It's your lucky day because we have a two for one post today since I didn't write yesterday's Wordle solve. Yay!
I started Tuesday's puzzle with BRING, following my one vowel guessing strategy. I'm not sure what to make of the strategy because I get nothing from this guess. For some reason, I was to put F at the start and enter FAULT for my second guess. I had briefly considered FLACK because that was one of the words from Spelling Bee either on Monday or over the weekend, but I went with FAULT, which got me a yellow A. I decide to use the letter E in my third guess since it is the most common letter. Quick aside: I don't know if that is true or not, but I've heard it repeated enough times to just accept it. PEACH is my third guess, which gets me a yellow C. Maybe I should've gone with FLACK.
My fourth guess is COMAS. I totally disregard the no-plural rule with this guess because I need to find the location of some of these letters, and I don't have anything else to guess. This gets me greens for CO and by deduction I now know that A is at the end of the word. CO--A. Hmmm, not a lot that I can do with that, is there? I think for a moment and land on COCOA, which is the correct answer. I like this puzzle because it shows the different paths you could take to a solve on my second guess. If I had used FLACK, I might've been able to get the solve in four or under, instead I have to settle for a bogey five. Oh well, that's how it goes sometimes.
Today got off to a slightly better start. My opening guess of BLOCK got me a yellow C. So now I'm a little bit on the fence about the four consonants/one vowel opener. I don't know, it's helpful, but is it the best strategy? Should I just go with random words, with no regards to vowel/consonant constraints? I don't know.
My second guess is CRATE. Maybe my problem with my current strategy is with the second guess. I would have to look back at these posts, but I bet I tend to throw the correct letters (if I get any) at the front in my second guess. There is probably some kind of confirmation bias at play there. Anyways, CRATE gets me yellows for C,T, and E. Now I'm really stumped, especially because I want to type METRIC for my next guess and I get stuck looking at that six-letter word. After some unsuccessful playing with the letters, I type METIC, and that is accepted for some reason? I've now got four of the correct letters and IC at the end of the word, which continues to stump me.
I play around and type THEIC, which is another word that I don't know that is accepted. Okay. It's wrong, but I now have all the letters. I quickly see that the answer is ETHIC. A little disappointed in myself for not seeing it earlier, but I was really in the weeds with the letters I had. The streak is up to 28.
For the record, according to Google, metic is a foreigner living in an ancient Greek city who had some of the privileges of citizenship. And theic is a person who drinks excessive amounts of tea. Yep, those words sure are going to come in handy some day.
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