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Deucekies
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March 11th, 2022 at 4:23:47 AM permalink
Quote: HotBlonde

Damn, I hate when this happens.
You literally have to “roll the dice” to pick the right one,
and today I did not.

Wordle 265 X/6

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Thought I was gonna get it on the 4th attempt.
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I found myself in a similar position. Here's how I got out of it:

Casinos are not your friends, they want your money. But so does Disneyland. And there is no chance in hell that you will go to Disneyland and come back with more money than you went with. - AxelWolf and Mickeycrimm
Wizard
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March 11th, 2022 at 6:01:06 AM permalink
I am in idiot.

It turned into a guessing game after three turns. Of course, the correct answer is one of the three I didn't pick.





I wonder if the NYT polls people with questions like "choose a five-letter word that ends in ..." and they go with the response chosen the least. To be honest, that is the kind thing I would do.
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EdCollins
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March 11th, 2022 at 6:48:27 AM permalink
I was in a similar position. After my first two guesses, I determined the remaining possible words were...

...BATCH, CATCH, HATCH, MATCH, PATCH, or WATCH.

I've already proven I'm not a "lucky guesser." And I didn't want to not solve the puzzle at all, in the allotted six rows rows. (In fact,my goal is to always solve the puzzle in five rows or less.)

So my next guess was one to simply eliminate as many of the choices as possible. I chose the word CHAMP, which uses a C, an M, and a P. If CATCH, MATCH, or PATCH was the answer, I would have known this and solved the puzzle in four rows.

Alas, I chose poorly again. With my feedback, I eliminated those three possible answers... but that still left three remaining. (BATCH, HATCH, WATCH)

Rather than guess again, and possibly solve the puzzle in four rows, but also possibly not solve it until the sixth row, something which would not achieve my goal, I again chose a word (BELOW) to guarantee a solution in five rows.

As you can see, since the W received the hit and not the B, I knew the word was WATCH. (If the W also didn't receive any feedback, the answer would have to be HATCH.)



HotBlonde
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March 11th, 2022 at 8:19:14 AM permalink
Quote: Wizard

I am in idiot.

It turned into a guessing game after three turns. Four possible words and three tries left. Of course, the correct answer is the one I didn't pick.





I wonder if the NYT polls people with questions like "choose a five-letter word that ends in ..." and they go with the response chosen the least. To be honest, that is the kind thing I would do.
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Mike, if you look at mine in my previous post ours are almost exactly the same! (P.S. I’ll start using the spoiler format on here rather than the Wordle share format)
OFFICIALLY and justifiably reclaimed my title as SuperHotBlonde!
Wizard
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March 11th, 2022 at 9:25:31 AM permalink
Quote: HotBlonde

Mike, if you look at mine in my previous post ours are almost exactly the same! (P.S. I’ll start using the spoiler format on here rather than the Wordle share format)
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Great minds think alike! Glad you're participating.
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ams288
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March 11th, 2022 at 1:41:06 PM permalink
Wordle 265 6/6

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Honestly got lucky. Was debating between three different choices for attempt 6. Picked the right one.
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avianrandy
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March 11th, 2022 at 6:20:53 PM permalink
I did not get it after 6 tries either.good to see hotblinde back. I wonder if juicyjenny plays wordle?
avianrandy
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March 11th, 2022 at 6:26:07 PM permalink
I feel dum my guesses were off.audio/brace/farce/magic/salsa/ fancy.oh well can't win themall
avianrandy
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March 11th, 2022 at 6:52:18 PM permalink
I was just trying to power through this and not spend a lot of time on while making guesses.had just woke up never got to end before and not gotten solution.came her to find solution. Only then did it dawn on me when wordle showed watch in black that was the word. I tried to click on watch lol. As Homer Simpson would say DOH
IndyJeffrey
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March 12th, 2022 at 4:20:00 AM permalink
Not bad...

Wordle 266 3/6*

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