# "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:** 371
**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 18, 2022, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/7401 "2022-11-18T12:52:37Z")
Wordle 517 4/6\* ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜🟩⬜⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 BEARD QUILT SLOOP GLYPH ---
**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 18, 2022, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/7402 "2022-11-18T13:52:06Z")
Wordle 517 4/6 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 ⬜🟩⬜⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 HEART WHICH BLUSH GLYPH ---
**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:** [November 18, 2022, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/7403 "2022-11-18T14:37:15Z")
Wordle 517 3/6\* 🟨🟨⬛⬛⬛ 🟨⬛🟩⬛🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 > **Summary** > > Hyena > Psych > Glyph ---
**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 18, 2022, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/7404 "2022-11-18T17:51:03Z")
Quite happy to settle for a 4 today. Wordle 517 4/6\* ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛🟩⬛⬛⬛ ⬛🟩🟩⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 IRATE CLOUD SLYLY GLYPH I did kind of burn a try on SLYLY, but it just seemed like such a Wordle thing to do. ---
**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 18, 2022, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/7405 "2022-11-18T18:20:52Z")
Wordle 517 3/6 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧 Well, _that_ was different. ORATE MUSIC GLYPH I think we’ve all had five blanks on the first word occasionally, but _ten_ blanks on the first two? What?? So Y has to be the only vowel… DRYLY, SLYLY, TRYST, NYMPH, LYMPH, SYLPH - all eliminated. What else, what else? I stared for a while, took a break and played some Words With Friends, came back, stared some more, and as I downed the last sip of my coffee, it came to me. Helluva ride. ---
**Author:** ![mattgg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ccd318/32.png) [@mattgg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mattgg)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2022, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/7406 "2022-11-18T18:46:08Z")
> [@Wheelz](#): > > I think we’ve all had five blanks on the first word occasionally, but _ten_ blanks on the first two? What?? Same thing happened to me with different words. AROSE TUNIC GLYPH ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2022, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/7407 "2022-11-18T19:04:22Z")
> **Wordle 517 3/6\* 11/18/2022** > > ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ > ⬜🟩⬜⬜🟩 > 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 > > T_H_ERE → A skimpier start than I hoped for. > C **L** AS **H** → OK, -TH, -SH, and -CH endings are all out. Can’t think of any words ?L?GH. So ?L?PH it must be, which leaves… > **GLYPH** > > I’m with **EllisDee** here; it seems like it should be a hard word to get in 3, but with good early eliminations (e.g. **mattgg** and **Wheelz** ) it kinda falls out. ---
**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 18, 2022, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/7408 "2022-11-18T23:36:27Z")
Wordle 517 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨 🟨🟩⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 CRANE SPOIL PLUMP GLYPH An odd and difficult word. I would suspect a lot of folks not getting it at all. ---
**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 18, 2022, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/7409 "2022-11-18T23:47:42Z")
Wordle 517 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 🟩⬜🟨⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 STARE BOING GULCH GLYPH Only a par, but very fast and kind of fun. (Though it might not have been if I hadn’t used BOING to check O and I–as it gave me the G.) ---
**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 19, 2022, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/7410 "2022-11-19T02:23:33Z")
Wordle 517 3/6\* ⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜ 🟩⬜⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 TEMPO GRAPH GLYPH ---
**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 19, 2022, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/7411 "2022-11-19T02:24:31Z")
Wordle 517 4/6\* ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜🟨⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ADIEU STORY NYMPH GLYPH Pleased to get it in 4; WordleBot says that the NYT average for today is 3.8 ---
**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 19, 2022, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/7412 "2022-11-19T02:25:05Z")
> [@Wheelz](#): > > I think we’ve all had five blanks on the first word occasionally, but _ten_ blanks on the first two? What?? That’s happened to me more than once. ---
**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 19, 2022, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/7413 "2022-11-19T05:00:05Z")
**Wordle 517 3/6** ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 COAST REIGN GLYPH Getting the G in my second word was key, along with knowing only U and Y remain for vowels, and it didn’t end in GY. I came up with 4 possible words: gummy, gully, guppy, and glyph. I chose the one without the double letters. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2022, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/7414 "2022-11-19T05:26:14Z")
Wordle 518 5/6 🟨🟨🟨⬜⬜ 🟨🟨🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟨🟨🟨⬜ 🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 RATIO TRAMP STRAW ALERT AVERT ---
**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 19, 2022, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/7415 "2022-11-19T06:08:52Z")
Wordle 518 3/6 ⬛🟨🟩⬛🟩 ⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 CREST OVERT AVERT Killer opening word but still couldn’t manage a 2. At least I remembered that inert had already been an answer. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2022, 10:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/7416 "2022-11-19T10:24:57Z")
Wordle 518 3/6 SL_A_N **T** CHO **R** _E_ **AVERT** After my second guess, there weren’t a lot of alternatives to check out, and I’m pretty sure the solution was the only word that fit. ---
**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 19, 2022, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/7417 "2022-11-19T12:12:56Z")
Wordle 518 4/6 ⬜🟨🟨⬜🟨 ⬜🟨⬜🟨🟨 🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 CRANE PAGER ALERT AVERT ---
**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 19, 2022, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/7418 "2022-11-19T12:55:04Z")
Wordle 518 4/6 🟩⬜⬜⬜🟨 🟩⬜⬜🟨🟨 🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ASIDE AMBER ALERT AVERT ---
**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 19, 2022, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/7419 "2022-11-19T13:12:39Z")
Wordle 518 3/6\* ⬜🟨🟨🟩⬜ 🟩⬜⬜🟩🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 BEARD AFIRE AVERT ← Lucky i saw that before ALERT ! ---
**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 19, 2022, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/7420 "2022-11-19T14:44:28Z")
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