# "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:** 186
**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:** [May 17, 2022, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/3701 "2022-05-17T00:16:23Z")
Wordle 331 4/6\* ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 STAIR CONEY BUDGE DELVE ---
**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:** [May 17, 2022, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/3702 "2022-05-17T02:22:49Z")
**Tomorrow’s Wordle, Today** Not great, not terrible. Wordle 332 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨 🟨🟩🟩🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 > **Wordle 332** > > ALTER > OUNCE > NEIGH > BEING ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2022, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/3703 "2022-05-17T04:30:54Z")
Wordle 332 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜🟨🟨🟨⬜ ⬜⬜🟩⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 RATIO DINES CHIME BEING I’ll take the four. ---
**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:** [May 17, 2022, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/3704 "2022-05-17T04:41:07Z")
Wordle 332 4/6 ⬛⬛🟩⬛⬛ ⬛⬛🟩🟨🟨 ⬛⬛🟩🟩🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 CRISP ALIEN TWINE BEING I’m really glad I guessed twine at 3 instead of whine. Otherwise I would have 100% guessed FEINT at 4. ---
**Author:** ![QMatic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/aeb1de/32.png) [@QMatic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QMatic)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2022, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/3705 "2022-05-17T05:12:03Z")
Wordle 332 5/6\* ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜ 🟨⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 CHEAP MOUSE WIDER EYING BEING I struggled to get started on this one. ---
**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:** [May 17, 2022, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/3706 "2022-05-17T07:09:22Z")
> [@Fugazi](#): > > Is there something I need to do to set up an account or something? I don’t think there are any accounts - AFAICT your record is just based on browser cookies. > [@Galactus](#): > > I’m on a 61 word streak. Who’s got the longest? 122 and counting at the moment, despite several close calls (by which I mean 31 correct answers on Guess 6.) 😁 As for today; Wordle 332 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨 ⬜🟩🟩🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 TRANS LOUIE MEINY BEING I had no idea that “meiny” was a word, let alone what it means, so from now on I’m using it as an adjective to mean “possessing properties similar to those of chow mein noodles”. ---
**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:** [May 17, 2022, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/3707 "2022-05-17T07:27:44Z")
Wordle 332 4/6\* ⬛⬛🟩🟩🟩 🟩⬛🟩🟩🟩 🟩⬛🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 STING BRING BLING BEING I’m pretty happy with my choices. All green is always kind of fun, too. ---
**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:** [May 17, 2022, 10:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/3708 "2022-05-17T10:42:07Z")
Wordle 332 4/6\* ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛🟨⬛🟨🟨 ⬛⬛🟩🟩🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Latch, ripen, swine, being ---
**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:** [May 17, 2022, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/3709 "2022-05-17T11:46:40Z")
Wordle 332 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟩🟨 ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟨🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 CRANE SPELT ENVOY - This was a mistake. I got “confused” on what I already knew. However, according to Wordlebot the word would narrow it down to just one word. So, it guaranteed a 4 if I found the word. BEING - and I did ---
**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:** [May 17, 2022, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/3710 "2022-05-17T14:29:09Z")
I’m back to my recent standard starting words, SNORT MEDIC LAUGH. Wordle 332 5/6 ⬛🟨⬛⬛⬛ ⬛🟩⬛🟨⬛ ⬛⬛⬛🟨⬛ 🟨🟩🟨🟨⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 SNORT MEDIC LAUGH GENIE BEING ---
**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:** [May 17, 2022, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/3711 "2022-05-17T14:33:06Z")
> [@EllisDee](#): > > > [@SeaSun](#): > > > > I struck out with it again > > Hitting few letters on your first word is a good thing, assuming you guess five good letters. None of them hitting is arguably the best possible result. That lets you check 10 different letters in your first two words. > > To that end, I start with what I consider to be the second best group of letters, hoping for no hits, which I then follow up with the best letters. In practice that means my ideal opener starts with clamp (no hits) followed by store. That’s also why I limit myself to only a single vowel in my first word. Vowels are more likely to hit. > > I will concede that if you then hit no letters again on the second word, that can be discouraging. Still winnable in three, but discouraging. Fascinating /Spock I’ll have to chew on this! ---
**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:** [May 17, 2022, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/3712 "2022-05-17T14:38:57Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > Warning. **Tomorrow’s** is another one of _those_ words. Whoa, should we not do this? Not to pick on @GuanoLad, because this applies to many of us here. Myself included. It’s like when I record a sporting event and tell a friend to not say anything about the outcome because I haven’t watched it yet, and they say, “OK but you’re gonna like the game.” DOH! Don’t say anything about the game. _ **Anything!!!** _ What say ye? Should we avoid comments like this? ---
**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:** [May 17, 2022, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/3713 "2022-05-17T14:42:19Z")
> [@Author\_Balk](#): > > I was checking against the answer list. I don’t have the guess list. I guess they could have put in a word that wasn’t on the answer list. But, we can celebrate a win. FWIW I’m not checking any lists at all. I’m trying to rely on that gray jello between my ears. Y’all know that MARINE is an acronym, right? Muscles are required, intelligence not expected. And I represent that remark. 🙂 ---
**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:** [May 17, 2022, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/3714 "2022-05-17T14:44:19Z")
Wordle 332 3/6\* 🟩🟩⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 BEARD BEGIN BEING Impressive. (Impressive luck that is) ---
**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:** [May 17, 2022, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/3715 "2022-05-17T14:54:30Z")
Wordle 332 4/6 ⬛🟦⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛⬛🟦🟦 ⬛⬛🟧🟧🟧 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧 PIOUS TRAIN FLING BEING Decent par. Not much to start with, but I burned enough letters to keep \_\_ING from being too much of a trap. (Though now that I look again, EYING, DYING, VYING… Y wasn’t on my radar, fortunately.) ---
**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:** [May 17, 2022, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/3716 "2022-05-17T15:05:53Z")
Joining the Chorus of Fours. Wordle 332 4/6\* 🟨⬛⬛⬛🟨 ⬛⬛🟩🟨⬛ ⬛🟩🟩⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 IRATE CHIEF DEISM BEING Typically, by the time I made my third guess, I’d eliminated all other possibilities but the correct one. Not much skill required to get the right answer at that point! ---
**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:** [May 17, 2022, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/3717 "2022-05-17T15:21:19Z")
> [@Bullitt](#): > > FWIW I’m not checking any lists at all. I’m trying to rely on that gray jello between my ears. FWIW, I don’t check the list while I am solving the puzzle. I was checking the list with what you had after the fifth pick to see if there were more than one possible answer (from the answer list). And I am glad that you found the right word, ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2022, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/3718 "2022-05-17T15:25:08Z")
> **Wordle 332 4/6\* 5/17/2022** > > ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ > ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ > ⬜🟩⬜🟩⬜ > 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 > > D **E** LVE → No two E’s about it. Try some more commons and another vowel… > H **E** ART → Some good knockouts, 'there. Try O for another vowel? > P **E** O **N** S → That N in 4 looks a lot like an ING ending… so try > **BEING** > > A good morning for par. I’m glad I missed the trap early. (Oddly enough, this could be equally about golf) ---
**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:** [May 17, 2022, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/3719 "2022-05-17T15:39:27Z")
Sounds good @Author_Balk . ETA — nicely done @pjd . ---
**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:** [May 17, 2022, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/3720 "2022-05-17T16:58:03Z")
Wordle 332 5/6\* ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨 🟩🟨🟨🟨⬜ 🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 TRAIN BINGO BLING BOING BEING [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604.md?page=185) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604.md?page=187)