Glad you cleared up the problem. Hey, you're never any trouble! ha ha

It's always good to hear from you, joyful.calm! :-) Wordle is fun, both is figuring out the word and in seeing patterns in how the letters fall into place (hopefully into the correct place!) There are plenty of days I'm 100% sure I've got it, only to see that nope, there was at least one more possibility.

Hi Ed!

Everyday I play it, I think of this forum and how many said they only needed one word to begin guessing. And not the same one. I always need my first two words. I sometimes invoke my third word, just to get enough letters. It's amazing how many tries some words take ;)

Get well!

Hi rob,

What at are your first two words?

I often use "swear" or "wares" as my first word and back when I wrote this made lists of results using various candidates for second word, but have been decluttering house and have lost the list. Decluttering seems to be a worthwhile winter project.

Without a car and living 6 miles from a village and 13 to 20 from a city, I've been doing some hitchhiking, so am thankful that our winter has been mild thus far.

ole joyful

My first word is always either ”STARE” or ”ASTER” as they are the more common vowels and consonants. If there are few or no matches I go for ”QUOIN” as that covers the remaining vowels and one more very commonly used consonant. If I still only get one or no vowels then I consider ”Y” may be involved :-)

I have some lists of random five-letter words and I pick one. I have never gotten one on the first try and get excited when I get at least one green one there. There's a new TV called Lingo with RuPaul which is like Wordle.

ADIEU or ADIOS are words I like to start with.

colleenoz, my comment wasn't a proscription, it was an observation. Exactly the same as your comment was, though mine had no intended personal criticism or insult.

I use the ten most common letters for my first two words, which tend to be ACORN/TILES or LEARN/STOIC. If I want to swap an H for the C, I used ARSON/LITHE, not necessarily in that order.

This generally helps me on the Canuckle puzzle - I've more or less stopped playing Wordle, and Foodle now appears to be defunct.

When playing Quardle, I use the 15 most common letters for my first three words, and I have some variations on those. The first groups I came up with is ADORN/THUMP/SLICE, but sometimes I want to use a G, B, F, or Y instead of H or M, and I have different groups of words for those variations.

ADIEU and CRONY give me all the vowels (even sometimes Y).

Or you could move on if you’re not interested.

I use READS or REACH, POINT and BULKY Those usually get me pretty far. I also play Quordle, Octordle and Daily Dordle.

Elmer, your cynicism, negative comments and judgements, and "knowledge" about almost anything crack me up. Kudos!

I was thinking about joyfuel and wondering where he was. I missed his resurrecting this thread, but now I know he's ok.

lucille, I posted my reaction to what I saw, just as others do from time to time. How does one happen upon such an old thread anyway and not realize the conversation ended long ago?

Elmer, the conversation has not ended, people are still posting their wordle stuff. You are, like all of us, free to post your reaction to what you saw, and by the same token others are free to post their reaction to what you write.

et tu brute

I have no problem with people resurrecting threads - I do it from time to time.

On the Laundry Forum, people there jump on others who ask questions that have been asked before and demand that people search archives before asking a question. At least that is how it used to be, and I was warned not to ask a question there, and so I avoid that forum.

I personally do not know why anyone would object to old thread being resurrected. I think it is more efficient to do that than to start a new thread that is almost identical.

I'll offer a comment to lars, one of my favorite contributors.

I noted that this thread was originally tagged with three forums, one of which being Retirement. That lit a small light of interest. There I found the thread linked below, another head scratcher. The conversation ended 5 years ago, but for the last two contributions.

Another that needs to RIP

Elmer, this thread was started by joyfulguy and resurrected by him. If you have a problem with that, you should just move on.

commenting about remarks isn't ignoring. Ignoring means doing nothing.

;)

In this setting, it's used to say "I'm not going to respond to your comment". Keep your language usage book out, I'm sure you'll encounter more colloquial phrases today.

I think people don't need to say that. It's more effective to actually ignore. Saying "I'm going to ignore you" is a ploy to draw attention to the person who said it. I'm sure you can see that.

joyfulguy, THANK YOU for this thread! I missed it the first time and it has really helped. I always enjoy your posts and comments.

Is "elmer" a useful 5-letter word in this context ...

... it seems to have appeared here over half a dozen times.

Maybe I/we? should try it on Wordle. Would you recommend it as first try?

ole joyful ... 27 years enjoying retirement pension: helped during Covid!

elmer is not in the word list, but troll is.

I always look forward to your comments too.

Joyful, I don't understand why you are sometimes met with disrespect here. I hope you know how many of us enjoy and appreciate you. You aren't posting as often as you once did - and we miss you! I hope to be reading when the cold weather relents that you are back to the garden.

I, too, enjoy seeing your name pop up and reading what you have to say. It's a testament to your fortitude what you go through to get to town and a computer to post once in a while. It appears there is only one person who is rude to you, but you are not his only target, so welcome to the club! His comments reflect who he is, not who you are or what others think of you.

Another great experience just the other day ... was it while I was in hosp.? Don't remember.

First word I tried "wares", as often do, or "swear".

"R", third position, was green.

"A", second, yellow: correct letter, wrong location.

Wanted to try "a" at location 1, so what word would I need with "r" as third letter? Where did "acrid" come from ... sliding into my brain?

Let's give it a try.

First letter was green, also second, and third was green from the start ... and so were 4 and 5!

Comment was something like "Magnificent"!

And I was pleased with myself: was it once that I'd ever before got it on second try?

Don't remember.

By far the largest number of winners on the way to 93% success rate for me is the fourth try.

ole joyful

P.S. I've had a phone with multiple capabilities for just over four years, so do a lot of stuff using it.

Having some problems, and the guys where I got it are trying to get me to pitch it and get a better one (pretty well same price).

o j