# "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:** 26
**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:** [January 13, 2022, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/501 "2022-01-13T15:36:10Z")
Whose mamma? My mamma? _ **Yo mamma?** _ 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2022, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/502 "2022-01-13T15:46:17Z")
Needed all six guesses today Wordle 208 6/6\* ⬛⬛🟨⬛🟨 ⬛🟨⬛🟩⬛ 🟩⬛⬛🟩⬛ 🟩⬛⬛🟩⬛ 🟩⬛⬛🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2022, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/503 "2022-01-13T15:51:19Z")
I am really stuck today. I’ve got two letters in the right place, and I’ve been stuck for probably an hour. My brain hurts. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2022, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/504 "2022-01-13T16:01:43Z")
Of the possibilities, if it is indeed true they will use a word with only two letters, that’s the most probable. In my spoiler, I also mentioned “esses,” which I have used, but it’s probably not “fun” enough, slightly esoteric, and a plural. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2022, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/505 "2022-01-13T16:03:39Z")
Wordle 208 4/6 🟩⬛⬛🟩⬛ 🟩⬛⬛🟩⬛ 🟩⬛⬛🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 I may as well have played this in hard mode, but, hey, all greens! ADIEU AFTER (changing from my usual strategy, since I already had two letters in the right place) ALLEY ABBEY ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2022, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/506 "2022-01-13T16:24:52Z")
Okay, I gave up. I had the first and the fourth letter, and had resorted to going through all the remaining letters of the keyboard, typing them in all possible configurations…but I got worn out before I got to the bottom row. I can tell myself _maybe_ I would have gotten it. ---
**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:** [January 13, 2022, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/507 "2022-01-13T16:36:34Z")
4 ! (13 Jan 2021) DEATH RAVEN ALLEY ABBEY ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2022, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/508 "2022-01-13T16:49:00Z")
> [@Ponderoid](#): > > Then that left me with only one non-obscure word that fit for guess #4. There’s at least one other. I tried it. (I see that others have, also.) Five, for Jan 13 apparently 208: **A** DOR_E_ **A** G_E_NT **A** SK **E** W **A** LL **EY** ABBEY ---
**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:** [January 13, 2022, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/509 "2022-01-13T17:29:50Z")
Woke up in the middle of the night, now can’t get to sleep (it’s very hot here) so did today’s puzzle. Or, what is for most of you, tomorrow’s puzzle. Wordle 209 5/6 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩⬜🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ---
**Author:** ![Folly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folly/32/3219_2.png) [@Folly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folly)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2022, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/510 "2022-01-13T17:50:24Z")
Scrolling up through the thread makes me think you guys are terrible at Tetris. ---
**Author:** ![Ponderoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponderoid/32/19221_2.png) [@Ponderoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponderoid)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2022, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/511 "2022-01-13T17:57:59Z")
> [@thorny\_locust](#): > > There’s at least one other. I tried it. I’d already ruled out L on my second guess. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2022, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/512 "2022-01-13T18:19:31Z")
IRATE PLEAD ASHEN ABBEY Maybe it’s confirmation bias but they seem to love words that end in Y. That helped me a bit with my solve. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2022, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/513 "2022-01-13T18:25:17Z")
Ah. Missed that, sorry. ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2022, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/514 "2022-01-13T18:28:24Z")
> **[Wordle copycat creator apologizes for ripping off the popular free word game](https://www.theverge.com/2022/1/12/22880353/wordle-copycat-creator-apology-word-game-app-store-apple)** > > After Apple removed the knockoff app from the App Store > “I realize I crossed a line. And I surely, surely will never do anything remotely close to this again. I fucked up,” tweeted Shakked. He goes on to explain that > > “Wordle” itself wasn’t trademarked and that Wardle’s game was similar to _Lingo_ , an older TV game show with a similar word-guessing mechanic. Shakked also says that he planned to expand on _Wordle_ with more functionality and change the overall design of the app to less resemble Wardle’s own game, had he been able to before Apple removed his app from the store. > The aftermath of the blowback seems to have soured Shakked (who had previously complained on Twitter about how “[s]hameless copy/pasting ideas/features will get you nowhere”) on the idea of copycat apps in the future. “I’ll go back to creating apps based on my completely, evergreen, original ideas and never fuck with anything remotely like this again,” Shakked’s thread concludes. > > Zach Shakked did not respond to request for comment. ---
**Author:** ![jacobsta811](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jacobsta811/32/2893_2.png) [@jacobsta811](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jacobsta811)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2022, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/515 "2022-01-13T18:37:28Z")
Definitely can have repeat letters - the first day I tried the word had a set of duplicate letters. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2022, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/516 "2022-01-13T21:43:13Z")
Tough one today! Wordle 208 4/6 ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 IRATE LOCUS MANGY ABBEY ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2022, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/517 "2022-01-13T21:45:23Z")
IIRC, in one of the articles, I read that almost 1/3 of the solutions contain a repeat letter. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2022, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/518 "2022-01-13T21:48:00Z")
I guess that’s why I had such a rough time today. It was my first repeating letter puzzle. ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2022, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/519 "2022-01-13T23:29:24Z")
Phew! Wordle 208 6/6\* ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟩⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟩⬜⬜⬜🟨 🟩⬜⬜🟩⬜ 🟩⬜⬜🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 F_A_VOR ← not much to start with… let’s move A to the beginning **A** G_E_NT ← two vowels, but no T… Hmmmm **A** PPL_E_ ← I think I’m going down… don’t think it starts with AE, so… **A** CH **E** D ← haven’t tried an S yet, but the only one I can think of with an S has three… **A** SS **E** S At this point, I had to catch the bus to jury duty, which probably saved me, because I couldn’t think of any word to make out of the A & E I had and the odd assortment of B, M, J, K & Y (where I concentrated in favor of the the rarer Q, W, X, Z combo). So then I got home and looked hard at the letters for five minutes, and one possibility came to me: **ABBEY** ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2022, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/520 "2022-01-13T23:40:48Z")
I had to cheat a little bit on this one because I got to 5 and could not think of a word that fit. I ended up pulling a list of scrabble words and eliminated everything that wouldn’t work. ABBEY was literally the only word left. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604.md?page=25) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604.md?page=27)