To keep one amused

[The Poot]

I went round and round with this!
Wordle 405 5/6

 

[victor meldrew]

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[cwinte]

Bit of an improvement today

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James

good first choice!

 

[cwinte]

405 3/6
my plucky start left 15 possibles
far from stumped, this left only 1 possible...
- so fairly happy!
Makes up for my 5 on Tuesday.

 

[victor meldrew]

405 3/6
my plucky start left 15 possibles
far from stumped, this left only 1 possible...
- so fairly happy!
Makes up for my 5 on Tuesday.

I’m glad you worked out how to share your results
it took me for ever .

 

[Bettenham]

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Better than the blowout yesterday!

 

[cwinte]

I’m glad you worked out how to share your results
it took me for ever .

Huzzah!

 

[cwinte]

406 3/6
A funky kick off has only 5 solutions, but three of them share ending but no start letters - I might need four (but possible 2).
So I pause a bit and look at the wider pool of 15 words that I can allow myself, using the 2 letters found and one uses 2 of the 6 start letters and will show which of the 3 it is but will not decide between the other pair of possible words. I still might need 4, but my odds of 3 are better this way...
My aim is to avoid high scores and stay on or below 4 if I can...
It's not one of the pair, I have flushed out the solution.
No poker face.
...
Pondering away afterwards I consulted a bigger dictionary with loads of words I hardly believe to be real (and lots of capitalised too) and that found 35 words I could allow myself with one being a better line 2 that would have guaranteed a 3. But I think it's a puzzle for words we know...
Defined as • disorganised · kick about · quality time • a "liquid aldehyde with a penetrating odour". Also used for a Sith lord in Star Wars.
More nerdy: probably only the chemical, the other meanings seem to be a google glitch - when I clicked through to the opendictionary from that google line it did NOT know the word! I could not even find that text on the page - so beware googlish misleadings, googlies?
I don't think I'm spoiling much if I reveal this "word" is fural.

 

[roche]

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[JamezF]

Felt as though I was taking a bit of a chance with line 3, but as it happens it worked out

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James

 

[The Poot]

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I had an excellent start like you it appears...
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[victor meldrew]

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[cwinte]

Those nice empty lines are what I try to get but have been failing recently, despite picking less likely letters. Looks like the programmers have done a set of words with less common letters for us lately; maybe I'll have to swap to common letters to get less hits!

 

[JamezF]

Took a bit of thinking after line 2. Felt a bit lucky as everything turned green on line 3. I suspect there were quite a number of other possibilities at that point.

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James

 

[roche]

I had been hoping for an elegant, symmetric solution after the first guess, but alas, it was not to be...
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[The Poot]

Three today,
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[victor meldrew]

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[cwinte]

407 4/6


Found more than I wanted on line 2 and was restricted in sorting between 9 possible solutions, a bit lucky to make 4, could have been 5. Another group of similar words in the 9 to avoid getting stuck in and having to work through the list or be lucky...
Now I think there was a better line 3 I could have used, but maybe I think that now knowing more than I would have at line 2 though.
To do better what I think I should do more is consider the widest group of words I could use, so at line 2 while I knew it was one of 9 solutions there were 21 words I could play under my chosen "must use what I have" rule. I tend not to consider that bigger list enough at this sort of stage - TBH it's just too much hard mental work looking at the 9 x 21 combinations!

 

[The Poot]

407 4/6


Found more than I wanted on line 2 and was restricted in sorting between 9 possible solutions, a bit lucky to make 4, could have been 5. Another group of similar words in the 9 to avoid getting stuck in and having to work through the list or be lucky...
Now I think there was a better line 3 I could have used, but maybe I think that now knowing more than I would have at line 2 though.
To do better what I think I should do more is consider the widest group of words I could use, so at line 2 while I knew it was one of 9 solutions there were 21 words I could play under my chosen "must use what I have" rule. I tend not to consider that bigger list enough at this sort of stage - TBH it's just too much hard mental work looking at the 9 x 21 combinations!

It’s all very odd. When I get the answer quickly, in two rows, (not very often) I feel instantly pleased, but then robbed of the challenge!
I think I get more satisfaction when I’m under pressure and get it in four or over....

 

[Bettenham]

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Go along with James on this one!