Wordle for January 17, 2025 - #1308
Attempt 1
This is the first attempt and we’ll choose a random word to start with.
Let’s start with word trine

Attempt for trine gives us 2 correct letters, 0 present letters and 3 wrong letters.
If we look into details, we can see that:
Letter t is not present in the word and we will not use it any more
Letter r should be at position 2
Letter i is not present in the word and we will not use it any more
Letter n is not present in the word and we will not use it any more
Letter e should be at position 5
We got information about the correct letters and it should make next attempt easier
Some letters are missing (like t, i, n) but it’s also important piece of information
Word should contain letters [r e]
That was a great guess that limited number of remaining words
Attempt 2
Right now we have 60 words to choose from and best of them seem to be [drape grade drake druse drome]
So far we know that possible letters are:
At position 1: [a b c d e f g h j k l m o p q r s u v w x y z]
At position 2: [r]
At position 3: [a b c d e f g h j k l m o p q r s u v w x y z]
At position 4: [a b c d e f g h j k l m o p q r s u v w x y z]
At position 5: [e]
Next guess is druse, let’s see what it gives us

Attempt for druse gives us 3 correct letters, 0 present letters and 2 wrong letters.
If we look into details, we can see that:
Letter d is not present in the word and we will not use it any more
Letter u is not present in the word and we will not use it any more
Letter s should be at position 4
We got information about the correct letters and it should make next attempt easier
Some letters are missing (like d, u) but it’s also important piece of information
Word should contain letters [r e s]
That was a great guess that limited number of remaining words
Attempt 3
Right now we have 7 words to choose from and best of them seem to be [arose prase prose brose pryse]
So far we know that possible letters are:
At position 1: [a b c e f g h j k l m o p q r s v w x y z]
At position 2: [r]
At position 3: [a b c e f g h j k l m o p q r s v w x y z]
At position 4: [s]
At position 5: [e]
Next guess is arose, let’s see what it gives us

Attempt for arose gives us 4 correct letters, 0 present letters and 1 wrong letters.
If we look into details, we can see that:
Letter a is not present in the word and we will not use it any more
Letter o should be at position 3
We got information about the correct letters and it should make next attempt easier
Some letters are missing (like a) but it’s also important piece of information
Word should contain letters [r e s o]
Could be a better guess
Attempt 4
Right now we have 3 words to choose from and best of them seem to be [prose brose erose]
So far we know that possible letters are:
At position 1: [b c e f g h j k l m o p q r s v w x y z]
At position 2: [r]
At position 3: [o]
At position 4: [s]
At position 5: [e]
Next guess is brose, let’s see what it gives us

Attempt for brose gives us 4 correct letters, 0 present letters and 1 wrong letters.
If we look into details, we can see that:
Letter b is not present in the word and we will not use it any more
Some letters are missing (like b) but it’s also important piece of information
Word should contain letters [r e s o]
This was a waste, almost no valuable information…
Attempt 5
Right now we have 2 words to choose from and best of them seem to be [prose erose]
So far we know that possible letters are:
At position 1: [c e f g h j k l m o p q r s v w x y z]
At position 2: [r]
At position 3: [o]
At position 4: [s]
At position 5: [e]
Next guess is prose, let’s see what it gives us

That’s the correct answer! The word is prose!
Conclusion
Today’s word is prose and it took 5 attempts to guess it
Video
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