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

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**Category:** The Game Room\
**Tags:** board-card-word-game\
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Another lucky second try for me, resulting in a 3 today:

Wordle 644 3/6\*

⬛🟨⬛🟨🟨  
🟨🟩⬛🟩🟩  
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

IRATE  
TOWER  
VOTER

After TOWER, there was nothing left but VOTER. Took me a few minutes to find it, though.

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