# "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:** 392
**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:** [December 11, 2022, 8:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/7821 "2022-12-11T08:06:29Z")
**Wordle 539 4/6** ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜ ⬜🟩⬜🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 LEAST YOUNG UNION KNOCK I was really thinking Union could be it considering the strike, and I completely overlooked that the U wasn’t valid. I still would have gotten it in 4 probably, as I had Onion and Minor in consideration and Knock wasn’t on my radar at that time. ---
**Author:** ![QMatic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/aeb1de/32.png) [@QMatic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QMatic)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2022, 10:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/7822 "2022-12-11T10:21:17Z")
Wordle 540 3/6\* ⬜⬜🟨🟨🟩 🟨🟨⬜⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 CRANE ANGLE NAIVE ---
**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:** [December 11, 2022, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/7823 "2022-12-11T11:29:21Z")
Wordle 540 3/6 ⬜⬜🟨🟨🟩 ⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 CRANE TONAL NAIVE ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2022, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/7824 "2022-12-11T12:02:54Z")
Wordle 540 3/6 SL_AN_T CHOR **E** =\> could be MANGE or ANODE…nah, let’s go with **NAIVE** Back-to-back 3’s for the first time in a while. Had to work at it a bit, but worth it! Tidbit: when I put the solution in my Excel spreadsheet, it turned the i into ï. Sometimes Excel is smarter than you expect. ---
**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:** [December 11, 2022, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/7825 "2022-12-11T12:18:27Z")
Wordle 540 2/6 ⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 RAISE NAIVE ---
**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:** [December 11, 2022, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/7826 "2022-12-11T12:54:49Z")
Wordle 540 3/6 🟨🟩⬛⬛⬛ ⬛🟨⬛🟨⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 EARTH LIONS NAIVE ---
**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:** [December 11, 2022, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/7827 "2022-12-11T14:11:06Z")
Wordle 540 5/6 ⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨🟨🟨 🟨🟨⬜🟨⬜ ⬜🟩🟨⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Had to dance all over this one, using words with letters known not to be there just to try to place a letter or two. HEART CLEAN ANGER DANCE NAIVE ---
**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:** [December 11, 2022, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/7828 "2022-12-11T14:16:22Z")
Me too. Wordle 540 5/6\* ⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜ ⬜🟩🟨⬜🟩 🟩🟩⬜⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 BEARD TWEAK MANGE NACHE ← never heard of it ! NAIVE ---
**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:** [December 11, 2022, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/7829 "2022-12-11T15:30:53Z")
Wordle 540 2/6 🟦⬛🟧🟦🟦 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧 ALIEN NAIVE One of my favorite starting words did me well today! It’s not often that the first word narrows it down to exactly _one_ choice. ---
**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:** [December 11, 2022, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/7830 "2022-12-11T15:31:59Z")
Good guesses today. Wordle 540 3/6\* 🟨🟩⬜⬜🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 VALUE WAIVE NAIVE ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2022, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/7831 "2022-12-11T16:01:02Z")
> **Wordle 540 4/6\* 12/11/2022** > > ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ > ⬜⬜🟨🟨🟨 > ⬜🟩🟩🟨⬜ > 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 > > K_N_OCK → Not much there. Hunt for vowels and consonants… > ST_AIN_ → Not bad. Probably need no more vowels, but let’s try a Y while I have this in my head… > R **AI** _N_Y → So N must go first, and my assumption I would need no more vowels looks a bit… > **NAIVE** > > I really like it when the position of a letter you have in yellow suddenly becomes apparent because other letters go green in the remaining positions (save one). ---
**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:** [December 11, 2022, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/7832 "2022-12-11T16:12:56Z")
I thought of MAIZE too, but didn’t know if that was a wordle word or not. ---
**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:** [December 11, 2022, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/7833 "2022-12-11T16:25:56Z")
Wow, another two! Wordle 540 2/6 ⬜⬜🟨🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 CRANE NAIVE ---
**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:** [December 11, 2022, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/7834 "2022-12-11T19:16:11Z")
A 4. Not my favorite. Wordle 540 4/6\* 🟨⬛🟨⬛🟩 🟨⬛🟩⬛🟩 ⬛🟩🟩⬛🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 IRATE ABIDE MAIZE NAIVE I must have blown right past NAIVE in my word trials the first time, because I surely would have tried it over MAIZE if I’d seen it. Bah! ---
**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:** [December 12, 2022, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/7835 "2022-12-12T00:59:58Z")
Wordle 540 4/6 🟨⬜⬜⬜🟩 ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟩 ⬜🟩🟨⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 AROSE WHALE DANCE NAIVE I always resist the idea of a diaeresis being part of a Wordle solution, but there it is. ---
**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:** [December 12, 2022, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/7836 "2022-12-12T04:58:19Z")
Wordle 540 4/6\* ⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜ 🟨⬜🟨🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 LEAST CREAM APNEA NAIVE ---
**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:** [December 12, 2022, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/7837 "2022-12-12T05:09:48Z")
**Monday, December 12th** Wordle 541 3/6 ⬛⬛⬛🟨⬛ ⬛🟩⬛⬛🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 CREPT SPOIL APPLY I feel like there was more than just the one answer possible after two. Luck counts! ---
**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:** [December 12, 2022, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/7838 "2022-12-12T05:49:00Z")
**Wordle 540 5/6** ⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜ 🟨⬜⬜🟨🟨 ⬜🟩🟨⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 MEALY GREAT ASHEN DANCE NAIVE ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2022, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/7839 "2022-12-12T05:51:55Z")
Wordle 541 4/6 ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨🟩⬜ 🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 RATIO SCALE AMPLY APPLY Lucky third guess. ---
**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:** [December 12, 2022, 8:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/7840 "2022-12-12T08:10:43Z")
Wordle 541 4/6 ⬛🟨⬛⬛⬛ 🟨⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛⬛🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 EARTH LIONS DUMPY APPLY [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604.md?page=391) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604.md?page=393)