Poll
Question:
Do you begin each game with the same word?
Option 1: Yes
votes: 7
Option 2: No
votes: 16
Some WORDLE players begin every game with the same word, such as teary. Other players use a different word for each game. Which player are you?
I either start with aeons (for fun) or fiery, followed by aloud. In both cases, I'm covering commonly-used letters; in the latter, I use up all the vowels.
Depends on my mood of the day. I think yesterday I started with prose. Each day is a different story.
Quail, Quack, Files, Flank
I start with train. Two vowels and three common consonants. If that has not hits at all, I go to mouse, which then covers all the regular vowels and includes another in the standard Wheel of Fortune common letter set of rstlne.
PENIS
My sense, from those I've seen/know who play it, is that the title has the wrong question.
One might better ask, according to them,
...."How do you STOP?"
M.
The middle-schooler in me is trying not to respond to Langue_doc's comment, so...
I start with the same word until it inevitably disappoints me after a few weeks and must be replaced. I started playing with READY; now it's SAUTE. SAUTE is on thin ice and might not make it through the weekend.
I'm pretty systematic My starting word is stare. Then doing followed by clump. These give me 15 different letters in the 1st 3 attempts. If I was trying to solve more quickly, I might change strategy. This has been a useful strategy for quordle to get a variety of letters on the board.
I start with words that make me laugh. Today was "honky" (in "honour" of the events of the past three weeks in the town where I live).
Once I started with "boner" because my sense of humour stopped developing at age 12.
I play on hard mode, so I try to avoid RSTLN initially. In the past week I've started with Bread, Mouth, Chunk, Misty, and Aegis. I find that I do better if I snag a weird letter early. I almost lost the day it was SHARD. Honestly, I play Wordle and Quordle as I have my morning coffee, so typically my first guess is whatever I'm thinking about when I wake up.
I start with TEARS. Then BOING. But then I switched to hard mode and the second word usually has to change.
I usually just free associate. Whatever comes to mind in the form of a five-letter word. I usually do try to pick words that have 5 different letters that are fairly common, but sometimes I just go with anything. it's just a game after all, if I feel like starting with "zooms" or "bleed" or "graft" or "blink" or "yacht" or "xylem" what the heck!
STARE
[Same letters as the_geneticist's word, I see.]
I often start with PESKY or FUDGE, but QUAIL and RELAY and OFTEN are common, too. I missed today's Wordle, breaking a streak that started before Christmas. I may start with SHRUG tomorrow.
Quote from: Vkw10 on February 25, 2022, 10:26:42 PM
I often start with PESKY or FUDGE, but QUAIL and RELAY and OFTEN are common, too. I missed today's Wordle, breaking a streak that started before Christmas. I may start with SHRUG tomorrow.
Almost busted on that one, too!
Quote from: mamselle on February 24, 2022, 08:47:26 AM
My sense, from those I've seen/know who play it, is that the title has the wrong question.
One might better ask, according to them,
...."How do you STOP?"
M.
So true! After starting to play Wordle, I discovered Quordle (4 at a time), and now Octordle (8 at a time). Yup, I'm hooked.
Wordle tip:
Do you have a friend who sends you their Wordle score/grid everyday? Does said friend always start with the same word?
Well, congrats, now you have an extra tip. Or I suppose a spoiler.
For some reason I just realized this today.
ADIEU
I tend to start with IRATE. I guess I'm an angry person...but more seriously, I have three vowels in one guess, plus two other common letters. I might have to change though because it hasn't been helping me much lately.
I usually used aired first and then maybe I will use the word young.
Often an "s" word with "a" and "e" in it: SPACE, STEAL, SHAME, once SNEAK.
Sometimes I try to challenge myself on Quordle by starting with the Wordle word. "GROUT" makes it into Quordle and Octordle a lot for me.
AR.
A friend shared this cartoon (https://www.theguardian.com/books/picture/2022/feb/26/tom-gauld-on-the-addictive-qualities-of-wordle-cartoon) with me today.
Busted yesterday!
Yesterday's was rough. I had to write out by hand all possible combinations after having found owl. Phew!
I don't attempt wordle unless my brain is working at full capacity.
Quote from: Langue_doc on April 01, 2022, 07:32:16 AM
Yesterday's was rough. I had to write out by hand all possible combinations after having found owl. Phew!
I don't attempt wordle unless my brain is working at full capacity.
The one that almost did me in was NYMPH. I know what a nymph is. Nymphs flit through the lit I teach.
But I. could. not. see. it.
I failed at NYMPH--having guessed GLYPH and SYLPH.
It turns out, in my case, that the first word is merely the guidepost. My first words are chosen at random depending on the mood of the day. On two occasions during the past week, my first words had no hits but resulted in slowing down and strategizing. Today I had only one correct letter which was in the wrong slot. I found the solution on the third try because the second attempt gave me three letters all in the wrong slots.