That is awesome.
Wordle 620 6/6
EARTH
OMEGA
MOPEY
MOXIE
MOUSE
MOOSE
Ouch.
Thursday, March 2nd
Wordle 621 4/6
CLAPS
TAMER
AWOKE
ABOVE
So symmetrical!
After 400 games I have 399 wins:
1: 0
2: 17
3: 143
4: 158
5: 66
6: 15
My average is now 3.8, where my first 200 games were I think an average of 3.7. That would make my last 200 games an average of 3.9.
My longest win streak is now 201 and counting.
Wordle 621 4/6
RATIO
SHOAL
ANODE
ABOVE
I actually played this one more carefully. I looked for the common letters first. After three, I took the time to go through the letters left to see if I needed a test word. I could only come up with ABOVE and AWOKE so I went with a random guess.
Wordle 620 4/6
MEANT
MISER
MOUSE
MOOSE
Happy to get that M finally, and in green too. After my 2nd word, I could only see two choices, and I almost went with Moose given we’ve been getting so many double letters lately, but I thought we had our fill of them for a while…guess not.
Wordle 621 4/6*
PROWL
THOSE
ABODE
ABOVE
My philosophy is to always assume a trend will continue. Like on a roulette wheel, if it comes up red five times in a row, bet red. Don’t bet black because black is “due.” Maybe the table is biased and that’s why all the reds are coming up. Maybe red is actually “due” because 3 hours ago there were 15 blacks in a row and red still hasn’t caught up yet.
(That’s not how random numbers work. Nothing is ever “due.” But it’s really easy to fall into that kind of thinking.)
Not that the Wordle solutions are guaranteed random, but anytime I’m trying to guess an unknown next value, I figure there are two possibilities: It’s either random, meaning whatever I do is irrelevant, or there is some bias or inherent trend that is actually happening.
There is no version where betting on what hasn’t been happening is the smart play. That way lies madness, like the martingale where you double up after every loss. By this logic, the more I lose the less I bet. Once I start winning a lot I’ll start betting more.
We may very well be in an extended double letter streak. Or it could just be random noise. If those are the possibilities, the smart play is to assume we’re in a double letter streak.
Wordle 621 4/6
AISLE
FRONT
ADOBE
ABOVE
Wordle 621 6/6*
RATIO
SOAPY
AWOKE
ALONE
ABODE
ABOVE
Really lucky I didn’t try ‘ADOBE’ first, there…
Wordle 621 4/6
Scoredle 4/6
14,855
SLART (1,042)
NICHE (39)
DUMPY (5)
ABOVE
“Is the answer up above?” (“Puppy Love” lyrics.) No, the answer is ‘above.’
I was lucky, Scoredle says it could have also been AWOKE or GAFFE, neither of which I thought of.
Wordle 621 3/6*
ALONE
ABODE
ABOVE
My usual first word did all the heavy lifting…
Wordle 621 4/6
SAUCE
PLANE
ADORE
ABOVE
Wordle 621 4/6*
BEARD
AMBLE
ABUSE
ABOVE
Scoredle 5/6*
14,855
ALDER (66)
ADEPT (33)
AMINE (11)
ABUSE (1)
ABOVE
I struggled with this one for some reason.
Wordle 621 3/6*
Scoredle 3/6*
14,855
USAGE (247)
ABIDE (4)
ABOVE
Lucky second word!
Wordle 621 4/6*
Scoredle 4/6*
14,855
READY (591)
WASTE (60)
ALIVE (2)
ABOVE
Looks like a day for 4s. (Except for all you smart 3 people!)
Wordle 621 4/6*
IRATE
SAUCE
ABODE
ABOVE
Son of a . . .
Wordle 621 6/6
CRANE
SPOIL
AWOKE
ADOBE - thought sure I had it
ABODE - oh, of course, I just got the letters reversed . . .ah, c’mon!
ABOVE
Wordle 621 5/6* 3/2/2023
MOOSE → Not a bad start. I feel like one more vowel might be good to check…
ALONE → Ouch. An interlaced all-vowel trap. Start looking at common letters I can fill in here…
ADORE → Not those…
AWOKE → Less common, but not those either…
ABOVE
Scoredle 5/6*
14,855
MOOSE (98)
ALONE (12)
ADORE (5)
AWOKE (3)
ABOVE
Interestingly enough, Scoredle told me each of my guesses was the best guess to make next. So I’ve got that going for me, which is nice.
Wordle 621 6/6
HEART
DREAM
BLAZE
ABUSE
ABIDE
ABOVE