# "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:** 346
**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 23, 2022, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/6901 "2022-10-23T16:29:04Z")
Wordle 491 6/6\* ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩⬜⬜🟩 🟩🟩⬜⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 BEARD QUILT MUNCH MUSKY MUGGY MUMMY Bastard ! ---
**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 23, 2022, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/6902 "2022-10-23T17:14:00Z")
Carp. Wordle 491 X/6\* ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ---
**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 23, 2022, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/6903 "2022-10-23T20:29:15Z")
> [@Aspenglow](#): > > How rude. > > Wordle 491 5/6\* > > ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ > ⬛⬛⬛🟨⬛ > ⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛ > ⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩 > 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 > > IRATE > CLOUD > SPUNK > GUMMY > MUMMY Indeed rude!🤢🤣 ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2022, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/6904 "2022-10-23T21:49:38Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > I think the winning word was a cheap shot. I really don’t get why. It’s a regular word, it’s in current usage, it’s not slang or obscure or archaic or otherwise rarely used. Should all common words that use one letter 3 times be excluded, just because they’re more challenging? They’re certainly that, but I wouldn’t call that a cheap shot. ---
**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 23, 2022, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/6905 "2022-10-23T23:36:12Z")
Wordle 491 5/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟨⬜⬜⬜🟩 🟩🟩⬜⬜🟩 🟩🟩⬜⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 AROSE UNITY MUGGY MUDDY MUMMY Once I had the three greens of MUGGY I got overconfident and just started guessing. Luckily there weren’t that many possible answers (and even more luckily, I didn’t think of “muzzy.” ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2022, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/6906 "2022-10-24T00:08:09Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > and even more luckily, I didn’t think of “muzzy.” Gotta admit, that’s a new word to me. But it’s been around awhile; it’s in my 50 year old American Heritage dictionary. I may have seen it before and simply assumed it was a word the writer had invented on the spot. It’s got a certain onomatopoetic quality to it. ---
**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 24, 2022, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/6907 "2022-10-24T00:54:01Z")
**Wordle 491 5/6** ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩⬜🟨⬜🟩 ⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 CHART PLEIN MOUSY DOGMA MUMMY Darn triple letter word! I had to toss out a sleuth word (Dogma) to check Muddy, Muggy, Mummy, and if it wasn’t any of those words, it’d be Muzzy (though I wasn’t sure if that’d ever be a Wordle answer, but I wasn’t going to take any chances for a fail). And Mummy it was…Wordle is being in the spirit of Halloween I guess. 👻 (\< that’ll be the next word! 😆) ---
**Author:** ![gkster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gkster/32/14107_2.png) [@gkster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gkster)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2022, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/6908 "2022-10-24T01:40:52Z")
Wordle 491 5/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 SLATE CHOIR DUMPY GUMMY MUMMY As SeaSun and others have said, Darn triple letter word! ! And I’m yet another to have DUMPY for the 3rd word. I thought of YUMMY as well, but luckily decided to go for a triple letter rather than a double double. And WordleBot says that the average number of turns to solve was 5.5, so I don’t feel too bad about my 5 ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2022, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/6909 "2022-10-24T04:30:05Z")
Wordle 492 6/6 ⬜🟩🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜🟨⬜ 🟨🟩⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 RATIO HASTE TACKY GAUNT VAULT FAULT Another six. Time to rethink the strategy and maybe try to get the vowels earlier. ---
**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 24, 2022, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/6910 "2022-10-24T04:42:15Z")
Wordle 492 4/6 ⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛ ⬛⬛🟨🟨🟨 🟨🟩🟨⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 CRAPS METAL TALON FAULT At the last second I also saw vault, but I didn’t see any other options so I just went with fault because I saw it first. Another really fast and lucky game. (50/50 chance today, 25% chance yesterday when I guessed mummy and it could still have been dummy, gummy or yummy.) I’ll take luck. ---
**Author:** ![Newtosite](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/newtosite/32/8623_2.png) [@Newtosite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Newtosite)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2022, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/6911 "2022-10-24T07:29:07Z")
Wordle 492 2/6 ⬜🟨🟨⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Slant Fault Sometimes I amaze myself. 🙂 I usually start with “Slant,” “Crane,” or “Taser.” I got lucky and started with the right one this time. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2022, 9:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/6912 "2022-10-24T09:57:10Z")
Wordle 492 3/6 S_LA_N **T** V **AULT** **FAULT** Was torn between VAULT and FAULT on guess #2. Can’t always guess right, but I’ll take the 3. 🙂 ---
**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 24, 2022, 10:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/6913 "2022-10-24T10:44:05Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > Was torn between VAULT and FAULT I just saw VAULT first. Wordle 492 5/6\* ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜🟨🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 BEARD ASPIC GLOAT VAULT FAULT ---
**Author:** ![chiliwillybing](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chiliwillybing/32/12394_2.png) [@chiliwillybing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chiliwillybing)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2022, 10:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/6914 "2022-10-24T10:54:26Z")
Wordle 492 4/6 ⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜ 🟨🟩🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 IRATE TALON VAULT FAULT ---
**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 24, 2022, 10:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/6915 "2022-10-24T10:59:40Z")
Another 6. 😡 Wordle 492 6/6 ⬛🟩⬛🟨⬛ 🟨⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛🟨⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛ ⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 EARTH LIONS DUMPY WHACK BEFOG FAULT ---
**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 24, 2022, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/6916 "2022-10-24T11:38:13Z")
Wordle 492 3/6 ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟨⬜⬜🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 CRANE TOILS FAULT - apparently there were four possible words. Either FAULT or VAULT would have narrowed it down to 1 (if it’s wrong). One out of four chance for getting in 3. Otherwise it would have been 4 ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2022, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/6917 "2022-10-24T12:29:40Z")
Another possibility for guess #2, given SLANT as a starting word, was AGLET. (It’s that little plastic thingy at either end of a shoelace.) I wouldn’t have put it past Wardle to have it on his list, but I didn’t think it was very likely. ---
**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 24, 2022, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/6918 "2022-10-24T14:48:49Z")
Wordle 492 6/6 ⬛⬛🟦🟦⬛ 🟦🟧⬛⬛⬛ ⬛🟧🟦⬛⬛ ⬛🟧⬛🟦🟧 ⬛🟧🟧🟧🟧 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧 IRATE TANGY MATCH KAPUT VAULT FAULT I should have done much better on this one. KAPUT? I believe I’m getting over-confident lately, and not giving my guesses enough thought. Today was a bit of a wake-up call. ---
**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 24, 2022, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/6919 "2022-10-24T16:50:31Z")
Starting back up the hill again. Wordle 492 3/6\* 🟩⬜🟩⬜🟩 🟩⬜🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 FRUIT FOUNT FAULT ---
**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 24, 2022, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/6920 "2022-10-24T18:05:42Z")
Wordle 492 5/6 ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟩 🟨⬜⬜🟨🟩 ⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Pisswillie. Guesses 3 and 4 were in my opinion fine guesses that could have scored well HEART ABOUT JAUNT VAULT FAULT [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604.md?page=345) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604.md?page=347)