My average for September (4.23) was worse than both my average for August (4.16) and my overall average (4.01). The good news is that my streak is still going and I have only been pushed to the limit once so far. Eighty-seven percent (24/30) of my games this month were finished in 5 or fewer guesses. Sixty-three percent (17/30) of my games were finished in 4 or fewer guesses.
I had three fails this month. In that way it was my worst calendar month since I started playing this game. I finished the month with my best monthly average (3.85) without counting fails. My monthly average including fails (4.07) was also pretty good. I also finished the month with more 4-guess games and less 5-guess games than in any other calendar month. I know there’s an element of luck in this game but I’m still pleased to see how the month wound down considering how it was looking on the 20th.
I usually roll my eyes when I see that my first word is a 0-1-4. This time was no exception but finishing the game in just a few minutes in 3 guesses makes me very happy.
It took me a while to figure out what to play for my third guess. I didn’t think that SCALL was a word but I tried it anyway. I could have had it in 3 or 4 if I had tried SCALP or SCALD as my third guess but for whatever reason they didn’t occur to me as possibilities until after I tried SCALL.
This one took me a while to figure out. My first two guesses were fairly quick but it took me a while to figure what to guess next. I knew that the answer could not be COUPS but it was the best I could come up with for my third guess.
My streak of 4 guess games ends at 5. This is only the 5th time that I got the right answer in 3 guesses this month. It is also the first time this month that I didn’t get any green tiles until my final guess.
I think I got lucky using QUILT as a start word and in general with today’s game. This makes 4 days in a row that I’ve finished the game on the 4th guess. This streak is now my second shortest. Yay!
Thus my next streak begins. I could see this game going a lot differently but for the fact that my second guess included a C. I think that made a big difference.
I could have got it in three but I went with a couple more common words for my 3rd and 4th guesses. I don’t think this one got quite as many people as PARER but it looks like it got a number of people.
This was my second fail this month and sixth overall. Apparently this one got a lot of people. I’m not happy about it but after my third guess I feared that this would not be an easy one.
I’m not sure what exactly moved me to make CHAOS my second guess but it made a huge difference. Originally I was thinking maybe a word that ended with ST and began with CH but when I tried to think of one the first one that occurred to me was CHAOS. That was a lucky guess. I suppose the right answer could also have been CRASS but that didn’t occur to me until just now.
This is my first fail this month and my fifth overall. I reversed the U and N and had two green tiles on the second guess and still couldn’t get it. I think that GAUNT and JAUNT were good guesses. I just forgot about TAUNT as a possible answer.