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[uconn1999]

 

[HuskyHawk]

I stick by my approach. It avoids misses. I'm not guessing double letters until it's clear I need to. I'm not guessing oddball letters when I can eliminate common letters.

 

[iri10]

 

[uconn1999]

 

[storrsroars]

Not the two letters you want to get right....

 

[HuskyHawk]

Moving the I is indeed the trick today.

 

[storrsroars]

Moving the I is indeed the trick today.
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I disagree

 

[HuskyHawk]

I disagree

Ha. Hope your Chromebook is back up, I'd give you mine but shipping them probably costs more than a new one. I got the nice, business class Dell one for my daughter, she used it a year in 8th grade then her High School required an iPad.

 

[storrsroars]

Ha. Hope your Chromebook is back up, I'd give you mine but shipping them probably costs more than a new one. I got the nice, business class Dell one for my daughter, she used it a year in 8th grade then her High School required an iPad.

Still fried. I brought a Macbook back from the dead once. Took a couple months. So I have some hope, although this is the third Chromebook I've drowned.

 

[HuskyHawk]

Still fried. I brought a Macbook back from the dead once. Took a couple months. So I have some hope, although this is the third Chromebook I've drowned.

I think they are intentionally disposable. I think Dell makes the only real business class version, although Lenovo might have a decent one. Most of them are crap from a hardware perspective. ASUS has a ruggedized Chromebook.

 

[storrsroars]

I think they are intentionally disposable. I think Dell makes the only real business class version, although Lenovo might have a decent one. Most of them are crap from a hardware perspective. ASUS has a ruggedized Chromebook.

I love the things. Been using them as primary computer almost since day they were introduced. Don't need for work except occasional writing assignments. Had 2 ASUS models that were great. Current one was HP and I wasn't fond of keyboard layout. Might go back to ASUS, which has a "water resistant keyboard" model for klutzes like me.

 

[iri10]

 

[storrsroars]

 

[uconn1999]

 

[iri10]

 

[storrsroars]

 

[uconn1999]

 

[HuskyHawk]

I moved that damned A all over. I tend to think they aren’t the last letter often.

 

[uconn1999]

I moved that damned A all over. I tend to think they aren’t the last letter often.
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81974 words that end in a.
100 of them are 5 letter words

 

[HuskyHawk]

81974 words that end in a.
100 of them are 5 letter words

Right. So, not many. Some of those are probably not solutions. It doesn’t matter. I’ll stick to a logic based approach. The goal is to eliminate possible words and avoid missing it. 2s are luck, often from unwise word guesses.

1. Eliminate two vowels in first word, always either E or A or both.
2. If no vowels hit, eliminate two more. Four of A,E,I,O,U need to gone. No Y until 3rd guess.
3. S & R should be gone by 2nd guess. Depending on what hit in word one.
4. Try to clear common compound consonants ST, SH, CH, TH, RT, RM, SN
5. Don‘t guess double letter worlds or low frequency letters until you have no options.

I should probably try Y more frequently because of its double usage as verb or noun.

What Are Most Common Letters for Wordle?

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[iri10]

When I saw the three vowels come up, I groaned. I knew I'd completely forget a very obvious word in there somewhere, and lo and behold:

 

[storrsroars]

This took awhile.

 

[uconn1999]

Yikes

 

[HuskyHawk]

So I post on how to avoid misses, and one of my wife's favorite bands comes up as the word and...

 

[storrsroars]

So I post on how to avoid misses, and one of my wife's favorite bands comes up as the word and...
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Looks like you broke one of your own rules, going for a double consonant before eliminating the U. Might've had it otherwise