# "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:** 214
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2022, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/4261 "2022-06-13T00:32:58Z")
Good point! I’ll try that soon. ---
**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:** [June 13, 2022, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/4262 "2022-06-13T01:18:12Z")
**Tomorrow’s Wordle, Today** Just unlucky this time. Wordle 359 5/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨 🟨⬜⬜⬜🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 > **Wordle 359** > > FLUNG > TRAIN > NEVER > HONOR > DONOR ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2022, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/4263 "2022-06-13T01:26:43Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > the Wordle list isn’t friendly to ‘unpleasant’ concepts, for the most part. Hmmm. Past Wordles have included BELCH, BLEED, CHOKE, COLON, DEATH, ENEMA, GROIN, LARVA, MOULT, OFFAL, RETCH, STINK, SWILL, and ULCER. And IIRC, PENIS was going to be the Wordle several weeks back, but the NYT decided that was unacceptable, and swapped it out. ---
**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:** [June 13, 2022, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/4264 "2022-06-13T02:52:00Z")
**Wordle 358 3/6** ⬜🟩🟨⬜🟩 ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 SLANT BLEAT FLOAT ---
**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:** [June 13, 2022, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/4265 "2022-06-13T03:47:28Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > I play it on my phone, and I finally discovered where they hide the number of the Wordle. Been wondering where y’all have been getting the number from! Nice find! I just looked for it out of curiosity…had no idea where that game number was hiding (other than coming with the “share” button once pasted in a post). Why they put it in tiny light gray font at the very bottom of the settings window I know not. Thanks for including that now. 🙂 Side Note: Just noticed we had almost the same three words for today’s game (358). ---
**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:** [June 13, 2022, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/4266 "2022-06-13T04:11:23Z")
Wordle 359 4/6 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 CLASP TENOR MINOR DONOR Good luck yesterday followed by bad luck today. ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2022, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/4267 "2022-06-13T04:36:00Z")
Wordle 359 3/6 🟨⬜⬜⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 RATIO DONER DONOR I don’t know where that second word came from. I was only trying to get an e and a few more common consonants. ---
**Author:** ![QMatic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/aeb1de/32.png) [@QMatic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QMatic)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2022, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/4268 "2022-06-13T07:18:05Z")
Wordle 359 4/6\* ⬜⬜⬜🟩🟨 ⬜🟨🟨🟩⬜ ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 MELON SNOOP HONOR DONOR **Ton up!!** [![Imgur](https://i.imgur.com/8vWxEe3.png "imgur.com") ](https://imgur.com/8vWxEe3) ---
**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:** [June 13, 2022, 10:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/4269 "2022-06-13T10:51:40Z")
Wordle 359 4/6 ⬛⬛🟨🟨⬛ ⬛⬛⬛🟨⬛ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 STONE HAIRY CLUMP DONOR I had it down to boron or donor, (i think) and guessed lucky. ---
**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:** [June 13, 2022, 11:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/4270 "2022-06-13T11:14:20Z")
Wordle 359 3/6 ⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜ ⬜🟨🟨🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 CRANE SNORT - The first words I thought of were DONOR, HONOR and a word that I remember being the answer about 3 or 4 months ago (a very lucky 2). I’m sure there are others (after I finished I checked and there were two others). But, rather than searching for words I decided to pick one of the two. D is more common, so… DONOR - Lucky 3 ---
**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:** [June 13, 2022, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/4271 "2022-06-13T11:53:34Z")
Wordle 359 5/6\* 🟨🟩⬛⬛⬛ ⬛🟩⬛🟨🟨 ⬛🟩🟩🟨⬛ ⬛🟩🟩⬛🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Meh! Wasted a guess. But wordlebot thinks my vocabulary\* is impressive and better luck next time. Noisy, wound, monde\*, gonad, donor ---
**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:** [June 13, 2022, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/4272 "2022-06-13T12:03:29Z")
Wordle 359 5/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟨🟩⬜⬜🟨 ⬜🟩🟨🟨⬜ ⬜🟩⬜🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Made this harder than it was. HEART ROSIN CORNY MOURN DONOR ---
**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:** [June 13, 2022, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/4273 "2022-06-13T12:46:32Z")
Wordle 359 3/6\* ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨 🟩🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 BEARD DRIFT DONOR That’s more like it. ---
**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:** [June 13, 2022, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/4274 "2022-06-13T13:16:43Z")
I got a 3, after my first two standard words, but my third guess I consider to be lucky. There have to be several words that fit the pattern although none come to mind right now. Wordle 359 3/6 ⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛ ⬛⬛🟨🟨⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 EARTH LIONS DONOR ---
**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:** [June 13, 2022, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/4275 "2022-06-13T13:37:33Z")
I’ll take the 4. Wordle 359 4/6\* ⬛🟨⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛🟨⬛🟩 ⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 IRATE SCOUR HONOR DONOR ---
**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:** [June 13, 2022, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/4276 "2022-06-13T15:13:48Z")
Wordle 359 4/6 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛🟦🟦⬛⬛ ⬛🟧🟦⬛⬛ 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧 ACUTE BROIL SORRY DONOR A fun four. I had a feeling and took a flyer on a double R and terminal Y, only to come up empty on both. But that did help the correct word fall into place. Fortunately, I didn’t think of HONOR first. ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2022, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/4277 "2022-06-13T16:16:17Z")
> **Wordle 359 6/6\* 6/13/2022** > > ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ > ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ > ⬜🟩⬜🟨🟨 > ⬜🟩🟨🟨⬜ > ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 > 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 > > FL_O_AT → Not a great start, what can I do with the O? > P **O** ISE → Two vowels left and no consonants locked in yet > M **O** U_RN_ → Could there be a Y? One word to check… > C **O** _RN_Y → Running out of time. Two Os? If so, they can’t be doubled. R either first or last, N first or middle… > H **ONOR** → What a relief. > **DONOR** > > After the fourth guess, I thought my goose was cooked. Though I should have had it in five, as much blood as I have given in my life… ---
**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:** [June 13, 2022, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/4278 "2022-06-13T20:31:34Z")
Took some effort to work through **tomorrow’s**. Wordle 360 5/6 ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟩 ⬜⬜🟩⬜🟩 ⬜⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ---
**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:** [June 13, 2022, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/4279 "2022-06-13T22:44:27Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > > [@Sherrerd](#): > > > > the Wordle list isn’t friendly to ‘unpleasant’ concepts, for the most part. > > Hmmm. Past Wordles have included BELCH, BLEED, CHOKE, COLON, DEATH, ENEMA, GROIN, LARVA, MOULT, OFFAL, RETCH, STINK, SWILL, and ULCER. And IIRC, PENIS was going to be the Wordle several weeks back, but the NYT decided that was unacceptable, and swapped it out. Interesting. I believe those won before I started playing (in late January) so perhaps I had a distorted view of the possibilities. So since the NY Times took over, the point might still hold (though not if we look at the full history of the game, as you point out). Wordle 359 4/6 🟨🟩⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ROAST PORCH BOWER DONOR Took me too long, but otherwise unremarkable. ---
**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:** [June 14, 2022, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/4280 "2022-06-14T01:23:52Z")
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