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drivers99today at 3:18 PM2 repliesview on HN

Does that not lead you to situations where you have to guess the last letter on each round? Or do you choose words to avoid getting trapped in that situation in the first place?


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copypasterepeattoday at 3:33 PM

I try to avoid the common traps, but it can be tricky.

I also impose this additional constraint on myself, which the game doesn't enforce, that I can't reuse letters that have been marked gray. Sometimes you just can't think of the next word, or might be tempted to use a gray letter because that way you could get more information from other letters, but I avoid using them.

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magneticnorthtoday at 3:40 PM

Yes, that does happen occasionally, and it's part of the game for me to try and avoid getting trapped like that.