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I always start with SNAIL ROUTE. Those are the 10 most common letters in 5-letter words. Even if I get good hits with SNAIL, I enter ROUTE.
by forinti 5y ago
I always start with SNAIL ROUTE.
Those are the 10 most common letters in 5-letter words. Even if I get good hits with SNAIL, I enter ROUTE.
- AggroVanGogh 5y agoSTARE DOING CHUMP is usually enough for me to have a good stab at Quordle. For regular Wordle I try to stick to "hard mode", with the constraint that discovered letters have to be used.
- iso1210 5y agoI play in Hard Mode, so that type of method rarely works
- mimimi31 5y agoI've also been playin on hard mode almost since the beginning. While it usually does make the game more interesting, it also annoyingly often makes your win depend on pure luck. Ironically this happens more often when your first guesses were very good. Imagine having SHA?E confirmed and now being forced to stupidly guess between SHAPE, SHAKE, SHARE, SHAME, SHAVE or SHADE instead of eliminating half of those possibilities with a single word. So maybe this implementation of a hard mode isn't well suited anyway if you're looking for a bigger challenge in skill.
- frosted-flakes 5y agoIf you run into that situation, then just turn off hard mode and put PRIDE to eliminate some words.
- idunno246 5y agoI found that only happens if you try to hit the most common letters in your first guesses. If you use middle of the road letters you tend to get only a couple while eliminating a lot - s and e would be bad early letters because they don’t reduce enough words
- 1270018080 5y agoYeah I started off only playing hard mode until they threw in a SHA?E word. Then I realized it's only hard because it isn't fair.
- weego 5y agoI have settled on DREAM PILOT (I often don't use pilot if I get 2 or more yellow/green) with no reason other than I'm pig headed and refuse strategies others suggest.
- bazzargh 5y agoI hadn't seen anyone else use that pair when I suggested it in early Jan https://twitter.com/bazzargh/status/1477998502747779079 https://twitter.com/bazzargh/status/1477998502747779079 ... but I guess there aren't many choices with those letters and other people were bound to hit on those words! Seems quite popular now. For octordle/sedecordle I found that the 2 standard guesses wasn't enough to stop getting stuck, particularly it's missing Y for words that use that as a vowel. For those puzzles, I use INPUT SHAME GLORY, but I've not attempted to check if this is anything like optimal - I very rarely fail those puzzles with these 3 tho.
- ghaff 5y agoI don't regularly play octordle but came to the conclusion that you really want at least 3 start words. Otherwise, you start trying to solve with guesses that aren't globally optimum and run out of guesses.