[QUOTE=Robot Arm]
gulls, gully, gummy,…
I was stuck between “wards” and “wares” for a while.
5,454 points. All five words took between 11 and 14 guesses.
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WARDS
wardt
wardu
wardv
wardw
wardx
wardy
wardz
warea
wareb
warec
wared <------ never heard of it but spellcheck doesn’t highlight it
waref
wareg
wareh
warei
warej
warek
warel
warem
waren
wareo
warep
wareq
warer
WARES
[QUOTE=twickster]
Okay … put me out of my misery.
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Wared, I think.
11850! and if I hadn’t effed up one round (297), I coulda been a contender!
Not fun. Makes me feel stupid.
How the hell do people guess it in five tries? I’m just narrowing down an area of the alphabet by then. I’m not good at this.
I got drool! Only took me a gazillion tries.
“Larch” is not a word. 
The Larch 
[QUOTE=JSexton]
Wared, I think.
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That is not a good word.
Luck has a great deal to do with it. My first word was “smart”. My first guess was “smart”. Hmm. I thought I was a genius. For a minute.
[QUOTE=twickster]
Type in a five-letter word. If it goes “up” (i.e., to the box above the guess-box), the word you’re looking for is later than it in the alphabet. If it goes “down,” it’s earlier in the alphabet. You can use those “outsides” to narrow down the word you’re trying to guess.
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That was totally counter intuitive to me (design-wise). To me, if the word you put floats to the top, that word would be higher alphabetically. When you’re typing in the middle and you have the word above it, graphically it looks like that (to me, at least).
I’m at 23 tries and stuck between TWERP and TWIGS.
Oh, TWICE
Bite me!
[QUOTE=Lionne]
I’m at 23 tries and stuck between TWERP and TWIGS.
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TWICE?
Thanks Randy. I’m off to the dunce corner.
http://www.crossword-dictionary.com/ is worth its weight in gold. That being said, I still don’t think I’ve gotten higher than 3000. I have to believe that there is a fair amount of luck in here, unless you believe in clairvoyance.
My high score so far is 10,000. Am still obsessively trying to best it. Thanks for nothing, Interrobang?!
Hey, I don’t think I’ve cracked 10,000, so apparently my punishment is my reward.
Really fast typing even if it’s a bad guess. That x4 on the 17th try is worth quite a lot of points.
[QUOTE=Oy!]
… I still don’t think I’ve gotten higher than 3000. I have to believe that there is a fair amount of luck in here, unless you believe in clairvoyance.
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Are you doing your guesses by halves? I start with MOUSE – then if the word is earlier than that, I go halfway between “A” and “M,” usually with “FIELD” – then divide that range in half (DOUBT or ICIER), etc.
If you work by chunks like that, you can narrow in on your range fairly quickly.
And, yes, there’s certainly an element of luck.
Ack! Got stuck between READY and REEDY
[QUOTE=wonderlust]
Ack! Got stuck between READY and REEDY
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REBEL?