Originally Posted by RedRaider56:
Why would you not want to use any discovered letters in subsequent guesses?
Originally Posted by Dartgod:
To increase your chances of discovering more letters I suppose. I think that is the gist of what Fat Elvis was saying.
You use those 3 words first and chances are, you will have discovered 4 or 5 of the letters in the answer and then you have 3 chances to get the right word.
It isn't just about discovering more letters; it is also about eliminating huge chunks of words that use common letters. Words that use primarily high frequency letters typically have more potential combinations of how those letters fit together. After those three words, there are only 11 letters in the alphabet that haven't been guessed, and since they aren't used in very many words, relatively speaking, it is pretty easy to guess the word. So my strategy results in one of two outcomes: either I've uncovered a lot of high frequency letters making it easy to guess the word, or I know the word contains low frequency letters thus limiting the number of potential solutions-again making the word easy to guess.
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Originally Posted by TLO:
4 out of 6 again today. What kind of word is *****????
I was thinking the same thing. Some of the word choices are so obscure.
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Originally Posted by Dartgod:
So apparently there is a "hard" mode that requires you to use any discovered letters in subsequent guesses. That's actually the way I've always played it. So your way, you always enter the same 3 words first making it impossible to solve in less than 4 tries? Unless of course one of the first 3 words is the answer.
Hard mode should be required.
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