A bit of fun - WORDLE. (NB, US spelling!) No spoilers please

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Wordle Weekly Recap​

Hardest word: Buggy, from Friday, Aug. 5.​
Average guesses: 4.73, with 7.31 percent solving in three guesses or fewer.​
Easiest word: Alien, from Saturday, Aug. 6.​
Average guesses: 3.51, with 53 percent solving in three guesses or fewer.​
The Wordle answers this week — Aug. 4 to Aug. 10 — were slightly harder than last week.​
 
5 for me. Wasted a guess retrying a y in the same place...
 
6 for me and lucky to get even that good a score!
 
Lucky 4 today! I don’t really recognise that as a word except without the last letter!
 
Jannyfox said:
Today's was a bit of a head scratcher after 2 (completely blanked the first. I'm thinking about changing my start word, but the day I do it's going to come up............) but solved in 4
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Do you know that your starter is in Wordle’s list of words -- ie the list of words that may appear not just the list of acceptable words which is greater. If it’s not then it’ll never come up :(.

I mostly start with OATER which I suspect will never come up but should should ORATE which seems more likely to be in the list. I use them because they contain the 5 commonest letters in Wordle’s list (it is claimed!) but 8m not sure that’s an advantage :( and am coming to think more consonants would be better.
 
Chevin said:
A 4 today



I use the same starter word and also starting to think about a new less vowely word
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The reason I think no vowels (which isn’t possible without using y, except with Welsh words maybe) is that if you take all vowels out sentences are still mostly readable so I suspect consonant only words might help guessing … if you see what I mean ; (.
 
4 here, actually bought something in the shopping yesterday that contained this very word. That didn't actually help, lol, only after solving through process of elimination ... Had total blank on 1st, then 1y, then 2g ,one being that second last which helped nail it
 
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sphexx said:
Do you know that your starter is in Wordle’s list of words -- ie the list of words that may appear not just the list of acceptable words which is greater. If it’s not then it’ll never come up :(.

I mostly start with OATER which I suspect will never come up but should should ORATE which seems more likely to be in the list. I use them because they contain the 5 commonest letters in Wordle’s list (it is claimed!) but 8m not sure that’s an advantage :( and am coming to think more consonants would be better.
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Mine has been Plies or Pleas for a while now, it got me some 2 and 3 results in the past but drawing many blanks with them lately, time to change it up maybe
 
sphexx said:
Do you know that your starter is in Wordle’s list of words -- ie the list of words that may appear not just the list of acceptable words which is greater. If it’s not then it’ll never come up :(.

I mostly start with OATER which I suspect will never come up but should should ORATE which seems more likely to be in the list. I use them because they contain the 5 commonest letters in Wordle’s list (it is claimed!) but 8m not sure that’s an advantage :( and am coming to think more consonants would be better.
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I have no idea if it's in the list and I'm not going to look. That would take some of the fun/head banging frustration (delete as appropriate) out of it. My previous start word came up.
Today's was in the latter category (see above). With 2 tries left and still only 2G I had 2 options (there may have been more I hadn't thought of) but decided to 'think more American' and got it in 5
 
Jannyfox said:
I have no idea if it's in the list and I'm not going to look. That would take some of the fun/head banging frustration (delete as appropriate) out of it. My previous start word came up.
Today's was in the latter category (see above). With 2 tries left and still only 2G I had 2 options (there may have been more I hadn't thought of) but decided to 'think more American' and got it in 5
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Yes I get that about the fun. I think I’m not really into the “fun” of it. My attitude is that (if I could be bothered, which I can’t) is that I’d be looking for a “system” that would get the right annswer first go every time, which would be fun looking for but no fun once you’d found it :(. I’m not really a games player.
 
If I was even thinking on using any type of assistance, I'd just not bother. It's the personal challenge for me, I mostly play it when I wake for work in the morn, I like to imagine that it's sharpening up my mind for the day :D
 
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