# "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:** 494
**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 19, 2023, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/9862 "2023-03-19T16:49:33Z")
Wordle 638 3/6 🟨🟨⬜🟩⬜ ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 READY PRIDE CREDO Not bad! ---
**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 19, 2023, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/9863 "2023-03-19T16:56:33Z")
Wordle 638 4/6 β¬›β¬›β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¦ β¬›πŸŸ¦β¬›πŸŸ¦πŸŸ¦ πŸŸ¦πŸŸ¦β¬›πŸŸ¦πŸŸ¦ 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧 ALIVE TONER RESOD CREDO I wasn’t real happy with RESOD, but for the life of me it was the only word I could find. Of Scoredle’s list of 44 words at that point, RESOD and CREDO were the only two that weren’t plural or nonsense. So I was close to a three, but just couldn’t see the right order until four. Sometimes that’s just how it goes. ---
**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 19, 2023, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/9864 "2023-03-19T17:31:49Z")
Happy with a 3 today. Wordle 638 3/6\* β¬›πŸŸ©β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¨ β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŸ¨β¬› 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 IRATE WRECK CREDO WordleBot seemed a little grudging with its praise. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2023, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/9865 "2023-03-19T17:50:14Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > I’ve only been using SLART for maybe a week and a half. Come back in a month and I’ll tell you whether it seems to be making a difference. Today was the 34th consecutive day that I’ve used SLART as my starting word. Time for an evaluation, spoilered so as not to bore everyone with it. TL;DR thumbs down on SLART. > **Summary** > > Result - Frequency > > 2 - 3 times > 3 - 14 times > 4 - 9 times > 5 - 8 times > > For an average of 3.65 guesses per game. By comparison, in the 150 games between PARER and my switch from SLANT to SLART as my starting word, I averaged 3.55. > > That’s not a huge difference, could be just chance and still learning how best to follow up SLART. > > But those eight 5’s in just over a month really got under my skin. In the preceding 150 games with SLANT, I only got eight 5’s and two 6’s the whole time, so only ten worse-than-4 outcomes in 150 games versus eight such outcomes in 34 games. A 5 once in a while is one thing, getting them all the frickin’ time is another. I’m switching back to SLANT. ---
**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 19, 2023, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/9866 "2023-03-19T20:52:54Z")
**Wordle 638 3/6** ⬜⬜🟨🟨🟨 ⬜🟨⬜🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 STORE GOFER CREDO * * * * * * > [@RTFirefly](#): > > A 5 once in a while is one thing, getting them all the frickin’ time is another. I’ll do the same with hiding my comment in case no one is interested in guess count stats talk. πŸ˜‰ > **Summary** > > Interesting results. Curious how many of those 5 guess games did the words have a low-use letter in them? We got a slew of low-use letters for a while recently, and unless you play them early, it can result in a 4-6 guess game. At least for me it does, unless I throw caution to the wind and I get lucky, which I do now and again (like with playing Squat for my 2nd guess and getting it in 2). But with Abo **v** e, To **x** ic, and Re **v** el, it took me 5 guesses to get those. ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2023, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/9867 "2023-03-20T01:33:31Z")
I lucked out today by starting with an anagram of the actual word, by total chance ---
**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 20, 2023, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/9868 "2023-03-20T03:17:47Z")
> [@Aspenglow](#): > > Happy with a 3 today. > > Wordle 638 3/6\* > > β¬›πŸŸ©β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¨ > β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŸ¨β¬› > 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 > > IRATE > WRECK > CREDO > > WordleBot seemed a little grudging with its praise. Wordle 638 2/6\* ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 STEAL CREDO WordleBot seemed very grudging with praise, just a 74 for skill and 83 for luck. I feel very lucky, looked for a 2nd guess word with common letters and a vowel not used in my 1st guess. And to my surprise, that was it! ---
**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 20, 2023, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/9869 "2023-03-20T04:01:07Z")
MAR 20 Wordle 639 2/6\* β¬›πŸŸ§πŸŸ§β¬›πŸŸ§ 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧 ALONE GLOVE Call it the Michael Jackson special! ---
**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 20, 2023, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/9870 "2023-03-20T04:04:02Z")
Wordle 639 3/6 β¬›πŸŸ©β¬›β¬›β¬› β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ©β¬›πŸŸ© 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 PLANT CLOSE GLOVE Well this went quickly. ---
**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 20, 2023, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/9871 "2023-03-20T04:49:32Z")
Wordle 638 2/6\* 🟨🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Forgot to post. DREAM CREDO ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2023, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/9872 "2023-03-20T05:53:38Z")
Wordle 639 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 🟨🟨⬜⬜🟩 ⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 RATIO LOUSE CLONE GLOVE ---
**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 20, 2023, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/9873 "2023-03-20T07:40:04Z")
Wordle 639 4/6 β¬›πŸŸ©β¬›πŸŸ¨β¬› β¬›β¬›β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¨ πŸŸ¨πŸŸ©β¬›πŸŸ¨β¬› 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 CLUES RATIO ELBOW GLOVE ---
**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 20, 2023, 8:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/9874 "2023-03-20T08:56:25Z")
Wordle 639 4/6\* ⬜🟩⬜⬜🟩 ⬜🟩⬜⬜🟩 ⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 SLATE FLUKE ELOPE GLOVE All green! ---
**Author:** ![QMatic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/aeb1de/32.png) [@QMatic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QMatic)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2023, 9:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/9875 "2023-03-20T09:08:09Z")
Wordle 639 5/6\* ⬜⬜🟩⬜🟩 ⬜⬜🟩⬜🟩 ⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 THOSE PRONE CLOKE GLOBE GLOVE ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2023, 9:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/9876 "2023-03-20T09:39:50Z")
> **Wordle 638 3/6\* 3/19/2023** > > ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ > 🟩🟩⬜⬜🟨 > 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 > > YA_C_HT β†’ Ho hum, unplaced C, knocked out HAT & Y. Not a bad start, try something with an R and a couple more vowels… > **CR** IM_E_ β†’ Excellent! Do I have a double E? CREE-? Or should I try another vowel first? Perhaps something with an O… > **CREDO** > > Two 3s in a row. ---
**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 20, 2023, 10:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/9877 "2023-03-20T10:35:21Z")
Wordle 639 5/6\* ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 ⬜⬜🟩⬜🟩 ⬜⬜🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 BREAK WHINE SCOPE QUOTE GLOVE ---
**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 20, 2023, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/9878 "2023-03-20T11:44:33Z")
Wordle 639 3/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 ⬜🟨⬜🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 RAISE NOBLE GLOVE ---
**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 20, 2023, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/9879 "2023-03-20T12:07:59Z")
Wordle 639 3/6 ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 HEART SLICE GLOVE ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2023, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/9880 "2023-03-20T14:02:04Z")
Wordle 639 4/6 ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ 167 ⬜⬜🟩⬜🟩 8 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 3 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 SLANT CHORE =\> BLOKE, ELOPE have already been used, leaving 2 possibilities: GLOBE =\> and GLOVE =\> (lost the coin toss) ---
**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 20, 2023, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/9881 "2023-03-20T14:33:20Z")
Wordle 639 4/6\* \begin{aligned} &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt K} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt V} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt C} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt V} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt G} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt V} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \\ \end{aligned} [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604.md?page=493) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604.md?page=495)