Logic games

[Green Monstah]

Perhaps he was trying to counterbalance GM's spoilrific post.

Edited. Although if you haven't flushed those three letters out by the end of word 2, it may be best to stick to Nokia's epic snake game.

[Bo Diddley]

4 tries.

Spoiler for guesses:

Wordle.jpg

[Northwestcoug]

4 tries.

Spoiler for guesses:

Wordle.jpg

Ooh nice pic linking!

5 for me

Spoiler for Guesses:

ADIEU
STUCK
GROUP
RUMOR
HUMOR (should have thought the last guess through a little longer)

[Bo Diddley]

Ooh nice pic linking!

Yeah, don't get confused by my color vision deficiency.

5 for me

Spoiler for Guesses:

ADIEU
STUCK
GROUP
RUMOR
HUMOR (should have thought the last guess through a little longer)

Spoiler for Guesses:

Yeah it took me a little bit to connect the dots for my forth try, and luckily RUMOR didn't even occur to me.

[Jeff Lebowski]

Completely whiffed on my first guess but somehow managed to land it in three.

Spoiler for guesses:

SLATE
MORPH
HUMOR

[SteelBlue]

Spoiler for guesses:

LOUIE
TROUT
RUMOR
HUMOR

[Northwestcoug]

Spoiler for guesses:

LOUIE
TROUT
RUMOR
HUMOR

Oooh I like that first word also. Going into my rotation!

[Clark Addison]

Two days in a row of getting it in 2

[Donuthole]

Completely whiffed on my first guess but somehow managed to land it in three.

Spoiler for guesses:

SLATE
MORPH
HUMOR

I have sometimes wondered if a complete whiff on guess 1 might actually be helpful, or at least more helpful than landing a solo vowel or solo consonant), provided you have knocked out 5 very common letters. Hitting nothing allows you less restraint in maximizing your potential with word 2

Spoiler for Discussion:

Guess 2 is really where you whiffed, and got lucky, using M instead of N. SJBH. If you were playing the odds, you should have gone with MOURN. Which just goes to show that, much like anything in life, while the game requires skill, it is often just as much about chance.

4 for me today.
LOUSE
GROUT
RUMOR
HUMOR

I 100% had it narrowed down to Rumor and Humor and guessed wrong. If I had believed there were other possible options, I would have gone Humor first, so as to eliminate the H over using the double R. But where it definitely seemed like it was one of those two words, I chose Rumor over Humor. Sad, as I almost always prefer humor over everything.

[Northwestcoug]

I have sometimes wondered if a complete whiff on guess 1 might actually be helpful, or at least more helpful than landing a solo vowel or solo consonant), provided you have knocked out 5 very common letters. Hitting nothing allows you less restraint in maximizing your potential with word 2

Spoiler for Discussion:

Guess 2 is really where you whiffed, and got lucky, using M instead of N. SJBH. If you were playing the odds, you should have gone with MOURN. Which just goes to show that, much like anything in life, while the game requires skill, it is often just as much about chance.

4 for me today.
LOUSE
GROUT
RUMOR
HUMOR

Spoiler alert resolved!

[beefytee]

Got it in 3 but took some time for me.

[Donuthole]

Bro, spoiler alert!

That was all supposed to be in the spoilers. My bad. Edit your post now.

[Jeff Lebowski]

I have sometimes wondered if a complete whiff on guess 1 might actually be helpful, or at least more helpful than landing a solo vowel or solo consonant), provided you have knocked out 5 very common letters. Hitting nothing allows you less restraint in maximizing your potential with word 2

Spoiler for Discussion:

Guess 2 is really where you whiffed, and got lucky, using M instead of N. SJBH. If you were playing the odds, you should have gone with MOURN. Which just goes to show that, much like anything in life, while the game requires skill, it is often just as much about chance.

4 for me today.
LOUSE
GROUT
RUMOR
HUMOR

I 100% had it narrowed down to Rumor and Humor and guessed wrong. If I had believed there were other possible options, I would have gone Humor first, so as to eliminate the H over using the double R. But where it definitely seemed like it was one of those two words, I chose Rumor over Humor. Sad, as I almost always prefer humor over everything.

Agree on your first point. Not sure I agree on the second. In my experience, you don't necessarily need to out all 5 vowels in your first two guesses. I often try AEIO (or some other subset of 4) and then based on the feedback you can often tell if one vowel is missing and therefore it must be "U" (rare exception for "Y" or a double vowel). So rather than waste a space on "U", try another common consonant.

[Donuthole]

Agree on your first point. Not sure I agree on the second. In my experience, you don't necessarily need to out all 5 vowels in your first two guesses. I often try AEIO (or some other subset of 4) and then based on the feedback you can often tell if one vowel is missing and therefore it must be "U" (rare exception for "Y" or a double vowel). So rather than waste a space on "U", try another common consonant.

Spoiler for Discussion:

I agree outing all of the vowels isn't necessary. But without hitting any vowels in guess 1, outing/eliminating at least 2 more vowels in guess 2 would be pretty helpful. What I was referring to, though was your use of P and H before N; you got lucky there. MOURN was an easy way to use two unused vowels and three very common consonants. statistical probabilities would almost certainly indicate that as a better choice than MORPH, particularly where no limitations existed on where the letters could be slotted.

[Northwestcoug]

If NYT screws up Wordle, there are options. I just saw make your own wordle on Twitter today:

https://mywordle.strivemath.com/