# "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:** 407
**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 26, 2022, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/8121 "2022-12-26T17:11:32Z")
I’ll certainly be happy with my ‘par’ today. Wordle 555 4/6\* ⬛⬛⬛⬛🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛🟩 ⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 IRATE SPOKE FUDGE JUDGE Could easily have been a six today. ---
**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 27, 2022, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/8122 "2022-12-27T01:24:28Z")
Wordle 555 3/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟨🟩⬜⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ROAST GUILE JUDGE Guess 2, GUILE, was lucky in that it gave me the G (I was just trying to nail down the vowels given that both A and O had been eliminated). Then with “\_ U \_ \_ E” to work with I didn’t yet know that it would be a “\_UDGE” word–but I did want to make one of them my next guess. Of BUDGE, FUDGE, JUDGE, NUDGE, and possibly PUDGE, JUDGE seemed the most Wordle-ish. (Luck again, really.) > [@Wheelz](#): > > Midnight GMT is 4 pm where I live. I’m usually a morning solver, but I’d like to keep the option to play anytime throughout the day. One could potentially play at 3:55 today and then 4:05 tomorrow, and oops, I just lost my streak. That would piss me off. Yeah, I could see that situation becoming an irritant for a lot of ‘middle of the day’ times. In all likelihood, those in charge aren’t inclined to make any change; too much chance of igniting too much emotion. (Interesting topic, anyway.) ---
**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 27, 2022, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/8123 "2022-12-27T03:47:04Z")
Wordle 555 5/6\* ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟩 ⬜⬜🟨🟨🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 RAISE PLUME VOGUE BUDGE JUDGE Phew, glad to get it in 5, almost went with NUDGE before JUDGE ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2022, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/8124 "2022-12-27T05:14:48Z")
Wordle 556 5/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 🟩⬜⬜⬜🟩 🟩🟩⬜⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 RATIO CELLO COMBO CONVO CONDO Why is it accepting these words? None of the last three, including the answer are real words. They are all just shortened slang. The only thing I didn’t try was CONGO. Pretty pattern, though. Like descending a flight of stairs to run right into a brick wall. ---
**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 27, 2022, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/8125 "2022-12-27T05:19:04Z")
Wordle 556 5/6 🟩⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩⬛🟨⬛⬛ 🟩🟩⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 CRAMP CLOSE COUGH COCKY CONDO I was in trouble right out of the gate. Still could have been COVID but I’m not 100% that’s on the answer list. ---
**Author:** ![Cugel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cugel/32/1199_2.png) [@Cugel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cugel)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2022, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/8126 "2022-12-27T06:18:33Z")
556 discussion: If they are following the lead of Scrabble dictionaries, any bloody thing is a word. ---
**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 27, 2022, 8:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/8127 "2022-12-27T08:45:10Z")
Wordle 556 4/6 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛🟨🟨⬛ 🟨⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 EARTH LIONS DUMPY CONDO ---
**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 27, 2022, 8:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/8128 "2022-12-27T08:49:54Z")
> [@Cugel](#): > > 556 discussion: > > If they are following the lead of Scrabble dictionaries, any bloody thing is a word. I got it in 5, but it’s not a word. I’ve never looked at any answer list since I’ve been playing this game — wow just over a year now. But I don’t think Josh Wardle would have used anything like CONDO. What a crock of crappola. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2022, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/8129 "2022-12-27T11:32:53Z")
Wordle 556 3/6 SLA_N_T **C** H_O_RE **CONDO** I’m gonna say this one was legit: the solution is a shorthand of course, but who uses ‘condominium’ outside of a legal document? ‘Condo’ has long since become a word in its own right. I give you [Al Yankovic](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztCrH4ZwySc) from the 1980s. It’s also in my 1982-vintage American Heritage dictionary with a line of its own. After 2 guesses, with C as the first letter and an N and O, I could only come up with CONDO, CONGO (proper noun), CONVO (shorthand for ‘convocation,’ but far less in common usage than CONDO), and CONIC which has already been used. So CONDO it was. Looks like having the N saved me a lot of trouble! ---
**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 27, 2022, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/8130 "2022-12-27T11:40:54Z")
Wordle 556 5/6\* ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 🟨⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜🟩🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟩🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 BEARD DIVOT PODGY FONDU CONDO Ok. I see. ---
**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 27, 2022, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/8131 "2022-12-27T12:04:51Z")
Wordle 556 3/6 🟩⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 CRANE LINTS CONDO ---
**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 27, 2022, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/8132 "2022-12-27T13:02:15Z")
Wordle 556 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜ ⬜🟩⬜🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 EARTH LIONS MOUND CONDO ---
**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 27, 2022, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/8133 "2022-12-27T13:14:22Z")
Could have been 4. Oh, well. Wordle 556 5/6\* ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜🟩⬜🟨 ⬜⬜🟩🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 PRANK TUNIC BENCH CONGO CONDO ---
**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 27, 2022, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/8134 "2022-12-27T13:57:29Z")
Wordle 556 4/6 ⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜ ⬜⬜🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 IRONY BACON CONCH CONDO ? ---
**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 27, 2022, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/8135 "2022-12-27T15:13:33Z")
I just realized that it’s been a year that we’ve been playing this game here. This thread was started on Christmas Eve 2021. Happy One Year of Wordle to us!! ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2022, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/8136 "2022-12-27T15:30:26Z")
I don’t do world, but my wife and her best friend do. They were discussing the difficulty they had with this one, first trying BUDGE and FUDGE. Guess what my profession is? 🙄 ---
**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 27, 2022, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/8137 "2022-12-27T17:23:51Z")
Haven’t seen a two in a long time. Wordle 556 2/6 🟧⬜⬜🟦⬜ 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧 CRANE CONDO ---
**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 27, 2022, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/8138 "2022-12-27T18:02:43Z")
Are you a nudge? 😉 ---
**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 27, 2022, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/8139 "2022-12-27T18:03:05Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Haven’t seen a two in a long time. > Wordle 556 2/6 > > 🟧⬜⬜🟦⬜ > 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧 > > CRANE > CONDO Buy Lotto! ---
**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 27, 2022, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/8140 "2022-12-27T18:17:47Z")
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