Wordle Today - No Spoilers Please (Part 1)

I think a lot of us chose the same 2nd to last word.

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Did finally get it down to 1 guess left.
I agree- wasn’t too fun today.

Wordle 434 6/6

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Wordle 434 4/6*

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Skill: 96
Luck: 44

My third guess is what WordleBot would have done in my situation, and it only left one word remaining, though I had to double-check that it was a Wordle word, as it’s not one that I would have thought would be in the petite Wordle lexicon. WordleBot and I both solved today’s puzzle in four.

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Whew, that was close.

Wordle 435 6/6

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Wordle 435 X/6

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Not today

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Wordle 435 5/6

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Take it and run.

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Wordle 435 4/6

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Holy moly. Phew is right.

Wordle 435 6/6

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ETA: After reading @AustenNut ’s mention of checking the Wordle list of possible words… do most people check the word list? I never have so I’m sure I often try words not part of the Wordle dictionary.

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Wordle 435 5/6*

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Five feels fortunate today.

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How do you check the Wordle list?

Wordle 435 4/6*

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I got incredibly lucky with my second guess - made it easy to solve in three based on the yellow letters I got. Otherwise, I think I would have gone down the rabbit hole had a chosen a different second word!

Wordle 435 3/6*

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Wordle 435 5/6

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Crazy guess! Not complaining! :wink:

Wordle 435 3/6

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I’ll occasionally check free dictionary “words that start with” or “words that end with.” It is usually when I have three or four letters and I can’t seem to figure out what the missing letter is. I don’t think I’ve ever looked up Wordle words on free dictionary but occasionally use it for obscure words in Octordle, Sedecordle and Duotrigordle.

Edit: It bothers me when the puzzles use words like fibre or very old spellings of modern words.

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Wordle 435 5/6*

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Wordle 435 5/6*

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Skill: 96
Luck: 27

I think I was complaining after using WordleBot and seeing that some of my guesses weren’t official words when someone asked me why I didn’t just check. I don’t always check, but if it’s a word that I think is iffy, then I will.

It’s just a text list from the NY Times…at least of what was true on January 25, 2022: https://static.nytimes.com/newsgraphics/2022/01/25/wordle-solver/assets/solutions.txt

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Wordle 436 3/6

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Ha! Lucky guess.

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Wordle 436 3/6

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Wordle 436 3/6*

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Fortunate second guess — took me a little thinking, but the answer was the only word that made sense.

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Wordle 436 3/6

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