A lot of players only use words with high-percentage letters, so they’re nearly always going to get hits. Even if you’re using different words every day, you still have excellent odds of at least getting a yellow on a vowel.
I use a different word each day so I probably biff the first guess more often, but I’m pretty pleased when it happens. Since I play on hard mode, that failure means I’m free to make a super optimal second guess.
Wordle 230 4/6
IRATE
STEAM
CHEAT
PLEAT
Try again tomorrow.
Popular letters include (can we agree?) A,D,E,H,I,L,N,O,R,S,T and U. A few other letters have a decent chance. I should think that in 15-20% of games you draw a blank during the first guess. But looking at above posts, seems like this happens more rarely. I also like this when it happens.
Wordle 230 2/6
Strip
Pleat
That was satisfying!
It seems my computer is a day behind but my iPad isn’t. It may have something to do with starting a wordle on one day but not finishing it until the next.
Wordle 231 4/6
A list of all the Wordle variations and spinoffs:
There are some interesting variations (the list is under all the multi-lingual options), one of which allows you to create your own word and share the link.
Whole lotta luck here:
Wordle 230 6/6
That makes sense. For a second there I thought I was wrong, but I remain triumphant and the greatest intellectual who ever lived. Wait, what are we talking about again? Oh yes, word puzzles.
Anyways… at the risk of giving a clue, I have never used the word in tomorrow’s puzzle in my real life.
Wordle 231 5/6
Wordle 230 4/6
Wordle 230 2/6
First time ever for a second guess for me.
Was trying to say please for some reason. I really forgot that pleas was a word, until I noticed the brain fart of ignoring for a second that it was only 5 letters… finding the correct word then was easy.
Wordle 231 4/6
My third guess was unlucky. It had all the right letters, but two had to be swopped to get the right answer.
Same here but it was my fourth guess.
Wordle 231 5/6
STARE
TACKY
PLANT
FLOAT
ALOFT
And again I could not abide by hard mode rules, having to reuse a letter in a position I knew was wrong in my third guess.
I don’t think that’s against the hard mode rules. You have to use letters that you’ve established are in the word but you can still reuse known bad letters.
There goes my “in 3” streak. I might have had a shot, but I screwed up my 3rd guess by reusing an incorrect spot.
Wordle 231 5/6*
POISE
CAROL
LOATH
BLOAT
ALOFT
This was a first for me… I got everything right in my third guess except 2 letters transposed!
Wordle 231 4/6*
TRACE
WAIST
FLOAT
ALOFT
Join the club! 
Wordle 231 5/6
I didn’t reuse a known bad letter. I reused a known good letter in a known bad spot. I’m pretty sure that’s against hard mode rules.
(Specifically, I knew the letter “a” was in the solution but definitely not in position 3. So when I guessed plant, with an a in position 3, I was breaking hard mode rules.)
Wordle 231 4/6