Tomorrow’s Wordle, Today
Son of a bitch!
Wordle 282 5/6
Wordle 282
GREAT
WOUND
POUND
HOUND
FOUND
Wordle 282 5/6
RATIO
SOUND
LYMPH
BOUND
FOUND
An absolute nightmare after guess two where the first letter could be B, F, H, M, P, W. The third guess was an attempt to check as many as possible, then I had three left and three guesses.
Sorry to anybody I spoiled. Could not get the spoiler tags to work. Still don’t know what I did wrong.
Wordle 282 4/6
CLAMP
STORE
HOWDY
FOUND
I knew going in it was a trap so I reverted to my best opener. Opening with 5 blacks is awesome; 9 blacks in the first two words less so. While I wasn’t bound to use letters other than O, taking the other 9 letters off the table was its own special brand of constricting.
Finally I thought of a word that fit, plus it checked a bunch of letters: FOUND. I almost guessed it but then I realized it was a trap word, then, duh, oh yeah, I already knew that going in. (My actual thought process.)
My two-word opener had checked mound, pound, sound, and round. That left bound, found, hound and wound. Plus YOUNG if I didn’t know it was a trap. So BFHW plus either G or Y, and I have to use an O. The best I could come up with was HOWDY to check hound, wound and young.
Still no hit meant I was down to two choices. The word I originally thought of was found, so I went with that.
I’m pretty stoked I was able to abide by super hard mode rules and still solve in 4 with a max of 5.
Your spoiler tags worked fine for me.
Wordle 282 5/6*
ELBOW
MOIST
CORNY
POUND
FOUND
Finally got the spoiler tags working
Wordle 282 X/6*
Sick!!!
Wordle 282 6/6
This one pissed me off!
Streak is over at 65. Too many options for that first letter.
Wordle 282 X/6*
RIGHT
MONEY
COLON
WOUND
SOUND
BOUND
Wordle 282 5/6
TRACE
LIONS - oh oh, could be one of the OUND words
MOUND - yes it is
WHOOP - used random number generator to shuffle possible letters until I could see a word with 3 of the letters
FOUND - if it was BOUND it would have been 6
Wordle 282 5/6
Yeah, I’d cleared enough letters by three that after 4 there were only two options.
I feel prescient.
Wordle 282 6/6
AIERY
LOTUS
MUNCH
PUDGE
FLOWN
FOUND
I needed the 5th guess to isolate the first letter.
Wordle 282 5/6*
I was lucky here - my first two words (CRIME and SHUNT) eliminated several clues (round, mound, sound) which might’ve led to a fail. There was only one remaining valid guess after this one, so I was guaranteed to win.
Wordle 282 5/6
HEART
MINDS
POUND
WOUND
FOUND
once I guessed POUND, then I had B, F, and W as possible first letters. So it took 2 out of 3 tries to get it.
Wordle 282 5/6
ASIDE
HOUND
WOUND
FRAME
FOUND
This is why I don’t play in hard mode. I probably would have gone with ROUND, POUND, and MOUND before FOUND, if I hadn’t used my fourth word to troll for letters.
Well, no luck o’ the Polish today. Decided to go for broke on #3 and needed all guesses to get it in 6. It was literally the only remaining word possible:
Wordle 282 6/6
LAPSE
CHOIR
WOUND
MOUND
BOUND
FOUND
Could have gone for a less risky WOMBS in #3 and gotten it in 4.
"Wordle 282 6/6* 3/28/2022
NYMPH → Well, that start was almost useless
STONE → At least I got a vowel out of that
ROUND → Uh, oh, start counting… F, W, B, I think that’s it
BOUND
WOUND
FOUND → Whew
I thought my first guess was nearly useless after I made it. It turned out to be what saved me.
Yay !
Wordle 282 3/6*
BEARD
POUND
FOUND
I find that guesses with no hits are pretty much as useful as guesses with a couple of hits. Note that I only got one letter in my first two guesses, but that already had me on the right track by guess 3 (which I would have hit with a bit more luck.)
I agree, but it does depend on which letters you’re cutting out. I was initially devaluing the particular letters of my starting word, as it had no common vowels and only one very common letter (from the WoF RSTLN set); once it was evident that three of its letters made a big difference in the endgame I was much happier about it.