Wordle 1310 5/6
1,713
77
29
2
SLANT
CHORE
DUMPY
BOWER
ROWER
Happy to escape with a 5.
After 2, this was probably (but far from certainly) a xOxER word, but there are a fair number of those, even after having eliminated the consonants C,H,L,N,S,T. Lots of words with D,M,P in what remained, so I went with DUMPY on 3, figuring that would narrow things down. It did that well enough to get me the 5, so I can’t complain.
Wordle 1,310 6/6*
Wordle Bot failed to solve it… I don’t remember seeing that before.
Wordle 1,309 4/6
HEART
LONER
COWER
ROWER
Wordle 1,310 X/6
That’s what happens when you haven’t had your coffee.
Wordle 1,310 5/6*
Twang
Whisk
Crowd
Power
Rower
Bad day for Wordle players. Not only are nearly 40% of players not getting it in 6, I believe this is the 2nd time I’ve seen Wordlebot not get it in 6.
SILLY → Whiff. With two WoFcons gone, I think I’ll focus on vowels next. Two more WoFcons and three vowels looks like
ATONE → Let’s see, I need to try R, move the letters over one and… that looks like a trap in the making. Unused letters are consonant-rich due to that LL in the first guess, so which ones to try first? DOPER and POKER are both in play, so P should be one. HOMER and MOPER, too - I’ll try the latter and see what I get
MOPER → Trap it is, and my shot in the dark goes nowhere. Three guesses left, six consonants, and I’d better get one in the next two guesses to have any shot at a “Phew!” Roll the dice
COWER → Got that shot, but oy vey. BOWER? L, T, S all gone. P as well. DOWER? A little archaic, but maybe. VOWER? Maybe, but probably not. Oh wait, a second R! OK, 50-50 chance, but I’ll prefer R & B (heh) over the others.
ROWER
I think today will be a bloodbath. Scoredle shows 163 possibles after my first two guesses - though it then hones right in on my fourth guess for its third! So my analysis for my third guess was wasted. But get this: Scoredle fails from its own start, but wins on the third guess from my start! 106 possibles and it gets the right one! Plus, from its own start, its last two failed guesses are MOWER and POWER, so I feel that somewhat validates my third guess.
The colors and your word guesses do not match, @BobLibDem …?
Wordle 1,310 6/6
STILE
GONER
CAMPY
DOZER
BOWER
ROWER
The old _O_ER trap yet again. With the extra added annoyance of a repeat letter.
I did something I very rarely do and consulted the used words list. That may have saved me from a fail, maybe not.
Wordle 1,310 6/6*
LEAST
DRONE
HOVER
POKER
ROGER
ROWER
Got luckier than some!
Well that’s odd: Shoulda been this:
Wordle 1,310 4/6
Thanks for letting me know- I’ll be more careful in future.
I think you’re right about that. Scoredle also muffed it today, but Scoredle does that somewhat more often than Wordlebot.
Looks like plenty of people who’d had their coffee didn’t do any better!
ETA: I wonder if anyone’s kept track of which Wordles had the most losses. I remember PARER of course, it was infamous. I was one of the many that took an L that day.
Interestingly, from its own opening word - which yields a single unplaced E - Scordle takes a fail. But from my opening word - which yields a single unplaced E - it solves in five.
Perhaps this illustrates that the letters you eliminate are at least as important as the letters you find.
Wordle 1,311 3/6
RATIO
SHEIk
SQUID
Had a terrible time finding a possible word after two.
Wordle 1,311 3/6
LATER
SONIC
SQUID
Wordle 1311 4/6
446
39
1
SLANT
CHORE
DUMPY
SQUID
Wordle 1,311 3/6*
\begin{aligned} &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt C} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt Q} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \\ \end{aligned}
Wordle 1,311 3/6
HEART
SPOIL
SQUID
I’m joining the 3 Club for today.
Wordle 1,311 3/6 — 2025-01-20
LEAST
BOUND — the only word it can be is squid
SQUID
ROWER → Whiff. With O & E gone, my next guess should try A & I and three of the remaining four WoFcons
SLAIN → Weird. SCHI? goes nowhere. SU?I? and SI?I?ditto. But if there’s a Q…
SQUID
SQUIB was also possible, and Scoredle seems to favor it for some reason (from its own start, my start, and for my third guess). I don’t think Scoredle has “trust the B” as part of its algorithm, but that is an odd degree of favoritism.