Wordle in a Minute - 26th June 2024

Tough Wordling today - a yellow monstrosity ...

[poppymcdermott]

'The LIONS KNEAD the RAVEN NEATH the ENEMA.'

Brutal on multiple levels!

[roiporat]

Mark’s opening word sequence currently:

STUDY THUMB NOBLE BERYL BLAZE CLERK GREEK NAVAL FINAL HOUND EMPTY HOUSE BLACK PETER THREE ABBEY STAIN LODGE PLANS DYING STONE LIONS

Theme: The 5-letter words from Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes story titles, in order

(I missed The Adventure of the Lion’s Mane yesterday, whoops)
Tomorrow is the end of the sequence with The Adventure of Shoscombe Old PLACE

[EvanSawyer]

Stare > Naked > Knead

Naked was super lucky! 4 yellows and a green, WILD!

[gavindeane]

Glad you got this one Mark. I'm always a bit nervous when the sad music starts.

My second guess got me EA in the right place and the only place I thought N could then go was second, so a lucky 3 for me.

STORE CLEAN KNEAD

[masitaj]

I did this one in 3, it's kinda funny that more often than not I did very well when you're struggling and vice versa, humans' brains are interestingly unique

[HaldaneSmith]

Wordle by the Numbers

Knead in Standard Mode
Missed by: 3.1%
Average number of guesses: 4.0

Knead in Hard Mode
Missed by: 0.9%
Average number of guesses: 3.8

Standard / Hard
06/27/2024 Knead 3.1% 4.0 / 0.9% 3.8
06/25/2024 Savor 2.9% 3.6 / 1.5% 3.6
06/24/2024 Dolly 7.4% 4.3 / 6.3% 4.3
06/23/2024 Bugle 2.2% 4.2 / 0.6% 4.1
06/22/2024 Edict 2.1% 3.8 / <1% 3.9
06/21/2024 Paint 0.6% 3.4 / <1% 3.2
06/20/2024 Scent 2.1% 3.5 / 1.0% 3.6

The four columns are:

Standard mode failure rate
Standard mode average guesses
Hard mode failure rate
Hard mode average guesses

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

Me: t(a)l(e)s > cr(ane) > p(en)AL > KNEAD
Hard-mode streak: 64

Data is from Wordlebot.

[jvx]

Sad music and an enema. 😥😥
My solve was: DEATH > ANODE > SNEAD > KNEAD
Kicking myself for trying SNEAD! What was I thinking?!
Well done for soldiering through, Mark, you solved it quicker than i came up with SNEAD. 👏👏👏👏👏

[TinkerTailor]

I like Mark's blush when he says enema!😅

[emilywilliams]

These are entertaining in the most surprising ways! Thanks, Mark.

[randomjunk]

Ironically my third guess was BREAD getting me to KNEAD in 5

[RiseofPerfection]

As a non native speaker this one yesterday had me baffled. My second guess was „Freak“ and I sat there for a solid 5 minutes like:“what english word actually starts with a K instead of a C?“

At some point the bell rang though

[jacobdbuckley]

For the record, ENEMA was already the solution to Wordle #124, way back on October 21st, 2021!

[moonloversheila]

This was a horrible word! Well done, Mark. Almost lost my streak. My last 4 guesses were PLEAD STEAD AHEAD and KNEAD! 😬

[Anne_Mahoney]

Got this one in 4: shirt, gland, nomad, knead. Of course the pause between "nomad" and "knead" was close to a full minute -- nothing seemed plausible! 😺

[willenholly]

I also got it in 5, using ENEMA. As a guy who takes pride in his pizza, I feel shame. 🍕

[ZorlockDarksoul]

CRASH -> FINAL -> WOMAN -> KNEAD

This one took me a while.

[marcograzioli]

I played this run with one of my friends who is also into the game. We guessed the word (we didn't know it) in four tries:
Heavy - Great - Sneak - Knead

It's always nice when you get to know something new palying a game 🙂

[dionarlyn]

FORGE > BLEND > KNEAD

Three verbs about production, what a coincidence

[MaxYT]

3 guesses for me.
Court -> Blank -> Knead

[jon]

This one had me very confused. Cause>Great>Ideal>Ahead>Knead