# "Wordle," a strangely compelling word game (Part 1)

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**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")\
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Wordle 644 2/6

🟨⬜🟩🟩🟩  
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

OUTER  
VOTER

OUTER, in my regular rotation of starting words, turned out to be very lucky. The only other \_OTER word I could see other than VOTER was “NOTER”–which though a word, is a really rather lame one. (Not that that’s always stopped them.)

Next-to-last post! I guess…)

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