Wordle – After I made 5 wrong guesses, at least I knew the status of 21 different letters. Can anyone come up with 22 or more?

wordpress ^ | February 14, 2022 | Dan from Squirrel Hill

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Wordle – After I made 5 wrong guesses, at least I knew the status of 21 different letters. Can anyone come up with 22 or more?

This is a screenshot of my Wordle game from February 14, 2022. I didn’t get it until the last possible try. But because of the five wrong guesses that I did make, at least I was able to know the status of 21 different letters. Can anyone come up with a set of five words that lets us know the status of 22 or more letters?

For those who can’t see the screenshot, my guesses, in order, were Ideas, Ought, Proxy, Black, and Women. The correct answer was Cynic. The five letters that I did not include in any of my guesses were F, J, Q, V, and Z.

[Tennessee Nana]

yes

[Tennessee Nana]

yes

[Tennessee Nana]

Kid I learnt that 60 years ago in typing class ... I know alright ...

[who_would_fardels_bear]

I used to try and make sure every subsequent guess was possible based on earlier guesses. But this is often a bad strategy especially if you happen to get a lot of letters in the correct places early and still have many letters to choose from to finish the word.

You can even force yourself to play that way by choosing the "Hard Mode" setting.

Choosing words like INERT, GOADS, and CLUMP gives you information on some of the most likely letters often making the fourth guess a cinch.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

I wonder if there are five words, each using only one vowel, with no repeating letters. That would leave only one missing letter.

I've worked my way up to ten letter challenges. The sweet spot seems to be 7 letters. I was able to come up with three words using 21 unique letters and can almost always guess the word on the fourth try.

[Theophilus]

Since you knew “i” was in the word. You should have used it in your 2nd guess.

[P.O.E.]

Cincinnatty?

[Right Wing Assault]

Pully? I didn't find it in several dictionaries. It's pulley.

[Wayne07]

Yes, using that kind of process of elimination strategy will work, but you preclude winning in a smaller number of turns. At best you want to combine strategies, where you are only reusing known goods, while also tactically narrowing the possibilities.

I like ADIEU as a first guess (lots of vowels). If I don’t get one or two vowels, I’ll try to work in an O or Y in the second guess along with whatever matched in the first guess.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

Yes ADIEU is a good choice for figuring out vowels. I’m a Scrabble player so I also like words with the letters in RETINAS as they are the most common in English words.

[coaster123]

You don’t know. You didn’t learn that, probably for the same reason you won’t learn now. The phrase is to incorporate all the letters of the alphabet. It’s The, not A. It’s a brown fox, not a red fox. The word is jumps, not jumped.

Of course, you were snarky and that means you’re smart! :)

[Tennessee Nana]

Whats your problem ???

So after 60 years I didnt remember exactly how it went ???

I knew it when I needed it and i hadnt thought about that sentence using all the alphabet since 1962

Hows your memory ???

[coaster123]

No problem with me. Guess you needed it again but didn't have it. Smart people say thanks when given an assist.

My memory is super-duper but if there is something I'm not clear about I research rather than doubling down with an insistence.