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Aoi

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Re: Discussion on Word/Letter Games
« Reply #15 on: January 08, 2022, 05:47:08 am »

Come on, man. What are the chances of it not being my second guess? :(


According a Scrabble word finder:
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...Ayup.
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Re: Discussion on Word/Letter Games
« Reply #16 on: January 08, 2022, 05:57:05 am »

I was so fucking happy when I realised I would get my first second line win too. And then I didn't.
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« Reply #17 on: January 08, 2022, 09:27:36 am »

According a Scrabble word finder:
...Ayup.

Actually, from the first guess alone, it could have been several other words too.

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It was nevertheless a very strong start.  Well done Scriver!   :D

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« Reply #18 on: January 08, 2022, 09:50:03 am »

Very nearly my first fail.

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« Reply #19 on: January 08, 2022, 11:33:20 am »

Wordle 203 4/6

⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜
🟩⬜⬜🟩⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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« Reply #20 on: January 08, 2022, 12:12:27 pm »

Come on, man. What are the chances of it not being my second guess? :(

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Had a similar reaction
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« Reply #21 on: January 09, 2022, 04:39:20 pm »

Wordle 204 5/6

🟨⬜🟩⬜⬜
⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜
⬜🟩🟩🟨⬜
⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

That yellow is the same letter both times. I had to find it through elimination, but it made the word easier to figure out.
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Re: Discussion on Word/Letter Games
« Reply #22 on: January 10, 2022, 10:57:15 am »

omg, lots of uncommon letters used in today's word. Really had me scratching my head for a few minutes there.

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« Reply #23 on: January 10, 2022, 11:48:18 am »

I turned on hard mode for today (any green letters have to show up in that spot in the rest of your guesses), so I had to only use words that had the correct 4th letter. As it turns out, I can't just rattle off all of the words I know that end with certain letters.

Also, I learned contractions and fancy spellings* are not in the word list. I got another surprising word that did work, though:
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Wordle 205 X/6*

⬛🟨⬛🟩⬛
⬛🟨⬛🟩⬛
⬛⬛⬛🟩🟨
⬛⬛🟩🟩⬛
⬛⬛🟩🟩⬛
⬛⬛🟩🟩🟩

My first loss, but also my first attempt at hard mode. That second guess was a bad idea, but I really needed more information about what letters I could use.
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« Reply #24 on: January 10, 2022, 12:15:06 pm »

omg, lots of uncommon letters used in today's word. Really had me scratching my head for a few minutes there.

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I agree, I had to break pattern throw in a
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Also, I learned contractions and fancy spellings* are not in the word list. I got another surprising word that did work, though:
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The list of slang words with other meanings, or what?
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Re: Discussion on Word/Letter Games
« Reply #25 on: January 10, 2022, 01:11:30 pm »

You can tell I'm a software nerd because I had it on my third try. 
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« Reply #26 on: January 10, 2022, 04:49:42 pm »

You can tell I'm a software nerd because I had it on my third try. 

Yeah, I last heard the word from
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« Reply #27 on: January 10, 2022, 06:05:19 pm »

So optimization programs suggest you run ADIEU and then STORY for your first 2 guesses in all cases. This generated a 4 guess win for me, I hadn't played before and saw a discussion on astralcodexten and didn't realize what yellow letters meant. Otherwise it would be an easy 3 turn win. I'd prefer to get an L or N instead of D but I don't think you can given the rules. Would have to do more digging.
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« Reply #28 on: January 10, 2022, 06:17:10 pm »

So optimization programs suggest you run ADIEU and then STORY for your first 2 guesses in all cases. This generated a 4 guess win for me, I hadn't played before and saw a discussion on astralcodexten and didn't realize what yellow letters meant. Otherwise it would be an easy 3 turn win. I'd prefer to get an L or N instead of D but I don't think you can given the rules. Would have to do more digging.

Heart (or Earth, same letters) and Lions (or Loins) gets you all but one vowel, and a lot of other letters that show up regularly. You lose U and Y, but that's mattered twice, and the first time the only vowel was U and all the rest were eliminated.
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« Reply #29 on: January 10, 2022, 06:31:50 pm »

So optimization programs suggest you run ADIEU and then STORY for your first 2 guesses in all cases. This generated a 4 guess win for me, I hadn't played before and saw a discussion on astralcodexten and didn't realize what yellow letters meant. Otherwise it would be an easy 3 turn win. I'd prefer to get an L or N instead of D but I don't think you can given the rules. Would have to do more digging.

Heart (or Earth, same letters) and Lions (or Loins) gets you all but one vowel, and a lot of other letters that show up regularly. You lose U and Y, but that's mattered twice, and the first time the only vowel was U and all the rest were eliminated.

True if you place less emphasis on vowels especially u/y that combination gets you l and n and h which are nice. I might do something like ALIEN and YOURS but that does take away your T. YURTS trades T for O. Maybe TOURS and sacrifice Y.
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