# "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:** 187
**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, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/3721 "2022-05-17T17:03:01Z")
I don’t mind as the comments are quite generic and give nothing away imo. ---
**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:** [May 17, 2022, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/3722 "2022-05-17T17:11:15Z")
Wordle 332 5/6 ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟨🟨⬜ 🟨🟩🟩🟨⬜ ⬜🟩🟩🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 HEART PENIS NEIGH DEIGN BEING Shoulda got it in 4 ---
**Author:** ![tim-n-va](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim-n-va/32/3001_2.png) [@tim-n-va](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tim-n-va)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2022, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/3723 "2022-05-17T18:55:54Z")
Wordle 332 3/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟨⬜🟩🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Not planned but maybe I described life: LAUGH, GRIEF, BEING ---
**Author:** ![SeaSun](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/seasun/32/14820_2.png) [@SeaSun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeaSun)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2022, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/3724 "2022-05-17T19:01:06Z")
**Wordle 332 3/6** ⬜⬜🟩🟩⬜ 🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 SAINT BRING BEING Saw this being a possible trap after my start word - was it going to be INY, ING, or INE? I decided to go with ING and got lucky with my second word, though I _almost_ went with the correct word and would have had it in two. Happy to get it in 3 tries though. πŸ™‚ ---
**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, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/3725 "2022-05-17T20:25:28Z")
Okay. ---
**Author:** ![SeaSun](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/seasun/32/14820_2.png) [@SeaSun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeaSun)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2022, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/3726 "2022-05-17T20:33:16Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > AFAICT your record is just based on browser cookies. I use Google Chrome and know that you can set up an allowance for particular sites to use cookies, which I have done for NYT Wordle site, but does anyone know if/when you clear cookies, if it still will clear the NYT one for the game? On Firefox, you can set up exceptions to never touch the cookies for this or that site, but I can’t seem to figure out how to do that on Chrome, or if it’s even possible. I don’t clear cookies on Chrome very often, and haven’t since I started playing the game, so it’d be great to know if this is true that the stats are connected to the cookies. Would hate to lose my stats. **Regarding Wordle #332** > [@Smapti](#): > > I had no idea that β€œmeiny” was a word, let alone what it means, so from now on I’m using it as an adjective to mean β€œpossessing properties similar to those of chow mein noodles”. That meaning works for me! 🀣 (didn’t know what the word meant either). ---
**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:** [May 17, 2022, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/3727 "2022-05-17T20:45:09Z")
I try really hard to not give actual clues away that will spoil it for anyone, and am as general as I can be. I never list the actual guesses either, as it’s too easy for my early post to be mistaken for the current one you played. I could blur my comment, but that also would lead to mistakenly being read too soon. And saying nothing wouldn’t be an option, as why post at all? It can be a fine line, so if I do cross it, do call me out on it. ---
**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:** [May 17, 2022, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/3728 "2022-05-17T21:06:57Z")
Meanwhile, here’s **tomorrow’s.** I nearly was going to guess it right in the second slot, but my instinct was to go in another direction. Wordle 333 3/6 ⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟨🟩🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ---
**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:** [May 17, 2022, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/3729 "2022-05-17T22:56:33Z")
Wordle 332 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 🟨⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜🟩🟨⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 STARE ELEGY VEGAN BEING The third word used a forbidden β€œA,”, but I was stuck so did it anyway. This one was a slog for me. ---
**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 18, 2022, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/3730 "2022-05-18T02:06:00Z")
**Tomorrow’s Wordle, Today** Wordlebot was full of praise for me yesterday after getting a bog-standard 4/6. Today however it didn’t seem too impressed by 3/6. Wordle 333 3/6 ⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ 🟨⬜🟩🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 > **Wordle 333** > > TOUGH > CLOUD > SCOUR ---
**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:** [May 18, 2022, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/3731 "2022-05-18T02:22:45Z")
I remember reading some article by a guy who got eighty Wordles in a row. It said he used a tool to do all the old puzzles since he started late, as I did. What was he talking about? ---
**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 18, 2022, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/3732 "2022-05-18T02:49:13Z")
> [@Bullitt](#): > > 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, β€œOK 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? @GuanoLad didn’t say anything that you couldn’t have figured out by looking at the graph. Are we going to have to censor those, too? ---
**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 18, 2022, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/3733 "2022-05-18T04:15:36Z")
Wordle 333 3/6 πŸŸ¨β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¨β¬› πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŸ¨β¬› 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 CLASP SCORE SCOUR I was torn between score and scorn for my second word; I have different rules β€œrequiring” both, but had to choose. I chose E over N. Turned out not to have mattered as this was a 3 all the way. ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2022, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/3734 "2022-05-18T04:16:20Z")
Wordle 333 4/6 🟨⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟩 ⬜🟨⬜🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 RATIO LONER JUROR SCOUR A little tricky for me 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:** [May 18, 2022, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/3735 "2022-05-18T04:25:37Z")
> [@Terminus\_Est](#): > > Wordlebot was full of praise for me yesterday after getting a bog-standard 4/6. Today however it didn’t seem too impressed by 3/6. I could hypothesize that after your first guess, there are X number of possible solutions. Your starting word yesterday was alter (good one!) with only a yellow E. While today’s was tough, with yellow o and u. I think the set of possible answers it could have been after your first word was much larger for you yesterday than today. That’s at least a possible mechanism where it could rate a 4 as more impressive than a 3. ---
**Author:** ![QMatic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/aeb1de/32.png) [@QMatic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QMatic)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2022, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/3736 "2022-05-18T05:41:14Z")
Wordle 333 4/6\* ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩🟩🟨 🟩⬜🟩🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 MAUVE PIOUS SNOUT SCOUR ---
**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:** [May 18, 2022, 9:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/3737 "2022-05-18T09:32:56Z")
Wordle 333 3/6 ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟨🟨🟨🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ASIDE COURT SCOUR ---
**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 18, 2022, 10:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/3738 "2022-05-18T10:11:45Z")
Wordle 333 3/6\* β¬›πŸŸ¨πŸŸ©β¬›β¬› β¬›β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŸ© 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Trope, flour, scour ---
**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 18, 2022, 10:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/3739 "2022-05-18T10:47:30Z")
Wordle 333 3/6 🟨🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨🟨🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 For game 333 I got a 3. And according to the statistics I now I have 33 threes and 33 fours. CRANE TORCH - wordlebot said I should have picked mochi even though the first word had a yellow R. Why didn’t I think of mouchi? SCOUR ---
**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:** [May 18, 2022, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/3740 "2022-05-18T11:48:37Z")
Wordle 333 3/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜🟨🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Sometimes a well-played 3 is more satisfying than a lucky 2. HEART BROIL SCOUR [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604.md?page=186) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604.md?page=188)