Wordle in a Minute - 22nd December 2024

All those 5s and 6s lately playing #...Wordle - they have to end sometime, surely

[NMe]

"Sorry about the quietness of yesterday's video, " he says, over the deafening sound of today's video's music. 🤣

[roiporat]

Mark’s opening word sequence currently:

BEGIN NIGHT SMALL BLACK BLIND MOLES THERE CLOCK SHOPS WEEDS FANCY WOMAN WIVES YOUNG GIRLS GLIDE RINGS SLEEP YARDS

Theme: The 5-letter words from Dylan Thomas’ radio drama, Under Milk Wood, in order

and the cats nap in the SLANT corners or lope sly, streaking and needling…

[leeclements]

Brilliant stuff Mark, just wanna say it feels like the music is too loud compared to your narrative and I enjoy hearing you natter, just wanted to let you know thanks

[gavindeane]

A had a little chuckle when the answer came for me. Second guess was appropriate in more ways than one 🙂

STARE
BRAIN
BRAWN

[jvx]

I started with GASHY and still got it in 4. (!!) In fact, PRAWN was my 2nd guess. 😅😅
Well done, Mark, the streak continues!! 👏👏👏

[HaldaneSmith]

The Shrinking Wordle-verse

Words left after Yards - 140
After Craft - 15
After Grail - 7 (Brave, Brake, Prank, Bravo, Brava, Brawn, Prawn)
After Bravo - 2
After Brake - 1
After Brawn - 0

Skill: 89/99
Luck: 26/99

Data is from Wordlebot.

[HaldaneSmith]

Wordle by the Numbers - Brawn
Standard mode failure rate: 1.3%
Standard mode average guesses: 4.0
Hard mode failure rate: <1%
Hard mode average guesses: 4.0

Standard / Hard
12/22/2024 Brawn 1.3% 4.0 / <1% 4.0
12/21/2024 Blade 1.9% 4.0 / 1.4% 3.9
12/20/2024 Flash 1.5% 3.7 / <1% 3.6
12/19/2024 Stray 3.6% 3.9 / 1.6% 3.8
12/18/2024 Hefty 2.6% 4.0 / 0.8% 3.8
12/17/2024 Scowl 2.4% 4.0 / 0.8% 3.8
12/16/2024 Boast 1.7% 3.7 / 0.7% 3.7

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

Me (4): t(a)les > (a)co(r)N > gRAiN > BRAWN
Hard-mode streak: 60

Data is from Wordlebot.

[blcmd]

Next up, we’ll see if SLANT works as the starting word. Any chance we can increase the ratio of Mark to music on these videos?

[MaxYT]

Got lucky, 2 guesses.
Train -> Brawn

[Epyxoid]

I suspect the microphone and the music's volume are switched. The music has the perfect foreground volume, while your voice's volume perfect for the background.

[marilyngardner]

CROWN > BRAWN. Very lucky first guess, and then all I had to do was choose between BRAWN, PRAWN and DRAWN. DRAWN sounded familiar and it has been an answer before.

[Anne_Mahoney]

Thanks to my trusty starting sequence (and not playing hard mode), a 3 for me: shirt, gland, brawn.

[michaelpdawson]

SATIN > GROAN > PRAWN > BRAWN - The third guess was a toss-up among BRAWN, PRAWN, and DRAWN. I actually thought of BRAWN first but thought it would be less likely.

[ZorlockDarksoul]

CRASH -> GRADE -> FRAIL -> TRAMP -> BRAVO -> BRAWN

My lucky streak of twos and threes has ended. I had to work through nearly 75% of the alphabet to find this answer.

[Railbird_]

Figuring out the N had to go last saved me from worse on this one.
CLOUT - DAIRY - SHEAR - PRANK - BRAWN

[markes]

i could only think of a b in front rawn after those guesses, but didn't know the word brawn. And the second guess was a mistake.

[marcograzioli]

Guessed in 4:

Rusty - Pride - Wrong - Brawn

[RocksterOO]

I think this is pretty conclusive proof that the first word choice, is crucial!
A L I E N
G R O A N
B R A W N

[andymerrett]

5 today, creeping towards the answer.

🟨🟨⬛⬛⬛ RAISE
⬛🟩🟩⬛⬛ TRAMP
⬛🟩🟩⬛⬛ CRACK
🟩🟩🟩🟩⬛ BRAWL
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 BRAWN

[nrich]

lol You lucky so-and-so! 🤣

BRAWN before BRAIN for once. 💪🧠

Nothing so dramatic for me today - a nice quick 3 again. Was lucky with the starting word. Coulda been a 2 though. 🤔

🟩🟩⬜🟨⬜BREAD
🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜BRAWL
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩BRAWN