# "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:** 235
**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:** [July 4, 2022, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/4681 "2022-07-04T04:33:15Z")
Wordle 380 3/6 β¬›πŸŸ¨β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¨ πŸŸ©β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¨πŸŸ¨ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 CRAPS STORE SEVER I did see sewer but I saw sever first. Just happy the answer wasn’t seder or I would have gotten a five. ---
**Author:** ![QMatic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/aeb1de/32.png) [@QMatic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QMatic)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2022, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/4682 "2022-07-04T06:11:51Z")
Wordle 380 4/6\* ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨 ⬜🟩🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 IRATE DERBY LEMUR SEVER ---
**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:** [July 4, 2022, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/4683 "2022-07-04T06:44:08Z")
**Wordle 379 2/6** 🟨🟩⬜🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 AISLE LILAC It’s always exciting to get it in two! 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:** [July 4, 2022, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/4684 "2022-07-04T07:12:03Z")
I’m always excited getting it in 6! πŸ™‚ Wordle 380 6/6 πŸŸ¨β¬›πŸŸ¨β¬›β¬› β¬›β¬›β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¨ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ β¬›πŸŸ©β¬›β¬›β¬› 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 EARTH LIONS DUMPY WHACK BEFOG SEVER ---
**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:** [July 4, 2022, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/4685 "2022-07-04T11:17:42Z")
Wordle 380 4/6 ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜⬜🟩🟩 ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 CRANE OILER - is it \_O\_ER, \_I\_ER, \_\_\_ER, or something else DUETS - It’s \_\_\_ER. Trying common letters and the U SEVER ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2022, 11:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/4686 "2022-07-04T11:23:44Z")
Wordle 380 5/6\* ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨🟩⬜ 🟩⬜🟨🟩⬜ 🟩⬜🟨🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 The last few days have sucked. ---
**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:** [July 4, 2022, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/4687 "2022-07-04T14:21:26Z")
Wordle 380 4/6 β¬›β¬›β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¦ πŸŸ¦πŸŸ§β¬›β¬›β¬› β¬›πŸŸ§β¬›β¬›πŸŸ§ 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧 CANOE REFIT LEMUR SEVER Hey, I’ll take a four every day and be happy. I thought about the possibility of a repeated E early on, but wanted to exhaust all the vowels first. By four, I was pretty much down to SEVER and SEWER. (Didn’t see SEDER, but I doubt it’s a likely answer; likewise for some others like HEXER or HEWER.) So I never got worried on this one. ---
**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:** [July 4, 2022, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/4688 "2022-07-04T15:09:08Z")
Wordle 380 6/6\* β¬›β¬›β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¨ πŸŸ©β¬›πŸŸ¨β¬›β¬› πŸŸ©β¬›β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ© πŸŸ©β¬›β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ© πŸŸ©πŸŸ©β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ© 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Could’ve had it in 4 but I went a different direction. Phew! Niche Steam Super Sober Sewer Sever ---
**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:** [July 4, 2022, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/4689 "2022-07-04T15:11:44Z")
Wordle 380 4/6\* ⬜🟩⬜🟨⬜ 🟨🟩⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 BEARD REMIT PERCH SEVER ---
**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:** [July 4, 2022, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/4690 "2022-07-04T15:49:18Z")
Wordle 380 4/6\* 🟩⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟩⬜⬜🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟨⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 SWEAT SCORE SERGE SEVER ---
**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:** [July 4, 2022, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/4691 "2022-07-04T15:50:17Z")
Wordle 380 3/6 ⬜🟩⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 HEART BONER SEVER ---
**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:** [July 4, 2022, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/4692 "2022-07-04T16:36:39Z")
Not awesome. Not terrible. Wordle 380 4/6\* β¬›πŸŸ¨β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¨ β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¨πŸŸ¨β¬› β¬›β¬›β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ© 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 IRATE CLERK POWER SEVER I thought of FEVER, too, but decided to try the less common word first, because Wordle likes to trip us up with common words. ---
**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:** [July 5, 2022, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/4693 "2022-07-05T02:15:50Z")
**Tomorrow’s Wordle, Today** Trying less-common words and letter combinations really isn’t working for me. Wordle 381 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜🟩⬜⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 > **Wordle 381** > > STOCK > RAVEN > PIQUE > FIELD ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2022, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/4694 "2022-07-05T04:26:24Z")
Wordle 381 5/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟨🟩⬜🟨🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 RATIO LINED WIELD YIELD FIELD I believe the graph says it all. ---
**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:** [July 5, 2022, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/4695 "2022-07-05T04:38:41Z")
Wordle 381 5/6 β¬›πŸŸ¨β¬›β¬›β¬› β¬›β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¨πŸŸ¨ πŸŸ¨πŸŸ¨πŸŸ¨β¬›β¬› β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŸ© 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 CLOTS PANEL LEDGE YIELD FIELD I got to use my Scrabble tiles for the first time today. I have a pile of 12 letters that spell out β€˜clamp store’ plus two extra letters: N can replace M and I can replace any vowel. After my first word I was left with LAMPRE (NI) and used the Scrabble tiles to come up with panel for my second word. Fun! Then it was back to business the regular way. So many yellows. At first I thought I’d short-circuited the \_EDGE mini-trap but it turns out I just fell right into the \_IELD mini-trap instead. With only three possibilities and three guesses available to me I decided to just guess them in the order I saw them. At least that way I still had a chance at a 4. ---
**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:** [July 5, 2022, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/4696 "2022-07-05T04:47:29Z")
**Wordle 380 5/6** 🟩⬜⬜🟨🟨 🟩⬜⬜🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩⬜🟨🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 SHARE SKIER NOBLY STEER SEVER Had to work for that one! So many words it could have been, so I had to do a letter check for my third word. After Steer, it could only be Sever or Sewer, as far as I could tell. Picked the right one. ---
**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:** [July 5, 2022, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/4697 "2022-07-05T06:02:41Z")
> [@Bullitt](#): > > I’m always excited getting it in 6! πŸ™‚ True! It’s always a good feeling to avoid the dreaded fail, especially with the way the words have been going lately! I’ve only had one, and I’d like to keep it that way. 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:** [July 5, 2022, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/4698 "2022-07-05T07:11:06Z")
Wordle 381 4/6 πŸŸ¨β¬›β¬›β¬›β¬› πŸŸ¨πŸŸ©β¬›β¬›β¬› β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŸ© 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 EARTH LIONS YIELD FIELD At least it wasn’t WIELD. ---
**Author:** ![Isamu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7c8e57/32.png) [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2022, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/4699 "2022-07-05T07:53:11Z")
Today’s one is tricksy. ---
**Author:** ![QMatic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/aeb1de/32.png) [@QMatic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QMatic)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2022, 9:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/4700 "2022-07-05T09:00:30Z")
Wordle 381 5/6\* ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨 🟨🟨🟨🟨⬜ ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 GUISE IDLER WIELD YIELD FIELD Could have been a 3 😭 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604.md?page=234) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604.md?page=236)