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So what's everyone's strategy?
Starting word?
Do you go tough option to have to include the right letters?
Or do you throw in something to give you a better chance?..
Starting word?
Do you go tough option to have to include the right letters?
Or do you throw in something to give you a better chance?..
I love watching little children running and screaming, playing hide and seek in the playground.
They don't know I'm using blanks..
They don't know I'm using blanks..
- Guy Smiley
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Playing the hard rules removes some options for me, once a letter is part of the solution it has to be used.TB63 wrote: Wed Feb 23, 2022 7:51 pm So what's everyone's strategy?
Starting word?
Do you go tough option to have to include the right letters?
Or do you throw in something to give you a better chance?..
I've settled on a single starting word now that offers a good selection of vowels and consonants. It's surprising sometimes to see how narrow the options are after just one letter comes up. I saw an article in The Conversation on which starting words give a statistically better chance and went with one of those.
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no fuck it, YMX has a point
Last edited by Guy Smiley on Wed Feb 23, 2022 8:20 pm, edited 1 time in total.
The problem with telling and knowing each other’s common starting word, is that it’s a bit of a clue when you see that posters results (top line)!TB63 wrote: Wed Feb 23, 2022 7:51 pm So what's everyone's strategy?
Starting word?
Do you go tough option to have to include the right letters?
Or do you throw in something to give you a better chance?..
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I thought the same thing, was going to guess it 3rd go, but figured it wasn't a likely word they would use so went with 'choke' instead
- Guy Smiley
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Not a bad recovery by the looks of that

- clydecloggie
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Held on to my now 47-word winning streak by the tiniest of margins today with #251. 6/6.
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Took me an embarrassing amount of mental effort to go from knowing there had to be an I in places 2 and 4 with very few letters remaining to identifying a fairly normal word that fit. Even worse, at one point I was questioning whether the black square for L I got earlier was not a coding gremlin as the answer clearly had to be LIVID. Tomorrow’s starting word will be IDIOT as penance.
32/32 so ok with that..clydecloggie wrote: Fri Feb 25, 2022 8:38 am Held on to my now 47-word winning streak by the tiniest of margins today with #251. 6/6.
SpoilerShowTook me an embarrassing amount of mental effort to go from knowing there had to be an I in places 2 and 4 with very few letters remaining to identifying a fairly normal word that fit. Even worse, at one point I was questioning whether the black square for L I got earlier was not a coding gremlin as the answer clearly had to be LIVID. Tomorrow’s starting word will be IDIOT as penance.
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Had Chink as a guess, but not recognised as a word! Wtf?..
I love watching little children running and screaming, playing hide and seek in the playground.
They don't know I'm using blanks..
They don't know I'm using blanks..
- tabascoboy
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Haven't had as few hits on the first two rows as this, but curiously it made it a little easier
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Wordle 251 4/6
I'd be bloody furious with that!..
I love watching little children running and screaming, playing hide and seek in the playground.
They don't know I'm using blanks..
They don't know I'm using blanks..