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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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