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For me it's vowel elimination and consonant combo and/or position determination.
I think the using 5 letters was a very careful choice, it opens up the word catalog, while limiting the patterns once you've determined what it's not (so to speak).
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Still missing a 2 or 1, although 3 is nice too.
Same initial word as always, one of these days it’s gonna work out for me! I don’t care about it not being the statistically most appropriate first guess, it’s my word!
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Same initial word as always, one of these days it’s gonna work out for me! I don’t care about it not being the statistically most appropriate first guess, it’s my word!
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I find this to be a difficult game and want to know how many of you resort to Google to assist?? 
I’m better off with Sudoku.
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I’m better off with Sudoku.
5-letter words ending with E
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All 5-letter words containing letters A and E
List of 5-letter words containing the letters A and E. There are 1742 five-letter words containing A and E: AAHED ABASE ABATE ... ZOEAS ZONAE ZOOEA. Every word on this site is valid scrabble words. See other lists, beginning with or ending with letters of your choice.
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I don’t know why this one seemed so hard
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It DID seem hard, didn't it? Having arrived at line 6 without resolution, I wrestled with the rearrangement of the letters and then all of a sudden they fell into place. Whew!!!
And, no, I do not resort to Google. I play with different combinations of the letters on a piece of paper after having tried getting as many letters as possible on the first two lines. Today I bombed the third line altogether, not one letter. Fortunately I was able to redeem myself by the end!
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I never got the hang of Sudoku, gave up on that pretty quickly.
And, no, I do not resort to Google. I play with different combinations of the letters on a piece of paper after having tried getting as many letters as possible on the first two lines. Today I bombed the third line altogether, not one letter. Fortunately I was able to redeem myself by the end!
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I never got the hang of Sudoku, gave up on that pretty quickly.
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Underlined == Right, then why bother to play?
I really like that you have to submit your guess, so I use the actual game board to knock around different combinations.
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I've got a couple of words with which I usually start out, in order to snag the vowels, and then try playing with words that contain other letters and that gives me something to go on. And, yep, sometimes I use the actual game board to try out the words, too, rather than the piece of paper. Sometimes I just stare at the board for a moment and suddenly the letters magically position themselves in the right places....
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Oh, I take hours sometimes, like I'll make a play or two, then just go back to doing something else since I tend to "background process" things.
Yeah, the opening word is a big part of it, if you choose a good one, even no letters is super helpful.
Yeah, the opening word is a big part of it, if you choose a good one, even no letters is super helpful.
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I tell myself that this is just a fun thing, and if I bomb out altogether on the word, so be it; I try not to spend a lot of time on it. When I have gotten things wrong I'm usually chagrined at my mistakes, though, when I see what the actual word turns out to be.
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Just saw this news, too. Well, darn!!!! So how long will it be before the NYT puts this game behind a paywall???!!!!! Just when everybody was really getting hooked on it.....
Can't blame the originator, though -- he had a good thing going and he might as well profit from it.
Can't blame the originator, though -- he had a good thing going and he might as well profit from it.
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