# "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:** 124
**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 26, 2022, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/2461 "2022-03-26T17:30:38Z")
> [@Author\_Balk](#): > > Wordle 280 4/6 > > ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 > ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ > ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟩 > 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 > > TRACE > LINES > WEEDY > EPOXY > After the third pick I knew the first and last letter. Maybe there is only one possibility. It took a long time to think of it EBONY also fits. Update: but not with your second guess. ---
**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 26, 2022, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/2462 "2022-03-26T20:37:23Z")
I found tomorrow’s particularly challenging. Not because it took a lot of attempts, but because of the letters I had available. Wordle 281 3/6 🟨⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟩⬜🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ---
**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 26, 2022, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/2463 "2022-03-26T21:06:29Z")
Wordle 280 4/6\* ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 > **Summary** > > BEARD > SLIME > TOKEN > EPOXY ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2022, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/2464 "2022-03-26T21:58:34Z")
I wondered if that word was going to stump many. Wordle 280 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨 🟨⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 TRIPE PAGES EPOCH EPOXY I thought I had it with epoch. And here I wondered why a trademark was being used as a word, turns out it was something that I got wrong all these years. ---
**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 26, 2022, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/2465 "2022-03-26T23:01:18Z")
Wordle 280 4/6 ⬜⬜🟩⬜🟨 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩⬜🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 This one really beat me up, time-wise. After my first word I knew β€œO” in the middle and an β€œE.” And figuring that the O and E wouldn’t be next to each other (as β€œoe” and β€œeo” five-letter common English words are–_not_ common), I guessed the first letter must be E. So I thought of all the β€œE \_ O \_ \_” words I could but that list didn’t include β€œEPOXY”—that one didn’t occur to me until more than 30 minutes after I’d started. I need to start setting myself a time limit. AROSE PLUCK EMOJI EPOXY ---
**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 26, 2022, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/2466 "2022-03-26T23:31:44Z")
Wordle 280 5/6\* β¬›β¬›β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¨ β¬›β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¨πŸŸ¨ πŸŸ¨πŸŸ¨β¬›β¬›πŸŸ© β¬›πŸŸ¨πŸŸ¨πŸŸ¨πŸŸ© 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Tough one. NAIVE STREP PEPPY MOPEY MOPEY I knew wasn’t right, but needed another letter to figure it out. I took a long time between guesses at the end, too. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2022, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/2467 "2022-03-27T00:39:12Z")
Holy smokes, that was a toughie! Wordle 280 5/6 ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟨🟨🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟨🟨🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 I thought for sure that my 4th word was it. Then looking at the unused letters, I saw only one possibility. HEART POEMS COPED EPOCH EPOXY ---
**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 27, 2022, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/2468 "2022-03-27T03:02:28Z")
**Tomorow’s Wordle, Today** I think they’re really pushing it now. Wordle 281 4/6 ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 > **Wordle 281** > > WHEAT > HOURS > CLICK β†’ At this point, I had eliminated all five vowels. So what was left? > NYMPH ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2022, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/2469 "2022-03-27T04:10:08Z")
Fair, but hard. Took me four, after getting all of one letter after two guesses. ---
**Author:** ![Folly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folly/32/3219_2.png) [@Folly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folly)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2022, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/2470 "2022-03-27T04:18:05Z")
I also eliminated all 5 regular vowels after three guesses. Wordle 281 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟨⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 BRINK SNOUT PANEL NYMPH ---
**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 27, 2022, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/2471 "2022-03-27T04:23:31Z")
Wordle 281 3/6 β¬›β¬›β¬›πŸŸ©β¬› β¬›β¬›β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ© 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 CLOPS GRAPH NYMPH Tricksy tricksy. And at this point I’m just throwing letter combinations up for my opener hoping for a valid guess. I had a hard enough time coming up with even a second word, but finally came up with both adapt and graph. Choosing either would have likely left only one word. Thankfully I had checked O or I might have tried OOMPH. ---
**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 27, 2022, 7:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/2472 "2022-03-27T07:28:34Z")
Wordle 281 4/6 β¬›β¬›β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¨ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ πŸŸ¨β¬›πŸŸ¨β¬›πŸŸ© 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 AIERY LOTUS MUNCH NYMPH ---
**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 27, 2022, 7:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/2473 "2022-03-27T07:45:40Z")
Wordle 281 3/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 TRANS LOUIE NYMPH My standard opener told me that there was an N in the word and that Y had to be the vowel, and I lucked out with the first one that came to mind. ---
**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 27, 2022, 8:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/2474 "2022-03-27T08:06:11Z")
Wordle 281 4/6\* ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ πŸŸ¨β¬›β¬›β¬›β¬› β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ¨β¬›β¬› 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ALIVE PROUD GYPSY NYMPH ---
**Author:** ![QMatic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/aeb1de/32.png) [@QMatic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QMatic)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2022, 8:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/2475 "2022-03-27T08:09:31Z")
Wordle 281 4/6\* ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 ⬜⬜🟨🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 CHEAT BRUSH GLYPH NYMPH I think there was only one choice available after 3 but it took me a long time to come up with it. ---
**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 27, 2022, 8:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/2476 "2022-03-27T08:52:34Z")
Wordle 281 3/6\* ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ALTER FISHY NYMPH ---
**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 27, 2022, 10:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/2477 "2022-03-27T10:30:55Z")
Wordle 281 3/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 My random guess with five other letters was right! ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2022, 10:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/2478 "2022-03-27T10:42:44Z")
Wordle 281 3/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 RATIO DUNES NYMPH I feel like such a cheater. After the first two I could not think of a word and I didn’t want to waste a guess with a word I knew was wrong just to hunt for more letters so I used an anagram finder to look for words containing the letters I knew had to be in the word. What are your thoughts? Is it cheating to look at a list of possible words? ---
**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 27, 2022, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/2479 "2022-03-27T12:03:12Z")
Wordle 281 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟨⬜🟨⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 TRACE LIONS HUNKY NYMPH My normal for the main game is TRACE. And I came up with LIONS as the second word if there are no letters from TRACE. When I was finished I used Excel and the word list and there were only three words that fit - HUNKY, FUNKY and NYMPH. If I only used words from the list I would have got it in 3 or 4. But, it took some time to find the words. ---
**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 27, 2022, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/2480 "2022-03-27T12:19:37Z")
Y’all striking out in top rows then nailing it in 3, respect! Wordle 281 4/6\* ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ β¬›πŸŸ¨β¬›πŸŸ¨β¬› πŸŸ¨β¬›πŸŸ¨β¬›πŸŸ© 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 > **Summary** > > Lover > Think > Punch > Nymph [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604.md?page=123) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604.md?page=125)