# "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:** 273
**Author:** ![QMatic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/aeb1de/32.png) [@QMatic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QMatic)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2022, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/5441 "2022-08-10T06:47:33Z")
Wordle 417 2/6\* 🟨⬜🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 GRIEF CLING Obviously I am more cleverer than wot you is today, luck had absolutely nothing to do with it - ha ha ha. ---
**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:** [August 10, 2022, 9:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/5442 "2022-08-10T09:50:07Z")
Wordle 417 5/6 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ πŸŸ¨πŸŸ¨β¬›πŸŸ©β¬› ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ β¬›β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¨β¬› 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 EARTH LIONS DUMPY WHACK CLING ---
**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:** [August 10, 2022, 10:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/5443 "2022-08-10T10:16:58Z")
Wordle 417 4/6\* ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 BEARD QUILT CLINK CLING ---
**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:** [August 10, 2022, 11:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/5444 "2022-08-10T11:13:18Z")
Wordle 417 3/6 🟩⬜⬜🟩⬜ 🟩⬜⬜🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 CRANE - two greens COUNT - vowel(s) not A or E, how about O or U? CLING ---
**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:** [August 10, 2022, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/5445 "2022-08-10T12:02:11Z")
Wordle 417 6/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 HEART SPOIL CLIMB CLIFF CLINK CLING ---
**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:** [August 10, 2022, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/5446 "2022-08-10T12:18:27Z")
Up way too early, but I wanted to make sure to Wordle today. A four I’ll take gratefully. Wordle 417 4/6\* πŸŸ¨β¬›β¬›β¬›β¬› πŸŸ©β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ¨β¬› πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŸ©β¬›β¬› 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 IRATE CLIMB CHILD CLING It could have gone so much worse. ---
**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:** [August 10, 2022, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/5447 "2022-08-10T13:21:19Z")
Wordle 417 4/6\* ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ β¬›β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŸ© β¬›β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŸ© 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Depth Vying Using Cling Not fun! ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2022, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/5448 "2022-08-10T14:40:28Z")
Wordle 417 3/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩⬜⬜🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 SHARE (a frequent start word) COUNT CLING ---
**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:** [August 10, 2022, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/5449 "2022-08-10T14:49:50Z")
Wordle 417 5/6 β¬›πŸŸ¦πŸŸ¦β¬›β¬› β¬›πŸŸ¦β¬›πŸŸ¦πŸŸ¦ β¬›πŸŸ§πŸŸ§πŸŸ§πŸŸ§ β¬›πŸŸ§πŸŸ§πŸŸ§πŸŸ§ 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧 OILER UNTIL FLING SLING CLING Sometimes you’re the windshield, sometimes you’re the bug. Coulda been a three, a four, or a five. I’ve been on the lucky end of these before, so I guess it all evens out. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2022, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/5450 "2022-08-10T15:21:24Z")
Wordle 417 2/6 SLANT CLING Been a couple months at least since the last time I scored a 2. After my first guess (and a fair bit of work) I had 11 possibilities for the solution, and the one I went with for my second guess was simply the best choice to narrow down the possibilities and all but guarantee a 3. Happy to get lucky and get a 2 instead! It was a fun exercise: after my first guess, I had _L\_N_. The middle letter had to be a vowel, and I’d only eliminated A. But eliminating A was enough to figure out that the first letter _wasn’t_ a vowel. So I had four possibilities for vowels in the middle, a cluster of possible consonants for the first letter, and a different cluster of consonants plus silent E for the last letter. Playing around got me my 11 suspects, and I did a little matrix grouping them by first and last letters, and indicating their middle vowels. No matter which letters of CLING came up duds, I was going to be well positioned for guess #3. Instead, everything turned green. πŸ™‚ ---
**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:** [August 10, 2022, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/5451 "2022-08-10T21:21:43Z")
**Tomorrow’s** gets a three. I’ll take that, with gratitude. Wordle 418 3/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩⬜🟩🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2022, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/5452 "2022-08-10T21:49:29Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > after my first guess, I had _L\_N_. There should be \_ blanks before and after what’s in the spoiler box, but Discourse disappeared them. And of course I didn’t notice that in the right hand screen because they were in a blurred-out spoiler. I have no idea why it disappeared them, or how to keep Discourse from doing that. But if anyone was trying to follow my blurred comment, I’m sure it made it a good deal more confusing. ---
**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:** [August 10, 2022, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/5453 "2022-08-10T22:52:41Z")
Wordle 417 3/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟩🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 EARTH SLICK CLING Nothing from guess 1; for guess 2 I wanted to try an S start, maybe with L? and then I, O, or U? β€œI” came first so that’s what I tried, giving me quite a lot of information, as it happened. ---
**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:** [August 11, 2022, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/5454 "2022-08-11T00:13:16Z")
Wordle 417 5/6\* ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩⬜🟨 ⬜⬜🟩🟩⬜ ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 PRIDE AVION STINK FLING CLING ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2022, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/5455 "2022-08-11T02:05:06Z")
> **Wordle 417 4/6\* 8/10/2022** > > ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ > ⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜ > ⬜⬜🟩🟩🟩 > 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 > > PATTY β†’ Not unexpected. At least two vowels are gone, though one of 'em is uncommon. > SHO **N** E β†’ For a lot of common letters, only getting one hit seems rough. N in 4th… ING ending? > RU **ING** β†’ Yes, and I’m out of vowels. Two Is would be ICING, an L in second would match BLING, FLING and CLING, so… > **CLING** > > BLING was too slangy to try anyway, as β€œIMING” would have been. ---
**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:** [August 11, 2022, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/5456 "2022-08-11T02:11:19Z")
**Tomorrow’s Wordle, Today** I’ll take it. Wordle 418 3/6 🟩⬜⬜⬜🟨 🟩⬜🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 > **Wordle 418** > > GRIME > GUESS β†’ Was it too much to ask that this be the right answer? > GLEAN ---
**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:** [August 11, 2022, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/5457 "2022-08-11T04:11:52Z")
Wordle 418 4/6 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¨πŸŸ¨πŸŸ¨ πŸŸ¨πŸŸ¨πŸŸ¨πŸŸ©β¬› 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 CRIMP STALE LEGAL GLEAN Thought I had it with legal. ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2022, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/5458 "2022-08-11T04:37:00Z")
Wordle 418 4/6 ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟨🟨🟨 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 RATIO PLANE CLEAN GLEAN Quick and easy today ---
**Author:** ![QMatic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/aeb1de/32.png) [@QMatic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QMatic)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2022, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/5459 "2022-08-11T05:41:07Z")
Wordle 418 4/6\* 🟨⬜⬜🟨🟨 ⬜🟩🟩🟩⬜ ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 AISLE PLEAT CLEAN GLEAN ---
**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:** [August 11, 2022, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/5460 "2022-08-11T05:54:28Z")
**Wordle 417 5/6** 🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 CHORE CAULK CLIMB CLIFF CLING Another case of having two words to choose from (after my 3rd word) and just picking the wrong one. Can’t get it right every time. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604.md?page=272) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604.md?page=274)