Wordle: starting words *spoilers*

[DrPepper]

Using a Scrabble wordfinder page, common 5-letter words that would be available after my 3 guesses that include A and Y are:
abaya, daffy, jazzy, paddy, zappy, daddy, faddy, kayak, quaky
I think DADDY would be the toughest of all, because of the triple letter. D is pretty common, but triple letter for something I typically think of as a proper noun...

[DrPepper]

I think it should be fun and not strictly formulaic means to an end. To each their own.

Absolutely! I push numbers all day and couldn't write a piece of fiction to save my life. Thinking about and testing my strategy is my dopamine rush.

[Deleted User 863]

I think it should be fun and not strictly formulaic means to an end. To each their own.

Absolutely! I push numbers all day and couldn't write a piece of fiction to save my life. Thinking about and testing my strategy is my dopamine rush.

Your system is pretty cool!

Thanks for sharing.

[jfish26]

Using a Scrabble wordfinder page, common 5-letter words that would be available after my 3 guesses that include A and Y are:
abaya, daffy, jazzy, paddy, zappy, daddy, faddy, kayak, quaky
I think DADDY would be the toughest of all, because of the triple letter. D is pretty common, but triple letter for something I typically think of as a proper noun...

But, once you have even just D_DD_, it's over.

[DrPepper]

Today was an interesting test as my starting 3 words only yielded 3 letters (all vowels and none in the correct place).
For my fourth guess I used a word to test 3 more, unused consenents. This fourth guess also happened to try some of the known vowels in new locations, but that was just luck. BOXED. That was a fortunate word that yield X and D.
So after 4 guesses, I knew all 5 letters and many spots where letters could not go. Quick solve. Years in a lab probably helped too.

[Deleted User 863]

Today was an interesting test as my starting 3 words only yielded 3 letters (all vowels and none in the correct place).
For my fourth guess I used a word to test 3 more, unused consenents. This fourth guess also happened to try some of the known vowels in new locations, but that was just luck. BOXED. That was a fortunate word that yield X and D.
So after 4 guesses, I knew all 5 letters and many spots where letters could not go. Quick solve. Years in a lab probably helped too.

I only got it today because of some of your methods after with my own "method" of random guesses LOL


Thanks!

[DrPepper]

There are more ways than one to skin a cat.

[Deleted User 863]

There are more ways than one to skin a cat.

I was definitely choosing the wrong way today

[DrPepper]

My starting word, GLORY, has an L in the second space. This is helpful for beginning consonant combinations like FL, BL, PL, CL, GL. Today’s Wordle had this. L was in the correct position in my first guess.

[Deleted User 863]

My starting word, GLORY, has an L in the second space. This is helpful for beginning consonant combinations like FL, BL, PL, CL, GL. Today’s Wordle had this. L was in the correct position in my first guess.

I started with Yeast today.

[Deleted User 863]

Helped that my daughter told me today was earth day on the way to drop her off at school today!

Personal pan pizza night for her also, so she's on a roll today for an 8yr old. All her reading is paying off. Glad she got her smarts from someone else (thanks milk man).

[DrPepper]

My starting word, GLORY, has an L in the second space. This is helpful for beginning consonant combinations like FL, BL, PL, CL, GL. Today’s Wordle had this. L was in the correct position in my first guess.

I started with Yeast today.

E,A,S,T are valuable letters to test and I believe that Y is underrated. Y is more common in the last position and S is most common in the first position, but YEAST is a very solid first word IMO.

[DrPepper]

A story about losing at Wordle
https://slate.com/culture/2022/04/wordl ... today.html

[DrPepper]

This story claims that the average American Wordle guess is 3.92 tries

https://abc17news.com/news/2022/03/09/a ... nd-others/

[DrPepper]

STORY is an excellent starting word
S in the starting position
T is a very common letter and putting it next to the S is extra good
R is a very common letter
Y is undervalued and having it in the last position is right were you would want it

Well done, 99!

[jhawks99]

Thanks. It was the 1st 5 letter word I thought of when I first started playing. Just stuck with it.

[DrPepper]

Kind of a strange word today but everyone seems to be getting it.

Common letters today. All 5 were known from my 3 starter words. I don't even remember what the word was.

[DrPepper]

Huh.
DrPepper has an interesting strategy.
2 letters in the right place and then guesses something without those letters in the right place next?

My approach is to gather and eliminate letters. So I had 4 correct letters before I took a guess. Those first 3 words used 15 unique letters. That is more than half the alphabet. Considering j,q,x,z are super rare and that double letters are pretty easy to spot in a 5-letter word, having gone thru 15 letters in three guesses gives you pretty good odds (but not perfect) of solving Wordle (~70% of letters have been tried). Double letters (like two o's or two t's) in a word are upper-level math I do not care to explore.

[DrPepper]

GLORY
STEAM
WINCH

So after my standard 3 word start, I only know one letter. But, I know its position and because it is a consonant, it is likely a consonant blend. Being L in the 2nd position, possible blends include:
BL, CL, FL, GL, and SL. But because of letters I've already eliminated with my starting 3 words, I'm left with BL, FL, or PL.

The third position is going to be vowel. The only vowel I haven't tested is U. Therefore, by process of elimination, the 3rd position is U.

We have:
BLU_ _
FLU_ _
PLU_ _

The remaining two letters are going to be another consonant blend because "UU" is not a thing. My remaining letters to choose from are: F, Q, P, D, J, K, Z, X, and V, plus the L we are already using.
I quickly went through those ending double consonants in my head and FF was the only thing that I thought were actual words. I was left with:
BLUFF and
FLUFF

[jhawks99]

Pretty close to my thought process.
Starting word was STORY. Nada. For the second day in a row.
Next was ADIEU. U hit but out of place. I figured it had to go in the middle.
CHUMP, got the U but nothing else. It's my 3rd attempt and I got 1 letter but all other vowels used and a bunch of consonants.
Next was FLUNG. OK that's better. FLU??
Guessed the last two were FF as I couldn't think of anything else.