Wordle 525 3/6
ANISE
LEARN
CLEAN
Sunday, November 27th
Wordle 526 3/6
CLASP
TAPER
HAPPY
Saw happy, spent another few seconds looking but then thought screw it, it feels like happy. Nice when that works out.
Wordle 526 4/6
RATIO
LANCE
GAUDY
HAPPY
Wordle 526 5/6*
BEARD
AMONG
SQUAT
WACKY
HAPPY
Wordle 526 4/6
EARTH
LIONS
DUMPY
HAPPY
Wordle 526 3/6
NOISE
GUARD
HAPPY
Wordle 526 4/6
CREAM
OUGHT
SHINY
HAPPY
Why is “dumpy” considered a good word to pick? Sometimes the Wordlebot uses it as one of its picks. What’s the benefit?
Wordle 526 4/6
CRANE
TOILS
DUMPY - another DUMPY
HAPPY
On DUMPY. I often use that word as a third word when there is very little information on the first two words (like today). I usually have AEIO and the most common letters. DUMPY has the rest of the vowels, and three of the most common other letters
So, we had DRIVE, then FEAST. I’m not sure how ITCHY would apply. Then you CLEAN up. HAPPY Thanksgiving
Wordle 526 4/6
SLANT
CHORE
GIMPY => took me from hardly knowing anything to having the solution
HAPPY
That’s one of those ‘to each their own’ sorts of things. Having gotten all of the past solutions on a spreadsheet, it seemed natural (and fairly easy!) to count things. So I have the frequencies of each letter through #505 (the last solution straight from Wardle’s list) along with the frequencies of where they appear in the word. (For instance, through #505, Y had appeared 85 times, and in 70 of those times, it was the last letter of the word. Kinda what I would have expected, only more so.)
I find it helpful because if I know the relative frequencies of each letter, I can tailor my starting sequence of words to pick up the most common letters. (Particularly consonants, since I do better knowing the consonants and filling in the vowels than vice versa.) Also, I do it because for me, at least, it’s fun. I’m weird like that. 
Which brings me to DUMPY. If your first two words have hit all the most frequent letters and you’re still fishing for letters, DUMPY is a good word to pick up the next most frequent batch of letters.
Wordle 526 4/6
CANOE
PARTY
SAPPY
HAPPY
Normally I’d put an I in the second word, but when I started thinking of words, there just weren’t very many of them, and I figured a terminal Y was more likely.
Then I screwed myself out of a three by somehow missing the H on my first pass through the keyboard. D’oh!!
Wordle 526 2/6
HEART
HAPPY Back to back deuces! First time ever!
The coffee is lukewarm.
Wordle 526 4/6*
IRATE
SALON
CAMPY
HAPPY
@Author_Balk, you’re onto something, for sure. Maybe ITCHY is because of a cranberry allergy…? Just a notion.
Wordle 526 2/6*
PARCH
HAPPY
Wordle 526 4/6* 11/27/2022
CLEAN → Slow start. Another vowel, and common consonants…
ROAST → Still nada. Not many consonants left, though. If I put the A in second, HAPPY would work, but it’s a little early to try a repeated letter. I do like to try the H here though…
APHID → Oh no. Did I fake myself out?
HAPPY
Next time I will go with my first instinct. And probably be wrong that time too.
Wordle 526 4/6
CRANE
ABOUT - No help
YAPPY - Total WAG using double-double letters. Got extremely lucky.
HAPPY - Chose happy over sappy
First time to this thread, but a long-time player. After today’s ‘magnificent’ effort, I thought I’d check my stats: 3.87 is my average number of guesses, with a current winning streak of 232. I’ve had 15 ‘phew’ moments though, so I expect my luck can’t continue that much longer.
As a strategy, letter frequency has worked for me very well. There’s not many words left if STARE, LINGO and CHUMP have all struck out.
And if I’ve found just one yellow letter on the first go, then it’s usually something like GLIDE or ALIGN next, which is how I solved AXIOM in three goes a week ago.
It’s funny…if I found a good, solid winning strategy, I’d probably lose interest in playing. Most of the fun for me is the moment of HAPPY* surprise when all the letters turn over green.
If I were playing for money, it would be a different story.
*See what I did there.
When the list was under the original management, so to speak, an improved strategy didn’t do away with the challenge*. It may have lowered my average number of guesses, but there were still frequent days when I had to really work for that 3 or 4. I’m just meeting my challenge at a different level than being challenged not to lose.
And I like the sense that I’m improving over time in being able to solve this class of problems. When I said farewell to ADIEU as my starting word, my average number of guesses was up around 4.27 or 4.28. Now it’s down around 3.5. I don’t know whether I can improve much on that, but it’ll be fun to try.
*It’s too soon to tell what the effect of the NYT’s curation is really going to be. Obviously if solving the Wordle of the day becomes a bit too cut and dried, then that would cause me to lose interest. Hopefully that won’t be the case, but there is definitely cause for concern.
Monday, November 28th
Wordle 527 3/6
CLAMS
TROPE
TEPID
Nice and quick, just like yesterday.