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

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2 today - bit of a fluke! Second guess was just trying the two yellows from the first go in different positions and introducing another vowel. And then it all turned green!!
 
Brain had a workout. 3 today,

A complete blank, 1Y and 1G followed by a lot of thinking gave me 5G
 
My oh my! Three today, what a guess that turned out to be :)
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Scraped it again in 6.

Blank, 1G, 1G, 2Y + 1G, 2y + 1G .... solved
 
bemcsa said:
Apparently there are 158,390 five letter words in the English language so I doubt you will do it again. If you do it once a day on average it will take 217 years to guess it one go.
Did you do the lottery this weekend too?
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I think it was just a crazy guess lol
On a good note last year I did well on a scratch card then having a bet in the Euros 2020.
 
Only just, 0, 2Y, 1G 2Y, 1G 2Y, 3G, 5G and only because nothing else I could think of would fit.
 
More awake now and remembered some American history!
 
Fuji Dave said:
Just pure luck I would say, I doubt it will have again lol
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It's possible but very rare I imagine. Today's one was definitely not a 1 shot, not a word I'd ever randomly come up with. It took me 4 tries even after having 1G and 2Y on second, was a bit of a head scratcher. Just by the positioning of that one green I could narrow it down to the few possibles my brain could muster
 
4 yesterday and 4 today. Thought I had it in 3 today, but the solution was a less common word than the one I guessed with the same first three letters.

Some idiot has now written a Twitter bot that responds to anyone who posts one of these:

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with a spoiler for tomorrow's word (the word list from the website has been hacked).
 
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Retune said:
4 yesterday and 4 today. Thought I had it in 3 today, but the solution was a less common word than the one I guessed with the same first three letters.

Some idiot has now written a Twitter bot that responds to anyone who posts one of these:

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with a spoiler for tomorrow's word (the word list from the website has been hacked).
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Sadly, I think my interest in this fun little game might come to an end soon, I've just seen on my phone feed this evening articles that give you today's soloution :/ You just know people will abuse this, can't for the life of me imagine WHY you you would offer soloution to such a simplistic one-a-day puzzle. Or indeed why you would want to cheat! The whole idea is to give the brain a little excercise
 
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First time I played and it took me the full 6 guesses to get right.
 
Cagey75 said:
Sadly, I think my interest in this fun little game might come to an end soon, I've just seen on my phone feed this evening articles that give you today's soloution :/ You just know people will abuse this, can't for the life of me imagine WHY you you would offer soloution to such a simplistic one-a-day puzzle. Or indeed why you would want to cheat! The whole idea is to give the brain a little excercise
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Easy answer is to not look at the articles that give it away! When I'm going through the forum, I get up to this thread and when I see it, I'm reminded that I haven't "done" the day's puzzle so I open another tab and do the thing - or at least I TRY to do it (today being an exception - took a while to wake up properly and get the dossing thing!!!) just in case there's a spoiler. Just because some people are trying to spoil it for the rest of us, it doesn't mean we have to let them.
 
Nod said:
Easy answer is to not look at the articles that give it away! When I'm going through the forum, I get up to this thread and when I see it, I'm reminded that I haven't "done" the day's puzzle so I open another tab and do the thing - or at least I TRY to do it (today being an exception - took a while to wake up properly and get the dossing thing!!!) just in case there's a spoiler. Just because some people are trying to spoil it for the rest of us, it doesn't mean we have to let them.
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I enjoy working it out, so wouldn't ever bother to view spoilers. Reckon I'm seeing those articles suddenly appear on my feed simply because I play the game, and we all know how everything gets interlinked through google if you're signed in. Have had some creepy moments for example where I had just been talking to someone in person about something specific, next thing I start getting articles on the subject on my feed - and I have all voice/mic modes apparently off on my devices!
 
Can you not block the spoiler feeds? Or just go to wordle before looking at the feed.
 
Nod said:
Can you not block the spoiler feeds? Or just go to wordle before looking at the feed.
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I can block those articles from reappearing aye, I'm only seeing the headline not actually clicking through. I guess what annoys me is that they exist at all!
 
God damn!! That's the hardest one I've done, and it really shouldn't have been ... over thinking.com

Barely got it in 6

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2 again for me - two flukes in a row! Was looking at how to get a good selection of additional letters into the second guess while making use of the one green in the first. All turned green again!! :)
 
3 tries .... 2Y, 1G + 3Y, Bingo solved

Regarding cheating, spoilers etc, I look at any game as you v the solution, the player who resorts to cheats/spoilers is only fooling themselves.
 
Well back to my more normal 4 again today, bit of a tricky one. 1Y, 1Y, 2G 1Y, 5G.
 
That was tricky! 4 today :)
 
4.
 
I tend to do worse on the supposed easier words, way over thinking the initial word perhaps.
 
And it’s back to 4 for me again…….
 
And I...
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5 for me ... 1Y, 1Y, 1Y + 1G, 3G ... solution
 
3 today. First was a blank (very unusual!) so the backup came into play. That got me 2G + 1Y and a quick mental search was a lucky guess!
 
4 again today 1G, 3G, 3G 1Y, 5G.
 
4 for today.

Does anyone ever have a plan for the first word or do you change/stab a guess each time?
 
I use the same word for my first guess every time. Uses what are (IIRC!) the most common letters, 2 vowels and 3 consonants. I keep forgetting to use them in a different order, mainly because that word is an American spelling!
 
omens said:
4 for today.

Does anyone ever have a plan for the first word or do you change/stab a guess each time?
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Random guess each time, as I know they switch it up and chuck in oddball words now and then - like 'knoll' the other day, that tripped many people up with no A, E, I, S, R or U [the more popular letters in general] People guessing words with a few vowels to begin were stumped on that one. I was lucky as I had an O and N in my first guess [think it was 'grown' as I've seen them use G quite a bit for the words too] and happened to get the 'o' in the right spot with a yellow 'n'
 
4 this morning ... 1Y, 2Y+1 G, 4G ... solution

omens said:
Does anyone ever have a plan for the first word or do you change/stab a guess each time?
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I start with the same vowel rich word every time.
 
3 again today, Just the 1Y with the first word, same Y and a G second try and another lucky guess hit the bullseye.
 
And back to 2 for me! 2Y+1G in the first word so a bit of a lucky start based on where the G was and what words might contain the 2Y’s…….
 
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