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12935 -> TIZZY (5625) -> OXBOW (2674) -> GRUFF (858) -> MAMMA (195) and I'll let you guess the rest but my next choice left 43 words, and I survived with only 4
by amiga386 2mo ago
12935 -> TIZZY (5625) -> OXBOW (2674) -> GRUFF (858) -> MAMMA (195) and I'll let you guess the rest but my next choice left 43 words, and I survived with only 4 words possible.
The rules not letting use a letter you know isn't in the target word drastically cuts your choices, your best bet is to use as few unique letters per word as you can, and as uncommon letters as you can, but as all normal words need vowels you'll be forced into only picking a vowel from the target word soon enough. Try to find letters that are in the word as late as possible so you're not locked into having to use them.
Once you are forced to use letters from the target word, avoid placing them in the right place. Sadly there's a rule not letting you use a known letter more than once in a word (once A is known, you can't write ALPHA), and a rule for not letting you put a known letter in a place you know it doesn't go (so after MAMMA, you can't have HALVE because you know there's not an A in second place, nor ALPHA because you know there's not an A in fifth place).
- amiga386 2mo agoThe best I could do with today's word, and the wordlist, but no scoring function to minmax the rules: - FUFFY (8159) (shipping of Faith and Buffy from Buffy the Vampire Slayer) - IMMIX (4544) (to mix or blend) - ZOCCO (2142) (low plinth, from the Italian word for sock) - QAJAQ (530) (alternative form of kayak) - TRATT (155) (clipping of trattoria) - KHAPH (7) (alternative form of khaf, the 11th letter of the Hebrew alphabet) I get the feeling that if this game had 7 steps instead of 6, it would almost always be impossible.
- Lerc 2mo agoI had two word possibilities left at the end, so it's possible.
- ErikCorry 2mo agoTheoretically, you could still win today's if there were 8 steps. The ninth is the word you have to avoid. I haven't found a way to win today with 9 steps. https://gist.github.com/erikcorry/b21723a0ba49c044b03a6030dc0e9857 https://gist.github.com/erikcorry/b21723a0ba49c044b03a6030dc... Edit: Using some of your words you can get to 9 steps (10 including the word you have to avoid): https://gist.github.com/erikcorry/d55d263b129eb7a56c8c212296ae6c34 https://gist.github.com/erikcorry/d55d263b129eb7a56c8c212296...
- gowld 2mo ago> Sadly there's a rule not letting you use a known letter more than once in a word (once A is known, you can't write ALPHA), That rule doesn't make sense. What if the answer is AORTA, and you want to guess ALBUM and then ALPHA?
- amiga386 2mo agoThe sibling comment pointed it out; MAMMA is revealed with one yellow A and one grey A, meaning it has told you there's only one A. If the answer was AORTA, then both As in MAMMA would be yellow.
- dylan604 2mo ago> If the answer was AORTA, then both As in MAMMA would be yellow Why would the last A be yellow and not green? It's the correct letter in the correct location. MAMMA should be gray, yellow, gray, gray, green.
- amiga386 2mo agoOops, yes. In that case, if the answer was AGAIN, both As in MAMMA would be yellow (as opposed to one yellow one grey)
- SkiFire13 2mo ago> Sadly there's a rule not letting you use a known letter more than once in a word (once A is known, you can't write ALPHA) This is not entirely correct (or at least it's worded a bit weirdly). If you know that A goes in a certain place you can still try a word using A more than once. It's only once you know that A does not appear twice (because you tried a word containing A twice, and the second A way gray!) then you can no longer use A twice. In your case you tried MAMMA which contained 2 As and the second one gave you the information that there's no second A.
- gpvos 2mo agoAre there no words with the same letter three or more times?
- forbiddenvoid 2mo agoIf there was a second of the same letter, but in the wrong place, it would be yellow. If it's gray, that means there is no repetition of that letter. So once you've seen that the second one is gray, you have the information you need to know that letter is not repeated.
- stirfish 2mo agoGrepping /usr/share/dict/words shows 110 words that have five letters and the same letter 3 or more times, e.g. sassy, added, daddy, nanny, melee, levee, mummy
- noknownsender 2mo agoIt also accepted GEESE
- fwip 2mo agoMamma has 3 M's.
- jibal 2mo agoThere obviously are, e.g., mamma. What was the point in asking this (irrelevant) question?