Wordle 209 4/6

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Not bad for me today

 

[Mo1959]

Struggle today. Just made it.


Wordle 209 6/6

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[steveindenmark]

How do I know which number Wordle it is and how do I post the coloured boxes on here?

Fridays was tricky. I got it in 5.

 

[Mo1959]

How do I know which number Wordle it is and how do I post the coloured boxes on here?

Fridays was tricky. I got it in 5.

Should be an option to share. Click on that and it copies it and just paste it in here.

 

[roubaixtuesday]

Wordle 209 4/6

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[theclaud]

Wordle 209 4/6

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I'm keeping an eye on the results of your method. It's early days in the life of the thread but so far it seems the Word Shapists are seeing quicker results than the Ruthless Letter Eliminators.

Wordle 209 2/6

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[biggs682]

Failed today

 

[roubaixtuesday]

I'm keeping an eye on the results of your method. It's early days in the life of the thread but so far it seems the Word Shapists are seeing quicker results than the Ruthless Letter Eliminators.

Wordle 209 2/6

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I think the word shapist method is more likely to get a quick result, but also more likely to fail. Ruthless Letter Elimination also has to switch to Most Likely Current Final Word at some point.

Of course, skill makes a difference in average, and luck to a large degree in any given word.

If you're really into getting the best possible average result, entropy maximisation is where the cool kids are at.

View: https://mobile.twitter.com/grainsandfluids/status/1476223189738930176

[Edit: many years ago, I did very briefly study information theory. Never properly understood it, I'm afraid]

 

[PaulSB]

Crashed and burned yesterday, as I don’t spell American. Today, if I had had the courage of my own conviction I would have got it sooner, but it was a double letter and it was line 2 and I was trying to get more letters either ruled in or out of the game. With only 6 lines, there is pressure
Does anyone start with the same word? I do, which is why I ask the question. I use the one with the most vowels that I can think of.

This is usually my approach. Today I changed tack and tried a word with only three vowels.

You can see what happened below. At line three I was left with a choice of three possible solutions. I went with the word I thought most likely to be in common usage and struck lucky. Tomorrow I'm going back to one of my usual starting words. I was ready to fail after line three!!

Wordle 209 4/6*

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[PaulSB]

I'm keeping an eye on the results of your method. It's early days in the life of the thread but so far it seems the Word Shapists are seeing quicker results than the Ruthless Letter Eliminators.

Wordle 209 2/6

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I think it's a combination of both. First line I'm an eliminator, a good result and I switch to shaper but if, like today, it's a bad result my line two is another elimination round. Usually, like today, this means line three can be a combination of elimination and shaping. Today then became in lines 4, 5, 6 a straight guess as there were only three possible combinations across six letters.

 

[PaulSB]

Adieu is my go to. I might try lots of consonants and fewer vowels tomorrow.
My 6 letter multi vowel word was goalie.

Hadn't thought of that one, though I prefer options without an "e". My choice for six or seven letters was "eunoia" - a great Scrabble word - but it's not in the dictionary.