# "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:** 373
**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 20, 2022, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/7441 "2022-11-20T14:27:54Z")
Wordle 519 6/6 ⬜🟨🟩🟨⬜ ⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩 ⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Too many possibilities here. HEART GRADE FRAME BRACE BRAKE BRAVE ---
**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 20, 2022, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/7442 "2022-11-20T14:45:18Z")
Dunno why this one was such a PITA. I was sure I was going to get it in three after my starting word. Wordle 519 5/6 ⬜⬜🟩🟨🟩 ⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩 ⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 SPARE CRANE FRAME BRAKE BRAVE ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2022, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/7443 "2022-11-20T15:10:36Z")
> **Wordle 519 4/6\* 11/20/2022** > > 🟨🟨🟨🟨⬜ > 🟨🟨🟨🟨⬜ > ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 > 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 > > _AVER_T β†’ Four yellows to start. Probably a good thing… > _RAVE_D β†’ Stil haven’t placed any, though if I move them over one letter… > G **RAVE** β†’ Aha. I think I can get it in 5 at most… > **BRAVE** > > Broke my streak of plays yesterday, just too tired after a long ride. I almost fell into a trap here, though not the same one that most did… ---
**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 20, 2022, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/7444 "2022-11-20T15:26:01Z")
That was a bit close. Wordle 519 6/6\* ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟨⬜🟨🟨⬜ 🟨🟨⬜⬜🟩 ⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 POUND ALERT RAISE FRAME GRAVE BRAVE ---
**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 20, 2022, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/7445 "2022-11-20T16:15:21Z")
Wordle 519 6/6 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ πŸŸ¦πŸŸ¦β¬›πŸŸ¦β¬› β¬›πŸŸ¦β¬›πŸŸ¦πŸŸ¦ β¬›β¬›πŸŸ§πŸŸ¦πŸŸ§ β¬›πŸŸ¦β¬›β¬›πŸŸ§ 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧 OPIUM RENAL WATER SHARE CADGE BRAVE Man, was I sweating this one. It took so long to place those vowels that I was forced to do a research word at five, always a risky proposition. I was very fortunate that CADGE eliminated most of the possibilities, and even more fortunate that it wasn’t BRAKE, which, like @EllisDee, I completely missed. Phew indeed. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2022, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/7446 "2022-11-20T18:49:34Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Dunno why this one was such a PITA. Because there are quite a few \_RA\_E words, perhaps? Besides the solution, there were DRAKE, DRAPE, GRAPE, GRAVE, and GRAZE, and previous solutions FRAME, GRADE, and BRAKE, the last one of which for some reason I didn’t check against the list before I tried it. (And that’s given the consonants eliminated by my first two words.) Either way, it’s quite the trap. I’m feeling lucky to have gotten it in 5. ETA: At the moment, 5 is both the mean and the median number of tries it’s taken those of us in this thread. ---
**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 20, 2022, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/7447 "2022-11-20T21:44:58Z")
I almost didn’t post this. Almost. Wordle 519 2/6\* β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ©β¬›πŸŸ© 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 IRATE BRAVE Don’t hate me! It went so fast I almost missed it. I simply tried the first two letters that popped into my head. WordleBot sneered that there were 15 other possibilities after my first try, so obviously it was only luck. I agree! ---
**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:** [November 20, 2022, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/7448 "2022-11-20T23:06:30Z")
Wordle 519 3/6 ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Slant Aware Brave ---
**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 20, 2022, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/7449 "2022-11-20T23:11:57Z")
Wordle 519 4/6 🟨🟩⬜⬜🟩 ⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 AROSE GRAPE CRAVE BRAVE Trap! Trap! Got it in par, but took twenty minutes due to having to make a β€˜possibles’ list and then calculate which test word would eliminate the most options. Luck was definitely involved. There were a LOT of possibles once that β€œ\_RA\_E” showed up. Yeesh. ---
**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 21, 2022, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/7450 "2022-11-21T05:02:54Z")
**Wordle 519 4/6** ⬜🟩⬜⬜🟩 ⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 PROSE TRACE BRAKE BRAVE I totally forgot to check the previous answer word list…Brake and Trace both were already words. I don’t always do that…never for my start word, and rarely for my 2nd word, but it sure helps when there’s a big trap going on. Oh well…I will gladly take the 4 on this one. ---
**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 21, 2022, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/7451 "2022-11-21T05:03:30Z")
> [@Aspenglow](#): > > I almost didn’t post this. Almost. > > Wordle 519 2/6\* > > β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ©β¬›πŸŸ© > 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 > > IRATE > BRAVE > > Don’t hate me! > > It went so fast I almost missed it. I simply tried the first two letters that popped into my head. > > WordleBot sneered that there were 15 other possibilities after my first try, so obviously it was only luck. I agree! Wordle 519 2/6\* ⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 CRATE BRAVE Very similar to Aspenglow, don’t hate me because I have no idea how I got it so quickly especially after a streak of 4s and 5s. The word just appeared in a flash. WordleBot says I was very lucky, 91/99, and that there were 10 other possible words left. I’m not sure why it has my skill score at just 80/99 ---
**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 21, 2022, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/7452 "2022-11-21T05:16:30Z")
ok, three people got this one in 2? Y’all are now just showing off. πŸ˜† Joking aside, lucky or not…congrats! It was a doozy for most. ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2022, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/7453 "2022-11-21T05:19:47Z")
Wordle 520 3/6 ⬜🟨⬜🟨🟨 ⬜🟨🟨⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 RATIO VIOLA AXIOM This was a good one to get in three. It took a little thinking. ---
**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 21, 2022, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/7454 "2022-11-21T05:43:32Z")
Wordle 520 4/6 β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¨πŸŸ¨β¬› β¬›β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¨πŸŸ© πŸŸ©β¬›β¬›β¬›πŸŸ© 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 CRAMP STEAM ALBUM AXIOM Tricksy X. ---
**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 21, 2022, 8:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/7455 "2022-11-21T08:11:55Z")
Wordle 520 5/6 β¬›πŸŸ¨β¬›β¬›β¬› β¬›πŸŸ¨πŸŸ¨β¬›β¬› β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¨β¬›β¬› β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¨β¬›β¬› 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 EARTH LIONS DUMPY WHACK AXIOM ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2022, 10:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/7456 "2022-11-21T10:49:06Z")
Wordle 520 4/6 SL_A_NT CH_O_RE G_IM_PY **AXIOM** Took a bit of work, but I got there. Now that’s more like it! ---
**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 21, 2022, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/7457 "2022-11-21T11:27:02Z")
Wordle 520 3/6 ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟨🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 CRANE TOILS AXIOM - maybe the only possible word - assuming AMIGO isn’t one of the words ---
**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 21, 2022, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/7458 "2022-11-21T11:52:28Z")
angel Aphid Axiom Wordle 520 3/6\* πŸŸ©β¬›β¬›β¬›β¬› πŸŸ©β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¨β¬› 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ---
**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 21, 2022, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/7459 "2022-11-21T13:09:56Z")
Wordle 520 4/6 ⬜🟨🟩⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩🟩⬜ ⬜⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 NOISE PRIOR IDIOM AXIOM ---
**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 21, 2022, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/7460 "2022-11-21T13:50:48Z")
Wordle 520 3/6\* ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 BEARD WAGON AXIOM Hmm. Lucky. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604.md?page=372) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604.md?page=374)