I remember watching a lottery drawing with my mother, once. She asked if I noticed how the numbers always seemed to be clustered together (3 numbers in the 20s, none in the 30s, that sort of thing). We had just seen the numbers, on ping-pong balls, drawn out of a machine that bounced them around. It was as random as can be. I think it was just her desire to find patterns, and our tendency to divide things into convenient groups (like 20s and 30s) that made her see clusters in randomness.
It’s funny you bring the lottery up because I was thinking about that too. People who like to play the lotto and scratch offs are forever obsessively searching for patterns and commonalities 
I play the crossword scratch offs sometimes. They’re fun and occasionally I actually win something!
They still use the old ping pong balls in the wind tunnel thingie for the lottery numbers because it IS totally random. Computer generated random numbers are ultimately just following some randomization program and so not truly random.
Perhaps. They did have a word generator tool though (like an anagram solver)…I had seen it in the settings a while back - it was added as a new feature, but I never used it. I just noticed it’s gone now…maybe they didn’t want to give the players that much help, and they could be using it themselves now, but who knows.
It just seems to make sense, at least to my analytical brain. And you’re right…knowing the words repeat, and or the letters repeat within a game, does sometimes make it easier, yet I still resist.
Daily Quordle 785
CHEAT
ROUND
SLIMY
DIRTY - 4
DRAIN - 5
BAGEL
PARRY - 7
VALVE - 8
Daily Quordle 784
SLATE
CHOIR
DEUCE
BENCH (4)
SNAKE (5)
FENCE
PENCE (7)
CLASP (8)
Three tries to get the #3 word 
- I only saw Deuce for that one, but I was glad the #1 word (Bench) gave me the N for Fence or Pence, and Snake too, though that was the only word that one could be after Deuce ruled out 3 other words, so it wasn’t a total waste.
BENCH could have also been WENCH, but I figured the B was more likely. Looks like you did, too.
Yep! While it certainly could be random coincidence, it just doesn’t seem like it to me when it happens often enough.
Well, you can find some order in a sea of chaos (i.e. Chaos Theory). 
Chaos theory states that within the apparent randomness of chaotic complex systems, there are underlying patterns, interconnection, constant feedback loops, repetition, self-similarity, fractals and self-organization.
I actually didn’t see Wench, so I got lucky with that one! 
Daily Sequence Quordle 784
SLATE
CHOIR
UNTIL
TULIP (4)
CRUSH (5)
GROUP (6)
STAKE
STAVE (8)
@chiliwillybing We played a very similar game.
Daily Quordle 785
RAISE
COUNT
DIRTY - 3
DRAIN - 4
PARRY - 5
EAGLE
HALVE
VALVE - 8
Daily Sequence Quordle 785
RAISE
SHOUT
SHOCK - 3
SILLY - 4
AVOID - 5
UNBOX
GUMBO - 7
Daily Quordle 785
SLATE
CHOIR
DIRTY (3)
DRAIN (4)
GIMPY
PARRY (6)
FABLE
VALVE (8)
I thought I had a 7 in the bag! Gimpy was to help me get there (to check Eagle, Fable, Gable, Maple, and Marry or Parry), but that double V got me…didn’t even see the word.
Daily Sequence Quordle 785
SLATE
CHOIR
SHOCK (3)
SPILL
SILLY (5)
AVOID (6)
BONGO
GUMBO (8)
With that lonely little yellow O in the last word, it took me a bit to see any words…probably longer than it should have - lol. It was a toss-up between Bongo and Gumbo, and I lost the coin toss.
I didn’t see Unbox…glad it wasn’t that.
Daily Quordle 786
CHEAT
ROUND
SLIMY
SNAIL - 4
HURRY - 5
SNIFF - 6
GUMMY - 7
I was little surprised that GUMMY was correct. I figured it would probably be MUMMY, but I still had three guesses left and I figured GUMMY would give me more information in case there was some other answer that I hadn’t thought of.
Daily Quordle 786
RAISE
COUNT
SNAIL - 3
STIFF - 4
MURKY
HURRY - 6
GUMMY - 7
Daily Sequence Quordle 786
RAISE
CRUST - 2
BARON
KARMA
PARKA - 5
NOBLY - 6
CIDER - 7
Weekly Quordle Challenge 39
RAISE
COUNT
STUDY
STUFF - 4
SULKY - 5
TRIBE
TRIPE - 7
WHERE
MERGE - X
Weekly Quordle Challenge 39
I’m not sure how to read that. Was MERGE your last guess and it was wrong, or was that the correct answer and you guessed something else?
Sorry, the correct word was verge. I ran out of guesses 