Crane Might Plows —- 95% success rate.
CRANE first. If the A and E are not both present and there are no green consonants,
HOIST, else figure out a word that tests common di- or triglyphs (ch, cri) based on known letters that also contains O.
My lazy Wordle strategy: same words every time
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Re: My lazy Wordle strategy: same words every time
#52My 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…
If my wife and I want to challenge ourselves, we'll start with the solution to the previous puzzle as our first guess.
Re: My lazy Wordle strategy: same words every time
#53I always start with SNAIL ROUTE.
Those are the 10 most common letters in 5-letter words. Even if I get good hits with SNAIL, I enter ROUTE.
Re: My lazy Wordle strategy: same words every time
#54I always start with SNAIL ROUTE. Those are the 10 most common letters in 5-letter words. Even if I get good hits with SNAIL, I enter ROUTE.
STARE DOING CHUMP is usually enough for me to have a good stab at Quordle. For regular Wordle I try to stick to "hard mode", with the constraint that discovered letters have to be used.
Re: My lazy Wordle strategy: same words every time
#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
The subset of words that are solutions is an internal data structure of the game. It is clearly cheating to refer to that list. If you are willing to examine the inside of the game's black box, the optimal strategy is to simply extract today's answer.
As a human, you already have knowledge which is similar to knowing the internal dictionary: you can judge what other kinds of words Wordle is likely to avoid (uncommon words, proper nouns, plurals). So I don't think it is cheating.
Depends on what you're testing. Are we just testing your memory or recall?
Re: My lazy Wordle strategy: same words every time
#56I always start with SNAIL ROUTE. Those are the 10 most common letters in 5-letter words. Even if I get good hits with SNAIL, I enter ROUTE.
I play in Hard Mode, so that type of method rarely works
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#57I always start with SNAIL ROUTE. Those are the 10 most common letters in 5-letter words. Even if I get good hits with SNAIL, I enter ROUTE.
I have settled on DREAM PILOT (I often don't use pilot if I get 2 or more yellow/green) with no reason other than I'm pig headed and refuse strategies others suggest.
Re: My lazy Wordle strategy: same words every time
#58Opinions vary based on the input text, but the English letter frequency list I use starts ETAONRISH in descending frequency.
Based on that, coupled with a little bit of insight on English words (as opposed to random collections of 5 letters) I've ended up with ALIEN, STORM, CHUMP as my regular first 3. Sometimes I deviate if the earlier rows offer insight, and sometimes I swap the first 2 based on a whim.
And unless it is obviously worth a try, I use my first 3 words to eliminate letters and not to guess.
I usually get it in 4, sometimes in 5, almost never needing 6, and have failed once. So not necessarily the best, but good enough.
Re: My lazy Wordle strategy: same words every time
#59I always start with SNAIL ROUTE. Those are the 10 most common letters in 5-letter words. Even if I get good hits with SNAIL, I enter ROUTE.
I hadn't seen anyone else use that pair when I suggested it in early Jan https://twitter.com/bazzargh/status/1477998502747779079 ... but I guess there aren't many choices with those letters and other people were bound to hit on those words! Seems quite popular now.
For octordle/sedecordle I found that the 2 standard guesses wasn't enough to stop getting stuck, particularly it's missing Y for words that use that as a vowel. For those puzzles, I use INPUT SHAME GLORY, but I've not attempted to check if this is anything like optimal - I very rarely fail those puzzles with these 3 tho.
Re: My lazy Wordle strategy: same words every time
#60Since switching to hard mode, I almost never start with “good words”. Too much risk of getting the 10 possibilities with 3 guesses remaining type situation.
There isn’t a hard mode strategy that assures a win, though. You have to get lucky or lose sometimes.
Sorry, can you explain what you mean here: I play hard mode and I always get the word within 6 guesses — and I’m no savant, I’m an idiot, and I don’t cheat — no looking at the word list. The same is true for my friends who play on hard mode: no cheating, always finish. Why is luck required for hard mode?