# "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:** 367
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2022, 9:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/7321 "2022-11-14T09:06:05Z")
> **Wordle 512 3/6\* 11/13/2022** > > ⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜ > ⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩 > 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 > > V_A_L_E_T β†’ Hit both vowels. But where to place? Swap them, so ?E?A?, or perhaps a silent E, so ??A?E… I kinda like the second of those. So try it with some common consonants… > S **NA** R **E** β†’ Good guess on the N! But not many consonants can go before it. If I try a vowel there, I’ll need to repeat the N, but let’s try… > **INANE** > > Fun one. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2022, 11:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/7322 "2022-11-14T11:12:37Z")
Wordle 513 4/6 S_LA_NT =\> Ok, but where? Let’s fish for more letters. CHOR **E** =\> That gives us some possible shapes, see below. G **A** B **LE** =\> Cutting down the options. **MAPLE** Only other possibility AFAICT was LADLE. This one was fun to work through. Didn’t really know enough after the first guess to take it on directly, so I went ahead with my standard second word. That gave me a few possible shapes: the FABLE, GABLE, LADLE, MAPLE group, VALUE/VALVE, and the outlier AGILE. Any word in the first group would either point to or eliminate one or both of the other groups, so it came down to which word in the first group narrowed down that group best. I went with GABLE as the third guess because the G was also in AGILE, though I didn’t really need that; FABLE was really a better choice. But either way, after GABLE, I was down to MAPLE and LADLE, and the former seemed like a better bet. ---
**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 14, 2022, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/7323 "2022-11-14T12:10:58Z")
Wordle 513 4/6 ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟩 ⬜🟩⬜🟩⬜ ⬜🟩🟨🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 CRANE TAILS FAMED - Looking for letters. -For FABLE, M for MAPLE, etc. It’s the M word[ MAPLE ---
**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 14, 2022, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/7324 "2022-11-14T13:26:20Z")
Wordle 513 4/6 ⬜🟩⬜⬜🟩 ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 SAUTE CABLE EAGLE MAPLE ---
**Author:** ![minor7flat5](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/minor7flat5/32/258_2.png) [@minor7flat5](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minor7flat5)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2022, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/7325 "2022-11-14T14:05:33Z")
Wordle 513 6/6\* 🟨⬜⬜⬜🟩 ⬜🟨🟨⬜🟩 🟨🟩⬜⬜🟩 ⬜🟩🟨⬜🟩 ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 That was harder than it should have been! ARISE GLADE LANCE VALVE TABLE MAPLE ---
**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 14, 2022, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/7326 "2022-11-14T14:46:29Z")
Wordle 513 4/6\* ⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜ 🟨⬜⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 BEARD CHEAT ANGLE MAPLE ---
**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 14, 2022, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/7327 "2022-11-14T15:43:10Z")
Wordle 513 5/6 β¬›β¬›β¬›β¬›πŸŸ§ β¬›πŸŸ§β¬›β¬›πŸŸ§ β¬›πŸŸ§β¬›β¬›πŸŸ§ πŸŸ¦πŸŸ§β¬›β¬›πŸŸ§ 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧 OVINE CAUSE BARGE LATHE MAPLE > [@minor7flat5](#): > > That was harder than it should have been! Agreed! I suppose LARGE would have been a smarter guess than BARGE. Other than that, I just ran into bad luck today, turning over black square after black square. At least the black squares eliminated everything but the right answer in time. ---
**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 14, 2022, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/7328 "2022-11-14T16:34:32Z")
Wordle 513 3/6 ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟩 🟨⬜⬜⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 CRANE ABATE - dumb choice MAPLE - but it worked out ---
**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 14, 2022, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/7329 "2022-11-14T17:48:43Z")
Ho hum, another 3. πŸ˜‰ Wordle 513 3/6\* β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¨β¬›πŸŸ© πŸŸ¨πŸŸ©β¬›β¬›πŸŸ© 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 IRATE PAUSE MAPLE WordleBot advises there was only 1 possibility after my second guess, and that appeared to be true based on my wrenching. They _must_ be getting easier. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2022, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/7330 "2022-11-14T18:00:55Z")
> [@Aspenglow](#): > > They _must_ be getting easier. Today’s seems to have been the exception, but so far since the NYT took over curating the Wordle solutions (starting with #506 I believe), they seem to have been much easier. Looking at how people have been doing in this thread, 3 seems to have been the average number of guesses every day, and an unusual number of 2’s. This is the first day since #506 that 4 seems to be the median number of guesses. So if they were trying to make it harder, they didn’t exactly succeed. ---
**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 14, 2022, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/7331 "2022-11-14T23:23:51Z")
Wordle 513 6/6 ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟩🟨 ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ROAST VIOLA FABLE EAGLE LADLE MAPLE VIOLA was a wasted guess as O had already been eliminated. Then, after FABLE, when I could see EAGLE, LADLE, and MAPLE, I guessed them in alphabetical order instead of looking for a test word to eliminate some from the list D, G, L, M, and P. Oh, well. ---
**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 15, 2022, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/7332 "2022-11-15T00:05:18Z")
Wordle 513 5/6\* ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟨🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟨🟨⬜🟨🟨 🟨🟩🟩🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 BURST ALIGN PEDAL LAPEL MAPLE ---
**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:** [November 15, 2022, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/7333 "2022-11-15T01:25:36Z")
Wordle 513 5/6\* 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜ 🟨🟨⬜🟨🟨 🟨⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 LIONS FLYER PETAL APPLE MAPLE WordleBot gave me a 90/99 for skill and a 29/99 for luck ☹ And agreed with Wheelz above, harder than it should have been ---
**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:** [November 15, 2022, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/7334 "2022-11-15T05:01:06Z")
**Wordle 513 5/6** ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ 🟨🟩⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 COAST FAIRY LAUGH NAVEL MAPLE I forgot to get the E in early, and I had the answer word on the board at 4…all typed in and ready to hit ok, but I changed my mind at the last second. It’s been a fairly easy month thus far with getting 3’s and 4’s, so I guess a 5 was due. πŸ˜‰ ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2022, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/7335 "2022-11-15T05:20:18Z")
Wordle 514 6/6 🟨🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟩⬜🟩🟩⬜ 🟩⬜🟩🟩⬜ 🟩⬜🟩🟩⬜ 🟩⬜🟩🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 RATIO SHARE SCARY SWARM SPARK SNARL Should have gone with the common letters first. ---
**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:** [November 15, 2022, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/7336 "2022-11-15T06:04:29Z")
Wordle 514 5/6 β¬›πŸŸ¨πŸŸ©β¬›πŸŸ¨ πŸŸ©β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ©β¬› πŸŸ©β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ©β¬› πŸŸ©β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ©β¬› 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 CRAMS STARE SPARK SHARD SNARL After 2 I could see spark, shark, shard and sharp. Spark was supposed to positively id the answer, but unfortunately I had not yet seen snarl. ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2022, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/7337 "2022-11-15T07:13:12Z")
> **Wordle 513 4/6\* 11/14/2022** > > ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟩 > 🟨🟩⬜⬜🟩 > ⬜🟩⬜🟨🟩 > 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 > > IN_A_N **E** β†’ Two vowels, one placed. Try some consonants… > _P_ **A** RS **E** β†’ Placed the second vowel, and hit on the P. > T **A** U_P_ **E** β†’ Hmmm… ?AP?E… ?APOE and ?APEE go nowhere. Not many consonants can go in 4th… but L is one… > **MAPLE** > > 4th guess did take a while, though - I was thinking β€œMAP-el” before I realized β€œMAY-pel” was the right way to pronounce it… ---
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Wordle 514 3/6 🟩🟨🟩🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Slant Snail Snarl ---
**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:** [November 15, 2022, 9:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/7339 "2022-11-15T09:50:14Z")
Wordle 514 3/6 β¬›πŸŸ¨πŸŸ¨β¬›β¬› πŸŸ¨β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¨πŸŸ¨ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 EARTH LIONS SNARL ---
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Wordle 514 2/6 ⬜🟨🟩🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 My second 2 in the new world. CRANE SNARL [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604.md?page=366) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604.md?page=368)