29% of Wordle players missed Jolly making it the second hardest Wordle so far. Only Parer, missed by 48%, was more difficult. Jolly's average score was 5.6 guesses and over 50% got it in 5 or 6. It has the same pattern as the infamously difficult “Jazzy”, and while “l” is a common letter and “z” is rare, Jolly has hard mode hell issues. Legal solutions: Dolly, Folly, Golly, Holly, Jolly. Folly is the only previous solution. Legal guesses: Colly, Lolly, Molly, Polly, Tolly, Wolly. I was saved by Moldy: taLes > moLdY > HOLLY > JOLLY Hard-mode streak: 323
This killed my current maximum streak of 271! I usually start with the word SCENT, but right now I'm trying my own sequence of openers. I started this one with KNOLL, which was actually quite lucky! But still couldn't pull the lever to solve the -OLLY problem.
First time I’ve failed a wordle. At least I was never able to get a massive streak since every few months I miss a day. Ended up guessing 5 different olly words none of which were Jolly
WRECK-STING-ALOUND-HOLLY-FOLLY-JOLLY. That’s a tough word with many streaks killed. Next up, we begin anew with a new unknown series of starting words.
While Americans would understand it as short for "lollipop", LOLLY is distinctively British slang. I’ve noticed it’s not accepted in the NYT Spelling Bee. It would be very unlikely to be a Wordle solution, though it could be in the *much* broader class of legal guesses. (BTW Brits, don’t expect to use NAPPY in Spelling Bee either, the American adjectival use is now considered a slur for describing African American hair.)
@@rahulghorpade8078 When you finish a word a link comes up to the "wordlebot". Click it, it analyzes your answers and then it gives you the stats of other players.
Mark’s opening word sequence in full: AMBER ANGEL BLACK BLIND CLING CLOWN CORAL CRAMP CROSS DEVIL GLOBE GOOSE HOUND JELLY LEMON LOOSE PILOT QUEEN QUEER RAZOR ROUND ROYAL SCALD SCALE SHELL SNAIL SNIPE SPADE SPEAR SPIKE STING STOCK STONE SWORD TIGER TOOTH TRUNK TRUNK WHITE WRECK Theme: Words which fit the pattern “_____fish” or “_____ fish”, alphabetically And that’s the end of the sequence! And a pretty long one at that
This is why I won't play in hard mode. With words like this there are so many choices and the game becomes all about luck. In regular mode you can succeed with strategy (playing the right eval words).
I'm so glad that I actually tried Jolly on the 6th. Probably has something to do with me not being a native english speaker, which means I dont know that many words. I also only got my first non-grey letter on the third word.
Many of us were lucky. Having said which the laughs when you do fail, as it's so occasional, do really contribute to our lives! We are reminded that all of us are fallible (and you do deliberately handicap yourself to some small extent with your opening word so we cannot compare out result to yours fairly)!
Can't feel too bad about this one since the streak was only 19. Last time I lost a long streak, I also had another fail 10 days later, then went on to another record streak that still lasts today.
Stare > Cloud > Nobly > Jolly These are the times I feel like i’m cheating by checking a previous answers list. Because I could see Folly, which I would’ve entered first, had already been the answer. That said, I didn’t have all those other words on my radar (Holly and Lolly specifically).
I also lost my streak on this one. I'd got to shirt, alone, loupe, dolly, and then said to myself "well, it has to be golly, folly, or molly," and tried gamma next. Then I confidently wrote folly -- having completely forgotten about jolly. Not such a strange work: why did we all find this so brutally hard? 😿
I imagine all of us were sitting in front of the screen with the same hopeless eyes as yours. Well, at least I did. Just got a bit more lucky with my last guess, and kept my streak in 6: BLIND - SLAYER - SULLY - POLLY - FOLLY - JOLLY
Oh no the _OLLY trap. I made an error in my 4th guess, failing to distinguish FOLLY from JOLLY. So I got it on my 6th guess. LOLLY was not on the original answer list BTW but you'll never know what shenanigans Tracy comes up with next.
thats a real bummer mark, i almost went wet myself. not playing hardmode i used guess 4 and 5 to get rid of everything except jolly and lolly and luckily made the correct guess, but playing hardmode this word is just a streakbreaker
I think I had ruled out enough options to safely solve this one assuming I'm right in thinking folly has been the answer before. CHORE - SALON - MOLDY - LOLLY - JOLLY
Your previous streak ended at 189. This one was 19. So you can kinda be happy you failed on April 1st. Otherwise your streak would have ended today at 209 - only two below your best. This would have been cruel :D
I came here wondering if he got Jolly. Knew he would struggle with what his starter word wouldn't help. I got it in 5, but definitely was a streak killer.
Commisrations Mark on losing your streak. I managed this in 3 .....ETHIC>ALOUD>JOLLY But.... I will end my 205 streak on 23rd!!!!!! We are 2 days ahead of your play, here in NZ
Oh, man. That was hard to watch! That could have so easily happened to any one of us. Luck plays altogether too much of a part in this game, I reckon: A L I E N S P O O L L O U G H J O L L Y
CHAOS -> LOVER -> MOULD -> JOLLY I got incredibly lucky on this. I spotted the danger after guess three, but a lot of the potential starting letters had been spent already. I considered GOLLY, JOLLY, and FOLLY as likely options from there, so I decided to just try them one at a time. There may have been others, but as I said, I got lucky.
@@chris5619 Yes, D and E were doubled, but still 19 - 2 = 17 wrong letters and 4 (double L) correct letters, 5 unused (and these contain prominent letters S & M).He could still have done it, my OLLYs were HOLLY and JOLLY, his were FOLLY and HOLLY. He could even have avoided FOLLY, because it was already used in Wordle #751, so I didn't used it, although it was my first choice! Overall, this was a very hard Wordle!
@rainerzufall42 oh I see what you meant. I thought you meant he used so many letters he shouldn't have (the doubles) but don't you have to use so many wrong letters to even bust in the first place?
Ended my 128 game streak. Glad to see I'm in good company.
Me too 😟
Double ouch! Me, too, and I don’t feel quite as bad, must be in good company! Hopefully my luck will change with the new sequence.
Me 98 streak
I was over 280.
29% of Wordle players missed Jolly making it the second hardest Wordle so far. Only Parer, missed by 48%, was more difficult. Jolly's average score was 5.6 guesses and over 50% got it in 5 or 6.
It has the same pattern as the infamously difficult “Jazzy”, and while “l” is a common letter and “z” is rare, Jolly has hard mode hell issues.
Legal solutions: Dolly, Folly, Golly, Holly, Jolly. Folly is the only previous solution.
Legal guesses: Colly, Lolly, Molly, Polly, Tolly, Wolly.
I was saved by Moldy:
taLes > moLdY > HOLLY > JOLLY
Hard-mode streak: 323
Where do you get those stats on how many people missed a word?
Wait, there's a difference between legal guesses and legal solutions?
I'm still angry about PARER
@@Paraninja My reply gets removed if I include the full link, but it's under the site engaging-data in the subdirectory: wordle-guess-distribution
@@blacxthornE I assume a legal guess is only not a legal solution because one of the letters has already been played.
I died in Hard Mode Heck as well with Folly and Golly.
I also went golly before jolly. Seemed obvious in hindsight.
I also chose golly first. Got it in six, though.
Yeah, I had one guess left, and it could have been Folly, Golly, or Jolly. I got lucky.
I also went golly on my 6th guess
Cost me my streak, too. Cruel world! 😢
This killed my current maximum streak of 271! I usually start with the word SCENT, but right now I'm trying my own sequence of openers. I started this one with KNOLL, which was actually quite lucky! But still couldn't pull the lever to solve the -OLLY problem.
First time I’ve failed a wordle. At least I was never able to get a massive streak since every few months I miss a day.
Ended up guessing 5 different olly words none of which were Jolly
If it was time for my streak to end, I'm glad I went out on 303 instead of 297. SLATE, DILLY, FOLLY, GOLLY, LOLLY, HOLLY
Ouch!😔
That's a bummer, Mark.
Still love you Mark
I got super lucky with JOINT as my first guess; everyone else I know lost their streak.
I went with JOLLY as my final guess solely because J is such an uncommon letter and squeaked through in 6.
WRECK-STING-ALOUND-HOLLY-FOLLY-JOLLY. That’s a tough word with many streaks killed. Next up, we begin anew with a new unknown series of starting words.
Maybe someone will look for this in the comments too: Mark lost the streak of 19.
i never reached the 19 so lol
This was maybe the toughest wordle of this year. Only 68% could solve it.
The commitment to making a sentence of them nevertheless! ❤
On the plus side, at least you didn't have a long streak to protect anymore
303 streak killed with this one :'(
303 for me too
Oof!
While Americans would understand it as short for "lollipop", LOLLY is distinctively British slang. I’ve noticed it’s not accepted in the NYT Spelling Bee. It would be very unlikely to be a Wordle solution, though it could be in the *much* broader class of legal guesses. (BTW Brits, don’t expect to use NAPPY in Spelling Bee either, the American adjectival use is now considered a slur for describing African American hair.)
A LOLLY, in Australia and New Zealand, is what's called a SWEET in Britain and a CANDY in North America.
Lost my streak of 262 on that one. Was hoping to reach a year, maybe next time.
😢
I was lucky.
ASIDE -> COURT -> BONGO -> POLYP -> JOLLY....
But this did kill the streak for 19% of all players
Where do you find these stats?
@@rahulghorpade8078 with an account there is a world stats link on the nyt game page
@@rahulghorpade8078 When you finish a word a link comes up to the "wordlebot". Click it, it analyzes your answers and then it gives you the stats of other players.
@@rahulghorpade8078 wordle bot
@@rahulghorpade8078Wordlebot gives all players' guesses each round so you can find there.
Mark’s opening word sequence in full:
AMBER ANGEL BLACK BLIND CLING CLOWN CORAL CRAMP CROSS DEVIL GLOBE GOOSE HOUND JELLY LEMON LOOSE PILOT QUEEN QUEER RAZOR ROUND ROYAL SCALD SCALE SHELL SNAIL SNIPE SPADE SPEAR SPIKE STING STOCK STONE SWORD TIGER TOOTH TRUNK TRUNK WHITE WRECK
Theme: Words which fit the pattern “_____fish” or “_____ fish”, alphabetically
And that’s the end of the sequence! And a pretty long one at that
still didnt do BABEL
He said that this was the last word in the sequence.
this would've been a great one if it coincided with JELLY... bad timing though.
@@chris5619whoops, you’re right. Correcting now
The end of the sequence, and the streak.
This one ended my streak of 86, which is not that high but I was proud of. Oh well.
Yup. Broke my streak too. Sometimes hard mode is cruel!
Oh no, Mark! This killed four streaks in my circles. Now five. 🙁
This is why I won't play in hard mode. With words like this there are so many choices and the game becomes all about luck. In regular mode you can succeed with strategy (playing the right eval words).
I'm so glad that I actually tried Jolly on the 6th. Probably has something to do with me not being a native english speaker, which means I dont know that many words. I also only got my first non-grey letter on the third word.
It's okay Mark. Tomorrow is a new day.
Scarlet?!😃
Lost my streak here too, had 3 guesses left and tried holly folly and lolly, I also thought Jolly had been the answer before too
Many of us were lucky. Having said which the laughs when you do fail, as it's so occasional, do really contribute to our lives! We are reminded that all of us are fallible (and you do deliberately handicap yourself to some small extent with your opening word so we cannot compare out result to yours fairly)!
I had 4 goes with ?olly and got it on last! Sorry to see Mark fail, his guesses are normally spot on.
My Streak ender too! Looks like I am in good company!
Can't feel too bad about this one since the streak was only 19. Last time I lost a long streak, I also had another fail 10 days later, then went on to another record streak that still lasts today.
Sadly this was my streak ender aswell. Hardmode had me here.
My streak DOA at 217
Ouch!
5 guesses for me on this one. Sad that Mark's streak got killed, though.
Visit -> Moral -> Would -> Noble -> Jolly
Jolly lucky to get it in 6 . Many a streak went on that one .
Stare > Cloud > Nobly > Jolly
These are the times I feel like i’m cheating by checking a previous answers list. Because I could see Folly, which I would’ve entered first, had already been the answer.
That said, I didn’t have all those other words on my radar (Holly and Lolly specifically).
I also lost my streak on this one. I'd got to shirt, alone, loupe, dolly, and then said to myself "well, it has to be golly, folly, or molly," and tried gamma next. Then I confidently wrote folly -- having completely forgotten about jolly. Not such a strange work: why did we all find this so brutally hard? 😿
This also killed my streak (103).
My final guess was lolly.
That bogle was a boondoggle.
I lost my 97 streak to this word, so close to getting 100 for the first time😭 Ironic how Jolly made a lot of people not so jolly
❤this is still my favorite cup of morning joe!
I lost my streak of 112 😢
My sister got it in six, but this jolly Wordle ended my 104 day streak. Back in the saddle today with a three.
On non hard mode only 69% of people got this in 6 guesses. I was lucky.
This was a real streak breaker.
Bye bye 204 day streak, now I can go on holiday without fretting about keeping it alive LOL.
Got it in 6. I was down to Lolly or Jolly. Glad I guessed right. Streak up to 27 as of Jolly.
Got Folly on second chance, and still didn’t get the right word - streak ended
yes, difficult to eliminate words , I wonder if mark hadnt reused the D in error if it would have made any difference
Kept my 202 streak alive with a Jolly final guess, phew!
My streak broke on this one too.
Still very Well played Mark 😢
Lost my streak of 296. I'm still mourning
I imagine all of us were sitting in front of the screen with the same hopeless eyes as yours.
Well, at least I did. Just got a bit more lucky with my last guess, and kept my streak in 6:
BLIND - SLAYER - SULLY - POLLY - FOLLY - JOLLY
Got me too. Rough day for all involved
Oh no the _OLLY trap. I made an error in my 4th guess, failing to distinguish FOLLY from JOLLY. So I got it on my 6th guess. LOLLY was not on the original answer list BTW but you'll never know what shenanigans Tracy comes up with next.
Got lucky on this one as I started with Juice, and Jolly was my second guess 😄
Did me in as well. Good run.
thats a real bummer mark, i almost went wet myself. not playing hardmode i used guess 4 and 5 to get rid of everything except jolly and lolly and luckily made the correct guess, but playing hardmode this word is just a streakbreaker
Got me too, 201 streak 😢
Yep, hard mode got me. got to try 4 *OLLY words and still had 2 left.
Ended my streak too, and annoyingly I think I was 50/50 between JOLLY and MOLLY and didn't even spot jolly was an option🤦🏻♂️
I think I had ruled out enough options to safely solve this one assuming I'm right in thinking folly has been the answer before.
CHORE - SALON - MOLDY - LOLLY - JOLLY
I lost my streak too mark! We are now streak brothers😭
Phew indeed: POINT, DOULA, FOLLY, GOLLY, HOLLY, JOLLY
Got in 6 in a true "phew" guess.
I also used folly on #5 only to remember it was already a used word.
This one ended so many of us as we fell into hard mode heck. It was brutal.
My streak ended with this one too! Oh well.
That's a beast! 😮
I put in Folly for my 4th and still had 4 options, got lucky on my 6th guess.
Killed my wife's streak of 200+....I luckily got it in 6.
Your previous streak ended at 189. This one was 19.
So you can kinda be happy you failed on April 1st. Otherwise your streak would have ended today at 209 - only two below your best. This would have been cruel :D
I got myself stuck in a similar situation and luckily picked JOLLY as sixth.
I lost yesterday's too. It was rough. Today's was much better though. Got it 3rd try!
I also lost my streak... That was a tough one.
This one killed my streak too. Sad music not a good sign, but I thought you'd get it anyway, Mark. Ah well, we start again tomorrow! XOXOXO 🤗
I died in hard mode here too
I came here wondering if he got Jolly. Knew he would struggle with what his starter word wouldn't help. I got it in 5, but definitely was a streak killer.
Commisrations Mark on losing your streak.
I managed this in 3 .....ETHIC>ALOUD>JOLLY
But.... I will end my 205 streak on 23rd!!!!!!
We are 2 days ahead of your play, here in NZ
Hard mode killed me... *OLLY
i missed this one. i didn't have much of a streak, though, as i forgot to play a few days ago.
this one got me as well. I ended up with 3 guesses at it, but hardcode heck did me in.
This killed my streak too
Yep, lost my 12 day streak too (i had lost a longer streak at that point)
Oh, dear! The used word list would've given Mark one more try, as FOLLY had been the answer before 😮
MAKER > JUICY > JOLLY for me.
Oh, man. That was hard to watch!
That could have so easily happened to any one of us.
Luck plays altogether too much of a part in this game, I reckon:
A L I E N
S P O O L
L O U G H
J O L L Y
CHAOS -> LOVER -> MOULD -> JOLLY
I got incredibly lucky on this. I spotted the danger after guess three, but a lot of the potential starting letters had been spent already. I considered GOLLY, JOLLY, and FOLLY as likely options from there, so I decided to just try them one at a time. There may have been others, but as I said, I got lucky.
I was afraid, this could happen, but Mark did it in a spectacular fashion! So many wrong letters!
I mean, the D was a wrong letter. He pointed out he was using the E as part of a strategy to not enter hmh as soon and leave options. So many!!!11!1!
@@chris5619 Yes, D and E were doubled, but still 19 - 2 = 17 wrong letters and 4 (double L) correct letters, 5 unused (and these contain prominent letters S & M).He could still have done it, my OLLYs were HOLLY and JOLLY, his were FOLLY and HOLLY. He could even have avoided FOLLY, because it was already used in Wordle #751, so I didn't used it, although it was my first choice! Overall, this was a very hard Wordle!
@rainerzufall42 oh I see what you meant. I thought you meant he used so many letters he shouldn't have (the doubles) but don't you have to use so many wrong letters to even bust in the first place?
'humfs' covers most possible answers (besides lolly and jolly) for the 2nd to last play
Also lost my streak in hard mode hell
The folly of putting the jolly holly on the dolly (yep, like many people, this ended me :( )
Lost my streak too, ended in hard mode heck after my third guess.
We lost our 73 day streak too
I did the same, cycle rally silly dolly folly holly 😩
Yep, I also lost my streak to this one :(
An absolute killer. I should imagine many folk went down to Hard Mode Hell today. At least you went down early in your latest run.
Many streaks died on April 21. Mine of 63 died. (My prior streak ended due to an error in play on my part.)
1:03 logos and soggy knocks out a lot
Ended my short streak on this one also.
My streak ended on this one too. No worries, tho, just pick up a new one!
Lost my streak to this abomination after SLICK LEMON HOLLY FOLLY GOLLY DOLLY 😢
Cost me my streak and on my birthday too!