# "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:** 96
**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:** [March 6, 2022, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/1901 "2022-03-06T08:18:27Z")
Wordle 260 3/6\* β¬›β¬›β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¨ πŸŸ¨πŸŸ¨β¬›πŸŸ¨β¬› 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 GREAT TOILS CLOTH Yay, another 3. ---
**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 6, 2022, 10:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/1902 "2022-03-06T10:08:30Z")
Wordle 260 4/6 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ β¬›β¬›πŸŸ©β¬›πŸŸ¨ πŸŸ©πŸŸ¨β¬›πŸŸ¨β¬› 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 AIERY SNOUT CHILD CLOTH ---
**Author:** ![Author\_Balk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Author\_Balk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Author_Balk)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2022, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/1903 "2022-03-06T12:09:20Z")
Wordle 260 3/6 🟨⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜🟨🟩⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 TRACE SCOUT CLOTH ---
**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 6, 2022, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/1904 "2022-03-06T14:12:30Z")
I think I’m going to switch S and C in my head-cannon about Wordle letter frequency. So now I’ll think of the most common consonants as CRTLN with the second most common being SDHMP(and K?). After all, the mathematically optimal starting word is TRACE. Plus I just got a super easy 2 using its anagram CRATE, not an S in sight. It just feels like every answer has a C. S’s not so much. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2022, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/1905 "2022-03-06T14:45:53Z")
My first β€œ2” in the live game (I think I got one 2 from playing the archives): Wordle 260 2/6 🟩🟨⬜⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 CHEAT CLOTH ---
**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:** [March 6, 2022, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/1906 "2022-03-06T14:48:54Z")
Daily Dordle #41. You have 7 guesses at 2 words…using the same guess words simultaneously. Daily Dordle #0041 4&5/7 🟨⬜🟨🟨⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟨🟩🟨⬜ 🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ---
**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:** [March 6, 2022, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/1907 "2022-03-06T15:11:38Z")
Got this one surprisingly quickly! Had a lucky starting word. Wordle 260 2/6 ⬜🟩⬜⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ALERT CLOTH ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2022, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/1908 "2022-03-06T15:24:07Z")
> **Wordle 260 3/6\* 3/6/2022** > > ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ > 🟩🟨⬜⬜🟨 > 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 > > BRINE β†’ A good start? At least I knocked out some commo letters… > **C** _O_AS_T_ β†’ CT??? not an option, and not many CU??? words… CH??? or CL??? then? If the O is 3rd, what’s left? > **CLOTH** > > Came together surprisingly well. I try to play in the described β€œsuper-hard” mode, which can be frustrating at times when wracking my brain for one of what must be just a few words to apply to a given puzzle. I suppose I can deal more easily with the hard-luck case of missing out when there are more words left than guesses available, and I guess wrong. ---
**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 6, 2022, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/1909 "2022-03-06T15:40:20Z")
Nice three today. Wordle 260 3/6 β¬›πŸŸ¦β¬›β¬›β¬› πŸŸ¦β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¦β¬› 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧 SHAPE HUMOR CLOTH My habit of switching up my starting words from day to day has been working out pretty well lately. ---
**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 6, 2022, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/1910 "2022-03-06T16:49:36Z")
This was… wholly unexpected. But a nice way to start the day! Wordle 260 2/6\* β¬›β¬›β¬›πŸŸ©β¬› 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 IRATE CLOTH I was just trying to think of words that would use the most unused letters with the β€˜T’ in the fourth position, and I wanted to test out the β€˜TH’ combination. Lucky hit. I’ll take it. πŸ™‚ ---
**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 6, 2022, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/1911 "2022-03-06T18:22:22Z")
Wordle 260 5/6\* ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨 ⬜🟨🟩⬜🟨 ⬜🟩🟩🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 BEARD QUILT STOOL ZLOTY CLOTH 5?! 😠 ---
**Author:** ![Beesnest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e495f1/32.png) [@Beesnest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beesnest)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2022, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/1912 "2022-03-06T19:07:40Z")
I am in awe of your fourth choice of words. ---
**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 6, 2022, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/1913 "2022-03-06T19:10:28Z")
πŸ™‚ ---
**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 6, 2022, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/1914 "2022-03-06T22:58:22Z")
Wordle 260 3/6 ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Like several others here I used β€œclout” as second guess: ALIEN, CLOUT, CLOTH A nice quick one. Wordle is more fun when I don’t have to keep looking at the clock, worrying that I need to GET THIS NOW and go take care of other tasks… ---
**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:** [March 7, 2022, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/1915 "2022-03-07T02:25:01Z")
Wordle 260 4/6 πŸŸ¨β¬›β¬›β¬›β¬› β¬›πŸŸ¨πŸŸ©β¬›β¬› πŸŸ©πŸŸ©β¬›β¬›β¬› 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Decided to try starting with HAIRY STONE CLUMP worked great on today’s. ---
**Author:** ![Terminus\_Est](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terminus_est/32/3087_2.png) [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2022, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/1916 "2022-03-07T03:09:13Z")
Another 2/6. I might be getting better at this. **NOTE: This is tomorrow’s Wordle for most of you** Wordle 261 2/6 🟩🟩⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 > **Wordle 261** > > HOTEL > HOARD ---
**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 7, 2022, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/1917 "2022-03-07T05:30:42Z")
Starting to get into a groove. Wordle 261 3/6 β¬›πŸŸ¨β¬›β¬›β¬› β¬›πŸŸ©β¬›πŸŸ¨πŸŸ¨ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 CREPT SOLAR HOARD Took me several minutes to come up with any legal\* word for the third guess, and when I finally thought of one, of course it was the answer. That’s the most satisfying for me. \*Going by the recently coined β€˜super hard mode’ rules, as always. The fun is laying the groundwork with two guesses that cover a lot of letters, but also don’t lock you into a situation where you have four greens and a bunch of possible answers. To that end, I now stay away from CH\_\_\_ words to open, as well as ST\_\_\_\_ style openers. Then the third guess is money. I’m rather liking CR\_\_\_ and CL\_\_\_ openers at the moment. (CREPT, CLAMP, etc…) Manually filtering out the one I was spoiled on, I’ve now played 40 games with 40 wins: 1: 0 2: 3 (one of these was luck) 3: 14 4: 12 5: 8 6: 3 After 40 my average score is 3.85. ---
**Author:** ![QMatic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/aeb1de/32.png) [@QMatic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QMatic)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2022, 8:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/1918 "2022-03-07T08:04:40Z")
Wordle 261 5/6\* ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜🟨🟩⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩🟩⬜ ⬜⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 BLEAT GRAIN SCARY AWARD HOARD ---
**Author:** ![QMatic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/aeb1de/32.png) [@QMatic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QMatic)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2022, 8:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/1919 "2022-03-07T08:09:03Z")
> [@Terminus\_Est](#): > > Another 2/6. I might be getting better at this. I was feeling confident after a run of 3/6\*s, then today I struggled to get 5/6\*. You’re only ever a bad guess away from a reality check. ---
**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 7, 2022, 8:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/1920 "2022-03-07T08:55:45Z")
Wordle 261 4/6 πŸŸ¨β¬›β¬›πŸŸ©β¬› β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¨β¬›β¬› β¬›πŸŸ¨β¬›β¬›πŸŸ© 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 AIERY SNOUT CHILD HOARD [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604.md?page=95) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604.md?page=97)