# "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:** 84
**Author:** ![QMatic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/aeb1de/32.png) [@QMatic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QMatic)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2022, 10:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/1661 "2022-02-25T10:09:03Z")
Wordle 251 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Same here. Having a double double will always make it difficult. CREAM POINT SILLY VIVID ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2022, 10:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/1662 "2022-02-25T10:27:22Z")
Wordle 251 4/6 ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 I dunno what I was doing with the second word. For some reason I mentally mixed up green and yellow. Anyway: AIERY SLICK PINTO VIVID ---
**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 25, 2022, 10:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/1663 "2022-02-25T10:56:52Z")
Got it in 5! Wordle 251 5/6 ⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Woo-hoo! **Bullitt** is the champion! (From the old movie, “Juggernaut” [1974], where the bomb EOD expert would sing, ‘Fallon is the champion’ when he disarmed a bomb). ---
**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 25, 2022, 11:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/1664 "2022-02-25T11:02:10Z")
Knowing these were the only letters left, D F B Z V X J Q I tried playing with these words in a notepad fazed blaze vixen dizzy vexed jizzy dazed ibids ibid ibidi bizzy bizzi fizzy fizzi dizzy vivid Once I wrote down that last word I was hoping it’d be correct. I was nervous at first but once the first letter revealed itself as green my nervousness eased. Whew! ---
**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 25, 2022, 11:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/1665 "2022-02-25T11:08:44Z")
Tomorrow’s: Wordle 252 5/6 🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩⬜🟨🟨⬜ 🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ---
**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:** [February 25, 2022, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/1666 "2022-02-25T11:22:02Z")
Couldn’t think of any other possibilities by the time I got to the third guess: Wordle 251 3/6 ⬛⬛⬛🟨⬛ ⬛⬛⬛⬛🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 TRADE CLOUD VIVID ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2022, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/1667 "2022-02-25T12:03:42Z")
> **Wordle 251 4/6\* 2/25/2022** > > ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ > ⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜ > ⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜ > 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 > > BLOKE → OK, at least I knocked those letters out… > STR **I** P → And those. What can I make from what’s left? > MAN **I** C → Really not much left. Not FLUID - do I have 2 Is? Not RIGID either > **VIVID** > > More skull sweat, but there were so few letters left by the time I was done… ---
**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 25, 2022, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/1668 "2022-02-25T12:28:42Z")
Wordle 251 6/6 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟨⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛ ⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 COURT MEANS – WTF?! IMPLY – usually i start to guess on three, but decided to hunt for letters WHISK – i hoped this might be the word FUDGE – i knew this wasn’t, but had no clue and wanted more letters. No luck. Then i played with Scrabble tiles. VIVID ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2022, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/1669 "2022-02-25T13:41:27Z")
Wordle 251 4/6\* ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛🟨🟨⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Ought Slake Privy Vivid ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2022, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/1670 "2022-02-25T13:49:45Z")
Very stupid (basic strategy-wise)l and very lucky starting word. Could have had it in 2, but guessed wrong: To be honest, though, I picked the unlikely starting word based on the results posted so far: Wordle 251 3/6 ⬛🟩🟩🟩⬛ ⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 CIVIC LIVID VIVID I figured with all the blank results I was seeing, we’re not looking at an RSTLNE puzzle, and probably involves double letters, as that gives folks a lot of grief. And I initially guessed two sets of double letters – which actually was right – in the hopes of an ace, but I did see the middle three letters fall. So then, rather than go with my initial intuition, I went for LIVID over VIVID. Turns out I should have stuck with my initial ideas of what the solution might look like. ---
**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 25, 2022, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/1671 "2022-02-25T14:52:38Z")
Damn this one was tough! Wordle 251 5/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 CHAMP STORE BLINK FIGGY VIVID After the fourth guess I was wondering if there actually was a word that fit or of it was a mistake! I only had Q, W, U, V, D, J, Z and X left! ---
**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 25, 2022, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/1672 "2022-02-25T14:53:32Z")
Just so you know, whatever picture that is it’s not Wordle. At least not the one we are all talking about in this thread. It’s not an app. It’s on The NY Times website: > **[Wordle - A daily word game](https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html)** > > Guess the hidden word in 6 tries. A new puzzle is available each day. ---
**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:** [February 25, 2022, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/1673 "2022-02-25T15:06:50Z")
Wordle 251 5/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 HEART BOILS MINUS PICKY VIVID Down at the end there weren’t many consonants available so it wasn’t that hard to guess. ---
**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 25, 2022, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/1674 "2022-02-25T15:34:30Z")
Wordle 251 5/6\* ⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟩🟩 ⬜🟨⬜🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 TRAIN TEPID OVOID LIVID VIVID Thought I had it in 4. ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2022, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/1675 "2022-02-25T16:10:56Z")
WEIRD VIVID Got really lucky today. Knowing it ended with a D, contained an I(s), and the E was out of play I couldn’t come up with any words that contained another vowel that fit those parameters. I was going to try VIVID just to narrow down the location of the I(s) and got it by accident. ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2022, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/1676 "2022-02-25T16:42:20Z")
Dude! Spoilers on your answers! Plus show us your Wordle or it didn’t happen. 🙃 ---
**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 25, 2022, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/1677 "2022-02-25T16:48:16Z")
Wordle 251 4/6 ⬛⬛⬛🟧⬛ ⬛⬛⬛🟧🟧 ⬛🟦⬛🟧🟧 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧 TRAIN LUCID OVOID VIVID Got a bit lucky with the second guess giving me the D. I thought I might be shooting myself in the foot with OVOID, because two O’s and an uncommon letter could potentially be of little to no help. But it worked out! Not sure I’ve ever seen a double double before. ---
**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 25, 2022, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/1678 "2022-02-25T16:51:50Z")
> [@chela](#): > > Plus show us your Wordle or it didn’t happen. 🙃 Of course, that still wouldn’t prove anything: Wordle 251 1/6 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 (No, I didn’t get it in one.) ---
**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 25, 2022, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/1679 "2022-02-25T17:16:47Z")
Please use spoiler boxes so those who haven’t played it yet don’t see the answer. ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2022, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/1680 "2022-02-25T17:23:41Z")
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