# "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:** 447
**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 6, 2023, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/8921 "2023-02-06T23:25:42Z")
Wordle 597 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 🟨🟩🟩⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟩🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ROAST TINGE MINTY NINTH Yet another MINTY NINTH. (I did consider β€œLINTY” instead, at step 3.) With that INT in the middle and only 18 letters left, there weren’t a lot of options for guess 4. ---
**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 7, 2023, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/8922 "2023-02-07T02:42:44Z")
**Wordle 597 5/6** ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟨⬜🟨⬜🟨 ⬜🟩⬜🟨🟨 ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 POLAR HEIST FIGHT WIDTH NINTH I made another bumble-head move…played the T in last spot again when it didn’t go there. πŸ™„ Not sure I could have gotten this in 3-4 guesses anyways…there were 5 words to choose from after my second word (not including the words I had that ended in T), and I avoided the N due to it showing up twice in last two days. ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2023, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/8923 "2023-02-07T03:35:34Z")
> **Wordle 597 4/6\* 2/6/2023** > > ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ > ⬜🟩🟩🟩⬜ > ⬜🟩🟩🟩⬜ > 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 > > DA **N** CE > P **INT** O > M **INT** Y > **NINTH** > > Somehow when I was working on this I didn’t think we’d see so many minty ninths. ---
**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:** [February 7, 2023, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/8924 "2023-02-07T04:49:01Z")
I don’t know about highest and lowest words, but WordleBot said that for hard mode, DANCE was something like a 3.2 average, while the average number of guesses for today’s word was 4.2. And that looks about right looking at the posts for today: no 2s, a few 3s, more 4s, some 5s. Wordle 597 3/6\* ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟩🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 AROSE LINTY NINTH I saw the answer fairly quickly after LINTY and in fact it was the only possible guess left, but i didn’t want to go with the repeated letter before checking for other possibilities ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2023, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/8925 "2023-02-07T05:20:44Z")
Wordle 598 3/6 ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟨🟨🟨⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 RATIO PLANE APPLE ---
**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 7, 2023, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/8926 "2023-02-07T05:39:13Z")
Wordle 598 3/6 β¬›πŸŸ¨πŸŸ¨β¬›πŸŸ¨ β¬›πŸŸ¨πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŸ© 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 CLASP MAPLE APPLE I was pretty sure it was apple after 1 but stuck to my strategy of starting with two research words. ---
**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 7, 2023, 8:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/8927 "2023-02-07T08:22:44Z")
Wordle 598 4/6 πŸŸ©β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¨β¬› ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ β¬›πŸŸ¨β¬›πŸŸ¨β¬› 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ADIEU SNORT GLYPH APPLE ---
**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 7, 2023, 9:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/8928 "2023-02-07T09:36:49Z")
Wordle 598 5/6\* ⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ 🟨🟨⬜🟨⬜ 🟩⬜⬜🟩🟩 🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 BEARD LATEX ANGLE AMPLE APPLE ---
**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 7, 2023, 9:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/8929 "2023-02-07T09:56:09Z")
Wordle 598 3/6\* πŸŸ§πŸŸ¦β¬›β¬›πŸŸ§ πŸŸ§β¬›β¬›πŸŸ§πŸŸ§ 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧 ALONE ANKLE APPLE ---
**Author:** ![QMatic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/aeb1de/32.png) [@QMatic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QMatic)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2023, 10:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/8930 "2023-02-07T10:27:50Z")
Wordle 598 6/6\* ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ 🟨🟨🟨⬜⬜ 🟩⬜⬜🟩🟩 🟩⬜⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 CLOUT VALID LEARY AMBLE ANGLE APPLE I had thought about APPLE as far back as guess 3, but I balked at using a double P so early on. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2023, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/8931 "2023-02-07T11:17:33Z")
Wordle 598 6/6 S_LA_NT CHOR **E** F_A_B **LE** **A** GI **LE** **A** M **PLE** (already used, forgot to check!) **APPLE** As I said to my wife, this wasn’t an obscure or difficult word, I was just looking in all the wrong places. If anything about the word threw me off, it was the three consecutive consonants in the middle of the word. Once I knew the word began with A, I was looking for words with another vowel in the middle. ---
**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 7, 2023, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/8932 "2023-02-07T11:45:19Z")
Wordle 598 3/6 🟩⬜⬜⬜🟩 🟩⬜⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ABIDE ANGLE APPLE ---
**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 7, 2023, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/8933 "2023-02-07T13:28:49Z")
Wordle 598 3/6 ⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ 🟨🟨🟨⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 HEART PLACE APPLE ---
**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:** [February 7, 2023, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/8934 "2023-02-07T16:21:34Z")
Same here. Wordle 598 5/6 ⬜⬜🟦⬜🟧 🟧⬜⬜⬜🟧 🟧⬜⬜🟧🟧 🟧⬜🟧🟧🟧 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧 CRANE ABOVE AGILE AMPLE - shocked that this wasn’t it APPLE - took WAY longer than it should have to figure this out ---
**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 7, 2023, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/8935 "2023-02-07T16:31:43Z")
Scootch over, 4s!! Wordle 598 4/6\* β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¨β¬›πŸŸ© β¬›πŸŸ¨β¬›β¬›πŸŸ© πŸŸ©πŸŸ¨β¬›β¬›πŸŸ© 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 IRATE SAUCE ALONE APPLE I’m learning to embrace me inner double consonant! Also glad I didn’t think of AMPLE first, because I surely would have tried it ahead of APPLE. ---
**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 7, 2023, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/8936 "2023-02-07T16:36:26Z")
Wordle 598 4/6 β¬›πŸŸ¦β¬›β¬›β¬› β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¦πŸŸ§πŸŸ§ πŸŸ§β¬›πŸŸ§πŸŸ§πŸŸ§ 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧 RATIO SCALE AMPLE APPLE I figured ADDLE was unlikely, and AMPLE, if wrong, would lead me to AMBLE, APPLE, or ANKLE in four, easy peasy. But, I’d missed seeing ANGLE, so a five was still possible. It worked out, but just goes to show that in this game it’s difficult to cover all the ANGLEs. ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2023, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/8937 "2023-02-07T22:03:42Z")
> **Wordle 598 5/6\* 2/7/2023** > > ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ > ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 > ⬜🟨🟨⬜🟩 > ⬜🟨🟨⬜🟩 > 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 > > NINTH β†’ Clean miss. Time for a common-letter second word… > ROUS **E** β†’ And that went… almost nowhere. Guess it’s time to try A… > G_LA_D **E** β†’ and L. But where do they go? If I dare a repeat letter, I could exchange their places… > V_AL_V **E** β†’ but that wasn’t right. Do I dare another repeat letter, with only two guesses left? What the heck, YOLO… > **APPLE** > > Good thing I didn’t see AMPLE first, though… I probably would have chickened out and taken a six. ---
**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:** [February 7, 2023, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/8938 "2023-02-07T23:40:54Z")
Wordle 598 3/6 ⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Slant Chore Apple I left the game after my second guess and in the middle of the night, the solution came to me. Except that it could have been apple, ample, or maple. And I guessed 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 7, 2023, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/8939 "2023-02-07T23:47:44Z")
Similarly: Wordle 598 3/6 ⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 SLANT DAILY APPLE Fairly fast, due to the likelihood after guess 2 that the A would be in starting position. (Otherwise it would have been a word ending in β€œLA,” and I decided to check on that only after eliminating A words.) ---
**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 8, 2023, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/8940 "2023-02-08T01:32:13Z")
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