# "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:** 337
**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:** [October 13, 2022, 11:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/6721 "2022-10-13T11:14:46Z")
Wordle 481 4/6 ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨 ⬜⬜🟨🟩🟩 ⬜🟨⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 CRANE STEAL MEDAL EQUAL ---
**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:** [October 13, 2022, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/6722 "2022-10-13T11:57:32Z")
That worked out well … Wordle 481 3/6\* ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 SPAWN VAGUE EQUAL ---
**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:** [October 13, 2022, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/6723 "2022-10-13T12:01:17Z")
Wordle 481 3/6 ⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟨🟨🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 HEART BLEAK Bleak indeed. E must be first. L is probably last. E - - AL. Oh yeah! EQUAL ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2022, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/6724 "2022-10-13T14:48:03Z")
I’m ashamed! I broke down and looked up the answer for the first time. πŸ˜„ ---
**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:** [October 13, 2022, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/6725 "2022-10-13T15:03:43Z")
Wordle 481 4/6 ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 CRANE HOIST - Sacrificial lamb LEGAL EQUAL ---
**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:** [October 13, 2022, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/6726 "2022-10-13T15:07:31Z")
My customary 4. As usual, no other answer was possible by the time I solved it. Wordle 481 4/6\* β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¨β¬›πŸŸ¨ β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¨πŸŸ©β¬› β¬›πŸŸ¨β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ© 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 IRATE CHEAP MEDAL EQUAL ---
**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:** [October 13, 2022, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/6727 "2022-10-13T16:58:36Z")
Wordle 481 5/6 πŸŸ¦β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¦πŸŸ¦ πŸŸ¦πŸŸ¦πŸŸ¦β¬›β¬› β¬›πŸŸ¦πŸŸ¦πŸŸ§β¬› πŸŸ§β¬›πŸŸ¦πŸŸ§β¬› 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧 AISLE LEAKY PLEAD ECLAT EQUAL Not my best effort. After finding A and E, I gave up on the idea of a third vowel, and Q is always a blind spot. ECLAT is a very unlikely answer, but I know it from crossword puzzles, and it did (finally!) get the E and L into place. The L got to visit all five spots today! More of a struggle than it should have been. ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2022, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/6728 "2022-10-13T20:58:34Z")
> **Wordle 481 5/6\* 10/13/2022** > > ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ > ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨 > 🟨🟨🟨⬜⬜ > ⬜🟨🟨🟩⬜ > 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 > > IONIC β†’ A not unexpected strikeout. Next! > TR_A_D_E_ β†’ Should have gone TASER or STARE here, to get the S into play. Since I was so fixed on the S, I felt like I had to repeat the A in the 3rd spot to play… > _LEA_SH β†’ …which at least got me the L, so that’s good. > G_LE_ **A** M β†’ E must be in first, L in third or last… E?LA?, but I’ve already tried E & T, so ECLAT is out. E??AL, and I haven’t tried the U yet, so… > **EQUAL** > > I feel kinda happy with the five, as the Q made that one a little tricky. Perhaps I should increase priority of guessing U to spot possible Q-puzzles in the future? ---
**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:** [October 13, 2022, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/6729 "2022-10-13T23:17:57Z")
Wordle 481 3/6\* β¬›β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¨πŸŸ¨ β¬›β¬›πŸŸ©β¬›πŸŸ¨ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 > **Summary** > > Imbue > Chute > Equal Still a 4 avg but a 3 today ---
**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:** [October 13, 2022, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/6730 "2022-10-13T23:46:47Z")
Wordle 481 4/6 ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨 🟨🟨🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 STERN VIOLA LEAFY EQUAL VIOLA was a throwaway guess as it doesn’t contain an E; I wanted to check the remaining vowels…except U, of course, which turned out to matter quite a lot. A _long_ time between guesses 3 and 4–hundreds of words would have fit if not for the eliminated β€˜already have been winners’ and β€˜contain excluded letters’ words. ---
**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:** [October 14, 2022, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/6731 "2022-10-14T04:01:58Z")
**Wordle 481 4/6** ⬜⬜🟨🟨🟨 ⬜🟨🟨🟩⬜ ⬜🟨🟨🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 SHALE CLEAN RELAX EQUAL I struggled to place that E and L, but after my 3rd word, they could only be first and last, so an easy solve from there as it could only be one word with that A in green too. ---
**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:** [October 14, 2022, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/6732 "2022-10-14T04:06:52Z")
Wordle 482 4/6 β¬›πŸŸ¨β¬›β¬›β¬› β¬›πŸŸ¨πŸŸ¨β¬›πŸŸ© πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŸ©β¬›πŸŸ© 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 CREST MOLAR FLOUR FLOOR Thought I had it with flour. ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2022, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/6733 "2022-10-14T04:20:51Z")
Wordle 482 4/6 🟨⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜🟨🟩⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 RATIO DRONE SCOUR FLOOR ---
**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:** [October 14, 2022, 9:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/6734 "2022-10-14T09:36:36Z")
Wordle 482 6/6 β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¨β¬›β¬› πŸŸ¨β¬›πŸŸ©β¬›β¬› ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¨πŸŸ©β¬› 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 EARTH LIONS DUMPY WHACK BEFOG FLOOR ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2022, 9:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/6735 "2022-10-14T09:58:01Z")
Wordle 482 3/6 S **L** ANT CH **O** _R_E =\> \_LO\_R could be β€˜floor’ or β€˜flour’ **FLOOR** ---
**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:** [October 14, 2022, 10:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/6736 "2022-10-14T10:42:52Z")
Wordle 482 4/6 ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨🟩⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 There should be a good joke about getting floor in four and β€œfour on the floor”. β€œFour to get four”? Not quite. Anyway… CRANE TIROS HUMOR FLOOR. ---
**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:** [October 14, 2022, 11:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/6737 "2022-10-14T11:02:53Z")
Wordle 482 5/6\* ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟨🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 BEARD ROIST CROWN FLOUR \<–Bastard ! FLOOR ---
**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:** [October 14, 2022, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/6738 "2022-10-14T11:56:52Z")
Fluke, but I’ll take it. Wordle 482 3/6\* 🟩⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟩⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 FIELD FAULT FLOOR There was only one vowel left after the first two words, so I thought β€œit has to be a double”. And it was. ---
**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:** [October 14, 2022, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/6739 "2022-10-14T12:05:01Z")
Wordle 482 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜🟨🟩⬜🟨 ⬜🟨🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 HEART BROIL PROUD throwaway to eliminate the U FLOOR ---
**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:** [October 14, 2022, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/6740 "2022-10-14T15:25:31Z")
Hah! I out-Wordled Wordle. Earned this one through diligence. Wordle 482 3/6\* β¬›πŸŸ¨β¬›β¬›β¬› β¬›β¬›πŸŸ©β¬›πŸŸ© 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 IRATE SCOUR FLOOR Once I worked out that there is no possible word with a space between β€˜O’ and β€˜R’ with all other vowels eliminated (at least that I know of), it could only be a double β€˜O’ – and then the two consonants immediately threw themselves at me. Even WordleBot was impressed. πŸ˜‰ (Not really.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604.md?page=336) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604.md?page=338)