Got in 5

GREAT
LOCAL
FINAL
ANNAL
BANAL

Struggled today
TASER
PANIC
HANDY
BANJO
BANAL

not sure how, but i somehow eeked it out in 4.

STORE
PLAID
FUNKY
BANAL

Got it in 3 today

That is not a word I use often, ironically.

Actual wordle took me 6 today.

The one that you can play over and over got me last night.

Not a word I have ever used.

Light
Flaws
Relay
Monal
Canal
Banal

Totally misunderstood the directions but somehow got the word in 4 tries.

Looking forward to trying again tomorrow.

ROAST
PENAL
CANAL
BANAL

Haha yikes. That was rough.

STARE
LANKY
CHIMP
BANAL

horse
guilty
flack
balmy
banal

I am setting my guesses to make sure I get it within 6 tries, not to get it as fast as possible. So I'll do really divergent guesses until it is narrowed down to just a few possible words. I think I picked too large a dictionary.

RAISE
DONUT
LYMPH
CANAL
BANAL

Today the machine had BANAL as the 12th best guess after I entered DONUT. Several of the 11 ahead of it are very rare words. Since there were 45 total possible words, I selected a word that would eliminate a bunch of them. LYMPH wasn't possible, but cut the set to 14. 12 of those are extremely rare/obscure. CANAL and BANAL were the top two choices. I tried CANAL, which cut it from 14 to 2 possible words.


Edit: oops, forgot spoiler tags

Thanks, got it in 1 try.

Ulrich said:

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I am setting my guesses to make sure I get it within 6 tries, not to get it as fast as possible. So I'll do really divergent guesses until it is narrowed down to just a few possible words. I think I picked too large a dictionary.

RAISE
DONUT
LYMPH
CANAL
BANAL

Today the machine had BANAL as the 12th best guess after I entered DONUT. Several of the 11 ahead of it are very rare words. Since there were 45 total possible words, I selected a word that would eliminate a bunch of them. LYMPH cut the set to 14. 12 of those are the extremely rare/obscure. CANAL and BANAL were the top two choices. I tried CANAL, which cut it from 14 to 2 possible words.

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At the last step, what were the 2 words? Banal and ?????

I can't think of another word that would work, given the last 4 letters

TREAD
SLOAN
FINAL
BANAL

Bad poster

fanal, which is "a beacon on a ship or lighthouse"

Really rare, I assume wordle uses a smaller dictionary. I picked the largest one I could find just in case.

AliasMan02 said:

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Haha yikes. That was rough.

STARE
LANKY
CHIMP
BANAL

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Why did you go from a word with two letters in place and one out of place to a word that didn't include any of those letters? I've seen several people do that sort of thing - is it an attempt to rule out a bunch of letters at once?

I did that on the other game, and had success this morning. It might be a reasonable startegy. My first guess had two letters, so my second guess had five NEW letters instead of only three letters. That way you narrow the letter pool down faster (I think)



So after three guesses I now know 4/5s of the letters with one fixed because of my second guess resulted in eight letters being eliminated. Maybe I got lucky, maybe not.

Yes. Nothing jumped out at me so I wanted to check out some more vowels and common consonants.

You can know three letters but still have several hundred possible words, especially if you don't know where the letter are supposed to be.

For an extreme example, see below where you could have guessed BOUND, know 4/5 letters and positions, but still have to choose from 7 common words. In that case you wouldn't cycle through because you are pretty likely to run out of guesses, you would pick something like FORMS to check four of them at once.

Bound
Found
Hound
Mound
Pound
Round
Sound
Wound

That's easy, it's a lot harder to tell in a more ambiguous situation where you're not sure where in the word your letters occur and not sure how many possible words there are. The thing I'm trying to figure out right now is the optimal point to switch from eliminating (next guess FORMS) to selecting (next guess SOUND).

4
CRUMB
BAKED
BASIL
BANAL

Ulrich said:

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fanal, which is "a beacon on a ship or lighthouse"

Really rare, I assume wordle uses a smaller dictionary. I picked the largest one I could find just in case.

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Oh yeah... that's definitely a low use case word.

I'd be interested to see your program run twice, with different dictionaries... one big, one small
Give yourself rules about what you have to pick, since obv you'll know the word after the first run

Yeah. If you have absolutely no clue it might help to try to rule out 5 letters at once for one of the turns.

Got very lucky with my second word.

sport
bagel
banal

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Interesting story about how the game came about.

Ulrich said:

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You can know three letters but still have several hundred possible words, especially if you don't know where the letter are supposed to be.

For an extreme example, see below where you could have guessed BOUND, know 4/5 letters and positions, but still have to choose from 7 common words. In that case you wouldn't cycle through because you are pretty likely to run out of guesses, you would pick something like FORMS to check four of them at once.

Bound
Found
Hound
Mound
Pound
Round
Sound
Wound

That's easy, it's a lot harder to tell in a more ambiguous situation where you're not sure where in the word your letters occur and not sure how many possible words there are. The thing I'm trying to figure out right now is the optimal point to switch from eliminating (next guess FORMS) to selecting (next guess SOUND).

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Let's say on attempt three I had OUND in the right place, but I have all those other options to choose from. I would probably use the fourth attempt on a word like HUMPS or BUMPS that would let me test four of those options at once.

Got it in 3

This was a little frustrating.

AliasMan02 said:

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This was a little frustrating.

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Should've played "PUNCH" for your second word.

RealTalk said:

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AliasMan02 said:

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This was a little frustrating.

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Should've played "PUNCH" for your second word.

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Should have played Share for their first word

I got yesterday's in three and today's in four using the same two first words. I have never heard today's word.

I am going to keep starting with the same first two until it fails.

DamnGood86 said:

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I got yesterday's in three and today's in four using the same two first words. I have never heard today's word.

I am going to keep starting with the same first two until it fails.

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Can't tell if username checks out or not.