SALET ROUND CHIMP — could be algae blaze eagle fable flake gavel glaze leafy leaky leave legal LEGAL — could be leafy leaky leave LEAVE — could be leafy leaky LEAKY — if I have been paying attention to which have already been used words, like @EllisDee was saying, I could have gotten this in 5, or maybe 4
I don’t like my starting words. I want a set of four starting words that eliminate more letters. Ideally, 4 starting words would eliminate 20 letters. My 3 starting words eliminate 15 which is good, but after that there are a lot of duplicated letters in any 4th word.
I agree with Ellis that you shouldn’t bother with a standard 4th word; your first three, at most (ideally your first two, but that won’t always be the case), should get you to where you’re adapting to what you already know.
But in this case, you’re at that point after your first word. You’ve got three letters, it’s time to see what you can do with them. What I do is write down how they can be legally arranged, and see if that jogs my mind for how the remaining blanks might be filled. Fishing for at most two letters can use up a lot of guesses without getting you anywhere, and there may be a repeat in which case you’re fishing for just one, which would make it even more futile.
I go with two research words virtually always, unless the first word has so many hits that I can’t fit in my standard follow-up letters of “ser.” Then I just look until I see something and, for the most part, just guess the first thing I see. I do not try and tailor my 3rd guess to guarantee a 4.
But my question was literal, not leading. A while ago I wrote a program that lets you type in a bunch of letters and it will spit out five letter words using them all without repeats. If possible, of course. Given 20 letters, if four unique words can cover those 20 letters, I can come up with them.
AGENT → Two vowels already. Let’s go comcons for the next guess LASER → Placed the L, ex-L-ent. If I keep moving the A over, I can slide the E between them and try LEACH → Doesn’t feel traplike at this point. Let’s see, LEAVE/LEAFY/LEAKY, can’t see much else. If I go LEAVE, I could end up with a six (or miss if I’m not seeing something). Best to try LEAFY → Oh-K. LEAKY
LEAZE is a word? C’mon, Scoredle - pull the other one, it’s got bells on.
I’ve used those as the opening words multiple times playing the 16 simultaneous word version (sedecordle, something like that.) Over all, I’d say the missing V and then the W are the only letters that generally impact my being able to easily solve all 16 words.
(I have no idea what podgy means, but Wordle takes it.)
As you may know, I’m fond of mixing up my starting words; keeps the game fresh for me. So I don’t have a standard second word either. But for the second day in a row I used LEARN, and it worked out better today than yesterday.
I try not to use the past words list (sometimes I do), but I distinctly remembered both LEAFY and LEAPT having been used. That left LEACH and LEAKY. I actually typed in LEACH, then decided LEAKY seemed more Wordle-y. For a change, I was right!
