So. Wordle. What’s your opening gambit?
I know people like to pop in ADIEU, thinking they’re smart, but I reckon that’s just too heavy on vowels. I like to spread the consonants and vowels across three goes. I don’t care whether I get the answer in two tries or six, just as long as I get it. So my first three shots, for a while, have been STAIN, CLOUD and PERKY. All the vowels, lots of common consonants. Solid start.
Now, here’s the thing. I got bored with those and I’ve just come up with DEATH, GLORY and MUSIC. Wow, I thought, what an iconic trio of opening Wordle shots. No repeats and lots of likely letters. Cool.
Can you come up with a more iconic trio?
Mate of mine starts with SHITE when he’s had a bad day.
I’ve been using CHEAT for the last few days with very satisfying results.
It seems to have worked too.
Yesterday could have been a SHITE day. I started playing this on 14th April and it was the first day I failed to get the word in 6. I try to use a different word each day but ALIVE has been used a few times and today I made that use MAYBE
Using the same word or words every day reduces the chances of failing Wordle to 0.24%.
Real men, like me, who like to live constantly on the edge, unafraid of failure, a loner who everyone secretly admires, a paragon of virtue, a rebel with a cause, use the first word they think of when they awake from their nocturnal slumbers.
Today for me it will be FARTS (no idea where that came from)
Lodes crosses, Moose can’t miss
You’ve done more than cross, pal. Early bath for you. .
I always start off with URINE and then if that fails to expose any yellow and greens, i follow up with SOAPY. Since the NYT have acquired Wordle though, i think it’s got harder and my average score is parked on four.
URINE and SOAPY! Lovin it. Then TOWEL, I’d have thought. Although repeating the E and O slightly spoils things.
Completed my 150th Wordle today. I’ve been using IRATE and YOUNG since the start, and they’ve served me well.
You must be one of those punk rockers we keep hearing about.
Unless he “rates young”.
*ulp*
Come on guys, I want a three. Can you find a more AW trio than DEATH, GLORY and MUSIC? It’s less about what works on Wordle, more about what looks good on paper.
I’m working on a trio for HP. I’ve got BAWDY and MOIST so far but I’m struggling for the third.
Seconds thoughts, that’s probably Moose.
1. I deny everything
2. Sorry…not sorry
3. I’d do it all again
Are you Boris?
CRUDE!!
BAWDY, MOIST and CRUDE! Why did it take me so long?
It’s a bit “on the nose” but how about
SAUCY, CRAFT and BIDET?
MOOSE, MINGE, BALLS
Well that’s just disgusting.
And then you compounded it by saying minge and balls.
If you do the Octordle and start with STARE, BLING and POUCH you’ll complete it pretty much every time.
Actually, I’ve started using that opening trio on quordle with good results too.
Can I adapt that to STEAK, BLING and PROUD?
Yep, just used those three (although I changed the first one to STAKE) and did it with 2 to spare
I’ve never knowingly used the same opening word twice.
You are a giant amongst men.
Bow ye all, The Baron approaches. A True Man of Integrity
Hey Potter and Lodey do not judge me by your idiosyncratic mores.
My method is simple really I can’t usually remember the feckin’ word I used the day before.
Tsk. Baron, we come to praise you, not bury you.
Bury me and I rise up again like the proverbial BoJo.
VINYL, FILMS and BOOKS
PORNS, VIDEO, SPANK
May try that tomorrow then I’ll have a go at wordle.
BLACK, WHITE, SOUND
I don’t indulge in this particular form of lunacy myself, but my pal Ben has developed a set of tools that show good results, he claims.
It’s blatant cheating, of course, but then Cheating Is The New Integrity in 2022, innit?
http://www.bennewsam.co.uk/Words/WordleTools.shtml
I always start with IRATE. If that doesn’t get me anywhere, I’ll try BOUND. That gives me all the vowels and a few consonants and hasn’t let me down so far.
You saps aren’t playing on the hard setting are you?
Or, like me, being hard without wearing a star. That’s hard.
READS – has an E and ends in S like lots of words
POUTY – ends in Y like lots of words
FLING – ends in ING like a few words. That’s all the vowels too
I start my day with PENIS and Im not alone.
And follow it with CIGGY?