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It’s not how I play, but I know several people who throw random words in to try to tease out hints.

• layer8 5y ago
  The issue is not that the words are "random", it’s that they are exceedingly poorly chosen to tease out more hints. The third row reuses two letters that were already revealed in the first row to not occur in the solution, and reuses a third letter at the correct position already revealed in the second row, but omitting a another letter whose correct position was also revealed in the second row. That is, it is clear that this can’t be the solution word, because of the two letters already known to not occur, and because of omitting one known-position letter. And if it was an attempt to tease out more letters, then the guess doesn’t make much sense either because only one of the five letters hadn’t been tried yet in the previous rows. The fourth row again uses a letter already known to not occur, while reusing two letters already known to occur, but one of them at a known-wrong position. (Of course the letter in question could occur twice, but I don’t think there’s an English word matching “pi_p_”.) Furthermore, none of the letters that are new in the fourth row are likely to occur in the solution, given what’s already known at that point (in fact I don’t think there are any potential solution words where they would fit). So again this is neither an attempt to guess the solution nor a good attempt at teasing out more letters.
  • eyelidlessness 5y ago
    I think the game is more open ended than that, there are multiple possibilities for each row. Some are more strategic than others. Like others I found the game itself more difficult than I expected, but ultimately playing from the strategic perspective I’ve heard expressed by others was what let me play through.