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Yellows (and reds) seem good because they slow down how fast you go through gray letters. I'm not so sure the best starting word is the most obscure word. Good ones seem to reveal a pattern of "rhymes," which is what I was going for with the β¬οΈπ¨π¨π¨π¨ pattern. Unfortunately I already used quite a few letters by that point :(
Disclaimer: I played this round alongside my dad so I did have an advantage in knowing where some letters were. More realistically I'd have gotten 9 or something :)
Ironic, because "rhyme" has usually been my starting word. But I agree with your logic. The other logic I've started trying to apply is using words that repeat letters.
That too. I did this a couple games ago when the word was CARRY. I had β¬οΈπ₯β¬οΈβ¬οΈπ₯ and was able to use MAMMY DADDY NANNY SASSY. I think these are the most optimal types of words because it lets you bypass the requirement of needing yellows to pad space, and as a consequence the yellows don't bully you into a corner as quickly. I guess thinking in terms of information, it does good at keeping the set of possible words as big as possible. (In normal Wordle, you want to pick a word which halves the set.)