# "Wordle," a strangely compelling word game (Part 1) **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** board-card-word-game\ **Created:** [December 24, 2021, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604 "2021-12-24T21:12:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 107
**Author:** ![Richard\_Pearse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/richard_pearse/32/13144_2.png) [@Richard\_Pearse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Pearse)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2022, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/2121 "2022-03-14T15:38:38Z")
Yes it had the date that each answer appears on along with a list of words the New York Times removed. ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2022, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/2122 "2022-03-14T15:57:46Z")
Wordle 268 4/6\* ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 BEARD GLOVE PILES SMELT Does anyone know why when i visit the Wordle site, a thing appears in my address bar inviting me to open the site in the Tor browser ? Haven’t seen it on any other sites. ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2022, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/2123 "2022-03-14T16:30:59Z")
Another 4, and kind of an unusual pattern. Wordle 268 4/6 β¬›β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¦πŸŸ§ πŸŸ§β¬›β¬›β¬›πŸŸ§ πŸŸ§β¬›πŸŸ§β¬›πŸŸ§ 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧 ROAST SHIFT SPENT SMELT ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2022, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/2124 "2022-03-14T16:39:29Z")
> **Wordle 268 5/6\* Pi Day 2022** > > ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 > 🟩🟨⬜⬜🟨 > 🟩⬜🟩⬜🟩 > 🟩🟨🟩⬜🟩 > 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 > > FOCU_S_ β†’ Can go with a β€œcommon starter” on the next guess > **S** _T_AR_E_ β†’ Single vowel? Let’s try it > **S** P **E** N **T** β†’ Oh, boy. If I have ??EE?, there are three words left for three guesses, but if it’s not, what’s the best second letter? > **S** _L_ **E** E **T** β†’ S?ELT, but no P means > **SMELT** > > Bit of a close one today. In contrast to the day’s theme, I did try to play rationally. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2022, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/2125 "2022-03-14T16:43:48Z")
Back to the desktop computer, and back to four. (I may have done better in hard mode.) Wordle 268 4/6 πŸŸ©β¬›β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ¨ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ πŸŸ©β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ©β¬› 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 SCALE PHONY SWELL SMELT In hard mode, I probably would have gone SHELF for the second one, so, then again, probably would have ended up SWELL\>SMELT anyway, depending on what came to me first. ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2022, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/2126 "2022-03-14T16:45:39Z")
I kind of want to run a letter analysis on the guess list and/or answer list identifying all the β€˜trap letters’. (That’s a term I just made up.) Think of the trap from last month: SHA\_E. Could be any of 7 possibilities: shade, shake, shale, shame, shape, share or shave. The trap letters in this example would be DKLMPRV, and we could quantify this as a 7-trap. I kind of really want to write a program to identify all the trap letters. I think I could do it without really looking at the word lists too closely. Plus I don’t need to know the trap words, only the trap letters. I would like to base my starting word on β€˜using up’ as many of the biggest trap letters as possible. (Not 100% sure what exactly β€˜biggest’ would mean in this context.) Sadly, as much as I really do want to do this, it is overwhelmingly more likely I’ll just play Cities Skylines instead. Probably for the best. It might ruin Wordle for me the same way writing a sudoku solver ruined sudoku for me. Took all the fun out of playing. ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2022, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/2127 "2022-03-14T16:47:29Z")
Hmmm… looks like someone dressed in blue riding a camel in the desert. The United States Camel Corps, perhaps? ---
**Author:** ![eschrodinger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschrodinger/32/122_2.png) [@eschrodinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschrodinger)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2022, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/2128 "2022-03-14T16:51:56Z")
Close one for me this time. Wordle 268 6/6\* πŸŸ¨β¬›β¬›β¬›β¬› β¬›πŸŸ¨πŸŸ¨β¬›β¬› β¬›πŸŸ¨πŸŸ©β¬›β¬› πŸŸ©πŸŸ¨πŸŸ©β¬›πŸŸ¨ πŸŸ©β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŸ© 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 LAUGH RELIC STEEL SPELT SMELT ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2022, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/2129 "2022-03-14T17:16:55Z")
Wow! No one was more surprised than me at my score today. Wordle 268 2/6\* β¬›β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¨πŸŸ¨ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 IRATE SMELT I was just trying to think of words that used the 2 letters I’d discovered and take out a few common consonants. Lucky guess.πŸ™‚ ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2022, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/2130 "2022-03-14T19:16:56Z")
Wordle 268 5/6 ⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜ 🟨🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟨⬜🟩🟨 🟩⬜🟩🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 OUTER, TEACH, STILE, SPELL, SMELT ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2022, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/2131 "2022-03-14T21:11:20Z")
This is me being brilliant for tomorrow’s puzzle. Wordle 269 2/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟩🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ---
**Author:** ![Terminus\_Est](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terminus_est/32/3087_2.png) [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2022, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/2132 "2022-03-15T03:25:22Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > This is me being brilliant for tomorrow’s puzzle. I’ve got a word for you. Wordle 269 2/6 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 > **Wordle 269** > > BEAST > TEASE ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2022, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/2133 "2022-03-15T04:43:17Z")
Wordle 269 3/6 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ πŸŸ¨πŸŸ¨πŸŸ©β¬›πŸŸ© 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 CLOMP STARE TEASE CLOMP contributed nada, zilch, the big squadoosh. STARE all by itself was sufficient. Ah well, I’ll take the 3. ---
**Author:** ![GreenWyvern](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/greenwyvern/32/2834_2.png) [@GreenWyvern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreenWyvern)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2022, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/2134 "2022-03-15T06:57:21Z")
Wordle 269 4/6\* 🟨⬜⬜🟩🟩 ⬜🟨⬜🟩🟩 ⬜⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ARISE PAUSE CHASE TEASE ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2022, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/2135 "2022-03-15T07:16:54Z")
Wordle 269 3/6 🟩⬜🟩⬜🟨 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 TRANS LOUIE TEASE ---
**Author:** ![eschrodinger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschrodinger/32/122_2.png) [@eschrodinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschrodinger)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2022, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/2136 "2022-03-15T07:17:32Z")
Wordle 269 5/6\* β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ©β¬›β¬› β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ©β¬›πŸŸ¨ β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŸ¨β¬› πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŸ©β¬›πŸŸ¨ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 I thought I’d have it in two, but wasn’t so lucky. WEARY DEALT HEATH TEAMS TEASE ---
**Author:** ![QMatic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/aeb1de/32.png) [@QMatic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QMatic)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2022, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/2137 "2022-03-15T07:33:39Z")
Wordle 269 3/6\* ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 HOARD BEAST TEASE ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2022, 10:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/2138 "2022-03-15T10:11:47Z")
Wordle 269 3/6\* πŸŸ¨πŸŸ¨πŸŸ¨πŸŸ¨β¬› πŸŸ©πŸŸ¨πŸŸ¨β¬›πŸŸ© 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Stead Taste Tease ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2022, 10:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/2139 "2022-03-15T10:18:48Z")
Wordle 269 3/6\* 🟨⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟨🟨🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Seems to be a relatively easy one. AIERY STALE TEASE ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2022, 10:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/2140 "2022-03-15T10:24:56Z")
I struggled with this one. Wasn’t thinking straight. Wordle 269 6/6 πŸŸ¨β¬›πŸŸ¨β¬›β¬› β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¨β¬›πŸŸ¨ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ β¬›β¬›β¬›β¬›πŸŸ© πŸŸ¨πŸŸ¨πŸŸ©β¬›πŸŸ© 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 AIERY LOTUS MUNCH FUDGE STATE TEASE [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604.md?page=106) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604.md?page=108)