# "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:** 113
**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 18, 2022, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/2241 "2022-03-18T14:45:19Z")
Wordle 272 3/6\* ⬜⬜🟨🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟨🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ORATE PASTE SAUTE ---
**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 18, 2022, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/2242 "2022-03-18T15:33:01Z")
Easy one today with my starting word. Wordle 272 3/6\* ⬛⬛🟨🟩🟩 ⬛🟩🟨🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 IRATE WASTE SAUTE ---
**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 18, 2022, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/2243 "2022-03-18T15:41:54Z")
Wordle 272 4/6 ⬛⬛⬛🟩🟨 ⬛🟨🟨⬛⬛ ⬛🟩🟨🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 RIOTS PEACH WASTE SAUTE Glad I didn’t get stuck in some WASTE/BASTE/TASTE guessing game at the end there. At least I would have already eliminated PASTE and HASTE with my second guess. But it was SAUTE, so par. ---
**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 18, 2022, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/2244 "2022-03-18T15:46:38Z")
nm - didn’t read properly ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2022, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/2245 "2022-03-18T17:53:03Z")
How do you all post the graphics? Anyway, got this one in 4 RATIO TAMED WASTE SAUTE That is my standard go to first word. For the higher level puzzles (quordle. octordle etc) I use two starter words, either RATIO DUNES (or NUDES) or RADIO TUNES I like to know what vowels I am working with. Especially when no vowels come up at all (I’ve see SHYLY and MYRRH). And yes, I did try duotrigordle. Got them all in 35 guesses. Only letters I didn’t use were Q and J. It’s a little easier because the letters gray out if there are no more left in the puzzle so you can eliminate those as double letters. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2022, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/2246 "2022-03-18T18:02:15Z")
> [@psychobunny](#): > > How do you all post the graphics? There is a button after you complete which says “share” which will copy the results into your clipboard, (at least on my PC using Chrome but probably works elsewhere as well). Then when you reply to the thread, simply press control-v to paste the contents of your clipboard. The text _looks_ like it is graphics but is actually color-formatted text, and so can be pasted into a reply. ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2022, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/2247 "2022-03-18T18:09:56Z")
I am playing on my iphone so I can’t do it that way. ---
**Author:** ![Roger\_That](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roger_that/32/8505_2.png) [@Roger\_That](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roger_That)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2022, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/2248 "2022-03-18T18:18:00Z")
> [@Aspenglow](#): > > Easy one today Except that it’s not a word. Missing an accent acute, isn’t it? ---
**Author:** ![mtnmatt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a3d4f5/32.png) [@mtnmatt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mtnmatt)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2022, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/2249 "2022-03-18T18:22:46Z")
T[quote=“pulykamell, post:2243, topic:956604, full:true”] Wordle 272 4/6 ⬛⬛⬛🟩🟨 ⬛🟨🟨⬛⬛ ⬛🟩🟨🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 RIOTS PEACH WASTE SAUTE Glad I didn’t get stuck in some WASTE/BASTE/TASTE guessing game at the end there. At least I would have already eliminated PASTE and HASTE with my second guess. But it was SAUTE, so par. [/quote] I have failed to get it twice over the past two months. Mostly I get 3 or 4 Once was a similar problem to what you avoided, when I had ATCH in two guesses but there are many consonant options that would work and I ran out of guesses before I got to WATCH. Which was sort of funny as I first expected that to be an instruction to me, followed by the game revealing how I should have approached the guesses (ie, “you should have done this”) but it was just the answer. ---
**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 18, 2022, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/2250 "2022-03-18T18:44:08Z")
There’s an interesting discussion on diacritics (accents) here. > **[Using Accents and Diacritics in English](https://www.antidote.info/en/blog/reports/using-accents-and-diacritics-english)** > > To many speakers of English, there is something distinctly foreign about those small symbols that accompany letters in words like piñata, café, and many more. The reason for this is no mystery; they have never been a prominent part of the English... My takeaway is that we use diacritics inconsistently in English and that a word missing an accent is still a word. ---
**Author:** ![Roger\_That](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roger_that/32/8505_2.png) [@Roger\_That](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roger_That)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2022, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/2251 "2022-03-18T19:48:06Z")
> [@Richard\_Pearse](#): > > a word missing an accent is still a word. Yes, I overstated. It’s still a word but it’s a bit of a cheat. If I were copyediting a book and saw the word “saute” I would have the accent inserted. ---
**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 18, 2022, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/2252 "2022-03-18T20:01:40Z")
How would you edit résumé? ---
**Author:** ![Roger\_That](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roger_that/32/8505_2.png) [@Roger\_That](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roger_That)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2022, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/2253 "2022-03-18T20:03:45Z")
Well, all I would do to your question, as written, is put quotation marks before and after your final word. ---
**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 18, 2022, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/2254 "2022-03-18T21:59:40Z")
On the phone, select Share, it’ll pop up share options, one option is copy. Then come over here and paste it by reply to thread and resting your finger on the page and letting the paste option appear. ---
**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 18, 2022, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/2255 "2022-03-18T22:22:34Z")
> [@Roger\_That](#): > > Except that it’s not a word. Missing an accent acute, isn’t it? Oh, in a pedant’s perfect world (mine), there would be an option to insert such a critter. But once I knew the placement of the ‘S’ in the word, it could only be SAUTE – and I wasn’t going to quibble with Wordle over that! ---
**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 18, 2022, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/2256 "2022-03-18T22:30:11Z")
Roger that. So you would correct “resumé” to “résumé”? ---
**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 18, 2022, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/2257 "2022-03-18T23:49:35Z")
Wordle 272 4/6 🟨⬜⬜🟨🟩 🟩⬜🟨⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Yesterday’s mention of ‘loan words’ certainly seemed relevant here. AROSE SHADE SAUCE SAUTE And pulykamell, thanks for the additional reply (and information). ---
**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 19, 2022, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/2258 "2022-03-19T00:52:31Z")
Got it done late today, but got it done. Wordle 272 5/6 🟦⬛⬛🟦🟧 🟧⬛🟦⬛🟧 🟧🟧⬛⬛🟧 🟧🟧🟧⬛🟧 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧 AROSE SNAKE SABLE SAUCE SAUTE Yet again, I was sure I had it with my penultimate word. ---
**Author:** ![Mark\_Finn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/34f0e0/32.png) [@Mark\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mark_Finn)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2022, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/2259 "2022-03-19T02:20:08Z")
I use ASIDE - an anagram of IDEAS. A Wordle S seems to be rarely at the end of a word. ---
**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 19, 2022, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/2260 "2022-03-19T04:13:36Z")
**Tomorrow’s Wordle, Today** JFC Wordle 273 X/6 ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟨⬜⬜🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜ > **Wordle 273** > > DRONE > BOAST > MACHO > GUILT > OFFAL > ALLOY > > I don’t know why my mind goes to the rarer word rather than the more common one. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604.md?page=112) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604.md?page=114)