# "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:** 354
**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:** [November 1, 2022, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/7061 "2022-11-01T11:52:48Z")
Wordle 500 3/6 🟨⬜⬜⬜🟨 🟩⬜🟨🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 IRATE PLIED PINEY ---
**Author:** ![Cheesesteak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheesesteak/32/3694_2.png) [@Cheesesteak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheesesteak)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2022, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/7062 "2022-11-01T12:00:56Z")
Wordle 500 6/6\* SUMAC THEIR BEING LIKEN DINED PINEY So, here is my complaint: Going through Wordlebot, it really criticized my pick of DINED, even though it’s a perfectly valid word, along with the other remaining words FINED, PINED, VINED, WINED, NIXED and PINEY. Wordlebot believed that of these 7 remaining words PINEY was 99+% likely to be the answer and all the others were virtually impossible. I’m not entirely sure how I’m supposed to know that. ---
**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:** [November 1, 2022, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/7063 "2022-11-01T12:17:24Z")
Wordle 500 4/6 ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 HEART COVEY COVEY Gotta be another vowel, let’s try I. And I haven’t used N yet. Wonder if PINEY is a word? PINEY ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2022, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/7064 "2022-11-01T13:26:20Z")
> I’m not entirely sure how I’m supposed to know that. I’m guessing it had to do with [past tense](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game/956604/6858). ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2022, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/7065 "2022-11-01T13:27:14Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > HEART > COVEY > COVEY I assume that’s a typo, and you didn’t really make the same guess twice. ---
**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:** [November 1, 2022, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/7066 "2022-11-01T13:31:29Z")
Thank you for noticing. The picks were: HEART FLUME COVEY PINEY ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2022, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/7067 "2022-11-01T13:34:06Z")
πŸ‘ πŸ™‚ ---
**Author:** ![Cheesesteak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheesesteak/32/3694_2.png) [@Cheesesteak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheesesteak)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2022, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/7068 "2022-11-01T13:34:17Z")
Past tense… I’ll have to remember that going forward. Much appreciated. ---
**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:** [November 1, 2022, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/7069 "2022-11-01T15:37:08Z")
Wordle 500 5/6 β¬›β¬›β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¦ β¬›πŸŸ¦πŸŸ¦β¬›πŸŸ¦ πŸŸ¦πŸŸ¦β¬›πŸŸ§β¬› β¬›πŸŸ§πŸŸ§πŸŸ§β¬› 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧 ROUSE FEIGN INLET MINED PINEY I doubted MINED would be the answer, but I wanted to officially eliminate the possibility of an ED ending, and that got the INE in place. So I figured I was dealing with a Y. But my dictionary app didn’t like VINEY, and PINEY and WINEY both came up as β€œvariant spelling of piny/winy,” rendering them very questionable. With no other ideas, I took a shot with PINEY. Not a fan of this one. ETA: I actually typed in HINEY first. Wordle did not accept it. 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:** [November 1, 2022, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/7070 "2022-11-01T15:47:52Z")
Wordle 500 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨 ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟨 ⬜🟩🟩🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 CRANE LIVEN SINEW PINEY The answer took a long time to come to me, for some reason. I thought my 3rd guess was brilliant, though. Wordlebot said that some of the choices could have been past-tense words, which I thought were not allowed. Am I wrong on that? ---
**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:** [November 1, 2022, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/7071 "2022-11-01T15:55:42Z")
I checked the answer list and there are about 10 word that look like past tense words to me. Maybe some could be considered adjectives. The 10 are… bused, clued, cried, dried, freed, fried, plied, shied, spied and tried ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2022, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/7072 "2022-11-01T16:11:38Z")
I don’t know about β€˜allowed,’ but there are very few instances of the past tense in the 500 Wordle solutions prior to today (numbered 0 to 499). When I went looking, the only instances I found were FOUND πŸ˜ƒ, UNMET, and UNFED. No instances of your standard -ED past tense ending appear. Worth keeping in mind. While I’m rambling about data about our 500 past solutions, there are 145 instances of one letter appearing twice in a solution, four instances of a letter appearing three times in a solution, and eight instances of two different letters appearing twice each (e.g. CIVIC). Also worth keeping in the back of one’s mind. ---
**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:** [November 1, 2022, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/7073 "2022-11-01T16:31:18Z")
Wordle 500 5/6\* ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨 🟨🟨🟨🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 BEARD SLIME INEPT PINES PINEY ---
**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:** [November 1, 2022, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/7074 "2022-11-01T17:18:33Z")
This one was vaguely irritating, because I had the answer after 2 guesses but thought it was such an unlikely word I kept hunting. Cost me an extra turn. Wordle 500 4/6\* πŸŸ¨β¬›β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¨ β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ¨β¬›β¬› β¬›πŸŸ©β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ¨ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 IRATE WIELD VIXEN PINEY And I was a little surprised Wordle accepted VIXEN but not SKEIN. ---
**Author:** ![ShadowFacts](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shadowfacts/32/2934_2.png) [@ShadowFacts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShadowFacts)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2022, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/7075 "2022-11-01T19:22:30Z")
Wordle 500 was the first time I’ve played that I’ve never even heard of the word. I still don’t even know what it means! Pine-scented? I got it in 4 with a lucky guess because I couldn’t think of anything else to try. Just a stab in the dark. ---
**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:** [November 1, 2022, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/7076 "2022-11-01T21:06:25Z")
Wordle 500 5/6\* ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟩⬜⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Stupid reuse of a letter I’d already eliminated. HOARD FIRTH LIEGE PIXIE PINEY ---
**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:** [November 1, 2022, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/7077 "2022-11-01T21:11:57Z")
> [@Morgyn](#): > > Stupid reuse of a letter I’d already eliminated. I hate when I do that. ---
**Author:** ![naita](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naita/32/5862_2.png) [@naita](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/naita)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2022, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/7078 "2022-11-01T21:21:50Z")
> [@Morgyn](#): > > Stupid reuse of a letter I’d already eliminated. I wish hard mode would warn me about that as well as scold me from trying to play a word without all the known letters. ---
**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:** [November 1, 2022, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/7079 "2022-11-01T22:52:16Z")
> [@naita](#): > > I wish hard mode would warn me about that as well as scold me from trying to play a word without all the known letters. Be nice, wouldn’t it? But I suppose that would make it β€œtoo easy”. ---
**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:** [November 1, 2022, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/7080 "2022-11-01T22:57:16Z")
Wordle 500 3/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟨🟨🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 SLANT NEIGH PINEY Long slog through words ending β€œEE” (mostly borrow words), β€œEIN” (Stein was eliminated by guess 1), β€œREN” and more. I resisted PINEY for a long time–second day with Y ending plus sort of a lame word. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604.md?page=353) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604.md?page=355)