# "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:** 487
**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, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/9722 "2023-03-13T22:04:49Z")
> **Wordle 632 4/6\* 3/13/2023** > > 🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ > 🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ > 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 > 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 > > **B** IRTH β†’ If you had told me I would hit with one letter, that’s not the letter I’d have guessed. Two vowels and two common cononants… > **B** OSUN β†’ Clean miss. Still haven’t tried A & E, or an L… > **BLA** D **E** β†’ OK, looks like two options left… I’ll try M over Z… > **BLAME** > > I didn’t realize before how good of a trap BLA-E is. Good thing R & S were already gone… ---
**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, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/9723 "2023-03-13T22:49:15Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > 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? It’s the difference between light mode and dark mode, respectively. ---
**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, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/9724 "2023-03-13T23:12:20Z")
I think that’s backwards. I use dark mode and get grey, yellow and green. ---
**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, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/9725 "2023-03-13T23:18:35Z")
You don’t have gray (white), your misses are black. Now I’m also wondering where the blue and orange comes from, because I’m seeing both light and dark mode responses here where the only difference is the misses are either white (gray) or black. Including both yours and mine, where dark mode is green, yellow and black. So I don’t actually know where the blue and orange comes from. ---
**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, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/9726 "2023-03-13T23:22:22Z")
Hmmm, might be a combination of using dark mode in Wordle and which interface theme you use here on the SDMB. My squares show up to me as white, yellow and green (you’re right, I get no gray). @Wheelz’s show up as dark gray, blue and orange. My SDMB interface theme is Vincent, which is dark. ---
**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, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/9727 "2023-03-13T23:23:28Z")
That’s confusing because I use the regular light mode on the dope, but you and I have the same dark mode color scheme in Wordle. We need to get the Scooby gang on this mystery. ---
**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, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/9728 "2023-03-13T23:23:51Z")
LOL, I’ll second that motion! ---
**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, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/9729 "2023-03-13T23:27:03Z")
There’s a setting called β€œHigh Contrast Mode” that changes yellow and green to blue and orange for us color-impaired folks. ---
**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, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/9730 "2023-03-13T23:31:06Z")
Ah, well that makes sense. Thanks much! ---
**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:** [March 13, 2023, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/9731 "2023-03-13T23:43:53Z")
Wordle 631 4/6 ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨🟨🟨⬜ ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 AROSE WHIRL MIRTH BIRTH Another MIRTH before BIRTH guess (FIRTH would have been my next guess). Somehow I though BIRTH might have seemed indelicate to the NYT editor, making MIRTH more likely. Not so! > Wordle 632 4/6 ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ 🟨🟨🟩🟨⬜ ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ROAST MEALY FLAME BLAME My short list of β€˜not yet solutions’ words to try for Guess 2 came through for me here. ---
**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 14, 2023, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/9732 "2023-03-14T00:53:00Z")
Wordle 632 5/6\* πŸŸ¦πŸŸ§β¬›β¬›πŸŸ§ β¬›πŸŸ§πŸŸ§β¬›πŸŸ§ πŸŸ§πŸŸ§πŸŸ§β¬›πŸŸ§ πŸŸ§πŸŸ§πŸŸ§β¬›πŸŸ§ 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧 ALONE SLATE BLADE BLAZE BLAME Yep, mini-trap. ---
**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 14, 2023, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/9733 "2023-03-14T01:13:34Z")
> [@Wheelz](#): > > There’s a setting called β€œHigh Contrast Mode” that changes yellow and green to blue and orange for us color-impaired folks. Bingo! ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2023, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/9734 "2023-03-14T04:11:55Z")
Wordle 633 3/6 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨🟨⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 RATIO CRUEL SURLY I initially thought of BURLY but decided to go for the more common letter. I deserve this one after yesterday. ---
**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:** [March 14, 2023, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/9735 "2023-03-14T06:55:13Z")
Wordle 632 6/6 ⬜🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ---
**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 14, 2023, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/9736 "2023-03-14T07:00:19Z")
**Wordle 632 5/6** ⬜⬜🟩⬜🟩 ⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩 ⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩 ⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 SNARE FLAKE GLADE PLACE BLAME Got stuck in the trap πŸ™„ Could have gone with a sleuth word early, but decided to try and solve without one and hoped to get lucky. Wasn’t my day. * * * * * * > [@BobLibDem](#): > > Danced around this more than Fred Astaire Good analogy πŸ€£β€¦seeing all the scores today, I think we can all say the same. ---
**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 14, 2023, 7:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/9737 "2023-03-14T07:54:39Z")
Wordle 633 3/6 πŸŸ¨β¬›β¬›β¬›β¬› β¬›πŸŸ¨πŸŸ¨β¬›πŸŸ¨ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 RATIO CLUES SURLY ---
**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 14, 2023, 8:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/9738 "2023-03-14T08:29:28Z")
Wordle 633 3/6\* ⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜ 🟨⬜⬜🟩🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ALERT ROILS SURLY All vowels except u gone after the first two guesses, and the R, L, and S made it a quick round. Scoredly tells me there were two guesses for the last one, SURLY and… SRSLY? I mean, …for real? ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2023, 8:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/9739 "2023-03-14T08:37:32Z")
> **Wordle 633 4/6\* Pi Day 2023** > > ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ > 🟨⬜🟨⬜🟨 > 🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩 > 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 > > B_L_AME β†’ With A & E out, I’ll try something with O & U… > _L_O_U_T_S_ β†’ Let’s try something with our 3 letters in a row, from the start… > **SU** L **LY** β†’ Ah, so close… > **SURLY** > > I think Scoredle has influenced me to try repeated letters earlier. Paid off here… ---
**Author:** ![QMatic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/aeb1de/32.png) [@QMatic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QMatic)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2023, 9:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/9740 "2023-03-14T09:00:10Z")
Wordle 633 3/6\* ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟩⬜⬜🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 GRIPE STORY SURLY ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2023, 9:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/9741 "2023-03-14T09:41:56Z")
Wordle 633 2/6 🟩🟨⬜🟨⬜ 5 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 SLART =\> Only one possibility: SURLY =\> Nah, hard to feel surly after getting a 2. πŸ™‚ You know what SURLY is, don’t you? It’s the opposite of SLATE. πŸ˜‰ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604.md?page=486) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604.md?page=488)