I just didn't see it... | Wordle #1799 (May 23, 2026)

Added: 2026-05-25

[00:00:00]Hello, let's do Wordle for Saturday, May 23rd. Let's play. Yesterday we spun the wheel and it said to start with Harry.

[00:00:08]Like me.

[00:00:10]All right, we have an H. I wonder where that H goes.

[00:00:13]Uh we're not the atch traps, that's nice.

[00:00:16]Um Hmm.

[00:00:19]Let's just look at common letters. S, T, L, N are still all available. We do need to use the H, so I wonder if there's like a th word I could do or like ending in c h.

[00:00:32]I don't know. Um what was it? S, T, N, L.

[00:00:36]Nice to get an E if I can.

[00:00:40]Phone.

[00:00:42]I guess I could do phone. That's not horrible.

[00:00:45]All right. I think phone isn't that bad.

[00:00:48]P is a good letter. O and E are two vowels to check. The N is good letter.

[00:00:54]Well, I placed the H, so it's either going to be th or wh or ch.

[00:00:59]Um I don't know what to try. There's just a U left.

[00:01:03]So I'm I'm guessing after this U there must be a U Sorry, after this H there must be a U cuz what else are we doing there?

[00:01:10]Um and it might be the only vowel then cuz I don't see where another U would go.

[00:01:15]So it's thu, chu, whu. Probably not whu.

[00:01:19]I don't can't think of a word that does that. Is there a like thumb? Thumb is an option.

[00:01:24]Um thump is gone.

[00:01:28]>> [snorts] >> Thust.

[00:01:31]Thust. Yes. What about ch? How many c So it seems like th is only thumb, but I don't know. I didn't I haven't looked that hard.

[00:01:41]But with ch, what can I find? chu.

[00:01:43]There's chuck.

[00:01:45]Chunk is gone.

[00:01:47]Chust.

[00:01:48]There's chest but not chust.

[00:01:51]Um is it just chuck?

[00:01:53]Chuck.

[00:01:56]The The is chuck and thumb have nothing in common. So I just got to pick one.

[00:02:01]Chuck repeats a C.

[00:02:03]So there's something I haven't thought of, maybe thumb is better.

[00:02:06]But then again, it might just be these two.

[00:02:09]That's a that's a surprising limitation.

[00:02:11]We have a lot of good letters left.

[00:02:13]All right. Well, let's um let's go with thumb, I guess, just in case, you know, that the unique letters help in some way.

[00:02:22]All right, I guess we'll go with for chuck then.

[00:02:25]Nice. Okay, chuck in four.

[00:02:27]I guess I could have gotten it three, but I really think thumb was the better guess. But if it was down to a 50/50, it didn't matter.

[00:02:32]Um I guess we'll find out in the analysis, but first we will spin the members wheel and see what we're starting with tomorrow.

[00:02:41]It is mocha. Suggested by silver fear.

[00:02:46]So if you would like to play along tomorrow, we'll be starting with mocha.

[00:02:50]And I know this is very late, so I don't blame you if you already started with something else.

[00:02:55]All righty. Well, let's do some analysis here.

[00:02:58]So the answer was chuck and I started with Harry.

[00:03:05]And it says the best follow-up is touch.

[00:03:09]Okay, the O U C H. Interesting. So end in H. I was thinking about H second.

[00:03:14]Shoot is pretty good.

[00:03:16]S C H U T E, like going down a shoot.

[00:03:18]Um phone not here.

[00:03:21]Oh well.

[00:03:23]Uh bottom is 2.704. What was phone?

[00:03:26]Phone was 2.796, so not horrible.

[00:03:29]Okay, so we're down to four words already here. I only thought of thumb and oh, I didn't even think about S H at all. Shuck and shush. Okay.

[00:03:37]I I completely ignored the S. I said C H T H and W H and I missed S H somehow.

[00:03:43]So I missed the two S H words. Um so shuck would have been the best because it gets shush and it gets chuck and it gets thumb as being like nothing matches.

[00:03:55]Um chuck wasn't quite as good because getting chuck does not distinguish shush versus thumb.

[00:04:00]So, I should have gone shush.

[00:04:02]But otherwise uh oh and thumb was not thumb was not good. Thumb gets nothing.

[00:04:08]So, thumb was the worst possible guess despite being five unique letters. All right.

[00:04:12]And now we're down to the to the three left as predicted. Chuck, shush, hush, shush. It doesn't matter which one you do at that point. They all get each other. So, chuck was a one in three actually at that point.

[00:04:24]All right. So, not not good.

[00:04:25]>> [laughter] >> Not a good decision, but I If I thought of sh, I might have thought of at least one of those if not both.

[00:04:32]But I I guess maybe I thought I already had the s. I don't know. I could have done shown.

[00:04:37]If I had done shown, then then maybe it would have been better. It would just been down to thumb and chuck, I think. Unless there's a p.

[00:04:45]I don't know.

[00:04:46]Yeah, probably going ph wasn't the best idea anyway. Those are rarer.

[00:04:50]So, okay. I could have made better decisions. That's okay. It would have gone touch. And from there we're down to chuck shock. So, it could be a three or a four.

[00:04:56]All right. Um It starts with tails.

[00:05:02]All gray, so it goes crump.

[00:05:05]From crump, we're down to four words.

[00:05:07]Chuck, chunk, couch and cough.

[00:05:11]And it says go chuck or couch. They will both get you the answer next.

[00:05:16]Um either one is fine.

[00:05:20]Couch checks for the o for cough and the c and the second c for chuck.

[00:05:25]Uh chuck checks for the second c for couch.

[00:05:29]And the ch for chunk. Cough is the other one.

[00:05:32]So, anyway. So, you could get chuck in three or get unlucky and get chuck in four. So, again, it's still just a three or four. Any any other solid anagram like steel or stale is going to be the exact same solve cuz it's all gray.

[00:05:44]Um so, uh we're going to skip straight to a due.

[00:05:49]Most common starting word. We just get the U. We're going to go court, which is going to be very good.

[00:05:53]Uh, seven words left. It suggests chunk or clunk. So, could easily Oh, chunk chunk wasn't the answer though.

[00:06:00]So, could go chunk chuck or could go clunk chuck.

[00:06:05]All right.

[00:06:07]audio Still just the U. We're going to go spurt. That's not as helpful.

[00:06:12]13 words left. Now, we go flunk.

[00:06:16]And now it's only chuck from here.

[00:06:17]Interesting.

[00:06:18]Okay. I don't know how hard that is to think of. Might be a little hard.

[00:06:22]Um, stare, another common starting word.

[00:06:26]It's all gray. We're going to go munch.

[00:06:27]We're worried about the Ollie trap.

[00:06:30]So, the way to avoid that is to get ahead of it with munch bow or lymph.

[00:06:37]So, I think this is bow, isn't it? Bow or lymph?

[00:06:40]Um, what's it get for the Ollie trap?

[00:06:43]Uh, Molly and Holly.

[00:06:46]Uh, golly and Holly. Lolly, cuz we start with the L. It tells us if it's lolly or Molly.

[00:06:52]Or Holly.

[00:06:54]But, somehow munch is better. I guess there's also the unch trap. And so, what munch does is it it helps us avoid the Ollie trap and also gets us right into the unch trap if it is. And we have enough guesses left to be able to get through it.

[00:07:08]Um, but as it turns out, chuck is the only answer after munch. Well, okay.

[00:07:13]Cuz it wasn't a trap.

[00:07:15]Uh, trace tries to get in two >> [sighs] >> and doesn't today. We will couch chucks.

[00:07:20]We get in three.

[00:07:22]And then after trace, what a We're just going to do class.

[00:07:27]Think that's what it starts with.

[00:07:28]Just that starting C. We go credo. Hey, I guessed credo the other day.

[00:07:33]Still all grays. 11 words left. We're going to go cinch.

[00:07:37]From cinch, it's only chuck. All right.

[00:07:40]Well, let's see how people did today.

[00:07:41]This is very so it should be almost everybody who played.

[00:07:45]Um Oh, first we're going to grab the screenshot.

[00:07:51]Um There may be some stragglers, but I'm sure most most people have played at this point.

[00:07:58]Um this is what what was the answer?

[00:08:01]Chuck, I think.

[00:08:05]All right.

[00:08:07]Uh David Butt.

[00:08:10]Give me 76 guild. Really didn't like the phone guess.

[00:08:14]Or or the probably really hated the the third guess I made.

[00:08:21]Thump. Was it? I I don't remember what it No, it wasn't thump.

[00:08:24]What was it?

[00:08:25]>> [laughter] >> Anyway, we'll find out in a second. Um phone I gave an 81 to. People did shout, shown, chest, shock, those, chose. See, shown would have been way better. I think if I had thought of SH with some I don't know how I just didn't occur to me to try SH.

[00:08:41]Um I would have probably preferred shown over phone.

[00:08:45]Um but I'm not the only one who did phone.

[00:08:48]All right, 225 others.

[00:08:50]Thump is the one I didn't like. Yeah. 49 skill because it it was the worst possible of the answers remaining to do.

[00:08:57]Um and then chuck was 99 cuz any of them would have been fine.

[00:09:02]Just find an answer. All right, clasp, crown, cubic, chuck. So, similar, but I think this Uh no, credo, cinch. Uh it's not that similar.

[00:09:12]But it got the C with grays and C with grays.

[00:09:16]All right, uh point two starting with chuck.

[00:09:19]1.2% 21.1% 80.4% 97.9% and greater than 99%.

[00:09:28]Okay, let's refresh and check in regular mode.

[00:09:36]All right.

[00:09:39]Let's see here. Give me the same score.

[00:09:42]People are doing mouse. So, apparently the hairy mouse is a is a start. You get the A and the I and the Y, you get the O, the U, and the E. So, it's a it's a vowel-heavy two-word start.

[00:09:52]Uh shout, shown, louse, chose, chest, phone. Not the only one to do phone still.

[00:09:59]Thumb it did not like, but it liked slightly better than in hard mode.

[00:10:03]Only slightly.

[00:10:04]All right. Slate, chronic, cubic, chuck.

[00:10:06]Wow, it's the it's very similar solve despite the the different um start.

[00:10:11]It's interesting.

[00:10:12]0.4 1.5, 19.1, 73.5, 95.4 99.2. All right. People are losing on chunk and chuff and chump and clock, but mostly chunk.

[00:10:25]The other ones are less than 0.1.

[00:10:27]All right. Well, how'd you do?