On: Show HN: Can you lose at Wordle if you tried?

[julianwachholz]

For yellow squares, the particular order in which they turn yellow doesn't matter.

The remaining grey Ms tell you the same thing (that those positions don't have an M).

[gweinberg → julianwachholz]

That's true for Wordle, but I think according to the dontwordle rules you are allowed to make a guess with an em on one of the grey squares anyway.

[db_admin → gweinberg]

No you are not allowed to do that. A grey square excludes the letter from the position, regardless of any yellow squares.

[pricci → db_admin]

You are correct. Words with repeated letters are not a good strategy in this game.

[JoshTriplett → pricci]

Words with repeated letters are a great strategy, as long as you know or strongly suspect the letter isn't in the target word, and the letter is rare so eliminating it doesn't eliminate much.

[skeaker → pricci]

They are a fantastic strategy, though if one happens to rob you of a lot of remaining words, you should undo it.

[pricci → skeaker]

Hmm, that was the case when I tried and I jumped to the conclusion

[nebulous1 → pricci]

I'm not sure about your conclusion here. If we don't repeat the letter then we're going to have information about another letter, which we don't want.