SKILL → Ok, only one L, where should it go? And can we KO some other high-frequency letters?
CLEAT → aha, that’s where it goes. Perhaps another vowel?
PLIED → D must go in the middle, but then ?LDE? - not A, could be O, or, another E…
ELDER
I’m still kind of scared for when QUEUE makes its appearance.
Just barely got this one!
Wordle 233 6/6
GRANT
OILER
FLYER (I was certain this was right!)
BLUER
SLEER (who knew this was a word!?)
ELDER
Yeah, I thought this one was kind of devious.
Wordle 233 5/6
IRATE
FEMUR
SLYER
OLDER
ELDER
Man, I hate it when they use the same letter twice in the word. Throws me every time!
I agree. Two days in a row!
I had to work harder than usual on this one. Was getting worried after three, but got lucky on the fourth guess.
Wordle 233 4/6
GUIDE
OWNED
DATES
ELDER
Maybe “lucky” isn’t the right word. I used up all the vowels and kept moving that D around, but I had to stare at it for a good long time before even coming up with a valid word at all.
Yep same thing with me, also by the third word which made it much easier to get it in four.
Sorry if this has been asked and answered already, but how do you get it a day ahead?
He’s in New Zealand, where it’s currently… looks it up… 5:23am on Tuesday morning.
Wordle 233 3/6*
Guess 3 was a “might as well try”. Really quite surprised that it was right.
I decided not to use my normal starter word this time:
Wordle 233 4/6
CHAMP
DOERS
DETER
ELDER
My usual starter is ADIEU, even though it’s been shown to hardly be ideal. I wonder if I would have gotten it any faster that way. I would have definitely gotten it in 4. I usually follow up ADIEU with PORTS, which would have put me on 3 letters, with one in the right place.
Here’s tomorrow’s. My correct guesses were almost symmetrical.
Wordle 234 4/6
Yikes. This one had too many options. But I got it.
Wordle 233 6/6
Not only am I in New Zealand, but I often stay up past midnight and do Wordle a few minutes after it becomes available.
If I understand the way Wordle is set up, there’s a wider list including more obscure words that are permissible as guesses, but a narrower list of possible solutions. So you can start with something like SALET that I’m currently using (I have no idea what it means!), it is allowed but it could not be the solution.
I don’t think GLUER would be a “mistake” as an earlier guess, since it covers several common letters. But perhaps it’s only in the wider list, and could not be a solution? I’m not sure, it’s not all that obscure a word. But if so, I guess you’re right that it wasn’t the best choice at that stage when you are so close to the solution.
This is a general question, but on the chance that it might suggest something about today’s word (233), I’ll spoil it.
If I guess there’s a double letter when there isn’t, does it show the 2nd instance of the letter in my guess as “not present” or “present but in the wrong place.”
For example, say the word is SPENT and I guess SLEET.
Will it show
(there is an E but not in position 4)
or
(there is not a second E in the word)
It shows the second option, there is not a second E.
And it would be very strange if it were the first option. There would then be no distinction between the presence of one or two E’s in the solution.
I was regretting that decision after three guesses, but thankfully it came together quickly after that.
Wordle 234 5/6
STERN
REPLY
WAGER
BRACE
FRAME
At guess three it came down to a few possible words and it was just a matter of going through them randomly.
Wordle 234 4/6
RAISE
TRADE
CRANE
FRAME
Pretty much the same here too — at guess two it came down to a few possible words and it was just a matter of going through them randomly.
Wordle 234 4/6
IRATE
CRAZE
ERASE
FRAME
What else could I have tried?
CRANE
BRAKE
BRAVE
BRAZE
CRAVE
CRAZE
DRAKE
DRAPE
GRACE
GRADE
GRAVE
GRAZE
GRATE
ORATE
Sometimes it’s simply a matter of good luck!
Is good.
Wordle 234 3/6*
AIERY
REALM
FRAME