# "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:** 486
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2023, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/9702 "2023-03-13T00:02:21Z")
Wordle 631 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨 199 ⬜🟩⬜🟨⬜ 6 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 5 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 SLART NICHE =\> Girth’s been done, Firth is too esoterically Scottish, so either MIRTH =\> or (sometimes you lose the coin toss) BIRTH ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2023, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/9703 "2023-03-13T04:12:07Z")
Wordle 632 5/6 ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩🟨🟩 ⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 RATIO SHALE PLACE BLAZE BLAME Back to semi-random guessing. Should have gone with more common letters but then would probably have tried BLADE first anyway. ---
**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 13, 2023, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/9704 "2023-03-13T04:45:04Z")
Wordle 632 5/6 β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ©β¬›β¬› β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ©β¬›β¬› β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ©β¬›πŸŸ© β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŸ© 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 PLANT CLASH GLARE FLAME BLAME Three 5s in a row, baby! I keep resisting the B. ---
**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:** [March 13, 2023, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/9705 "2023-03-13T07:03:56Z")
**Wordle 631 3/6** ⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜ ⬜🟨🟨⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 STARE PRINT BIRTH Almost forgot to play…I had about 5 minutes before midnight, and I went with the first words that quickly came to mind, and totally got lucky. πŸ™‚ So glad this wasn’t a trap-word slog! **Edit to add:** I see now that it could have been a mini-trap with Mirth and Firth as two additional options (Girth was already an answer)…pretty sure I still would have gone with Birth first though. Does anyone know if you start the game before midnight, but don’t finish until after midnight, if it still takes it? I feel like I’ve done that before and it didn’t work, but just can’t recall. ---
**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 13, 2023, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/9706 "2023-03-13T07:26:25Z")
Wordle 632 2/6\* 🟩⬜🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 > **[Wordle Analyzer](https://wordle-analyzer.com/?seed=37&guesses=zsfgiflvmt&hm=1)** > > Discover if your Wordle guesses were luck, or genius BREAM BLAME The analyzer pronounced my first word β€œunbelievably lucky.” Getting a 2 is always pretty satisfying. ---
**Author:** ![Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/half_man_half_wit/32/21766_2.png) [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Half_Man_Half_Wit)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2023, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/9707 "2023-03-13T07:35:48Z")
Wordle 632 6/6\* ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟨🟨⬜🟨⬜ ⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩 ⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩 ⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 RATIO LASED GLAZE PLANE FLAKE BLAME Ugh, I BLAME the Monday morning brain fog… ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2023, 8:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/9708 "2023-03-13T08:07:23Z")
> **Wordle 631 5/6\* 3/12/2023** > > ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ > 🟨⬜🟨⬜🟨 > 🟨🟨🟩🟨⬜ > ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 > 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 > > EMA_I_L β†’ Not much of a start. But, like a cyclops, I have one I to work with… > _R_O_I_S_T_ β†’ So here I really screwed up. I got excited about trying a TH combo followed by IR, neglecting to see that the I couldn’t be in the middle anyway, and then - to boot - I mistype it… > _TH_ **R** _I_D β†’ but, at least, the H comes out well. So now let’s try the TH on the end, I in the second slot, choose the first first letter that comes to mind… > F **IRTH** β†’ And if I had taken a couple seconds to think about it, I would have come up with two better guesses. I’ll try the first… > **BIRTH** > > At least I didn’t get GIRTHed. ---
**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 13, 2023, 8:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/9709 "2023-03-13T08:29:55Z")
I was lucky to get it in 4. Wordle 632 4/6 β¬›πŸŸ¨β¬›β¬›β¬› β¬›πŸŸ©β¬›πŸŸ¨β¬› β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ©β¬›β¬› 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 β—† RATIO β—† CLUES ➜ this leaves 11 possible words: _algae blade blame blaze bleak flame glade gleam glean plane plead_ Way too many. So I chose my next word to eliminate 4 letters. β—† PLANK ➜ this leaves 5 possible words: _blade blame blaze flame glade_ βœ… BLAME β€” A lucky guess! I got lucky. ---
**Author:** ![QMatic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/aeb1de/32.png) [@QMatic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QMatic)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2023, 9:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/9710 "2023-03-13T09:58:46Z")
Wordle 632 2/6\* ⬜⬜🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 TRACE BLAME > [@Bullitt](#): > > I got lucky. Not as lucky as I did! ---
**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:** [March 13, 2023, 10:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/9711 "2023-03-13T10:56:01Z")
Wordle 632 3/6 ⬜⬜🟩⬜🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 CRANE GHOST - nothing BLAME - lucky, there are still a lot of options. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2023, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/9712 "2023-03-13T11:32:35Z")
Wordle 632 4/6 ⬜🟩🟩⬜⬜ 73 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 11 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 2 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 S **LA** RT =\> more than 2 dozen common, unused \_LA\_\_ words KNIF **E** =\> knocks it down to blade, blaze, blame, glade, glaze, place **BLA** Z **E** =\> leaves only BLADE and, winning today’s coin toss… **BLAME** ---
**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:** [March 13, 2023, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/9713 "2023-03-13T11:42:40Z")
Wordle 632 4/6 ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟩 ⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 RAISE PLATE BLADE BLAME ---
**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 13, 2023, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/9714 "2023-03-13T11:47:42Z")
Wordle 632 6/6 ⬜🟨🟩⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 HEART PLACE BLADE BLAZE BLASE BLAME Danced around this more than Fred Astaire ---
**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 13, 2023, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/9715 "2023-03-13T12:02:24Z")
Wordle 632 3/6\* 🟩🟨🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 BEARD BLAZE BLAME ---
**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 13, 2023, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/9716 "2023-03-13T15:42:25Z")
An annoying game today. Wordle 632 5/6\* β¬›β¬›πŸŸ©β¬›πŸŸ© β¬›β¬›πŸŸ©β¬›πŸŸ© β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ©β¬›πŸŸ© β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŸ© 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 IRATE SNAKE PLACE FLAME BLAME Confession: I flipped off WordleBot. ---
**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 13, 2023, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/9717 "2023-03-13T16:00:28Z")
Wordle 632 4/6 ⬜⬜🟧⬜🟧 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟦 ⬜🟧🟧🟧🟧 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧 CRANE SPOIL FLAME BLAME ---
**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 13, 2023, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/9718 "2023-03-13T16:36:35Z")
Yeep Wordle 632 6/6\* ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟨🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟩⬜🟨🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 FAKIR ABOUT BYLAW BLADE BLAZE BLAME ---
**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 13, 2023, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/9719 "2023-03-13T16:41:35Z")
Wordle 632 6/6 β¬›πŸŸ¦β¬›β¬›β¬› β¬›β¬›πŸŸ§β¬›πŸŸ§ β¬›β¬›πŸŸ§πŸŸ¦πŸŸ§ β¬›πŸŸ§πŸŸ§β¬›πŸŸ§ πŸŸ§πŸŸ§πŸŸ§β¬›πŸŸ§ 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧 RADIO CRANE WHALE GLAZE BLADE BLAME A very poorly-played six. Deciding the L had to be in the second spot, I narrowed it down to GLAZE or GLADE and figured I was home free. Totally didn’t see the BL start (or FL, for that matter). I BLAME daylight saving time. ---
**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 13, 2023, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/9720 "2023-03-13T21:28:53Z")
> [@Wheelz](#): > > Wordle 632 6/6 > > β¬›πŸŸ¦β¬›β¬›β¬› > β¬›β¬›πŸŸ§β¬›πŸŸ§ > β¬›β¬›πŸŸ§πŸŸ¦πŸŸ§ > β¬›πŸŸ§πŸŸ§β¬›πŸŸ§ > πŸŸ§πŸŸ§πŸŸ§β¬›πŸŸ§ > 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧 > > RADIO > CRANE > WHALE > GLAZE > BLADE > BLAME Apropos of nothing in particular, why is it that most people’s diagrams come out grey, yellow, and green, and a few people’s diagrams are black, blue, and orange? oh, by the way: Wordle 632 4/6 ⬜🟨🟩⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩⬜🟩 ⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 READY SHAKE PLACE BLAME Splendid! (actually, I’m happy every time I don’t get _Phew!_) I almost made my second word _SHAME_, which would had given me a shot at a three ---
**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:** [March 13, 2023, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/9721 "2023-03-13T21:37:06Z")
Wordle 632 4/6\* 🟨🟨🟩⬜⬜ 🟨🟩🟩⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 LEAST ELAND PLACE BLAME 3 common letters in the 1st guess still left me with too many choices, so I feel lucky that I got it in 4 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604.md?page=485) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604.md?page=487)