# "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:** 470
**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:** [March 1, 2023, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/9381 "2023-03-01T12:37:19Z")
> [@Bullitt](#): > > _(At this point I knew it had to be GOOSE LOOSE MOOSE or NOOSE.)_ Couldn’t it have been GLOSS ? ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2023, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/9382 "2023-03-01T12:39:05Z")
Wordle 620 5/6\* β¬›β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¨β¬› πŸŸ¨β¬›πŸŸ¨β¬›β¬› β¬›πŸŸ¨πŸŸ¨β¬›β¬› β¬›β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŸ© 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ADIEU SHEEP TESTY CLOSE MOOSE Tricky one! I had several words to choose from but tried moose. ---
**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:** [March 1, 2023, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/9383 "2023-03-01T12:43:24Z")
> [@pjd](#): > > Couldn’t it have been GLOSS ? No, because he’d seen the E. Wordle 620 3/6\* β¬›β¬›πŸŸ§β¬›πŸŸ§ πŸŸ¦β¬›πŸŸ§β¬›πŸŸ§ 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧 ALONE SHORE MOOSE ---
**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:** [March 1, 2023, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/9384 "2023-03-01T12:52:36Z")
> [@pjd](#): > > > [@Bullitt](#): > > > > _(At this point I knew it had to be GOOSE LOOSE MOOSE or NOOSE.)_ > > Couldn’t it have been GLOSS ? Yes, that too! But with my guess #3 that would become apparent. ---
**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:** [March 1, 2023, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/9385 "2023-03-01T13:11:23Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > No, because he’d seen the E. Ah. > [@Bullitt](#): > > Yes, that too! But with my guess #3 that would become apparent. No it couldn’t ! You already had the E ! πŸ™„ 😁 ---
**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:** [March 1, 2023, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/9386 "2023-03-01T13:12:09Z")
Wordle 620 4/6\* ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟩🟩 ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 HEART PULSE NOISE MOOSE ---
**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:** [March 1, 2023, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/9387 "2023-03-01T13:22:12Z")
Wordle 620 6/6 ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟨⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟩🟩⬜🟨⬜ 🟩🟩⬜⬜🟩 🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 HEART ENEMY MOPED MOILE MOUSE we’re going to need a bigger mammal MOOSE ---
**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:** [March 1, 2023, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/9388 "2023-03-01T13:22:41Z")
Wordle 620 3/6\* ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟨🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 AIERY EMOTE MOOSE Lucky second word. I ran this through Scoredle and they said there were 1,351 second-word choices for me. Also cool: this is the first one that I saw Scoredle lose. β€œWhat would Scoredle do? SLATE-\>POSSE-\>WORSE-\>HOUSE-\>NOOSE-\>GOOSE” ---
**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:** [March 1, 2023, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/9389 "2023-03-01T14:36:40Z")
Guessing the answer from two days ago didn’t do scoredle any favors. What is scoredle, by the way? ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2023, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/9390 "2023-03-01T15:10:27Z")
I’m a consonants-first guy myself, but if you prefer a vowel-heavy starting word, I think yours (which I’d never heard of before, but if Wordle accepts it as a guess, that’s all that matters!) is a much stronger choice than the oft-recommended ADIEU. ---
**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:** [March 1, 2023, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/9391 "2023-03-01T15:22:36Z")
It’s a handy tool for evaluating your game play. > **[Scoredle - How'd you do?](https://scoredle.com/)** > > How'd you do in Wordle today? After you finish Wordle, you put the word and your guesses into Scoredle and it will tell you which words remain at each guess, as well as telling you what its own algorithm would have chosen. Give it a shot with your Wordle from today. And I just discovered that they provide an enhanced Share option that I will be using from now on. Scoredle 3/6\* 14,855 ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ AIERY (1,351) ⬜🟨🟩⬜🟩 EMOTE (3) 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 MOOSE ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2023, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/9392 "2023-03-01T15:39:07Z")
> **Wordle 620 4/6\* 3/1/2023** > > ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ > ⬜🟩⬜🟩⬜ > 🟩🟩⬜🟩⬜ > 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 > > P **O** LKA β†’ One hit is not a bad start. Common consonants, anyone? > R **O** I **S** T β†’ Got the S. Any more vowels? E, U & Y are still out there, I can get two of 'em… > **MO** U **S** Y β†’ I’m pretty sure it’s not an H or C on the end, which leaves us with an E (deferred to the 4th guess? I’m slipping) so it’s time for a double letter… > **MOOSE** > > Here’s hoping tomorrow is FIRED and Friday is LLAMA… ---
**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:** [March 1, 2023, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/9393 "2023-03-01T16:17:50Z")
Wordle 620 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟧 🟦⬜🟧⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟧🟧🟧 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧 CRANE SPOIL THOSE MOOSE - first two words eliminated β€˜loose’, β€˜noose’ or β€˜chose’ and I was just lucky not to pick β€˜goose’. My Alaskan past, I guess. ---
**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:** [March 1, 2023, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/9394 "2023-03-01T16:21:33Z")
> [@minor7flat5](#): > > Give it a shot with your Wordle from today. I checked it out. I have a very good vocabulary, but that site listed two words I’ve never heard of as possible solutions. I could understand that I might not recognize one of them, but both is highly unlikely. ---
**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:** [March 1, 2023, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/9395 "2023-03-01T16:56:52Z")
I believe that those are the real words that Wordle would accept as options, whether or not I think they are bogus. When there are dozens of options, half of them are usually weird opaque things, to me at least. Anyway, it’s nice to be able to see the list of options for those times when I spent a half hour staring at an entry before finally figuring out a word. ---
**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:** [March 1, 2023, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/9396 "2023-03-01T17:22:44Z")
> [@minor7flat5](#): > > And I just discovered that they provide an enhanced Share option that I will be using from now on. Ooh, I like that! Scoredle 5/6\* β¬›πŸŸ©β¬›β¬›β¬› COATI (1,160) β¬›πŸŸ©β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ© LOUSE (21) β¬›πŸŸ©β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ© HORSE (14) β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŸ© GOOSE (4) 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 MOOSE After LOUSE, I ran through the keyboard and convinced myself it could only be HORSE. Completely missed the double O possibility. [headsmack emoji] I figured NOOSE wouldn’t be a solution, but guessed wrong between the other two options. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2023, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/9397 "2023-03-01T17:33:15Z")
Wordle 620 5/6 ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟨⬜⬜⬜🟩 🟨⬜🟩⬜🟩 ⬜⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 READY OUTIE (eliminates unused vowels) SHONE CLOSE (now I’ve used up all of etaoin shrdlu, let me try a double O) MOOSE (lucky guess) Hey, a win’s a win. ---
**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:** [March 1, 2023, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/9398 "2023-03-01T17:56:24Z")
I, too, had a lucky 2nd word today. Wordle 620 3/6\* β¬›β¬›β¬›β¬›πŸŸ© πŸŸ¨πŸŸ¨πŸŸ©β¬›πŸŸ© 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 IRATE SMOKE MOOSE There was no other word after my 2nd try. I didn’t even need WordleBot to tell me that. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2023, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/9399 "2023-03-01T18:24:22Z")
Lemme try this: Scoredle 4/6 14,855 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ SLART (1,209) ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 NICHE (31) ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ DUMPY (1) 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 MOOSE Looks different from what you guys have, but close enough! ETA: OK, now it’s looking the same. In the preview, it still looks the way it does on the Scoredle website. ---
**Author:** ![eschrodinger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschrodinger/32/122_2.png) [@eschrodinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschrodinger)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2023, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/9400 "2023-03-01T19:28:26Z")
Wordle 5/6 ⬜🟩⬜🟨⬜ HONEY ⬜🟩⬜⬜🟩 FORTE ⬜🟩⬜⬜🟩 VOGUE ⬜🟩🟨⬜🟩 BOMBE 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 MOOSE [Wordle Analyzer](https://wordle-analyzer.com/?seed=93&guesses=hddhreylxiagwhwbftzncmedr&hm=1) Serious process of elimination here. I’ve been using Wordle Analyzer. I’ll have to check out Scordle. Interestingly, the AI at Wordle Analyzer did not lose today. It got a 5/6. ETA:. I have used Scordle before. I like the share product from Scordle better in terms of what is displayed here, but WA gives a link to the full analysis too. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604.md?page=469) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604.md?page=471)