# "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:** 412
**Author:** ![QMatic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/aeb1de/32.png) [@QMatic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QMatic)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2023, 9:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/8221 "2023-01-01T09:42:12Z")
Wordle 561 4/6\* ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 ⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 SMEAR FLUTE CHIVE WHINE ---
**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:** [January 1, 2023, 10:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/8222 "2023-01-01T10:51:50Z")
Wordle 561 3/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜ ⬜⬜🟩🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Slant Drink Whine ---
**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:** [January 1, 2023, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/8223 "2023-01-01T13:11:19Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > Can you elaborate on this? There are 3^5 = 243 possible results from one’s first word Based on the number of possible answers there are less than 243 for each word. For example, for SHARK you could have the first 4 green if the word was SHARE or SHARD. But, for WHALE there isn’t another word that starts with WHAL. For each possible result I came up with a second word (close to 150 of them) for each of them. I do have a second word I use for many situations (like today). But, I did tweak them based on lessons learned. Wordle 561 3/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟩🟩 ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 CRANE - my normal first word TOILS - my normal second word for two greens at the end WHINE - I think the only possible word No real challenge other than finding the word ---
**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:** [January 1, 2023, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/8224 "2023-01-01T13:18:52Z")
Wordle 561 5/6\* ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 ⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 BEARD GLOVE CHIME WHITE WHINE ---
**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:** [January 1, 2023, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/8225 "2023-01-01T13:27:05Z")
Wordle 561 4/6 🟨⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 IDEAS CHIME WHILE WHINE ---
**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:** [January 1, 2023, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/8226 "2023-01-01T13:45:49Z")
> [@SeaSun](#): > > Also, I really didn’t think she’d go with the word MANLY, not to mention we just had a word starting with the letter M, so I just put it last on my list. Was not fun. > > My 300th game is in a few days, and I haven’t really been too pleased with the new editor, so I might just call it good after that, but we’ll see. I agree with the first paragraph. I was surprised the answer was not MADLY. (Or BADLY, but it looks like that was already an answer.) Obviously with the N you didn’t have to worry about those. For the second paragraph, man that sucks. I can sympathize as my first fail was my 199th game. That was disheartening. (Still so far my only fail, knock on wood.) ---
**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:** [January 1, 2023, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/8227 "2023-01-01T14:14:48Z")
Wordle 561 4/6 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ β¬›πŸŸ¨β¬›β¬›β¬› πŸŸ¨β¬›β¬›β¬›πŸŸ© 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 CROPS METAL NUDGE WHINE I had that whole DGE thing way too much on my mind after a few days ago. No way would they put judge and nudge as answers like 3 days apart, but I couldn’t stop myself. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2023, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/8228 "2023-01-01T14:59:18Z")
Thanks! That was most informative. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2023, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/8229 "2023-01-01T15:05:05Z")
Wordle 561 3/6 SLA **N** T C **H** OR **E** =\> Not gonna **WHINE** about this result! The only hard part was making sure I wasn’t overlooking another possible \_H\_NE word. Happy new year, everyone! ---
**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:** [January 1, 2023, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/8230 "2023-01-01T15:20:06Z")
Wordle 561 4/6\* ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟩 🟨🟨⬜🟨🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 MANGE NICHE SHINE WHINE ---
**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:** [January 1, 2023, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/8231 "2023-01-01T15:26:01Z")
Wordle 561 4/6 🟨🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟩🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 HEART CHIEF WHITE WHINE ---
**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:** [January 1, 2023, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/8232 "2023-01-01T15:40:53Z")
Wordle 561 3/6 β¬›β¬›πŸŸ§πŸŸ§πŸŸ§ πŸŸ§β¬›β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¦ 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧 OVINE WRATH WHINE Nice start to 2023! A lucky opener, but too many options to go for it in two. I picked a good sleuth word. ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2023, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/8233 "2023-01-01T19:13:25Z")
> **Wordle 561 4/6\* New Year's Day 2023** > > ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ > ⬜⬜⬜🟩🟩 > ⬜⬜🟩🟩🟩 > 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 > > MA_N_LY β†’ Feels like a slow start. Need both vowels and consonants… > STO **NE** β†’ That went well. Not many -UNE words, so I’ll try an -INE, using an R… > BR **INE** β†’ No R, but the I worked. If I try an H, then S & T are out, but there is > **WHINE** > > Starting the new year on a par. ---
**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:** [January 1, 2023, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/8234 "2023-01-01T19:22:24Z")
Another par. I guess that’s as good a way as any to start a new year. Wordle 561 4/6\* πŸŸ¨β¬›β¬›β¬›πŸŸ© β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ©β¬›πŸŸ© πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŸ©β¬›πŸŸ© 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 IRATE CHIME WHILE WHINE ---
**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:** [January 1, 2023, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/8235 "2023-01-01T23:44:07Z")
> [@Author\_Balk](#): > > Actually, I think I’ve taken all the fun out of the game Why not play it on hard? ---
**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:** [January 2, 2023, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/8236 "2023-01-02T00:45:11Z")
Wordle 560 3/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 OUTER DAILY MANLY I had a reaction similar to that of others: β€˜manly’ seems unlikely. (What’s next: GIRLY?) But I ran through the entire not-yet-eliminated letters for the \_A\_LY pattern given by guess 2, and the only other possibilities I found were SALLY (as in β€˜forth’) and HAPLY. And MANLY seemed marginally more likely than those. > Wordle 561 5/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 ⬜⬜🟩⬜🟩 ⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 AROSE GUILE CHIME WHITE WHINE Another case for which I couldn’t believe the editor would go with That word for This day: really, starting out a whole new year with β€œwhine”??? But there it is. Happy New Year! πŸŽ† ---
**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:** [January 2, 2023, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/8237 "2023-01-02T05:07:57Z")
**Monday, January 2nd** Wordle 562 4/6 β¬›β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¨β¬› πŸŸ©πŸŸ¨β¬›πŸŸ©β¬› πŸŸ©β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŸ© 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 CLASP STORE SHIRT SKIRT I’m getting a lot of these four-green misses lately. Also, Wordle is starting to feel weirdly gendered. ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2023, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/8238 "2023-01-02T05:14:09Z")
Wordle 562 3/6 🟨⬜🟨🟨⬜ 🟨🟨🟩⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 RATIO TRICK SKIRT Another easy one. ---
**Author:** ![Mark\_Finn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/34f0e0/32.png) [@Mark\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mark_Finn)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2023, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/8239 "2023-01-02T05:27:44Z")
Wordle 562 3/6 ⬜🟨🟩⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 A fairly easy 3 since i guessed right on word three. ASIDE COURT SKIRT It could have been SHIRT, but i made the more likely Wordle pick. ---
**Author:** ![QMatic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/aeb1de/32.png) [@QMatic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QMatic)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2023, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/8240 "2023-01-02T07:27:01Z")
Wordle 562 4/6\* ⬜🟨🟩⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩🟩⬜ 🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 PRIDE FAIRY SHIRT SKIRT [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604.md?page=411) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604.md?page=413)