# WORDLE

**URL:** <https://community.goactuary.com/t/wordle/4959>\
**Category:** Games\
**Created:** [January 13, 2022, 6:58pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/wordle/4959 "2022-01-13T18:58:49Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
**Page:** 4

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**Author:** ![PatientZombie](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/patientzombie/32/391_2.png) [@PatientZombie](https://community.goactuary.com/u/PatientZombie)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2022, 8:50pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/wordle/4959/61 "2022-01-14T20:50:00Z")

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hard time on this one

Wordle 8 5/6

⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛  
⬛🟩⬛🟨⬛  
🟨🟩🟨⬛⬛  
⬛🟩🟨⬛🟨  
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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**Author:** ![tommie.frazier](https://community.goactuary.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/b5a626/32.png) [@tommie.frazier](https://community.goactuary.com/u/tommie.frazier)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2022, 9:05pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/wordle/4959/62 "2022-01-14T21:05:46Z")

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the archive is def a wormhole I will invest in. 1-10 are done and I need a break.

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**Author:** ![PatientZombie](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/patientzombie/32/391_2.png) [@PatientZombie](https://community.goactuary.com/u/PatientZombie)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2022, 9:20pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/wordle/4959/63 "2022-01-14T21:20:37Z")

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sharing the good ones or a failure

Wordle 17 2/6

⬛⬛🟩🟨⬛  
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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**Author:** ![PatientZombie](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/patientzombie/32/391_2.png) [@PatientZombie](https://community.goactuary.com/u/PatientZombie)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2022, 9:48pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/wordle/4959/64 "2022-01-14T21:48:35Z")

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through 25, making dumb mistake, but haven’t lost

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**Author:** ![Serena](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/serena/32/10_2.png) [@Serena](https://community.goactuary.com/u/Serena)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2022, 10:51pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/wordle/4959/65 "2022-01-14T22:51:44Z")

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![image](https://community.goactuary.com/uploads/default/original/2X/b/b310434c9cf29883649103cf8d80c0613a4180a9.jpeg)

This is my best so far.

I started working backwards through the archive. I’m averaging 3-4 guesses. Some 5s. No 6s and no other 2s.

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**Author:** ![PatientZombie](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/patientzombie/32/391_2.png) [@PatientZombie](https://community.goactuary.com/u/PatientZombie)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2022, 11:23pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/wordle/4959/66 "2022-01-14T23:23:46Z")

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Do you all play the same first word Everytime?

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**Author:** ![Klaymen](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/klaymen/32/194_2.png) [@Klaymen](https://community.goactuary.com/u/Klaymen)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2022, 11:42pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/wordle/4959/67 "2022-01-14T23:42:33Z")

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I went back to the archives to play the first 10, with the goal of not failing.  
5 words took 4 attempts and 5 words took 5 attempts.

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**Author:** ![The\_President](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/the_president/32/70075_2.png) [@The\_President](https://community.goactuary.com/u/The_President)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2022, 11:58pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/wordle/4959/68 "2022-01-14T23:58:13Z")

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Wordle 209 4/6

⬜⬜🟩⬜🟩  
⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩  
⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩  
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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**Author:** ![MayanActuary](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/mayanactuary/32/8794_2.png) [@MayanActuary](https://community.goactuary.com/u/MayanActuary)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2022, 1:26am UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/wordle/4959/69 "2022-01-15T01:26:15Z")

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For awhile I was playing the first three words the same and then I would think. made it go quickly, to get through a bunch, but not the most efficient use of guesses.

Words-

Moist

Early

Punch

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**Author:** ![Serena](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/serena/32/10_2.png) [@Serena](https://community.goactuary.com/u/Serena)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2022, 2:43am UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/wordle/4959/70 "2022-01-15T02:43:04Z")

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I start with one of these:  
DOUGH  
TOUGH  
RATES  
TRAIN

Depending on the previous 1 or 2 puzzles.

🤷‍♀️

On the 208 puzzle, I wanted to start with letters that hadn’t been used in previous puzzles. Based on my first guess there was only one other word I could think of that would work, and it did.

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**Author:** ![Klaymen](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/klaymen/32/194_2.png) [@Klaymen](https://community.goactuary.com/u/Klaymen)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2022, 3:04am UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/wordle/4959/71 "2022-01-15T03:04:50Z")

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So far my starting words have been  
ATONE GIRDS MULCH although I can mix it up along the way, that way I’ve checked 15 frequent letters after three rounds, plus good chance the word ends with an E, S, or H.  
I wonder what the optimum first three words are.

After the first 35 words from the archive my record is:  
0-1-3-17-11-2-[1] So two sixes and one fail. An average of 4.37 letters if you count the fail as a 7.

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**Author:** ![PatientZombie](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/patientzombie/32/391_2.png) [@PatientZombie](https://community.goactuary.com/u/PatientZombie)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2022, 3:18am UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/wordle/4959/72 "2022-01-15T03:18:19Z")

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Always same three words to start  
But will veer based on hits

Toner  
Hails  
Dumpy

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**Author:** ![Klaymen](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/klaymen/32/194_2.png) [@Klaymen](https://community.goactuary.com/u/Klaymen)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2022, 3:50am UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/wordle/4959/73 "2022-01-15T03:50:12Z")

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Alright let’s science this. (LOOK AWAY NOW!!!)

We’ve all heard what the most common letters are in the English language, but what are the most common letters in a 5-letter word, or in any place in a 5-letter word? Well I found a site with 12,478 5-letter words - many of them foreign to me - and did the analysis. Here is the letter distribution in each place of the word and in total:

 ![letters](https://community.goactuary.com/uploads/default/original/2X/5/5d9ae82a7bdb4842a24c754f7c8cb9b57b4f5199.jpeg)

S is much more popular, presumably because it is easy to pluaralize 4-letter words, and because there aren’t enough letters to increase syllables and more syllables means more vowels.

No more using the word atone; there is rarely a vowel at the front. ES is by far the most common last two letters although I don’t know if we’ll see lots of plurals in this game. 65.8% chance that the second letter is a vowel.

The most likely word is SAAES. Try typing that in! 🙂

I think my new words are CURES, PAINT, and MOLDY  
Let’s see if my next 35 are better than the first 35.  
…  
somehow I only counted 34 but compare the distributions:  
OLD: 0-1-3-17-11-2-1 Avg 4.27  
NEW: 0-0-10-14-9-1-0 Avg 4.03  
seems like it improved things. I got more 3’s and 4’s and less 5+.

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**Author:** ![Klaymen](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/klaymen/32/194_2.png) [@Klaymen](https://community.goactuary.com/u/Klaymen)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2022, 6:13am UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/wordle/4959/74 "2022-01-15T06:13:15Z")

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Wordle 210 3/6

🟦⬜⬜⬜⬜  
🟧🟧🟦🟦⬜  
🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧

0-2-14-32-20-3-1

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**Author:** ![tommie.frazier](https://community.goactuary.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/b5a626/32.png) [@tommie.frazier](https://community.goactuary.com/u/tommie.frazier)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2022, 6:54am UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/wordle/4959/75 "2022-01-15T06:54:49Z")

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Wordle 210 3/6

⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜  
⬜🟩⬜⬜🟨  
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩  
late to the party, I sit at 0-0-1-1-0-2 and have not yet failed “officially”

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**Author:** ![vjvj](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/vjvj/32/406_2.png) [@vjvj](https://community.goactuary.com/u/vjvj)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2022, 7:28am UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/wordle/4959/76 "2022-01-15T07:28:09Z")

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Wordle 210 2/6

🟩🟨⬜⬜⬜  
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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**Author:** ![vjvj](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/vjvj/32/406_2.png) [@vjvj](https://community.goactuary.com/u/vjvj)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2022, 7:31am UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/wordle/4959/77 "2022-01-15T07:31:10Z")

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I still don’t have a feel for how much I should weigh learning more about the letters in the early guesses vs just trying to guess the word. Guessing worked out great this time, but I was tempted to not pick a word with the first letter that I knew and try to get info about one more letter.

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**Author:** ![Marcie](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/marcie/32/8789_2.png) [@Marcie](https://community.goactuary.com/u/Marcie)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2022, 7:44am UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/wordle/4959/78 "2022-01-15T07:44:48Z")

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Wordle 210 4/6

⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛  
⬛🟨🟩⬛⬛  
⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩  
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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**Author:** ![PatientZombie](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/patientzombie/32/391_2.png) [@PatientZombie](https://community.goactuary.com/u/PatientZombie)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2022, 9:38am UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/wordle/4959/79 "2022-01-15T09:38:51Z")

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In three, messed up the cut and paste, first time doing it on my phone

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**Author:** ![A\_Student](https://community.goactuary.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/f05b48/32.png) [@A\_Student](https://community.goactuary.com/u/A_Student)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2022, 12:13pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/wordle/4959/80 "2022-01-15T12:13:32Z")

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I had a bad start on todays.

Wordle 210 6/6

⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜  
⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜  
⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜  
🟨🟩🟨⬜🟨  
⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩  
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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