# "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:** 114
**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 19, 2022, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/2261 "2022-03-19T04:55:02Z")
Wordle 273 3/6 β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ¨β¬›β¬› β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ¨πŸŸ¨β¬› 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 CLAMS BLOAT ALLOW My first guess narrowed it down to B/P/LEAT, PLEAD, B/F/LOAT, ALPHA, ALLOW, ALOUD and ALTER. Guessing BLOAT for my second word would positively identify the answer if it were any of those words. (Since GLOAT was already an answer recently.) I had to actually write down what each result would be if I guessed BLOAT to make sure all feedback would be unique: BLEAT =\> BLXAT PLEAT =\> XLXAT PLEAD =\> XLXAX FLOAT =\> XLOAT ALPHA =\> XLXaX ALLOW =\> XLoaX ALOUD =\> XLOaX ALTER =\> XLXat Worked way too hard on this one… ---
**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 19, 2022, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/2262 "2022-03-19T05:02:38Z")
> [@Mark\_Finn](#): > > A Wordle S seems to be rarely at the end of a word. I kind of like that. I almost prefer yellows to greens, especially in my first guess. ---
**Author:** ![QMatic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/aeb1de/32.png) [@QMatic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QMatic)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2022, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/2263 "2022-03-19T05:15:35Z")
Wordle 273 4/6\* ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 REACT BASIN MODAL ALLOW I was a bit unsure after 3 whether to just go for a guess or spend a bit more time on it as committing to a double letter seems a waste when you’re wrong. In the end I reasoned that A was more likely as the first rather than last letter and AL was a common enough digraph so took the plunge for a par. ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2022, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/2264 "2022-03-19T06:06:57Z")
Wordle 273 4/6 ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨 ⬜🟨🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 RATIO MOLES ALLOY ALLOW I hope I didn’t spoil anybody. I had trouble blurring on the iphone. And yes I always seem to go for the obscure word over the common one. ---
**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 19, 2022, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/2265 "2022-03-19T07:18:50Z")
Wordle 273 5/6 πŸŸ©β¬›β¬›β¬›β¬› πŸŸ¨πŸŸ¨β¬›β¬›β¬› ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 AIERY LOTUS MUNCH FUDGE ALLOW ---
**Author:** ![Author\_Balk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Author\_Balk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Author_Balk)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2022, 11:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/2266 "2022-03-19T11:06:13Z")
Wordle 273 5/6 ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨 🟨🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 TRACE FINAL LAUGH ALLOY ALLOW Took a while to find out where the A and L(s) were ---
**Author:** ![Beesnest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e495f1/32.png) [@Beesnest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beesnest)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2022, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/2267 "2022-03-19T13:16:26Z")
Wordle 208 X/6 ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟩⬜⬜⬜🟨 no one ever seems to post a loss on here so I thought I would. 🟩⬜⬜🟩⬜ 🟩⬜⬜🟩⬜ 🟩⬜⬜🟩⬜ 🟩⬜⬜🟩⬜ ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2022, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/2268 "2022-03-19T13:30:45Z")
Wordle 273 4/6 β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¨β¬›β¬› β¬›πŸŸ¨β¬›β¬›β¬› β¬›πŸŸ©β¬›β¬›β¬› 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 I’d already ruled out β€œy”, so i think the answer was the only legal word by guess 4. ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2022, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/2269 "2022-03-19T13:34:11Z")
Wordle 273 5/6\* ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟩⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟩⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟩⬜⬜🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 TOUCH AGONY ADORE AXIOM ALLOW ---
**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 19, 2022, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/2270 "2022-03-19T13:36:44Z")
Wordle 273 4/6\* β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¨β¬›β¬› β¬›πŸŸ¨β¬›β¬›β¬› β¬›πŸŸ¨πŸŸ©β¬›πŸŸ¨ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Stare Fancy Polka Allow I’ll allow I’m satisfied with a fancy polka stare. 😜 ---
**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 19, 2022, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/2271 "2022-03-19T14:03:41Z")
Wordle 273 4/6\* 🟩⬜⬜⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ARIEL ALOUD ALLOT ALLOW ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2022, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/2272 "2022-03-19T14:12:00Z")
This was my first loss and I had the same last word as you. I did a quadruple facepalm when I saw the correct word. πŸ€¦β€β™‚οΈ ---
**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, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/2273 "2022-03-19T14:40:02Z")
Wordle 273 3/6 β¬›πŸŸ¦β¬›β¬›β¬› β¬›πŸŸ§πŸŸ¦πŸŸ¦β¬› 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧 NOISE FLOAT ALLOW Seems like everyone else wanted to go with ALLOY before ALLOW. I’ll admit that didn’t even occur to me. I was a bit hesitant to try double letters on three, but I couldn’t think of a better option. I don’t usually go to the trouble of mapping out all the possibilities; I just tend to put down the first thing I think of that fits and seems like a common enough word, and that style worked out well today. ---
**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 19, 2022, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/2274 "2022-03-19T16:57:56Z")
> [@Wheelz](#): > > Seems like everyone else wanted to go with ALLOY before ALLOW. I’ll admit that didn’t even occur to me. Didn’t occur to me either. In fact, I would bet a dollar that if I went back and compared all my posts in this thread against the answer list, in every single case where I post a count or enumeration of possible words, there will be at least one valid wordle answer I didn’t think of. Often multiple. ---
**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 19, 2022, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/2275 "2022-03-19T17:30:25Z")
Wordle 273 5/6\* β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¨β¬›β¬› β¬›πŸŸ¨β¬›β¬›β¬› πŸŸ©β¬›β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¨ πŸŸ©β¬›πŸŸ¨πŸŸ¨πŸŸ¨ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 PEARS CANDY AUDIO ATOLL ALLOW ---
**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 19, 2022, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/2276 "2022-03-19T18:03:24Z")
This one took awhile. Wordle 273 3/6\* β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¨β¬›β¬› β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ¨πŸŸ¨β¬› 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 IRATE CLOAK ALLOW As usual, it took me forever to get over the double letter usage. But nothing else worked, and once I finally started down the double-letter path, I only thought of two words. The other was ALLOY, and I just thought ALLOW was more likely. ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2022, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/2277 "2022-03-19T18:47:46Z")
> **Wordle 273 4/6\* 3/19/2022** > > ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ > ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ > 🟩⬜🟨⬜🟨 > 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 > > S_A_UTE β†’ Some good knock-outs, here > GR_A_PH β†’ Even more. Running out of common letters. Probably two vowels… but which is the other one? Can I test two others? > **A** B_O_I_L_ β†’ At least I’ve placed the A. I think I’m down to > **ALLOW** > > Though I didn’t even think about ALLOY, so I could have been 5 easily. ---
**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 19, 2022, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/2278 "2022-03-19T21:22:01Z")
Wordle 273 5/6 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟨⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜🟨🟩🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 I’m yet another β€˜thought of ALLOY before thinking of ALLOW’ example. OUTER LIMBO SALON ALLOY ALLOW As to why–maybe we’re subconsciously more likely to believe that Wordle will use nouns rather than verbs…? ---
**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 19, 2022, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/2279 "2022-03-19T21:30:53Z")
Didn’t like yesterday’s or tomorrow’s. Wordle 274 5/6 🟨⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜🟩⬜🟨⬜ ⬜🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟨🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ---
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