Just so I'm clear the idea is to get as many "hits" as possible on each guess to drive you to success so normally you would never see a situation where you would see less amount of "hits" on an individual guess.
Some players want to eliminate RSTLN AEIOU as quickly as possible, so they'll guess ADIEU then STROP or something like that no matter what, then try to get it on guess 3. If the first guess hits on some letters, the second might not hit any.
"Hard" mode requires you to use all yellow or greens on your next guess.
Ok, so if I am reading this right your third attempt could have been more productive as you didn't try to figure out where the "yellow" letter's position (from your second guess) in the solution was because you didn't include it in your third guess? And in your fourth attempt you placed the letter from the second guess back in the same position or was that a different letter entirely that was part of the solution but in the wrong spot?
Just so I'm clear the idea is to get as many "hits" as possible on each guess to drive you to success so normally you would never see a situation where you would see less amount of "hits" on an individual guess.
...in short, your guess #3 annoys me. And your fourth guess (potentially) annoys me more than your third guess.
Got it on the 2nd guess too - couldn't copy the results though. Gonna be a lot of plurals there I imagine, since most of the root words have four letters.
lol yeah it's a much smaller pool of 5-letter words.
Got it on the 2nd guess too - couldn't copy the results though. Gonna be a lot of plurals there I imagine, since most of the root words have four letters.
A new first word for me (I haven't used the same start word except maybe twice), I wanted to knock out more consonants than a 4-vowel trick.
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Right. You know the first word isn't going to be ouija or one of the other 4-vowel ones, so using one of those is admitting you're never going to get it in one. It's a four-corners defense strategy. If you don't play "hard mode," you can't ever get it in two. I think 4 is par for the course so I'm sort of 'eh' when I get it in 5. Altho by that time I've made some bad decisions so I feel lucky to salvage a 5+
So you're saying that my lifestyle choices are impacting my wordle score? Great, more stuff to worry about.
I considered the guess all different words idea and tried it with wordle unlimited. But even using the common letters I was having trouble narrowing down the choices and then didn't have enough chances left to try different locations. I'm still mostly a 4 though, seems to be the norm.
I've wondered about this a bit. I play "hard" mode by default without the switch - I don't like the game theory approach to this one. I pick different start words all the time too. I wonder about others progressions and try to figure put what they guessed.
I don't have the game set to hard mode (I do have it set to "dark" mode though) but I always use letters that I've found to be correct anyhow (except yesterday, I forgot one by accident), so I essentially play in hard mode anyhow. I never use the same start word either but I try to suss out 2 or 3 vowels and/or the most common consonants with it. Deliberately avoiding "correct" letters in subsequent guesses doesn't seem efficient or logical to me - but that's just me I guess.
I guess I've been playing "hard" mode and not knowing it. Seemed like the logical approach. Now I have an excuse for my level 5, 6 and "greater" attempts.
as a child i was taught to communicate in all consonant words so there's that...
