# "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:** 199
**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 29, 2022, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/3961 "2022-05-29T21:08:25Z")
I found **tomorrow’s** relatively straightforward, mostly through the luck of the letters. Wordle 345 3/6 ⬜🟨🟨⬜🟨 ⬜🟨🟩🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ---
**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 29, 2022, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/3962 "2022-05-29T21:35:11Z")
Well, shoot. I thought I’d done today’s so I was looking at how people had done, only to discover I had not, in fact, done today’s. ---
**Author:** ![Beesnest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e495f1/32.png) [@Beesnest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beesnest)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2022, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/3963 "2022-05-29T21:46:05Z")
Wordle 344 4/6 ⬜🟩⬜⬜🟨 ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩 ---
**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 29, 2022, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/3964 "2022-05-29T21:58:00Z")
Oh shoot, take a mercy win at 6, keep the streak going! ---
**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 29, 2022, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/3965 "2022-05-29T23:50:06Z")
> [@chela](#): > > Wordle 344 2/6\* > > β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŸ©β¬› > 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 > > Rayon, bayou > Thanks to Waffle for my starting word today! Frogger!??!! ---
**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 29, 2022, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/3966 "2022-05-29T23:57:56Z")
Wordle 344 5/6 🟨🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜ 🟨🟨⬜⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 OUTER SOUND GHOUL AUDIO BAYOU At step 4 I used a D I knew was prohibited, because I just couldn’t get unstuck. The final answer took WAY too long. ---
**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 30, 2022, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/3967 "2022-05-30T00:34:58Z")
**Wordle 344 4/6** ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜🟩⬜ ⬜🟩🟨🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 WHOLE MANOR TABOO BAYOU I had the answer word typed in for my third guess and changed it at the last second. Did that the other day too and didn’t listen to my first instinct. Arghh. But if I was right, then I’d say yay, glad I changed it. πŸ˜‰ You just never know. So four it is again for today, which is _totally_ fine. ---
**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 30, 2022, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/3968 "2022-05-30T00:38:56Z")
Oh darn it! I second what Chela says…take a 6 and keep the streak going. πŸ˜‰ Or just take the 1 and ignore it in your stats - have you gotten a 1 yet? ---
**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 30, 2022, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/3969 "2022-05-30T01:27:27Z")
**Tomorrow’s Wordle, Today** Back on the ball. Wordle 345 3/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 > **Wordle 345** > > SHRUB > PETAL > ATOLL ---
**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 30, 2022, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/3970 "2022-05-30T03:09:54Z")
Once! I used STAIR as my starting word and it was the word. ETA: and I managed to forget the word, and it took me 3 to get back to it … ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2022, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/3971 "2022-05-30T04:30:43Z")
Wordle 345 3/6 ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟨🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 RAISE ALOUD ATOLL ---
**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 30, 2022, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/3972 "2022-05-30T04:40:36Z")
Wordle 345 4/6 β¬›β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¨β¬› β¬›πŸŸ¨πŸŸ¨β¬›πŸŸ¨ πŸŸ¨πŸŸ¨β¬›πŸŸ©β¬› 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 CRITS PLANT TABLE ATOLL Weird. I would have bet a dollar that atoll was a valid guess but not a valid answer. I don’t think I would have put that in an answer list in a game I was designing for a girlfriend. ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2022, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/3973 "2022-05-30T06:37:18Z")
> **Wordle 344 4/6\* 5/29/2022 (for most of you, yesterday)** > > ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ > ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ > ⬜🟨⬜🟨🟨 > 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 > > CREPT β†’ Five swings, all misses. Common letters, perhaps? > FL_A_SH β†’ One vowel right. Try for some more… > N_O_W_AY_ β†’ Didn’t think this would be a kosher word. OK, think. A??OY, ?AYO? but so few high frequency consonants left. AMBOY unlikely, MAYOR no, can’t get an I to fit in there, but a U… > **BAYOU** > > I took so long between guesses 3 and 4 that it’s almost tomorrow where I am. ---
**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 30, 2022, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/3974 "2022-05-30T06:50:10Z")
Got it!!! Wordle 344 5/6 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¨πŸŸ¨β¬› β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¨β¬›β¬› β¬›πŸŸ©β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¨ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 STERN CLOUD IMAGE HAPPY BAYOU ---
**Author:** ![QMatic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/aeb1de/32.png) [@QMatic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QMatic)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2022, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/3975 "2022-05-30T07:09:26Z")
Wordle 345 4/6\* ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 PLUME VALID FOCAL ATOLL One of those popular crossword words where I can never remember, is it double T or double L? ---
**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 30, 2022, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/3976 "2022-05-30T07:37:52Z")
Wordle 345 4/6 🟨⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟨🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 TRANS LOUIE PETAL ATOLL Should’ve got it in three, but I also didn’t think β€œatoll” was likely going to be in the game. ---
**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 30, 2022, 7:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/3977 "2022-05-30T07:58:33Z")
Wordle 345 3/6 β¬›πŸŸ©β¬›β¬›β¬› β¬›πŸŸ¨πŸŸ©β¬›β¬› 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 STERN CLOUD ATOLL ---
**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 30, 2022, 11:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/3978 "2022-05-30T11:13:32Z")
Wordle 345 4/6\* β¬›πŸŸ¨β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¨ πŸŸ¨β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¨β¬› β¬›β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ¨β¬› 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 POINT THROW SMOTE ATOLL ---
**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 30, 2022, 11:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/3979 "2022-05-30T11:16:13Z")
Wordle 345 2/6\* πŸŸ©πŸŸ¨β¬›β¬›β¬› 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Alive, atoll. Almost went with apply but I thought of atoll first. ---
**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 30, 2022, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/3980 "2022-05-30T13:00:12Z")
Wordle 345 4/6 ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨 🟨🟨⬜⬜🟨 🟨🟨🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 HEART TANGO OATHS ATOLL Not a word you come across all the time, but luckily in my childhood I was a fan of the Beany and Cecil Show and remember their voyage to the No Bikini Atoll. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604.md?page=198) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604.md?page=200)