How do so many players get Wordl on the second guess?

It's just luck I guess. However I had good luck today (2/6) and got it on second try.

What was your starting guess, R1?

I got today's (2/6) answer on the third guess and started with the same word as usual, aisle.

Anybody else annoyed with today's word?

I start with STEAM so when the word was TASTY at some point in the last couple of months, I managed to get it on the 2nd try. However, I've only gotten it on the 2nd try 16 times out of 381 plays.

Only 11 times out of 236 games for me. Once on the first try. Just dumb luck in all instances.

Why would anyone be annoyed with a word in a word game, R3? And what's so vexing to you about this one?

I always start with CUNTY, and see where it goes from there...

There are Wordle Word of the Day Hints on line, OP. People cheat (If you want to call it cheating). You can google and get three hints. For instance a clue about the word's meaning, the letter it starts with, which vowels are used, etc. You can also just scroll down to the bottom of the hints page and get the word. Some people are so crazily competitive with figuring out the word in the least amount of tries and posting about it. Isn't the point of the puzzle the process of figuring the word out in 6 tries? It's not about being an alphabet psychic.

You can cheat by going into a new browser and playing the game to get the answer, then go back to your usual browser now that you already know the word.

OP, since you can't spell the name of the game, I'm surprised you can play it.

Only guessed on the second try twice, I have missed a few clues too.

Just luck. I often pick "water" as a starting word and was lucky for #2 a couple of times.

[quote] Only 11 times out of 236 games for me. Once on the first try.

11 times out of 386 for me. Never on the first try. I’m happy to get it in 3; 4 is my average. Friend of mine got it in 2 twice in the same week

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I've guessed it on the second try 16 out of 327 times, and that's usually due to luck. I have several different starting words I use and I switch them up from day to day. I try to start with a word that has at least three vowels and a couple of the more common consonants. But it's still mostly luck that I chose a good word first. Some of my start words are: AUDIO, SUITE, MEDIA, RADIO, CAUSE, NOISE and ROUSE.

My start word is MEATY. I like the word.

I got it on the second guess today! The bot still said my skill level was only 72 despite that I got the answer in two guesses and it took the bot 4. Wow, my score is now 7 times on the second guess.

Interesting, R10. For some reason, I always thought the name was "wordl". How strange. Is this one of those Mandela effect things? Or are you just a bitch?

The other day I started with TABLE and came up with no 'hits.' For some reason, the only word that occurred to me was SHIRK. And it turned out to be the word.

I stopped playing Wordl because I like Quordle much better.

Beware. A lot of streaks have ended or will be ending today. Strategy won it for me.

I thought I was going to get it in two today, and I got 5/6 letters right for the next 4 guesses. I gambled between two common possible words and got it on the final guess.

I missed yesterday's clue, streak ended.

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Today should have been my day.

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I've only tried Quordle twice, and I haven't been able to get past 3/4.

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I just got today's Wordle on the second guess. I started off with the random word "ghost"

I always state with IRATE. If no letters match up then second try is COUGH. I’ve gotten it in 2 attempts 22 times.

What happened to R23 has happened to me so often I've given up doing it regularly. It was infuriating. Obviously, by the time you have four letters it's just dumb luck at what point you pick the correct fifth, if there are five alternatives.

I actually enjoy those scenarios R27. What I do is use all or as much as possible those likely letters in one guess to eliminate all the wrong ones.

After hundreds of games, somehow since creating this thread I've now arrived at the answer on the second guess twice in two weeks. I should create a thread about the lottery.

I got it on the first guess today.

R30, that really is just dumb luck, which is exactly what's needed to win lotteries -- go buy a ticket, quick!

I couldn't believe it, R31, and I just used the word on a whim because it was said in whatever youtube video I was watching at the time.

I always use the same first word -- audio -- because it has every vowel except E. Then I include E in my second guess because it's the most commonly used vowel in English. I've got it on the second guess very few times but have struck out after 6 tries very seldom too.

I've gotten the word in two guesses a number of times, and even once I got it in one guess!

I've gotten it in two guesses 20 times, but in six 29 times.

I also accidently cheated and got it in one guess once. I didn't know very much about Wordle, and figured it was an app. I downloaded it and eventually figured out the answer, but I heard people talking about the NYTimes wordle. I found the actual Wordle site and decided to reuse the word from the app, turns out it was the same word.

My one guess solution is a fraud.

R35, fraud requires intent to do wrong, which you didn't harbor (do I type like a lawyer?). Just don't forget that it's a 5 letter word & could be useful in your future Wordle endeavors.

Wordlers beware! For today's word, you may need luck or use a strategic guess.

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I actually got it in two today!

Phew! Today is such a streak-breaker so many. In twiter, I saw one losing his 400+ streak -basically his1st and only loss since he started playing it.

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It's just luck, OP.

One of the word was,Kiosk, of course I missed it

Worldl is for fags

In case anyone's wondered why these threads are banned and deleted, it's because of this:

I don't understand that logic

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[quote] I always start with CUNTY, and see where it goes from there...

DL doesn’t do wordle, dear.

I don't really try for second, I use two control words, and have had it on the 3rd 285/344 times. Using the same logic as Wheel of Fortune. Occasionally it takes a few more tries, but only once did I need all 6 tries.

Worldl is so 2022.

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I have an ethical dilemma. I was on attempt six today and I googled a word I wasn't sure was a word and it wasn't... but the word of the day popped up. Of course I said, of course, slaphead and sure enough.

Did I cheat? Because it's not like I did Scrabble word finder of anything. Fucking Wordle. I blame the NYT.

The Wordle police will come a-knocking on your door and slap you silly.

What are "two control words"?

It happens. I got it in two for one of the words last week. I got three correct letters in my first guess, two of which were in the correct position, with the third letter only having one logical place to go. The solution became pretty clear.

Similarly, I remember failing to the correct even after getting four letters in the correct position right off the bat. The problem was I didn't have the first letter, and there were numerous words it could be. I just didn't guess the right one and ran through five incorrect guesses. I think the trick there would have been to find a new word to put in that contained as many of the possible letters it could be and see if you could find the right one or eliminate some.

I managed it in two today. I usually get it in 3-4.

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I started over again. I wouldn't have got beset that day. I was nowhere near close. Fucking killed a nice streak, too. Got it in two, this morning.

Today's the word was my usual starter word so I got it first guess!

I got it in two today. My starter word gave me 4 out of 5 letters all in the wrong order. Once I shuffled them around a few times the answer was pretty easy to guess. Scordle says there were 12 possible answers after my first guess, but only three of them looked like common English words to me.

It took me 5 guesses today. I was getting worried.

so...children r starving in africa w/o h20,

& this is ur concern op?

I got it in three today.

As for OP's question about getting it on "the second guess," I've gotten it on the second guess 2.7% of the time. I've also bombed out completely and not solved it 4% of the time.

[quote]so...children r starving in africa w/o h20, & this is ur concern op?

Imagine being able to have two disparate thoughts at once! What a concept!

Can you eat your wordl?

Well, one tires of wordle salad easily.

Today is one of those days that, even if you start off with having four letters in the correct position (as I happened to do), you might still end up losing.

I got one letter on my first go today. My second guess could have been any of 868 words according to Scordle. It wasn't a great start, but I got it in four.

I usually get the word on the third or fourth attempt. Good starting words are AUDIO (for the vowels), STRAP or STRIP (for the most popular consonants), also LEAST, STEAL, STALE, or any combination of those letters are good starting words.

Today's word is meant to be a streak breaker. I got it in 6 though with some strategy involved.

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One of the most frustrating Wordles I've ever done. It was pure luck that I actually got it. There were 6 equally likely answers after my second guess and only 4 slots to put them in.

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Today’s was average, I thought.

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R67, I got it in six today but had problems yesterday and the day before. Killed a streak.

R71, at least you got it. I count those words as wins—I got four letters right in the third guess, so it just came down to luck—just plain luck.

The word that killed my streak recently was BORAX.

R75... I think that got me too. Or I guessed wondering if it was a word because I think of it as a brand of soap. Definitely a tricky one.

I had the last four letters of today's word and still didn't get it right out of six tries! Not to give it away but there were a lot of logical words that used those same last four letters.

r77 #MeToo.

I hate it when there are so many possible options. I suppose there's a way to finesse that by using words that don't fit the pattern to try to suss out the missing letter, but I didn't try that. Instead, I used four separate words that all ended with the same four letters -- and none of them was the right one.

My streak breaker was "email" -- I did not even consider it even though I had the last four letters in turn 4.

No r3 because I often use a similar word to start. Yay me today lol.

R77/r78 #methree. Very annoying!

I just fucked up today. I had the first letter (in another spot) on guess two but forgot to use it again.

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Thursday here. Took 3. And I've actually used the solution as my starter word previously. Too bad, I may have finally gotten in 1.

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I actually did get in two today, but it's just luck due to the starter word I chose, and the positions I got. The fourth letter could only go one other place, and so solving it was easy after that.

I've been playing Wordle for a little over a year and have solved it in two guesses 32 times. I was very lucky with my starter word quite a few times.

I got it on the first try once. I used my favorite word that contains mostly vowels. No, not sharing but it's easy to find..

I got it on the first guess only once. Last Thanksgiving, I started with "feast." I was quite surprised when all the letters turned green.

Solved with two guesses about an hour ago! Funny to then see this thread.

No, it doesn’t happen often but I’ve gotten it maybe 4-5 times.

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Getting Wednesday's in two guesses only happened because I surprisingly got four of the letters with my starter word, and most importantly, got the rather odd letter in the fifth position right off the bat. Why I chose that word to start with? Can't really tell you. I don't think I've ever used it before.

I blew it today. No luck with letters at all. Then about ten possibilities - all of which were wrong.

Just lost my 77 day run today. Shit. Lost on JOKER.

Joker was a difficult word, R91, even though it doesn't seem as though it should have been. I got it, but it took me all six guesses. ("Phew.")

HOLY SHIT !! .. I actually got today's (Friday 5/26) on the FIRST guess !!

There's nothing "genius" about it. (What the game calls you.)

It's just pure luck. .. Maybe I should go buy a lottery ticket LOL!

TIP: I had just heard a report about Ron DeSantis on the news, and this word to describe him was still in my head.

I can recall getting Wordle on Line 2 maybe twice.

I'm very pleased with Line 3!

For me, it is helpful knowing what letter combinations don't exist in English.

So just now (5/26) I got the word Line 4, but could as easily have been Line 3, but first chose the wrong letter between two possibilities.

According to my stats I've gotten Wordle on the second guess 10 times (out of 156 games played). But early on my stats were screwed up when I went back and forth between phone and computer to solve so I think I have perhaps another 4 or so. I got it on the first try one time, when I was using "Alien" as my starter word. My average solve is fewer than 4, which means I get a lot of solves in 3, but today's puzzle took me 5, because like r95, I tried multiple letters in position two before settling on the correct one. Last week was a banner week for me and I got it in 2 guesses three times. But that is far from the norm. Karma was probably taking notes, so I'll be getting a lot of 5 guess solves to make up, I imagine.

Woot! Got it on Line 2, Sunday, 5/28!

Picked such a good initial word that the answer word was literally (yes!) the only possible letter combination left!

R97 = r94 also.

It's not dumb luck, OP. I have more than one acquaintance who has the partner play it first and then give "hints". That's how it's done, if you're a narcissistic idiot with a partner who should know better.

I like to start with LEAST or SPARE or TRIED

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A rare "second guess" day for me!

And honestly, there are several letters that could have gone in the first position, so I still could have bombed out. .. That's where the real luck came in, choosing the right one.

For the first time in quite a while, I got today's (5/31) on the second guess! The bot burst my magnificent bubble when it told me that after my (always the same) first word, only one was left .

I'm still wondering how so many people get it on the second guess. The answer is rarely like today's with the solution so close to a popular first word.

I got it on the second guess today too.

If I'm gonna lose, I'm gonna lose big!

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Haha, r104! I almost did the same, but picked the right first letter at the very end!

Maddening!

Oops, I lie! I got it on the 5th try!!

I feel your pain. I got it on the 6th try, but there were still 4 or 5 valid guesses. Such a scary feeling to be coming up to the 6th guess and realize that there are still numerous options.

P.S. On the Wordle page, top left, are 3 short horizontal bars. Tap and open.

Now you have several other games to play, one free per day like with Wordle. My two favorites are Spelling Bee and Letter Boxed.

A. Spelling Bee: Each word you "find"---

1. Must be 4 letters or more.

2. Must use the letter in the middle.

3. Can repeat any letters shown.

4. Will eventually be your last "free" attempt. 😔

B. Letter Boxed: A game of thinking ahead!

1. The last letter of each of your allotted words is the first letter of your next one. (So finding, say, "Xerox" might not help!)

2. No letter is able to link to another in its same row. However small the angle or short, all links must cross the open center space somehow.

I'm ba-a-a-ack! (R108)

Just thought I'd mention another Wordle clone for youse guys and dolls:

Today was a two-day for me when I used one of my go-to second choice words.

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R110, You bastard! 😁👏👏 Took me 3.

But since I know what letter your first final one was NOT, and that it therefore had to fit into one of the other 4 spots, I have NO IDEA how you figured out the answer from it!

If I remember tomorrow, I'll try to guess your starter word! (Don't tell today!)

I hate to break it to you, R111, but I didn’t really “figure it out.” I “got it” because it had the one vowel I knew was in there. I often use that word when that happens, and this time I got lucky. 🤷‍♂️

I know that for at least the next five years it won’t be today’s word again.

Yes, r112, but "plunk" could have been "drunk," "skunk," "trunk," etc.

Was your base word "adieu"?

Yes. And I’m not sure how I landed on PLUNK as opposed to any of the other options that you suggested.

About the only thing it's good in is Watergate Salad.

^^^ Sorry. Don't know how R115 that ended up on this thread. DL gremlins or something!?

Nixon's ghost is pissed that Wordl won't use proper nouns, R115.

R113 here. Second word, 7/08/23. WOOT! 🥳 😊

I'm curious whether your first word contains mostly vowels: AISLE, AUDIO, etc or if you go for consonants: STRUM, TRAMP

I've been able to beat the Wordle bot two days in a row!

So funny when it tells me that some other word would have been more "efficient" for my second word.

R119, It was totally on a whim, with only one vowel! I just look at the keyboard, and think, "Oh, that sounds good!" Today I chose a word with the correct first letter and 3 of the rest, in the wrong order but still!

Wordle-makers seem partial to words with several possibilities---blame, frame, crane, crate, etc., depending on what's blank.

I enjoy feeling clever, saying to myself such things as, "But there is no English word ending in 'xz'" or the like!

P.S. I mentioned this variation a while ago : "Queerdle." Tres amusing!

12:05---New Game!

Boooo! Took me 5 tries WITH 3 of the letters!

Sometimes there's fuckery at work in the NYT wordle office, I feel quite certain. I got it in 4, but it could easily have been five without a lucky guess I made on three.

R118, r121, r122 here.

Two words, Saturday, 7/22.

Initial word had correct first and last letters.

I notice that with today's (7/26) word, so far 1.6% of the people playing actually got it on their first guess. That's pretty high.

Also, 16.4% have gotten it by the second guess. Typically that figure is in the neighborhood of 2%.

I got by guess three, with 54.4% solving it by then.

Today's was easy if you had a helpful starter word, which I did. I got it in two, but the average solve today was 3.2 tries, so a solve in 2 is nothing to write home about.

I actually got it in two today. I had three letters on the first guess, with the second letter in place. But I stared at it for 15 minutes before I could see any possible word.

6-letter Word Hurdle, 7/31.

Got it in two. *pats self on back*

Infinite Wordle!

Not just once a day if you don't subscribe to the NYT!

There's also Wordle Unlimited.

Be careful with the one for Wedneday 8/23. So far about 15% don't get it. I barely made it with my last guess.

The past two or three days I haven’t gotten it until the very last try.

This is going to sound like bragging, given r132's warning, but I got today's in 4. However, I have had two 6 guess tries in the past week. (Also a 2, but that was my starter word being very helpful.)

It took me 5 guesses today. I have been on a streak of getting it in 3.

So far, over 6% of players for Wednesday 8/30 have gotten the solution on their first guess.... because it's a common starter word.

Good luck!

In fact, I actually guessed words far more obscure because it seemed so unlikely that the NYT would use THAT word of all words.

Thanks to R15, I actually got it on the first try today!

I got it on my first try today thanks to using one of my favorite starter words.

I got it in two today (Thursday).

I had an extremely lucky guess for the opening word, which limited the solution to just three possible words.

But by looking at the list of words that have been the previous solutions, I was able to eliminate two of those words as they've already been used.

I just figure they won't use the same word more than once.

Does anyone else do that? .. Am I cheating? .. lol

In theory, they would not reuse the same winning word, r140. My sister is a bit obsessive compulsive and she keeps an easily searchable spread sheet to help her recognize words that have been winning words before. (In fact, I think they keep such a list available to the public somewhere, but it's not easily searchable. Wordlebot claims that they only keep an active dictionary of 400 words or so, but that would be used up in a year, so I'm not sure that's true. In fact, I will link wordfinders list below

R141 The source for past solutions that I use is the following. It's nice because it gives the answers for the last week, and the complete history in alphabetical order.

The W*rdle bot likes to throw shade. In analyzing my second guess for Sunday's puzzle, it tells me:

[quote] This guess wasn’t my favorite. But you lucked out! You’ve narrowed it down to two remaining words.

EXCUSE ME. There was no luck about it. I specifically came up with that word to accomplish what I did, and was able to narrow it down to TWO possible words. I got the solution on my third guess and beat the fucking bot, which took four turns.

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Woot! Got it on the second!

First word had one correct letter and one wrongly placed.

Tues., 9/05.

Same here, r145. We rock!

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So many people on Twitter didn't get today's. I had to leave and come back to it after I woke up a bit but then I figured it out.

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R148 figured a lot of people wouldn't get today's.

I happened to get it in three, and even beat the w*rdle bot (at four).

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Once again, the bot told me that it didn't like my second entry. But hell, that's what let me get it down to just ONE POSSIBLE WORD.

Eat shit, bot!

I had yesterday's (809) in 3, but today's (810) took me 5 (same as wordlebot). I don't use one of the top 10 starter words, because when my starter word works it REALLY works - but sometimes, like in today's puzzle, it was no help at all.

R150 No. 810 took me five as well. I was kinda surprised that it took the bot five, because bot's starter word has two of the letters, with one even in the right position. Meanwhile my starter word gave me nothing..

Saturday, 9/09: Second word! 🥳

Initial word had second letter correct (no other letters anywhere).

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One of those days when I actually neglected to use one of the letters that I'd already gotten in what I thought would be my final guess to solve it, so I ended up in the PHEW category.

The word is not IDIOT but I felt like one.

Good fortune plays a role in some of these solves. My sister and I call those "rookie mistakes, r154, but we make them frequently, especially late at night or when distracted. Today was good fortune for me as I got it in 3. Not quite as fortunate as r152 however.

My 73 day streak came to an end today. Got to the sixth guess with only the first letter missing. There were two possible words and I chose the wrong one.

My bad. I had all but the first and third letter, but there were only two options with my remaining letters.

Sunday, 9/17! 🥳

What I had from my initial guess was the first letter in the correct spot! Nothing else.

Watch out for Wednesdays. One of those words where even if you have four of the letters in the right spaces you might not get it. Over 5% have bombed out so far.

Very scary. I got Tuesday's in 2. Wednesday's in SIX!!! Almost lost my streak. Far too many valid options.

Yeah, Wednesday sucked.

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The solution for Wednesday's is the kind of word where putting in a totally different set of letters in the second guess might be more helpful than running down the entire list of options by trying to guess the one missing letter.

My first word today (Wed) was TRAIN and I got it in 2.

Yesterday I got no correct letters in row 1 but picked the right word in row 2.

I’m on fire,

Got it in two today!

I always used the word "weary" as my first guess and the one day that I did not use it, that was the word of the day. I was so mad. lol. I've gotten it on 2 guesses a few times. Mostly on three guesses I get it right. I used different words for the first guess now.

Today was typical for me. I got wordle in 3, which was a more than satisfactory result from my perspective, but wordlebot dissed my middle solution and counted my solve in 3 as due to luck - then the bot took three tries to solve the puzzle itself. So fuck you, wordlebot.

[quote] I always used the word "weary" as my first guess

You ALMOST always use the word....