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Currently on my Jackie Robinson

I'm at 23 currently, but that's coming off of a 36 day streak that only got interrupted by me forgetting to do the Wordle one day. So I'm rollin

Wordle 599 5/6

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I got the middle three letters and stared at this thing for a long ass time

At my Hank Aaron.

Wordle 599 4/6

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I accidentally skipped a day last week and my streak got reset. Back to 6 in a row today. Spent the weekend getting some lucky threes.

i'm a polar bear 20.

Fman99 wrote: ↑Wed Feb 08, 2023 7:30 am I'm at 23 currently, but that's coming off of a 36 day streak that only got interrupted by me forgetting to do the Wordle one day. So I'm rollin

TransMonk wrote: ↑Wed Feb 08, 2023 9:33 am
I accidentally skipped a day last week and my streak got reset. Back to 6 in a row today. Spent the weekend getting some lucky threes.

This is strange. I don't play every day, yet my streak does not reset when I miss a day. It did reset to zero months ago around the time the game moved over to the NYT. And then after that, for a while, the streak counter would reset every day even if I played the day before.

Strange and quirky.

Wordle 600 6/6

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That was harder than I expected given my 4/5 right out of the gate.

A 6 for me too, could have been a three but I kept choosing the wrong second to last letter

It's a real dilemma in those cases. If four or five different single letters can complete a word, do you guess the most common letter first (with the lowest Scrabble value) or the most common word?

I don't know the answer. I got it in four, but I imagine it was only luck keeping me from six ... or worse!

i got it in six. oddly, i struggled with the first letter, because i'm an idiot.

but my strategy is to try to eliminate all the mid-value scrabble letters first, as they're often the sticky wickets.

Edgy MD wrote: ↑Thu Feb 09, 2023 10:08 am It's a real dilemma in those cases. If four or five different single letters can complete a word, do you guess the most common letter first (with the lowest Scrabble value) or the most common word?

I don't know the answer. I got it in four, but I imagine it was only luck keeping me from six ... or worse!

If you don't play in hard mode, you can guess a totally different word using as many of those letters as possible, and lock it in (usually) with just one guess beyond that one. I didn't do that yesterday but have employed that strategy in the past.

I think hard mode is the best way to play

Fman99 wrote: ↑Fri Feb 10, 2023 1:45 pm

Edgy MD wrote: ↑Thu Feb 09, 2023 10:08 am It's a real dilemma in those cases. If four or five different single letters can complete a word, do you guess the most common letter first (with the lowest Scrabble value) or the most common word?

I don't know the answer. I got it in four, but I imagine it was only luck keeping me from six ... or worse!

If you don't play in hard mode, you can guess a totally different word using as many of those letters as possible, and lock it in (usually) with just one guess beyond that one. I didn't do that yesterday but have employed that strategy in the past.

This is a diabolical strategy you are endorsing.

Edgy MD wrote: ↑Fri Feb 10, 2023 1:55 pm

Fman99 wrote: ↑Fri Feb 10, 2023 1:45 pm

Edgy MD wrote: ↑Thu Feb 09, 2023 10:08 am It's a real dilemma in those cases. If four or five different single letters can complete a word, do you guess the most common letter first (with the lowest Scrabble value) or the most common word?

I don't know the answer. I got it in four, but I imagine it was only luck keeping me from six ... or worse!

If you don't play in hard mode, you can guess a totally different word using as many of those letters as possible, and lock it in (usually) with just one guess beyond that one. I didn't do that yesterday but have employed that strategy in the past.

This is a diabolical strategy you are endorsing.

i wordle in hard mode. i quordle and octordle diabolically.

CLONK BUMPS READY FIGHT gets the job done rather nicely.

CLONK BUMPS READY FIGHT is what I tell Fwife to get her in the mood

Wordle 602 4/6

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Today took a lot of mental guessing for me.

I didn’t even realize that there was a hard mode. Switching to that tomorrow.

Wordle 603 4/6

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Switched to hard mode as well. We'll see if this blows up my numbers or not.

Fitty inna row.

Wordle 605 3/6*

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50 in a row for me as well. Got a 0 on my first word and then a 5 on my second. Now I need a new backup word if I whiff on word 1. Now my 2s equal my 6s.

I gotta outlast Sharp.

Somebody give him a crappy opening word.

I'm up to 30 in a row after today. My personal best streak is 36.

Wordle 606 3/6*

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I'm at 49

I can smell you back there over my shoulder. A streak of 49 suggests that your last miss was IMPEL. A tricky one, that was.

That certainly rings a bell

I'm currently at 19. I last missed on WORRY. I Wordled successfully 227 times in a row before I had my first miss. I've now missed seven times in 399 games, which means that since my first streak ended, I'm 165 for 172. My overall percentage is 98.245 and 95.930 over the last 172.