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Dave7

Legendary Member
Location
Cheshire
That made me angry

Wordle 1,921 6/6

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PK99

Squire
Location
SW19
How did you manage that leap ???

Wordle 1,921 3/6

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I work with eliminator words and letter probabilities.
My first 2 regular words use the 4 most common vowels in the WORDLE universe and 6 of the 7 most common consonants.
Often that reduces options to a few.

Given the 2 greens and a yellow, I changed my second word to NYMPH to maximise elimination
That left me with 3 possible words, but in practice my usual eliminator would have given an extra letter and 5 options, 2 of which were very obscure, so I ended up with the same 3 options.

A further eliminator would have meant a certain score of 4.
Guess rather than eliminator meant a possible score of 3,4 or 5.

EDIT : More stats than linguistics!
 

Dave7

Legendary Member
Location
Cheshire
I work with eliminator words and letter probabilities.
My first 2 regular words use the 4 most common vowels in the WORDLE universe and 6 of the 7 most common consonants.
Often that reduces options to a few.

Given the 2 greens and a yellow, I changed my second word to NYMPH to maximise elimination
That left me with 3 possible words, but in practice my usual eliminator would have given an extra letter and 5 options, 2 of which were very obscure, so I ended up with the same 3 options.

A further eliminator would have meant a certain score of 4.
Guess rather than eliminator meant a possible score of 3,4 or 5.

EDIT : More stats than linguistics!

WoW, you do take it seriously (that's not a criticism).
 

tarric

Veteran
Location
Scotland
Even with a 3 green starter and an elimination word, it was still a 5 today. Just so many choices.

Wordle 1,921 5/6

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PK99

Squire
Location
SW19
WoW, you do take it seriously (that's not a criticism).

Less seriously than folks who spend all day thinking!
Most days take 5 mins at most
 
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