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

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**Post date:** [October 21, 2022, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/6858 "2022-10-21T11:59:13Z")

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Wordle 489 3/6

SLANT  
CH **O** _R_ **E**  
**GROVE**

After guess 2, I saw BROKE and DROVE before GROVE, and then I thought about the past tense in Wordle: it doesn’t show up much. So I eyeballed the nearly 500 solutions so far, and there seemed to be exactly zero instances of a verb that was five letters both in the present and past tenses showing up in the past tense. There were a couple of oddballs like UNMET and UNFED, and there was FOUND, and that was about it for the past tense here. So that’s why I went with GROVE over DROVE and BROKE. (Also it would have eliminated one of the other two, but so would DROVE.)

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