Wordle in a Minute - 5th August 2024

Off to the #Wordle factory again, for another tour ...

[HaldaneSmith]

The Shrinking Wordle-verse

Words left after Stint - 20
After Bonus - 1
After Ensue - 0

[roiporat]

Mark’s opening word sequence currently:

FIRST WOULD WEAVE SNARE MIGHT ALONG GRIEF LEDGE WHERE WORTH QUEEN STILL TARTS LOVED GIFTS KNOWN SOUND STONE STINT

Theme: The 5-letter words from Patrick Kavanagh’s poem “On Raglan Road”, in order

And word and tint. I did not stint for I gave her POEMS to say.

[MarionFerris]

I was pretty happy with my solve in 4. Mark's super fast journey on this one was magic.
RELIC
NAKED
ENVOY
ENSUE

I've had all 4's this entire week! Time to up the ante!

[emilywilliams]

Your thinking aloud about where certain letters must go is always interesting, Mark. Thanks for the daily brain-wake-up.

[jvx]

I also got this in 3: BALED > SHORE > ENSUE, but I stared at ENSUE for at least a full minute trying to think of a better guess. I couldn't. 🤣🤣
Well done to you Mark!! Thank you for the video!!

[SingWhileYouMay]

My streak disappeared. Again. When I dd today's wordle I was greeted with the text you get when starting afresh, and for some reason I couldn't remember if I did the previous one or not. I always do wordle before going to sleep, and I guess I was dead tired that day. Seeing Mark's solve today, I remembered. Ensue, yep, I solved that one. Third time losing a streak this way. Oh well, I just got back into double figures after my last (real) failure.

[HaldaneSmith]

Wordle by the Numbers - Ensue
Standard mode failure rate: 2.8%
Standard mode average guesses: 4.0
Hard mode failure rate: <1%
Hard mode average guesses: 3.8

Standard / Hard
08/05/2024 Ensue 2.8% 4.0 / <1% 3.8
08/04/2024 Lower 8.5% 4.5 / 6.7% 4.4
08/02/2024 Flake 4.5% 4.3 / 3.5% 4.3
08/01/2024 Chalk 0.7% 3.5 / <1% 3.3
07/31/2024 Penne 3.1% 4.2 / 1.5% 4.2
07/30/2024 Feral 1.3% 3.8 / <1% 3.6
07/29/2024 Super 1.2% 3.6 / 0.7% 3.5

<1% probably means <0.5%. Wordlebot uses <1% for small values, but it also uses values of 0.5% to 0.9%.

Me: tal(es) > (s)NorE > ENSUE
Hard-mode streak: 26

Data is from Wordlebot.

[nonumbersinusername]

I google a lot of Mark's answers recently
English is hard

[VonBlade]

I know we all play differently but every time I see people double letter their starting word I am shocked. Way riskier play than I'm comfortable with.

[Anne_Mahoney]

I found this really hard: shirt, gland, meson, unsex, ensue. Did get there eventually though.

[poppymcdermott]

'That ENSUE(d) to be correct when our BONUS STINT was over.'

[gavindeane]

I had a rare case of all the letters coloured on an incorrect answer with my fourth guess. 3 greens, 2 yellows.

DRAIN MOUNT LUNGE UNSEE ENSUE

I didn't really like UNSEE but I was unable to see anything else for that guess.

[castelodeossos]

Paucity of clues made this almost unsolvable. After the second guess, must have pondered in excess of ten minutes, because anything I could think of had already been a solution. Then suddenly got it:
AROSE
SIDLE
ENSUE

[EvanSawyer]

Stare > Issue > Ensue.

I was between Issue and something else, maybe Chose? I can’t remember anymore but I remember it would have made this a 4 since it didn’t prevent me from using Issue next.
I got extremely lucky there!

[Railbird_]

I felt like it had to contain a repeated letter but I chose the wrong one first.
DOUGH - UPSET - ISSUE - ENSUE

[Sheamu]

I got the U green on the first guess, but was stun locked, took me 5 to get it

[ZorlockDarksoul]

CRASH -> SLIME -> DOUSE -> UNSEE -> ENSUE

After I mistakenly repeated the S in spot four, I put in UNSEE as a joke, trying to forget my error. I was surprised when it was accepted, and then annoyed when it gave me all the remaining letters.

[shirleyhenderson]

Got it in 5. Guess 1 was AISLE, guess 4 was issue

[jon]

I got this in 4. Stead>Poise>Unsee>Ensue

[MaxYT]

5 guesses for me.
Flame -> Twice -> Prune -> Nudge -> Ensue