Quordle - Guess all four Quordle words in 9 tries

Well that was a first....after first 2 starter words I'd almost pinned down bottom left but had nothing in top right. Decided to play it safe and use my 3rd starter and boom, hit the top right from nothing.

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nands said:
@div0 what's this talk of a third starter word?
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Starter word = just a word played to get new letters onto the board, not making use of any letters from a previous guess.

So for me, I would usually play:

TRADE
SPOIL
CHUNK

These use a lot of commonly used letters and usually mean you're then in good position to start guessing at the answers.

But if my first 2 'starters' hit a lot of letters in one of the boards then I'll start guessing before playing my 3rd 'starter'.

Today my first 2 starter words meant that bottom left was confirmed as S?ARE. So could have been SNARE or SCARE. My usual 3rd 'starter' (CHUNK) uses both the N and C, so was perfect to narrow that down and also bring other letters (H, U, K) into play.



It just happened that it was then the actual answer to top right, where I had previously hit no letters from the first 2 words.

Hope that makes sense.
 
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div0 said:
Starter word = just a word played to get new letters onto the board, not making use of any letters from a previous guess.

So for me, I would usually play:

TRADE
SPOIL
CHUNK

These use a lot of commonly used letters and usually mean you're then in good position to start guessing at the answers.

But if my first 2 'starters' hit a lot of letters in one of the boards then I'll start guessing before playing my 3rd 'starter'.

Today my first 2 starter words meant that bottom left was confirmed as S?ARE. So could have been SNARE or SCARE. My usual 3rd 'starter' (CHUNK) uses both the N and C, so was perfect to narrow that down and also bring other letters (H, U, K) into play.



It just happened that it was then the actual answer to top right, where I had previously hit no letters from the first 2 words.

Hope that makes sense.
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No problem at all with starter words, just I hadn't thought of using three.

IRATE
SOUND
 
nands said:
No problem at all with starter words, just I hadn't thought of using three.

IRATE
SOUND
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Yeah, I guess if you've covered all the vowels with first 2 words then a third starter word doesn't make so much sense.

My logic is that by using 4 vowels in the first 2 words, there's still opportunity to infer the last vowel depending on what comes up. And if I'm struggling, then a third starter puts lots of options in the table. But I guess it can work both ways - play all the vowels early and you've got more chance to work out the missing consonants.
 
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I was on guess 7 and had 4 of the letter for the top right. And two options on what it could be, guessed wrong unfortunately.
In the end, I barely had enough letters to guess the top left.
 
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