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Pretty inevitable, though; there are some letter groups in english that make that unavoidable. I use this (the second table). https://www3.nd.edu/~busiforc/ha
by unfocussed_mike 5y ago
Pretty inevitable, though; there are some letter groups in english that make that unavoidable.
I use this (the second table).
https://www3.nd.edu/~busiforc/handouts/cryptography/letterfrequencies.html https://www3.nd.edu/~busiforc/handouts/cryptography/letterfr...
I memorised STARE/TASER, UNLID, CHOMP (all the letters with more than 3% incidence, in a word order with a good letter distribution close enough to the statistical one, and some useful letter groups) and the remaining significant ones(GBFYWKV) and work with that.
If I get a green from the first word I assemble a new word from the letters of the other two; this strategy has seen me guess it in two or three a bit more often.
This may be obvious but in your scenario where there are lots of permutations, it's worth considering that you can solve words two ways -- first by thinking of a word that fits the shape available, and second by carefully thinking of the words with the highest frequency unused letters in all available slots (if there are two or three remaining letters, a guess that is likely to provide you two yellows is vastly better than a guess that will provide you one green).
If you use a three word opening gambit (which you can't do in 'hard' mode) then you'll regularly guess it in four or five, anyway. I strongly suspect that four is the most common number of guesses for good players.
- cookie_monsta 5y agoI keep in mind that OTHER NAILS contains the most common letters, but I play in hard mode and don't use either of those as a start word. My second guesses onwards are made up of clues shown and letters from those two words. I don't understand the fun in playing easy mode and laying down words just to eliminate letters. I see a lot of people saying that it guarantees them a win in 4 moves, but once I adopted the above strategy I regularly started getting 2s and 3s. Four for me seems just ok, no big deal. At five I start making excuses/blaming the injustices of the game. ... and today I got a 5, so I will be signing the NYT petition, plus my elbow hurts /s
- IgorPartola 5y agoI typically start with READY or STEAD or STEAM. NAILS is a good one!
- unfocussed_mike 5y agoI don't play in hard mode, still -- I enjoy the flexibility of solving it both ways. But I do use a start word and as a rule I will try to reuse all the placed letters if I get a single green. Mind you, I keep frustrating myself because the redirect from powerlanguage.co.uk to the nytimes.com domain is in my browser history and if you accidentally use it again it destroys your stats. Which is fine today of course because I tried to solve it at 5am and didn't get it ;-) but still. Eventually I will lose interest. Not sure when. A friend of mine pointed me at Sedecordle and I was like, no, not getting into that, and then there I am, addicted to it.