🎓 Doc Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@qoto.org

@trinsec
Once i narrowed it down to all but the first letter it was a guaranteed win but pure chance how many tries it took

Hell yea the middle east is about to wage a jihad against my stomach, and i hope it wins!

Decided to extend the bottom time on todays dive. 60 meters / 190 feet and a total of 80 minutes under the water. Great dive, saw a moray eel and a manta ray.

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@trinsec
Actually i take that back, while it took me more guesses id say my strategy was superior this go around. I had all but the first letter after the first 2 were used. After that it was a garunteed win just had to pick which of the three words it could be.

@trinsec
Our performance was rather similar. After the second try i had all but the first letter

Another close win. Id say perfect execution again though since i used all the hints every turn and the only thing playing against me are how many words in the language that have the same ending.

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#Wordle 226 6/6

Here is how my wordle played out today

Yea the consonants in marks is fine. But only a single vowel in the first word seems like a really poor tactic imo

@trinsec
Marks was your second guess after adieu?

@trinsec
Andit actually told you a lot. It told you it doesnt have an "ed" ending, it also tells you u, and maybe o are the only vowels. Eliminating vowels is just as helpful as matching them

@trinsec
Cough would be my next as it gets in the final vowel, a new position on the u, and all the consonants are common ones you find it lots of words.

@trinsec
The main takeaway here is that once you nail down the vowels, even before you know what the consonants are you have huge hints for thr consonants. For example i try to get all the vowels and r, d, s in the first two words. With adieu i cover the vowels at the start along with d, one of the most common consonants. So right after the first word i know not just most vowels but also if an "ed" ending is possible. Next word i rule out s, r, y and o when possible so i know if its plural already and likely the position of a vowel. After that you have enough hints to guess the solution or close to it because even if its one vowel i can guess well enough based on the position what are likely consonants as mentioned before

@trinsec
Ok might not be two letters with one sound, but point is pairs of consonants have only a few common ones.. you will never see most combos like there is no "jk" or "bk", etc. There are like half a dozen really common 2 letter consonants combos and other combos are pretty rare (like cl exists but only in a very small number of words like clocks)

@trinsec notice all of those are the exception i mentioned, namely two letters with one sound namely "rk" and "ck" here. In my setup you know exactly which vowels are present after 2 turns and know 4 out of 5 of them by the first turn. o by the second turn you already know if you are in a single vowel situation, even if that means you only know a single letter (not a bad thing). So basically in the single vowel case you know early on that you have either "sh", "ck", "rk", "wh", or "kn" somewhere in your word. Since you probably know where your single vowel is at in the word you can usually figure out what double-letter consonant you have since "ck", and "rk" only appear at the end, "wh" and "kn" are only at the begining, and sh is the only wild card.

So yea even in the rare case of a single vowel my strategy usually is very revealing even after the first guess and particularly by the second.

@trinsec english words rarely have long sequences of consonants.. its usually a pattern of CVCVC (motor, robot, tutor, rotor,
etc), or CVVCV/CVCCV with y ending words (Poopy, loopy, Cocky, wacky, etc), or CVVCC, which is usually 'es' or 'ed ending. Most of the exception to this are double letters that make single consonant sounds (sh, ch, wh).but even those tend to have 2 vowels minimum (shoot, where, cheat).

In fact single vowel in a word is not very common at all for a 5 letter word.

@trinsec Think of it like this, with my tactic after the second guess I know of all the vowels which are present (including y), I know the exact position of at least one vowel, and I have determined if 3 or 4 of the most common consonants exist and perhaps the exact position of one of them.

Thats pretty wide coverage, especially considering words have 2 to 3 vowels in them. Thats usually enough to setup a win in the next answer or two.

@trinsec The point is the "Shape" of the result isnt important so much as if it leads you to win.

My tactic isnt just to discover the most common letters early as well as their position, but its just as useful when a letter doesnt land. So even if it seems like a lot of letters miss early on by the 4th or so try there is are very few viable letter combinations left. Thats why you will sometimes see me matching on just one or two letters and then solve it right away.