Wordle solutions and SPOILERS thread

[Hot Orange]

S H A D E
S A I N T
S P R A Y
S O L A R

[Duncan Gardner]

Here's a guide to how often each letter appears in written English. The higher score in Scrabble, the lower frequency

10- Q Z

8- J X

5- K

4- F H V W Y

3- B C M P

2- D G

1- L N R S T; A E I O U

[Antepli Ejderha]

Here's a guide to how often each letter appears in written English. The higher score in Scrabble, the lower frequency

10- Q Z

8- J X

5- K

4- F H V W Y

3- B C M P

2- D G

1- L N R S T; A E I O U

I wonder if the frequency changes because we're only dealing with 5 letter words?

[Duncan Gardner]

2 and 3 letter words including F show often (if, of, off) so without them that letter would likely fade a bit

[Kevin S]

1. RENTS - got the R E and S in the wrong place
2. SPORE - it came to mind; there are loads of S - - R E words when you come to think of them, but this just ruled out the P and O.
3. SHARE - I'd not yet tried A; obviously the H was right but I'd gone for the wrong vowel.
4. SHIRE - solved.

[Kevin S]

I suppose if I'd thought 'Oh no, not SPORE, try SPARE, I'd then have likely tried SHORE before SHIRE (and still ended up with four goes). I wonder how many people got the I before trying both A and O in the middle? Probably those who had it in the first guess.

[Guy Profumo]

I'd gone SPIRE to SHIRE, making an extra step

[Hot Orange]

D E A T H
C H O R E
S H I R E

[Etienne]

I usually start with S T A R E which would obviously have given me three correct letters in the right place, but actually I think H E A R T which I actually went with worked better because it gave me the H (and given where the R was it basically told me where the H and E would need to go). And ruled out alternatives like SPIRE or SCORE that I'd have had to consider with STARE.

[Discordant Resonance]

1. TIRES
2. RESIN
3. SPIRE
4. SHIRE

[Duncan Gardner]

Like Etienne I usually go for a 2 or 3 vowels plus frequent consonants combo. Could be problematic if the solution is JAZZY

[Etienne]

When playing absurdle, Jazzy turned up quite a lot.

[Sean of the Shed]

Nearly went with SPIRE second but decided to potentially eradicate more vowels. *facepalm emoji*

[S. aureus]

TRACE
SHORE
SHIRE

[Balderdasha]

I got it in three today.

LATER
REIGN
SHIRE

[lambers]

My story today:

Dears store (a) spire (in The) Shire.

[Jon]

Nearly went with SPIRE second but decided to potentially eradicate more vowels. *facepalm emoji*

Very similar to my effort Sean. My two routine starting words, followed by spire and the shire. I chose spire over shire as it's a more commonly used word and wordle seems to favo(u)r the less obscure words.

[Antepli Ejderha]

Managed to get the first three letters in place after 3 rounds but then really struggled. Remembered on round 5 that I could use the green letters again, no help.

For some reason I convinced myself that the word ended in y and then I got it on the last go.

[Hot Orange]

A very similar story for me.

R E A C H
I R O N S
P R O U D
P R O O F
P R O W L
P R O X Y

[Kevin S]

So as I've just said on the scoring thread, my 'in four' was actually 'in five' today as I transferred device and forgot what my first guess was. I think it was probably STARE, looking at how it went thereafter/

1. STARE - gave a wrongly placed R and useful letters not to use
2. PROUD - wanted to move the R and use other vowels. Gave the P R O - - that I suspect a lot of people had at some point.
3. PROOF
4. PROWL
5. PROXY - the solution

Which, it turns out, contains the same sequence of four guesses as Hot Orange.

[nmrfox]

SATIN
WHOLE
GROUP
PROXY

[DCI Harry Batt]

The only thing with using the ua hack to find new posts is that "spoiler" threads will often show you, on the search page, the spoiler in a particular post.

[Sean of the Shed]

Took a bit of getting there today.

[Balderdasha]

SLATE
PRION
PROOF
PROUD
PROXY

[Etienne]

TEARS
CHOIR
BROWN
GROOM
DROLL followed by considerable time trying to find anything that would fit.
PROXY