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Post by Dave Thomas Mayor of Ponderosa on Jan 30, 2021 1:22:01 GMT
First of all there is no rule that our guesses have to be real words so there's no reason we can't guess "[X]aeiou" for all of them in our first attempt.
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Post by Bonobo on Jan 30, 2021 1:23:11 GMT
TRUE
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Post by Bonobo on Jan 30, 2021 1:27:32 GMT
1)T****** (6 letters to find) 2)B**** (4 letters to find) 3)D***** (5 letters to find) 4)T**** (4 letters to find) 5)B**** (4 letters to find) 6)A***** (5 letters to find) 7)C**** (4 letters to find) 8)C***** (5 letters to find) 9)P*** (3 letters to find) 10) C***** (5 letters to find) so we should do vowels and common letters. No repeats. We should also use this table: This is mosst common letters by position:
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Post by ...Bees? on Jan 30, 2021 1:28:40 GMT
That is true, it doesn't say that. Probably should also remember most commonly used letters if we're trying to limit the amount of guesses too, so EARIOTNSLC.
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Post by The Tortoise & The Hare on Jan 30, 2021 1:29:09 GMT
oh my goodness i missed this whole thread. We're allowed to discuss strategy as long as we haven't started. Since we haven't started here is some reccomeended reading:
It says to guess words with a lot of common letters early on so you can narrow down your search quickly.
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Post by The Tortoise & The Hare on Jan 30, 2021 1:32:40 GMT
I think the mods are also going to choose uncommon words... so it might be good if we really focused on vowels.
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Post by Dave Thomas Mayor of Ponderosa on Jan 30, 2021 1:33:43 GMT
Actually we should have our first guesses NOT start with the letter we know is the real first letter. May as well get an extra freebie slot in our guess.
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Post by The Tortoise & The Hare on Jan 30, 2021 1:36:17 GMT
wait that's so smart. i didn't know you could even do that.
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...Bees?
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Post by ...Bees? on Jan 30, 2021 1:37:46 GMT
It doesn't say we're limited by guesses being words that are the same length as the word we're looking for either.
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Post by The Tortoise & The Hare on Jan 30, 2021 1:38:35 GMT
ah but there might be a second A for example, which would be marked as correct but in the wrong place.
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Post by Dave Thomas Mayor of Ponderosa on Jan 30, 2021 1:39:46 GMT
wait that's so smart. i didn't know you could even do that. Normally you can't!
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Post by ...Bees? on Jan 30, 2021 1:44:32 GMT
Grr, apparently words have to be actual words and the same length as the real words.
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Post by The Tortoise & The Hare on Jan 30, 2021 1:44:59 GMT
there is our much awaited rules update post
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Post by The Tortoise & The Hare on Jan 30, 2021 1:46:53 GMT
Actually we should have our first guesses NOT start with the letter we know is the real first letter. May as well get an extra freebie slot in our guess. But they never outlawed doing this.
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Post by Bonobo on Jan 30, 2021 1:47:12 GMT
Actually we should have our first guesses NOT start with the letter we know is the real first letter. May as well get an extra freebie slot in our guess. But they never outlawed doing this. B)
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