Wordle in a Minute - 19th June 2024

Sometimes #Wordle grabs you by the throat, and really amazes you ...

[poppymcdermott]

'We didn't even need a TERSE THREE word Wordle...we got it done in two.'

What luck! Great solve.😊

[emilywilliams]

Wordle In a Second! “Less than optimal” start, great reactions, my favorite video of the day every time! Thanks, Mark.

[roiporat]

Mark’s opening word sequence currently:

STUDY THUMB NOBLE BERYL BLAZE CLERK GREEK NAVAL FINAL HOUND EMPTY HOUSE BLACK PETER THREE

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

There are two options here:
Technically the next Wordle word that appears in a title is in The Adventure of the Golden PINCE-Nez. However, it could be ruled that pince-nez is one eight-letter word and thus not applicable
In that case, the next (unique, as THREE reappears) Wordle word is in The Adventure of the ABBEY Grange

[HaldaneSmith]

Wordle by the Numbers

Terse in Standard Mode
Missed by: 2.4%
Average number of guesses: 3.5

Terse in Hard Mode
Missed by: 1.2%
Average number of guesses: 3.4

Standard / Hard
06/19/2024 Terse 2.4% 3.5 / 1.2% 3.4
06/18/2024 Cover 14.2% 4.4 / 10.8% 4.4
06/17/2024 Prior 4.2% 3.9 / 2.7% 3.9
06/16/2024 Grind <1% 3.5 / <1% 3.5
06/15/2024 Proud 0.7% 3.3 / <1% 3.1
06/14/2024 Vault 4.0% 4.1 / 1.6% 4.0
06/13/2024 Angst 3.3% 3.9 / 1.0% 3.7

The four columns are:

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


Me: Tal(es) > Th(e)SE > TERSE
Hard-mode streak: 57

Data is from Wordlebot.

[gavindeane]

I had a similar experience. 3 yellows and a green to start with.

STORE -> TERSE

[Waniou]

The rare exciting episode of Wordle in a Second!

Managed to get this one in two as well, STORE - TERSE

[Vitar]

THREE->TERSE. Honestly speaking, this is very expected if you start from three

[rjsimm]

THEIR > TERSE my second 2 in the last week!

[RocksterOO]

I wasn't paying enough attention! 🤬
A L I E N
B E R E T
T E R S E

[michaelpdawson]

My first guess was almost an anagram, second was a full anagram: STERN > RESET > TERSE

[marilyngardner]

I loved Mark's reaction to this solve.

[EvanSawyer]

Stare > Terse

Stare pays off big time.
I didn't even know that Terse existed, but there was really nowhere else to go.

[PlumCrumble]

I went with REIGN -> TERSE for a lucky two!

[blcmd]

THREE-TERSE. Next up, we’ll give ABBEY a shot as the starting word.

[Skyfaill]

Wow what a lucky first word. I don’t remember my first two words but after that I had burse -> verse -> merse and finally terse in 6. Have absolutely no idea what that word means. As a non native English speaker it’s the first time I’ve heard of terse or merse although I do read a lot of English books/novels. Have no idea if something like derse, ferse, gerse or werse are possible. Guess luck was on my side as well and my streak of 184 continues.

[jon]

I also had a lucky opening with frost. Amazingly terse was the only possible answer after that

[kingarthur]

love how this also happened with TOOTH from the fish series of starting words with mark talking about how bad it is and then immediately getting it in two 😂

[ZorlockDarksoul]

CRASH -> FIRST -> TORSO -> TERSE

Fantastic solve, Mark! Luck goes a long way.

[dylantd]

I got Terse in 3, and I was surprised cause "Terse" was the only option I had left, and I got it by guessing all letters until one worked... It is not a word that's normally in my vocabulary

[marcograzioli]

I had a nice pattern of greens with my sequence: Dance - Probe - Rhyme - Litre - Terse