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

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Lucky 3 today after getting first two letters didn’t leave much choice.
XOXXX OOXXX OOOOO. I feel this could be tricky.
 
Better than yesterday! 4 today.

xxgxx, xxgyx, xggxg, solved.
 
I said it might cause trouble! Partly the actual word but also the particular combination of letters. It was pure luck that my second guess forced me to it, unlikely as it seemed. :)
 
5 today :(. Miserable XXXXX then BXXXX and XBBBX but then OOOXO left only OOOOO.
 
2! First guess gave me xxyxx and an extremely lucky (and possibly silly) second guess somehow hit the jackpot.
 

Wordle Weekly Recap​

Hardest word: MUCKY from Thursday, Jan. 19​
Average guesses: 4.45, with 12.71 percent of players solving in three or fewer​
Easiest word: ALTER, from Friday, Jan. 20​
Average guesses: 3.54, with 53.87 percent of players solving in three or fewer​
The Wordle answers last week — Jan. 16 to 22 — were harder than those from the week before.
 
Standard 4 today, including standard error of reusing a letter in the wrong place on 3rd attempt :( .
 
4 for me. xyxyx translated to an xxxgg and from there, having eliminated most of the usual suspects, I had 2 contenders. xgxgg or ggggg - guess which I tried first!!!
 
The reason I thought the previous 2 days were tricky (apart from BEEFY not being a “proper” word, as @Cockney said) was that they both had doubled letters plus letter Y. I always feel a bit cheated that two occurrences of the same letter isn’t indicated.
 
Beefy's been a proper word since 1743 (according to the Online Etymology Dictionary). Tricky, yes but at least it's the current spelling rather than the archaic options still used by the Americans! The doubled letters make things a bit trickier but that's part of the fun IMO.
 
Beefy's been a proper word since 1743 (according to the Online Etymology Dictionary). Tricky, yes but at least it's the current spelling rather than the archaic options still used by the Americans! The doubled letters make things a bit trickier but that's part of the fun IMO.
Oh, I agree about that but like Brian I think it has a slangy feel, maybe because it isn’t used in relation to ”beef” — like ”porky“ too! Beef and Pork have only been adopted as English words since 1066, bloody Normans :)
 
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