ALIEN
ROUST
gets all the vowels plus some very common consonants
My lazy Wordle strategy: same words every time
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Re: My lazy Wordle strategy: same words every time
#122I start with two words that use all the vowels plus Y, and the most common consonants TNLR etc. e.g. AUDIO ENTRY then to save having to mentally step through all the possibilities (the least fun part of wordle) I use a word finder that takes the letters in the word, the letters not in the word, and any green letters in the right place to produce a list of the remaining possibilities.
Re: My lazy Wordle strategy: same words every time
#123Huh. Am I alone in thinking that hard mode (must reuse previous letters) should be the only option? Being able to choose a completely different word to fill in the gaps seems overly easy... (There's still luck, but it's vastly easier).
Re: My lazy Wordle strategy: same words every time
#124My strategy is to never use the same start word, I like using a random word each time as that changes the path to solving. I might pick a random word from another open browser window, maybe from a news article or something like that. If I get stuck after the second or third try, I'll pick another random word, even if it contains a few discarded letters in order to ferret out 1 or 2 more valid letters. For me, the bes…
This is what I've done from the start. Always pick a random word as the first entry (or I guess "random" since I'm still ensuring that there's no duplicate letters). It helps keep the game from getting stale.
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#125I used to start with ADIEU because it contains 4 vowels and the most common ones at that. But I've since moved on from that because I found I would be forced to reuse vowels in words 3 or 4. I'm vaguely tempted to take the dictionary and figure out an optimal strategy that 1) guarantees success and 2) minimizes the number of guesses. If you assume every word is equally possible (it isn't; they're manually chosen) the…
I actually find Dordle to be more fun than either of Wordle or Quordle, strangely.
Re: My lazy Wordle strategy: same words every time
#126Feast bring chump dowly
Re: My lazy Wordle strategy: same words every time
#127Having a set of words is important when trying to complete as fast as possible. This pretty much sets up the game into 2 phases, one where you just brute force typing from memory and another where you solve the puzzle at once. If it's too hard sometimes it's better to just reset and start a new puzzle.
Re: My lazy Wordle strategy: same words every time
#128If you are lucky or clairvoyant, you can make a sort-of-haiku out of the guesses.
Some of my actual games:
Troll stopped play: IRATE TROLL SPORT SHORT
Alas poor Yorick: STARE SPOIL SKULL
New virtual law firm: IRATE CLOUD LEGAL
Reacting to The Slap: IRATE SHOUT PUNCH SNOUT
Re: My lazy Wordle strategy: same words every time
#129nice writeup! been doing something similar for same reason, lines 83-96 cut to chase in this gist, https://gist.github.com/DotDotJames/ce331904848fc6cfecc80c52...
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#130I'll also take this opportunity to plug Semantle, which is an infuriating game that I can't resist. It's based on word2vec. You get infinite guesses, and you're given feedback on how "semantically similar" each guess is. It often takes me 100+ guesses. https://semantle.novalis.org/
semantle is brutal.