You may have heard this one before, but: what’s the difference between a cat and a comma?
One is a pause at the end of a clause, and the other has claws at the ends of its paws.
I’m fond of paws too - since adopting two kittens in the fall of 1982, I’ve only once been without cats, and that was for only a couple of months in 2019 between one generation of cats and the next.
Wordle 857 4/6
RADIO
SALVE
BASTE
CAUSE
I got too focused on the _ASTE trap; that U snuck up on me.
Could have been much worse than a four, though.
Wordle 857 3/6
SLATE
RAISE
CAUSE
Wordle 857 3/6*
STALE
ARISE
CAUSE
WED OCT 25
Wordle 858 3/6*
ALONE
RETCH
RETRY
Wordle 858 2/6
RATIO
RETRY
Wordle 858 3/6
524
7
SLANT
CHORE
RETRY
Wordle 858 5/6
Slant
Trick
Motor
Duper
Retry
Wordle 858 3/6*
\begin{aligned} &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt M} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt Y} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt Y} \\ \end{aligned}
Wordle 858 5/6
FLAME
SHUNT
BRICK
PODGY
RETRY
If I had used my old starter words, SALET ROUND CHIMP BAGGY, I might have gotten it in 3. It would’ve looked like this:
Wordle 858 3/6 (example only)
SALET
ROUND — leaving retch retry; and I probably would’ve gone with
RETRY
Wordle 858 3/6
PLANT
STORE
RETRY
Wordle 858 3/6
RAISE
REPLY
RETRY
Wordle 858 3/6
HEART
METRE
RETRY
I don’t keep track of game-by-game stats so I can’t break my results down like that but I can say that before I started playing using the same strategy as Wordlebot I had a lot more 4s than 3s. Now I get a 3 five times out of seven and my 3s have surpassed my 4s.
I daresay that I’m better at Wordle than Wordlebot is because I have two advantages. First, I have some knowledge of which words have been answers before. I don’t consult a list; I rely on my memory (which let me down recently when I guessed SHIRK over SMIRK, having forgotten that SHIRK had already been used). Second, I think I’m a better judge than Wordlebot of what’s likely to be an answer. For example, when the answer was TEMPO Wordlebot recognized that the possible remaining words after my first two guesses (ignoring past tense words formed by adding -ED) were BEGOT, DETOX, DEPOT, and TEMPO. I remembered that DEPOT had been used before and felt that BEGOT and DETOX were unlikely answers (BEGOT more so than DETOX), so I went with TEMPO for the 3. Wordlebot chose DEPOT in that situation. My 14-game average as shown by Wordlebot is 3.2 and has been as low as 3.0.
Wordle 858 4/6
CRANE
DIVER
MERRY
RETRY
Wordle 858 4/6*
TREAD
STORE
EXERT ← stupid! I already tried the E there.
RETRY
I can’t believe I didn’t see this. It’s a very common word in Octordle.
ETA: Way to go, @psychobunny !
CAUSE → Nice to KO three vowels with the first guess. Try only one other vowel, to go with three comcons next
LONER → Good R pickup, and that looks like a nice prefix. Last vowel, and a T, to try
REMIT → Ah, but it wasn’t the last vowel, was it?
RETRY
Took me an awfully long time to see the solution, because I was thinking about repeated Es.
Wouldn’t RETIE have also been a possibility?
NICE work Psyhcobunn
Wordle 858 4/6
earth
prose
timer
retry I am tired of wordlebot criticising my elimination words when it does the same thing.
Wordle 858 5/6
ASIDE
LONER
QUERY
BERRY
RETRY
Step by step… Inch by inch…
Since U was the only vowel left at three, I felt really good about QUERY. What a fool I was. Had I jumped into the _ERRY trap one sooner, I would have saved a step.