# "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:** 49
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2022, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/961 "2022-01-29T12:37:26Z")
A lucky choice gave me a 3 today Wordle 224 3/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 BEAST JUDGE COULD ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2022, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/962 "2022-01-29T14:24:14Z")
Almost lost today. Wordle 224 6/6\* ⬛⬛🟨⬛🟨 ⬛🟩⬛⬛🟩 ⬛🟩🟩⬛🟩 ⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ---
**Author:** ![Folly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folly/32/3219_2.png) [@Folly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folly)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2022, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/963 "2022-01-29T16:25:14Z")
> [@Johnny\_Bravo](#): > > Almost lost today. I have a guess to what one of your 4/5 attempt is, but I’m intrigued at what the other one is. ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2022, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/964 "2022-01-29T16:26:18Z")
There was some web article about a guy who just discovered wordless, used a “tool” to play all the games before he joined, and claimed sone long record. Seems dicey to me. I’m undefeated, 18/18 with an average just below four. I’ma gonna beat his record. Give me three months. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2022, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/965 "2022-01-29T16:28:06Z")
My guesses: VIDEO BOARD SOUND WOULD MOULD COULD ---
**Author:** ![Folly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folly/32/3219_2.png) [@Folly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folly)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2022, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/966 "2022-01-29T16:29:14Z")
Ah, I would never spell it like that… ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2022, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/967 "2022-01-29T16:33:32Z")
> **Wordle 224 4/6\* 1/29/2022** > > ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ > ⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜ > ⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩 > 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 > > PERKY → Second straight day of a dry first guess. > SH_OU_T → Okay. OU looks like a good dipthong, move it over one spot and try some common consonants > W **OU** N **D** → Good guess, placed the D, haven’t tried L yet… > **COULD** > > Upon reflection, I ought to have made it in three, as COULD and WOUND both had four letters covered by WOULD, which made it the best guess. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2022, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/968 "2022-01-29T16:42:15Z")
I’m not really following this thread any longer, for reasons given above, but wanted to drop in to point out: – there’s a site where you can play Wordles for previous days. So, if you came in somewhere around #200, there’s 190-some wordles that you haven’t done, and now you can do them. > **[Devang Thakkar](https://www.devangthakkar.com/wordle_archive/?1)** > > Computational Biologist + Designer + more – at least one of those calls for three of the same letter. I don’t know whether it’s since been tweaked to remove that possibility. ---
**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:** [January 29, 2022, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/969 "2022-01-29T18:29:05Z")
Nailed it in three! LEARN PLUMS COULD ---
**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:** [January 29, 2022, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/970 "2022-01-29T19:19:41Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > Nailed it in three! > > LEARN > PLUMS > COULD Perhaps you were extremely lucky. LEARN — one yellow square PLUMS — one yellow square, one green square COULD — five green squares! ---
**Author:** ![MandaJo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac91a4/32.png) [@MandaJo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MandaJo)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2022, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/971 "2022-01-29T20:32:30Z")
Dude, spoilers! ---
**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:** [January 29, 2022, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/972 "2022-01-29T20:47:17Z")
Who?? ---
**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:** [January 29, 2022, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/973 "2022-01-29T21:37:18Z")
Easy one for me today. 🙂 Wordle 224 3/6 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟨🟨🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 IRATE CLOUD COULD ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2022, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/974 "2022-01-29T21:54:52Z")
That was my mistake too. I wasted a turn with spelling it properly, instead of like you oddballs. Anyway, here’s tomorrow’s game: Wordle 225 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟩🟩 ⬜⬜🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ---
**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:** [January 30, 2022, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/975 "2022-01-30T03:55:46Z")
I just played Hello,[Wordle.net](http://Wordle.net) two times in a row with five letters. The solution was a different word each time, so they obviously don’t change them at midnight. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Ponderoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponderoid/32/19221_2.png) [@Ponderoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponderoid)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2022, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/976 "2022-01-30T05:15:44Z")
> **Wordle 224 3/6\* Jan 29** > > ⬛⬛⬛🟨⬛ > ⬛🟩⬛⬛🟨 > 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 > > TRA_C_E > S **O** NI_C_ > _ **COULD** _ > > Got lucky with my third guess. I was still working on testing common letters without expecting to solve it quite yet. The one less common letter in COULD happened to have already been tried in my first guess. > **Wordle 225 4/6\* Jan 30** > > ⬛⬛🟩⬛⬛ > ⬛⬛🟩🟩⬛ > ⬛🟩🟩🟩⬛ > 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 > > I changed things up and got another pretty grey & green pattern! 🙂 > > CO **U** LD > SH **UN** T > P **RUN** E > _ **WRUNG** _ ---
**Author:** ![Fiendish\_Astronaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiendish_astronaut/32/3295_2.png) [@Fiendish\_Astronaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiendish_Astronaut)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2022, 11:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/977 "2022-01-30T11:20:49Z")
Wordle 225 4/6\* ⬛🟩⬛⬛⬛ ⬛🟩🟩⬛⬛ ⬛🟩🟩⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Bit tricky today… CRATE BRUSH DRUID WRUNG ---
**Author:** ![Fiendish\_Astronaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiendish_astronaut/32/3295_2.png) [@Fiendish\_Astronaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiendish_Astronaut)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2022, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/978 "2022-01-30T11:40:27Z")
Nice. > [@thorny\_locust](#): > > at least one of those calls for three of the same letter. Yes that was a puzzler. ---
**Author:** ![SoToasty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sotoasty/32/2803_2.png) [@SoToasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SoToasty)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2022, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/979 "2022-01-30T12:10:40Z")
Almost didn’t make It today Wordle 225 6/6\* ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜ 🟨⬜🟩🟨⬜ 🟨🟩🟩⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟩🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Flout Quirk Rough Grump Drugs Wrung ---
**Author:** ![Mark\_Finn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/34f0e0/32.png) [@Mark\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mark_Finn)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2022, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/980 "2022-01-30T12:17:39Z")
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