# "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:** 81
**Author:** ![Richard\_Pearse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/richard_pearse/32/13144_2.png) [@Richard\_Pearse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Pearse)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2022, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/1601 "2022-02-23T11:48:47Z")
Wordle 250 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Interested to see how you lot go with this one. ---
**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:** [February 23, 2022, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/1602 "2022-02-23T12:37:51Z")
I feel like it’s getting a bit harder and I don’t mind at all. Wordle 249 5/6 β¬›πŸŸ¨β¬›β¬›β¬› β¬›β¬›πŸŸ©β¬›β¬› β¬›β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ¨πŸŸ© β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ©β¬›πŸŸ© 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2022, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/1603 "2022-02-23T12:57:27Z")
Wordle went fine for me this morning. I had a 50% chance of getting it in three, but chose the wrong option so it took four. I can live with that. But quordle kicked my everlovin’ arse. 🀯 I had no idea there were so many possibilities for this configuration. If I had realized, I would have solved the other two in hopes that they would provide me with more clues. But each time I thought surely there could only be this one other possibility. Bottom left: Daily Quordle #30 2️⃣πŸŸ₯ 9️⃣πŸŸ₯ 🟩🟩⬜🟨⬜ ⬜🟨⬜🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟨⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟨⬜🟩⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 🟩🟨🟩⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟩⬜🟨⬜🟨 🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ Quordle spoiler: stout scout snout spout shout And then I did. I shouted for a little bit afterwards. It took up all my guesses so the other two went unsolved. Possible wordle/quordle spoiler: I got the first one in two because it was the same as the wordle. Weird, right? wordle: Wordle 249 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟩🟩⬜🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 adieu tries trope trove ---
**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:** [February 23, 2022, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/1604 "2022-02-23T14:21:44Z")
Wordle 249 4/6 β¬›β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¨β¬› β¬›πŸŸ¨πŸŸ©β¬›πŸŸ© πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŸ©β¬›πŸŸ© 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2022, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/1605 "2022-02-23T14:43:28Z")
Thought I had it early and then ran into the β€œjust keep plugging in multiple endings until one finally fits” wall. Wordle 249 5/6 🟩⬜🟩🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 THORN TROLL TROUT TROPE TROVE ---
**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:** [February 23, 2022, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/1606 "2022-02-23T14:54:27Z")
Wordle 249 My results aren’t particularly interesting, but I too went for TROPE before I got to TROVE like many others. ---
**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:** [February 23, 2022, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/1607 "2022-02-23T15:00:32Z")
Wordle 249 3/6\* ⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜ ⬜🟩⬜⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 BEARD GRIPE TROVE Weird ! ---
**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:** [February 23, 2022, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/1608 "2022-02-23T15:36:16Z")
My first β€˜two’!! Wordle 249 2/6\* β¬›πŸŸ©β¬›πŸŸ¨πŸŸ© 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 IRATE TROVE I had also thought of TROPE, but I just liked a β€˜trove’ so much more than a β€˜trope’. So I went with it. Lucky.πŸ™‚ ---
**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:** [February 23, 2022, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/1609 "2022-02-23T15:46:27Z")
My experience was very similar to @Fiendish_Astronaut’s. Wordle 249 3/6 β¬›πŸŸ¦β¬›πŸŸ¦πŸŸ§ πŸŸ§πŸŸ§β¬›β¬›πŸŸ§ 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧 STARE TRIPE TROVE I was somewhat pleased with myself getting it in three, as it’s a less common word, but I see many others did just as well. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2022, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/1610 "2022-02-23T16:26:02Z")
Wordle 249 4/6 β¬›πŸŸ¨β¬›πŸŸ¨πŸŸ¨ β¬›πŸŸ¨β¬›β¬›β¬› πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŸ©β¬›πŸŸ© 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Grumble, grumble trope grumble grumble… ---
**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:** [February 23, 2022, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/1611 "2022-02-23T17:10:52Z")
Share button not working again. That’s driving me nuts. Oh, and hard mode got turned off when I got redirected to the NYT. ADIEU MINTS THERE TROVE ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2022, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/1612 "2022-02-23T17:44:37Z")
> **Wordle 249 5/6 2/23/2022** > > 🟩⬜🟩🟨⬜ > 🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜ > 🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜ > 🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜ > 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 > > **T** H **O** _R_N β†’ Good start, but some danger… > **TRO** MP β†’ Not TROOP/TROPE either. 6 letter spaces left to guess from 19 letters remaining… > **TRO** UT β†’ Not that… Oh, should I try the double letter now? > **TRO** LL β†’ 16 letters & 4 spaces. I would treasure some more guesses now… but wait… > **TROVE** > > Tough one. Almost a victim of my early success ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2022, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/1613 "2022-02-23T17:51:55Z")
this is why I don’t like hard mode. Just test a bunch of other letters in guess 3. I don’t find it fun to have to decide β€œwhich of these 16 legal words left should I guess in the remaining 3 guesses?” ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2022, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/1614 "2022-02-23T18:06:06Z")
Yeah, I know. I was thinking I should put the R somewhere other than where it obviously went on guess 2, just to see if I gained more information that way (double letter or somesuch). But I could think of no fitting words. However, if I had been thinking more clearly, I should have used TROPE instead of TROMP on 3, where I would have KOed either TROOP/TROMP or TROVE (or all 3) depending on the actual answer. I tend to shoot from the hip rather than analyze carefully, but hard mode does make some strategy worthwhile in the two letters left endgame. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2022, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/1615 "2022-02-23T20:20:43Z")
> [@Folly](#): > > It’s not on the app store. It’s just a website (Now it’s a nytimes website) [Wordle - The New York Times](https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html) > > Anything off the app store will be some knockoff with annoying ads or worse. Wait so these are not the actual game? [![](https://i.ibb.co/h9SJvTP/Screenshot-20220220-102011.png) ](https://i.ibb.co/h9SJvTP/Screenshot-20220220-102011.png) [![](https://i.ibb.co/n8yS2fz/Screenshot-20220220-201602.png) ](https://i.ibb.co/n8yS2fz/Screenshot-20220220-201602.png) [![](https://i.ibb.co/G3dySJQ/Screenshot-20220220-102109.png) ](https://i.ibb.co/G3dySJQ/Screenshot-20220220-102109.png) ---
**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:** [February 23, 2022, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/1616 "2022-02-23T21:04:40Z")
It is essentially the same game, but not the β€œofficial” version, and not what we discuss on this thread. The NYT version gives everyone the same word each day. I’m guessing this app just throws up words at random. Still fun to play, but then we can’t compare notes here. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2022, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/1617 "2022-02-23T21:13:02Z")
Sometimes I just enter weird words to see if they will be accepted and my second word bit me this time because while it gave me a lot of info there was no way it was going to be the actual word. PANTO TROCK…apparently it is a word, probably referring to β€œTimelord Rock” rather than a sock/troll as I had intended. But anyway this was an informative guess even if it will never actually be the word. TROUT SLIDE - there were so many choices and I was on my 4th guess so I’d try to use common yet unused letters. TROVE ---
**Author:** ![Cugel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cugel/32/1199_2.png) [@Cugel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cugel)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2022, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/1618 "2022-02-23T21:28:38Z")
Wordle 250 5/6\* ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟩 ⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩 ⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 STARE COUPE GLOVE ELOPE BLOKE I wanted to try the eventual answer at four, but thought β€œNah, they probably won’t include words like that” Lesson learned ---
**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:** [February 23, 2022, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/1619 "2022-02-23T21:34:10Z")
Same! Doggone curve ball. ---
**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:** [February 24, 2022, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/1620 "2022-02-24T00:52:55Z")
Wordle 249 5/6\* ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜🟩🟩⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604.md?page=80) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604.md?page=82)