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  6. Having those two letters on line 2 was no comfort at all. That could have gone much worse.

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  18. I knew there would be complaints about this but it’s in the dictionary, an Americanism originally.

    I’ll explain later how I got the word.

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  19. Got stuck on line 3, completely forgot about it, went back 12 hours later and bingo! It leapt out at me.
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    • I managed a nearly correct answer on line 4 but yes they’re certainly scraping.

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  57. Wordle 1,581 3/6*

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    It’s quiet out here in the park in the distance I can hear lots of swearing and is that a putter flying through the air? Nah 🪕 it’s just someone getting banjoed

  59. I’ve chosen my 13 starter words already and at random just to see what happens. Three have double letters, three have a single vowel. Yes I do have a girlfriend … why do you ask?

  74. Wordle 1,584 5/6*

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    Second air shot in a row – this time not so helpful.

  83. An lung infection is keeping me awake so I decided to Wordle much earlier than normal

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    • That’s odd. The thread wouldn’t give me the option of a new post, so I’ve had to do it as a reply.
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  92. Wordle 1,586 3/6*

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    That’s my fourth birdle in a row since the competition ended. It points to a psychological weakness in the combat arena. Not unlike my history in real-life golf then.

  101. Bloody hell today was close to losing my 186 day streak.

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  114. I use random starters everyday too – don’t think it makes any difference what you use it is by and large a lottery.

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    • Nah, statistically speaking if you are after success Random is not the way to go.
      “The best starter word for Wordle is debatable, but top contenders based on letter frequency and strategy are CRANE, SLATE, TRACE, and SALET. These words contain common letters like E, A, R, and T, and some also include common vowels, allowing you to quickly gather information about the target word’s letters and their positions. Other popular and effective strategies include using words with multiple vowels, like ADIEU, or other common words like STARE”.
      Such ‘safe’ starters by no means guarantee you won’t fail (or nearly fail – see Leedsboy the other day) but over time they will succeed far more often than completely Random.
      It’s Statistics , plain and simple.

      • When I say random obviously I am going to use words with multiple vowels. However the other day for example I used CAUSE as a starter and it scored Nada. Could easily use the same word the next day for Scare as an answer. As an opening word that would have scored one letter in the right place and 3 right letters in the wrong place.,The chance of an eagle o a birdie would be significantly higher. That is why I maintain the opening gambit is still luck.

      • When I say random obviously I am going to use words with multiple vowels. However the other day for example I used CAUSE as a starter and it scored Nada. Could easily use the same word the next day for Scare as an answer. As an opening word that would have scored on letter in the right place and 3 right letters in the wrong place.,The chance of an eagle o a birdie would be significantly higher. That is why I maintain the opening gambit is still luck.

            • Don’t know how long your experiment went on but during that time unless Mrs Wordle decided to only choose words with unusual letters (which she plainly hasn’t done before) then statistical logic dictates an average score will in the long run be lower with a safe starter. The data will always contain anomalies, blind luck, 6 birdies in a row, somebody must win the lottery etc. I think you are using STARE these days and you’ve been doing pretty darn well , haven’t you?

  116. Wordle 1,588 3/6*

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    That’s 5 under for the last six. Watch my hot streak evaporate around 1st November!

  121. A struggle today

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  124. Wordle 1,588 4/6*

    Swung twice at the same ball so actually quite relieved at getting away with a par.

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