# "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:** 285
**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 21, 2022, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/5681 "2022-08-21T16:52:35Z")
Wasn’t sure I was going to get this one. Wordle 428 4/6\* ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 🟨🟨⬜⬜🟩 ⬜🟩🟨🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 URINE AWOKE HAWSE WASTE ---
**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 21, 2022, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/5682 "2022-08-21T21:01:36Z")
Should’ve gotten **tomorrow’s** in four. Wordle 429 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:** [August 21, 2022, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/5683 "2022-08-21T23:01:32Z")
Wordle 428 3/6 🟨⬜⬜🟨🟩 🟨⬜🟨⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 AROSE SCALE WASTE After guess 2 I didn’t _know_ it was “\_ASTE,” but thought I should try one of those words next. CASTE was ruled out by guess 2 and I didn’t think of HASTE; that left me with BASTE, PASTE, TASTE, and WASTE. I couldn’t think of a test word that used any three of B, P, T, W----so I decided to just try what I figured was the most common-in-English of the four words to confirm whether or not this actually was a “\_ASTE” trap. And got lucky. ---
**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 22, 2022, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/5684 "2022-08-22T00:09:39Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > I couldn’t think of a test word that used any three of B, P, T, W Twerp is probably in the guess list. My first thought was Tebow but that’s a name, not a word. ---
**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 22, 2022, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/5685 "2022-08-22T00:58:47Z")
**Tomorrow’s Wordle, Today** Finally, some recognition. Wordle 429 3/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨 🟩🟨⬜🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 > **Wordle 429** > > FLAME > MINER > MERIT ---
**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 22, 2022, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/5686 "2022-08-22T02:21:14Z")
**Wordle 428 6/6** ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜🟨⬜ ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 LOAMY CABIN PAGER HAUTE BROWS WASTE I’ve been trying different words than I usually do for my first three guesses, but it hasn’t been paying off. Haute was probably a wasted guess as I wasn’t sure it’d be a word, but it gave me the U and T to check (I didn’t go with Saute as that’s already been an answer word). And then I saw I had three choices of words (taste, baste, and waste), but only two more guesses. Yikes. I came up with a word (brows) that would show me which of the three it’d be, and Waste it was. At least it wasn’t a fail! ---
**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 22, 2022, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/5687 "2022-08-22T04:23:37Z")
Wordle 429 4/6 ⬛🟨🟨⬛🟩 ⬛🟩⬛🟨🟩 ⬛🟨🟩🟨⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 CREPT HEART FIRMS MERIT Not my finest effort. Would have really helped if I had checked M to start. After 2 I could see reset, remit, beret, and for some reason I thought ferret was spelled with one R. If I had realized, I would have guessed brims at 3. Either way, that gave me all five letters, three of them green. ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2022, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/5688 "2022-08-22T04:31:31Z")
Not that it matters, but I got today’s in two guesses. It’s been a while since I got lucky. ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2022, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/5689 "2022-08-22T05:10:17Z")
Wordle 429 3/6 🟨⬜🟨🟩⬜ ⬜🟨🟩🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 RATIO STRIP MERIT ---
**Author:** ![QMatic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/aeb1de/32.png) [@QMatic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QMatic)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2022, 7:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/5690 "2022-08-22T07:43:52Z")
Wordle 429 3/6\* 🟨⬜⬜🟨🟨 🟨🟩🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ROUTE RETCH MERIT Careless to use the R in a known wrong position on second guess so a 3 is better than I deserve ---
**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 22, 2022, 10:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/5691 "2022-08-22T10:18:29Z")
Wordle 429 4/6 🟨⬛🟩🟨⬛ 🟨🟩🟩⬛⬛ ⬛🟩🟩⬛🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 EARTH TERSE BERET MERIT ---
**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 22, 2022, 10:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/5692 "2022-08-22T10:41:49Z")
Wordle 429 4/6 ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨 ⬜🟨⬜🟨🟨 🟨🟩🟨🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 CRANE OILER REMIT - with 3 greens and 2 yelllows the answer is obvious MERIT ---
**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 22, 2022, 10:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/5693 "2022-08-22T10:46:12Z")
Wordle 429 3/6\* ⬜🟩⬜🟨⬜ 🟨🟩🟨🟩🟩 ← 😲 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 BEARD REMIT MERIT Wow ! ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2022, 10:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/5694 "2022-08-22T10:57:41Z")
Wordle 429 4/6 This one was genuinely fun. I came up with a new starting word that I didn’t even think was a word, and it gave me enough info that on each subsequent guess, I thought I had a real shot at the solution, and AFAICT had it narrowed down to a single possibility by my fourth try. SLART DRIFT RIGHT MERIT 1. What’s the deal with my new first word? Is it really a word? It’s not in my dictionary, but Google says it is, and provides a definition. My motivation was that while I’ve been using SLANT for months, it lacks R which is by far the most common consonant in Wordle solutions. So I tried SLART (ibartfast) just for the hell of it, and much to my surprise, it was accepted. Who knew? 1. From there, it was a question of whether the R was in the first, second, or third spot. I thought second was most likely, because of all the consonant combinations with R as the second letter. So I went with that, then tried R as the first letter (thought for sure I was RIGHT on my third try, but RIGHT was wrong 😃 ), and only lastly tried it in the third slot. ---
**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 22, 2022, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/5695 "2022-08-22T11:56:42Z")
Yes I teed it up quite nicely for you. Anyway, I dropped another deuce today. Wordle 429 2/6 ⬜🟩⬜🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 HEART MERIT ---
**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 22, 2022, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/5696 "2022-08-22T12:17:54Z")
Wordle 429 5/6\* ⬛🟨🟨🟨⬛ 🟨🟨⬛🟨🟨 🟨🟨🟨⬛🟨 🟨🟩🟨🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Fiery Irate Tribe - wasn’t paying attention Remit Merit ---
**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 22, 2022, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/5697 "2022-08-22T13:18:50Z")
Wordle 429 5/6\* ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨 ⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜ 🟨🟩🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟩🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 SHARE CRUEL REIGN FERMI MERIT ---
**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 22, 2022, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/5698 "2022-08-22T14:51:58Z")
Wordle 429 3/6 🟦⬛🟦⬛🟦 🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧 RAISE TIMER MERIT Well, that’s an interesting pattern. I don’t think I’ve ever had five blues (yellows) before. I assumed it was going to be a \_I\_ER word, and I was waffling between LINER and TIMER. Glad I went with the latter! ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2022, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/5699 "2022-08-22T19:16:57Z")
> [@Aspenglow](#): > > I really dislike these and feel very fortunate to not have ended up with a 6 [on 428]. That’s one reason I doubt I’ll ever play the hard version: there’s no escape from a trap like that, other than guessing which of several possible solutions is 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:** [August 22, 2022, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/5700 "2022-08-22T20:35:24Z")
**Wordle 429 4/6** ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟨🟩🟨🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 LOAMY SMITE REMIT MERIT Joining the Remit Merit club. 😆 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604.md?page=284) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604.md?page=286)