I started today's Wordle w/ "TARES"....

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Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 08/22/2022 01:57PM by N-OS X-tasy!.

I started with adieu just out of habit.


Wordle 429 4/6

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I started with adieu just out of habit.


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4 from ADIEU is excellent!
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Wordle 429 3/6

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XX_Y_
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start word PROUD

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/22/2022 05:56PM by decay.

I did it in 3:
STARE
REMIT
MERIT

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Wordle 429 3/6

_X_ _ _
XX_Y_
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start word PROUD

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I did it in 3:
STARE
REMIT
MERIT

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he started w/ STARE, too. Confirmation bias (from having already done the puzzle) stopped Blogic as soon as the first-blush run-thru parameters were met w/ TIMER. Upon further Blogic application, you're right; attacking the 29 words solution universe in reverse is actually statistically/Blogically better in ending w/ the "T" than starting w/ the "T", 11/29 vs. 10/29. While the "R" endings of those two are favored over the "R" starts 8/29 vs. 6/29. The "M's" are a wash. Running the "T" ending does yield "REMIT", which is the mirror image of TIMER.
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Blogic weights the highest first pass scenario over the following passes, so while the "T" + "R" garners 18/29 vs. the "R" + "T" that garners 17/29, it means that they're basically a dead heat. One of the fun times where the puzzle pretty much doesn't care how it's attacked.
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If I hadn't already done the puzzle starting w/ TARES, and had used STARE originally instead, I might've run the full Blogic, or maybe not....
it wasn't gonna be a two, so, a 3's a 3, a three.
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I don't think it's fair to conclude a word is "easy" just because it contains some of the most commonly used letters. Not everyone plays that way or chooses the same common letters from the get go.

That said, it was still easy for me because...

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I don't think it's fair to conclude a word is "easy" just because it contains some of the most commonly used letters. Not everyone plays that way or chooses the same common letters from the get go.

That said, it was still easy for me because...

...I got a little lucky with my first guess.

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No argument, especially when you invoke "plays" into the equation. Wordle hits me square in the old, retired, database developer's chops; so it's a personal challenge, not play. Candy Crush is play. Solitaire is play. A lot of guesses when I 'play' those games.

Check your spoiler for what Blogically follows your lucky first guess.
BTW, your 'lucky' first guess actually Blogics down to a svelte 8 possibles. Good job.
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Today's was interesting.

Wordle 430 3/6




Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/23/2022 08:00AM by Lemon Drop.