Wordle - Query re different words on same day

[Nimby]

Reginald Molehusband said:

Damn yanks. Don’t they know Wordle is played outside the US?

Got 2,4 & 5 in two and still failed. By coincidence my only other fail was with those same three letters early on a week or so ago.

[PhilboSE]

First fail today for me. WTF is that all about - it’s just a name isn’t it? Never heard it used any other way even in the US.

I was missing the first and third letters after 3 rounds, used a couple of throwaway which were no help, thought there was only one possible word left for my final try.

It’s annoyed me more than it should.

[Nimby]

PhilboSE said:

First fail today for me. WTF is that all about - it’s just a name isn’t it? Never heard it used any other way even in the US.

I was missing the first and third letters after 3 rounds, used a couple of throwaway which were no help, thought there was only one possible word left for my final try.

It’s annoyed me more than it should.

My crossword solver lists 79 words given letters 2,4 and 5

[PhilboSE]

Nimby said:

My crossword solver lists 79 words given letters 2,4 and 5

And does it include todays solution?

[Nimby]

PhilboSE said:

Nimby said:

My crossword solver lists 79 words given letters 2,4 and 5

And does it include todays solution?

Yes.

[FiF]

Well that was a complete fluke today.

Got what turned out to be No5 but in the wrong place on line 1.
Got Nos 1,2, and 4 on line 2.
Coupled with knowing a fourth letter, entered guess 3 just as a laugh thinking it's a name or not a word so perhaps not allowed.
Aaaaannd BOSH!

Can appreciate people being irritated by that one.

[twing]

anonymous said:

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No idea! I got it in 6 but was a pure fluke as I had no other letters that could make a word

[Alex@POD]

anonymous said:

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By the looks of it it's mostly an abbreviation of "home run" (baseball)

[48k]

I got it in 3 today, assumed the Simpsons character, didn't realise it was an American colloquialism as well.
Just one of those days where you're reminded it's an American game with American words in it.

[anonymous-user]

Failed today, stupidly went down the rabbit hole of having three of the letters in the correct places and reused them for each of the remaining guesses. Should have used a throwaway to give me some more letters instead of wasting my guesses reusing the three letters I knew, only eliminating two more letters each guess.

Annoying.

[anonymous-user]

Reginald Molehusband said:

Damn yanks. Don’t they know Wordle is played outside the US?

Still, I got it in four but Mrs Molehusband was really annoyed with the word when I gave her a clue to get it in five.

I was 4 today also. You have to play it with American spellings in mind as we’ve had some of those too.

[anonymous-user]

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yellowjack said:

I've had a couple of failures in recent weeks. Which has annoyed me beyond reason. One the other day, I'd got three letters (wrong places) on guess two. By guess four I had three letters in the right places. Then I got the last letter but it was pot luck for the first letter. Hairy? Lairy? Fairy? Dairy? Too many possible solutions for the number of guesses I had remaining. Grrr!

Unless you’re playing in hard mode, the solution is to use one guess as a throwaway to eliminate letters. 28th March, I faced this: 6 possible answers and 4 remaining attempts!



Using the throwaway I guaranteed myself a win. It still took me to the last possible letter to get it right though

Excellent example of the throwaway.

Yes good tip in that scenario. Not sure I’m clever enough to pull it off.

[stamper]

Same as Twing and Toxicnerve, got it in 6 but only because there were no other sensible letters left. To my knowledge, it's baseball slang.

[Puggit]

First ever fail - and my last.

[Nimby]

Do we need spoilers in this thread? I'd hope no-one would visit until they'd done the day's puzzle.

[GasEngineer]

anonymous said:

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Lots of holidaymakers and second home owners around my area. We call 'em "second homers".

[Lynchie999]

I got the M on my first word which helped... got it in 3...

[PhilboSE]

GasEngineer said:

anonymous said:

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Lots of holidaymakers and second home owners around my area. We call 'em "second homers".

Yes, but that context only makes sense with the qualifier of the previous word. You wouldn't say "I just got on the property ladder, now I'm a homer!".

You can tell I'm still grumpy about it.

[Road2Ruin]

In 3 for me. I can honestly say I have never heard of the word, but the letters I did get only led to to this one possible combination and lo and behold it was actually a word!

[RacingPete]

I got it in 3 also, but had the 3rd and 4th letters from the first guess and after using S and D on the last letter for the first two guesses that wasn't that much left you could end it with so just went for the Greek philosopher as only thing that sounded sensible to fit.

For those with throw away guesses to get rid of letters, I have recently moved to hard mode, and I miss being able to do that, had a lot of last guess luck this week.