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My metagame is guessing my friend's guesses.
by csours 5y ago
My metagame is guessing my friend's guesses.
- tedd4u 5y agoGlad to hear I am not the only one squandering my time doing this :) Might be a fun program to write. I find it’s often hard to guess more than the line prior to the win.
- aidenn0 5y agoI always lead with STOAE so people don't have issues guessing my first one at least. I also tend to follow with UNLID if STOAE has zero or one hits.
- csours 5y agoARTSY MODEL CHUNK here. It's not optimal, but it is pleasing to me in an aesthetic sense.
- balls187 5y agoI vary up my starting words to keep things interesting. Common ones for me are: MEATY, BISON, CHUMP, GROUP From yesterday's post on the state of the art, I tried SALET, but still took me 4 tries to get today's wordle.
- gs17 5y agoI turned on hard mode, and it's really forced me to change how I play. You can only really have one "starting word" unless you match zero letters.
- function_seven 5y agoAfter seeing an asterisk in one of my friends' shares, I'm now forced to play on hard mode as well. I can't risk the peer-shame of skating on easy mode anymore :) So that being said, I'm bracing myself for the curses-of-early-success this will lead me on. Right now I sometimes toss out a completely different word just to cover the search space. It has led me to quickly narrow down options. Am I screwed if my first guess matches on 2 letters? (Say, "___ES"). I guess that's why it's called "Hard Mode" to begin with.
- sterlind 5y agoI've had fun with MUSTH.
- jameshart 5y agoIf you stick with one starting word, and that word is in the set of possible Wordle answers, then some day, one day, if you keep playing forever, you are guaranteed to get that magical 1/6. This is not quite the same as the lottery-player's fear that they change their lucky numbers and then those numbers come up the next week... the lottery has no memory, so it really doesn't change your odds when you change your numbers. But Wordle's drawing words from a finite pool. Of course, if your go-to starting word is NOT in the set (looking at YOU overly optimized people who play crazy words like STOAE that are almost certainly not in the answer set...) then by sticking with that you're guaranteeing you'll never do better than 2/6...
- nathancahill 5y agoSTEAM HOUND has been a winner for me.
- dumbfounder 5y agoSTARE, CHIMP, BLOND or BOUND depending on how many vowels I hit. Sometimes FLUNK.
- amrrs 5y agoGiven the situation we are in I start with VIRUS, PEACH always
- cheeze 5y agoSALTY URINE
- __d 5y agoAROSE for me. 5 of the top 6 most-frequent letters. But hard mode, so next depends.
- michaelmarion 5y agoYep—AROSE and then CLINT for me.