Wordle 499

⬛️⬛️🟨🟨🟩 DELAY

🟨🟨⬛️🟨🟩 LAITY

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 APTLY

This one me a while. Most of the time was spent after I had made my second guess. I had trouble figuring out what the missing letter was and how to arrange the letters I already had.

This was my first 1.2.2 in over a month. The last time I started a game with 1.2.2 was on Sep 19. This was only my eighth game that began with 1.2.2 which means that it happens on average about once every 31 days.

This is also my last game for October. I completed all my games in October in 3, 4, or 5 guesses. I completed a new personal monthly best 14 games in 3 guesses. I finished 9 games in 4 guesses and 8 games in 5 guesses. Neither of those are monthly record highs or lows.

I had one 5G and three 0Y games in October. One of the 0Y games took me 4 guesses but the other two and the 5G game I finished in 3 guesses.

My average score for October was 3.83. That is a new monthly record low.

The split between games that took 3 and 5 guesses to complete was at +3 in favor of games that took 3 guesses to complete, at the end of September. It is now, at the end of October, at +10 in favor of games that took 3 guesses to complete.

Wordle 498

⬛️⬛️⬛️🟨⬛️ DECAY

🟩🟩⬛️⬛️🟨 WAIST

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 WALTZ

This took a little over 5 minutes. It took me a few minutes to figure out what my options were after my second guess. WALTZ was the first and only word that occurred to me.

I started with 0.1.4 for the sixth time in the past eight games.

This is my 250th game of Wordle. My average score is 4.10 but if I exclude losses then it is 4.05. That is the lowest cumulative average score I have ever had.

The dominance of games that take 4 guesses to complete continues but it has diminished a bit. Considering that my average score has dropped over the course of the last 25 games that means that I have had completed more games in 3 guesses than 4 in that stretch.

I completed all of the last 25 games in 3, 4, or 5 guesses. I finished 11 of the past 25 games in 3 guesses, 7 in 4 guesses, and 7 in 5 guesses.

I had one 5G and two 0Y games in the past 25 games. All three of those came in games that it took me 3 guesses to complete.

The current split between 3 and 5 guess games is currently +9 in favor of 3 guess games and that is the highest it has ever been.

Wordle 497

⬛️⬛️🟨⬛️⬛️ AMINO

⬛️⬛️⬛️🟨⬛️ FRUIT

⬛️🟩🟨🟨⬛️ WIELD

⬛️🟩⬛️🟩🟩 PIXEL

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 LIBEL

This took me 15-20 minutes. I don’t think I wasted any guesses it just took me a while to get to the right answer. I spent a few minutes trying to find other possible answers, after I saw that the answer might be LIBEL.

I started with 0.1.4 for the fifth time in the last 7 games.

Wordle 496

⬛️🟩⬛️⬛️⬛️ UNTIL

🟨🟩⬛️⬛️🟨 ANODE

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 SNEAK

This wasn’t too hard and didn’t take more than 10 minutes.

This is the fifth consecutive game that I have finished in 3 or 4 guesses. My current record is 9 consecutive games. All 5 games during this streak that I have started with 1.0.4 have been completed in 3 or 4 guesses.

Wordle 495

⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️🟨 SONIC

🟩🟩⬛️⬛️⬛️ CAULK

🟩🟩⬛️⬛️🟨 CAVER

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 CARRY

This took 10 minutes or so. I wanted my second guess to include the three vowels that I had not tried yet in my first guess but I had trouble coming up with one that fit. I did not consult my list of start words. I also considered making CARAT my fourth guess but I thought of CARRY first and decided to go with that because I thought of it first.

Yesterday I also started with 0.1.4 and finished the game in four guesses. Four of the last five games have started with 0.1.4 which is extremely common but doesn’t usually occur that frequently.

Wordle 494

⬛️⬛️⬛️🟨⬛️ DAILY

🟨🟨🟨⬛️⬛️ LOUSE

⬛️🟩🟩🟩🟩 CLOUT

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 FLOUT

That was fast. Almost had it in 3. 

Wordle 493

⬛️🟩⬛️🟩⬛️ ROUGH

⬛️🟩⬛️🟩⬛️ CONGA

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 FOGGY

This didn’t take long but I think I got lucky. I checked my list of start words when I was deciding what my second guess should be but there was nothing that fit. There were a few other possibilities after my second guess. I played the first one that came to mind.

This is my second 2.0.3 this month and this streak. I finished both games in 3 guesses. This is my third 0Y this month and this streak.