# "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:** 444
**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:** [February 3, 2023, 8:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/8861 "2023-02-03T08:02:47Z")
Wordle 594 4/6 πŸŸ¨β¬›β¬›β¬›β¬› πŸŸ¨β¬›β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¨ β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¨β¬›β¬› 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ADIEU SNORT GLYPH TASTY ---
**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:** [February 3, 2023, 10:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/8862 "2023-02-03T10:39:27Z")
Wordle 594 4/6\* πŸŸ¦β¬›β¬›β¬›β¬› πŸŸ¦β¬›πŸŸ¦β¬›β¬› β¬›πŸŸ§πŸŸ§πŸŸ§β¬› 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧 ALONE SHARK PASTA TASTY ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2023, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/8863 "2023-02-03T11:33:46Z")
Wordle 594 3/6 _S_L_A_N_T_ CHORE **TASTY** Very pleased with this 3. My first guess gave me a lot of information without narrowing things down much, but the biggest cluster of possibilities I could see was words ending in \_ASTE or \_ASTY. Drawing a blank with CHORE cleared out a lot of possibilities, leaving me with PASTY and TASTY. And the latter just seemed more, well, _appetizing_. πŸ˜‰ ---
**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:** [February 3, 2023, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/8864 "2023-02-03T11:42:03Z")
Wordle 594 6/6\* ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨 🟨🟩🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 BEARD FLOAT SATIN HASTY PASTY TASTY Phew indeed. ---
**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:** [February 3, 2023, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/8865 "2023-02-03T12:49:46Z")
Wordle 594 4/6 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟨🟩⬜⬜🟩 ⬜🟩🟨🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ALONE SAUCY PATSY TASTY ---
**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:** [February 3, 2023, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/8866 "2023-02-03T12:58:20Z")
Wordle 594 5/6 ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨 🟨🟨⬜⬜🟨 ⬜🟩🟩🟩⬜ ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 HEART STOMA (took a chance on an odd word, got one letter for my trouble) CASTS NASTY TASTY ---
**Author:** ![minor7flat5](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/minor7flat5/32/258_2.png) [@minor7flat5](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minor7flat5)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2023, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/8867 "2023-02-03T14:22:37Z")
Wordle 594 3/6\* 🟨⬜⬜⬜🟩 ⬜🟩⬜⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 A bit of luck today. AIERY MANGY TASTY Scoredle tells me that when I got down to MANGY there were 97 possible words, about a third of which were perfectly decent Wordle options, so I was lucky indeed to stumble upon TASTY. ---
**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:** [February 3, 2023, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/8868 "2023-02-03T17:15:51Z")
A bit of luck for me today, too. Wordle 594 3/6\* β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¨πŸŸ©β¬› πŸŸ¨πŸŸ©β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ© 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 IRATE SALTY TASTY I’ve overcome my aversion to double consonants sufficiently to try TASTY before HASTY and PASTY, which both seemed less likely Wordle words to me. And classic WordleBot today. It informed me that TASTY would have been more β€œefficient” as my second guess than SALTY. Well, sure. If you today’s answer is TASTY!! ---
**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:** [February 3, 2023, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/8869 "2023-02-03T17:51:33Z")
Wordle 594 4/6 β¬›β¬›β¬›πŸŸ§β¬› β¬›πŸŸ§β¬›πŸŸ§β¬› β¬›πŸŸ§πŸŸ§πŸŸ§πŸŸ§ 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧 ROUTE FAITH NASTY TASTY No blues (yellows) doesn’t necessarily make things easier, but there were surprisingly few options left after FAITH. Consulting the used words list would have gotten me a 3, but that’s OK. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2023, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/8870 "2023-02-03T18:28:18Z")
It would have been even more efficient as your _first_ guess! 🀣 ---
**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:** [February 3, 2023, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/8871 "2023-02-03T21:19:04Z")
LOL, I know, right?? ---
**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:** [February 3, 2023, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/8872 "2023-02-03T23:46:55Z")
Wordle 594 3/6 🟨🟨🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 STARE TASKS TASTY After guess one, with three letters, I started listing possible five-letter words and checking to see which had already been solutions. Every one I could think of that had its A somewhere other than position 3 had already been a winner. My massive mental block led me to try an impossibility (a plural noun using β€˜s’). Took a LONG time. ---
**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:** [February 4, 2023, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/8873 "2023-02-04T02:10:29Z")
**Wordle 594 4/6** 🟩🟩⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 TAPER TANGO FLASK TASTY Sleuth word at 3 guaranteed me a 4…had a lot of TA words to choose from, so I’ll take it. ---
**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:** [February 4, 2023, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/8874 "2023-02-04T05:09:44Z")
FEB 4 - Wordle 595 4/6\* β¬›πŸŸ¦β¬›πŸŸ¦β¬› πŸŸ¦πŸŸ¦πŸŸ¦πŸŸ¦β¬› 🟧🟧🟦🟧🟦 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧 ALONE LINTY UNTIL UNLIT ---
**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:** [February 4, 2023, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/8875 "2023-02-04T05:25:08Z")
Wordle 595 4/6 β¬›β¬›β¬›β¬›πŸŸ© β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¨β¬›πŸŸ© β¬›πŸŸ¨β¬›πŸŸ¨πŸŸ© 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 CREPT MOIST GIANT UNLIT Saw Inuit first but kept looking. ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2023, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/8876 "2023-02-04T05:30:53Z")
Wordle 595 2/6 ⬜⬜🟨🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 RATIO UNLIT Twos are always just luck. ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2023, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/8877 "2023-02-04T06:20:10Z")
> **Wordle 594 3/6\* 2/3/2023** > > 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ > 🟩🟩⬜⬜🟨 > 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 > > _S_HIRK β†’ Slow start, lots of common letters to try from… > **TA** LE_S_ β†’ Hit on two of 'em. S goes 3rd or 4th, and there’s probably another vowel in 5th, which is almost certainly a Y. TAS-Y, should I try a repeat letter? > **TASTY** > > A little bit of luck and a lot of thinking. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2023, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/8878 "2023-02-04T06:50:45Z")
Wordle 595 3/6 S_L_A_N_ **T** =\> Can be INLET, UNLIT, or KNELT I **NL** E **T** =\> knocks out KNELT too, therefore it’s **UNLIT** _Soooooo_ close to that 2. Horseshoes, hand grenades, etc. ---
**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:** [February 4, 2023, 8:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/8879 "2023-02-04T08:57:21Z")
Wordle 595 4/6 β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¨β¬›πŸŸ¨ β¬›πŸŸ©β¬›β¬›πŸŸ© πŸŸ©πŸŸ©β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ© 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ADIEU SNORT UNFIT UNLIT ---
**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:** [February 4, 2023, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/8880 "2023-02-04T12:50:52Z")
Wordle 595 4/6 ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ 🟨⬜⬜🟩🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ABIDE PINCH LOGIN UNLIT [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604.md?page=443) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604.md?page=445)