# "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:** 423
**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 13, 2023, 8:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/8441 "2023-01-13T08:51:53Z")
Wordle 573 3/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜🟨⬜🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 IRONY CAJUN HUMAN ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2023, 9:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/8442 "2023-01-13T09:58:40Z")
Wordle 573 3/6\* πŸŸ¦β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¦β¬› β¬›πŸŸ¦πŸŸ¦β¬›πŸŸ¦ 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧 Alone Ranch Human ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2023, 10:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/8443 "2023-01-13T10:46:24Z")
Wordle 573 4/6 SL_AN_T PROBE **HUM** ID **HUMAN** Tried a different second word this time, which meant a different third word as well. Probably would have got there in 4 if I’d gone with my usual second and third words. ---
**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 13, 2023, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/8444 "2023-01-13T12:17:56Z")
Wordle 573 4/6\* ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 BEARD FAINT LOGAN HUMAN ---
**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 13, 2023, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/8445 "2023-01-13T12:47:21Z")
Good day today. Wordle 573 3/6\* ⬜🟨🟨⬜🟩 🟩🟨⬜⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 CHAIN HAVEN HUMAN ---
**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 13, 2023, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/8446 "2023-01-13T12:55:43Z")
Wordle 573 3/6 🟩⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟨🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 HEART HANDY HUMAN ---
**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:** [January 13, 2023, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/8447 "2023-01-13T16:42:34Z")
Sucking lately. Wordle 573 5/6 ⬜⬜🟦🟦⬜ ⬜⬜🟦🟧⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟧🟧 🟧⬜⬜🟧🟧 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧 ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2023, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/8448 "2023-01-13T18:11:44Z")
> **Wordle 573 4/6\* 1/13/2022** > > ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ > ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ > 🟨🟨🟨⬜⬜ > 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 > > LE_A_PT β†’ Gotta figure out some good consonants to go with it… > R_A_CES β†’ And sure enough, I used the E _again_. Sigh. Need to try some other vowels for a change… > _AMN_IO β†’ At least I eliminated I & O. Gotta try a U… and the suffix looks like -MAN, so > **HUMAN** > > I wish there were a Wordle mode that flagged repeats of letters not in the solution, even if there were some kind of override. It seems like I’m consistently reusing known wrong letters. ---
**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:** [January 13, 2023, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/8449 "2023-01-13T20:08:41Z")
**Wordle 573 5/6** Sorry for the two second oops with not spoilering my words! I hope no one saw that. ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟨⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜🟨🟨🟨⬜ 🟨⬜⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 COAST ADIEU FAUNA URBAN HUMAN I thought it wasn’t a bad idea to check for the vowels with my second word, but wish now (of course in hindsight) that I checked for the H and other more common consonants, which I _almost_ did with Laugh for my 3rd word, but for some reason I just was feeling Fauna (a bit of a risk with the double A and the F, but it did give me the N, so there’s that). Then I narrowed things down to Human and Urban and just went with the wrong one. > [@EllisDee](#): > > I can name that Wordle in one yellow! Nice! πŸ™‚ @gkster I like your new profile pic…cute kitty. 🐈 ---
**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:** [January 13, 2023, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/8450 "2023-01-13T21:28:50Z")
Wordle 573 4/6 πŸŸ¨β¬›β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¨ β¬›πŸŸ¨β¬›β¬›β¬› β¬›β¬›β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¨ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ADIEU SNORT GLYPH HUMAN After 3 I was stumped. Walked away for a few hours, then it came to me. ---
**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:** [January 13, 2023, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/8451 "2023-01-13T21:29:27Z")
Wow, nice! ---
**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 13, 2023, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/8452 "2023-01-13T21:46:18Z")
A rather lucky 3 today. Wordle 573 3/6\* β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¨β¬›β¬› πŸŸ©πŸŸ¨πŸŸ¨β¬›β¬› 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 IRATE HANDY HUMAN WordleBot advises that after my second try, there was no other answer. Took me long enough to find it, though. ---
**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 13, 2023, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/8453 "2023-01-13T21:51:20Z")
Wordle 573 4/6 πŸŸ¦β¬›β¬›β¬›β¬› β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¦πŸŸ§β¬› πŸŸ¦πŸŸ¦β¬›πŸŸ§β¬› 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧 ALIVE SONAR UNCAP HUMAN I got a bit stuck on wanting to start with UN. I _might_ have come up with HUMAN upon further thought. Still a nice satisfying par. > [@SunUp](#): > > I wish there were a Wordle mode that flagged repeats of letters not in the solution I don’t play in hard mode. You’d think that in addition to forcing you to use discovered letters it would also prevent you from using letters known to be incorrect. ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2023, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/8454 "2023-01-13T23:54:57Z")
I’m not sure I would want to _prevent_ that kind of usage, because sometimes when I’m stuck I’ll reuse a known-wrong letter consciously to try a word that might have other letters I want to try or just to get myself out of a mental rut. But some kind of flag - pre-coloring the box where you typed the known-bad letter, or making the box jump or jiggle, something like that - would help my boneheaded errors. ---
**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 14, 2023, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/8455 "2023-01-14T00:10:07Z")
> [@SunUp](#): > > when I’m stuck I’ll reuse a known-wrong letter consciously to try a word that might have other letters I want to try or just to get myself out of a mental rut. Agreed, but since the name is hard mode, it’s kind of weird that it doesn’t enforce that. As you say, it would make it harder. ---
**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 14, 2023, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/8456 "2023-01-14T00:39:25Z")
Wordle 573 4/6 ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟨🟨⬜🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 STARE DAILY AMONG HUMAN This one took a long time; eventually when after guess three I had M, A, and N, I started looking for words that included MAN, which helped. ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2023, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/8457 "2023-01-14T05:28:11Z")
Wordle 574 3/6 ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨 🟨🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 RATIO LOANS KOALA Proud of myself for getting this one. I wonder if there were any other possibilities after the second guess. ---
**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 14, 2023, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/8458 "2023-01-14T06:00:50Z")
Wordle 574 3/6 β¬›β¬›πŸŸ©β¬›β¬› β¬›β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ©β¬› 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 CRAMP STALE KOALA This took me a friggin’ hour. \_\_AL\_ is a brutal template to fill when you can’t use C or E. (Chalk, whale and scale/scaly were the only words I could see for the longest time, but all were excluded.) ---
**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:** [January 14, 2023, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/8459 "2023-01-14T06:35:53Z")
Thanks! He’s an annoying but cute kitty. There’s a thread that inspired my avatar update, Cat avatars on the Dope, but my phone isn’t letting me copy the link. As for 1/13’s Wordle 573, a ho-hum 4 that’s not worth posting about ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2023, 9:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/8460 "2023-01-14T09:15:53Z")
Wordle 574 4/6\* πŸŸ¦β¬›πŸŸ¦β¬›β¬› β¬›πŸŸ§πŸŸ§β¬›β¬› πŸŸ¦πŸŸ§πŸŸ§β¬›β¬› 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧 Atone Roach Loamy Koala I switch up my starting word, and it costs me. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604.md?page=422) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604.md?page=424)