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

Yes it had the date that each answer appears on along with a list of words the New York Times removed.

Wordle 268 4/6*

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BEARD
GLOVE
PILES
SMELT

Does anyone know why when i visit the Wordle site, a thing appears in my address
bar inviting me to open the site in the Tor browser ?
Haven’t seen it on any other sites.

Another 4, and kind of an unusual pattern.

Wordle 268 4/6

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ROAST
SHIFT
SPENT
SMELT

Wordle 268 5/6* Pi Day 2022

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FOCUS → Can go with a “common starter” on the next guess
STARE → Single vowel? Let’s try it
SPENT → Oh, boy. If I have ??EE?, there are three words left for three guesses, but if it’s not, what’s the best second letter?
SLEET → S?ELT, but no P means
SMELT

Bit of a close one today. In contrast to the day’s theme, I did try to play rationally.

Back to the desktop computer, and back to four. (I may have done better in hard mode.)

Wordle 268 4/6

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SCALE
PHONY
SWELL
SMELT

In hard mode, I probably would have gone SHELF for the second one, so, then again, probably would have ended up SWELL>SMELT anyway, depending on what came to me first.

I kind of want to run a letter analysis on the guess list and/or answer list identifying all the ‘trap letters’. (That’s a term I just made up.) Think of the trap from last month: SHA_E. Could be any of 7 possibilities: shade, shake, shale, shame, shape, share or shave. The trap letters in this example would be DKLMPRV, and we could quantify this as a 7-trap.

I kind of really want to write a program to identify all the trap letters. I think I could do it without really looking at the word lists too closely. Plus I don’t need to know the trap words, only the trap letters.

I would like to base my starting word on ‘using up’ as many of the biggest trap letters as possible. (Not 100% sure what exactly ‘biggest’ would mean in this context.)

Sadly, as much as I really do want to do this, it is overwhelmingly more likely I’ll just play Cities Skylines instead. Probably for the best. It might ruin Wordle for me the same way writing a sudoku solver ruined sudoku for me. Took all the fun out of playing.

Hmmm… looks like someone dressed in blue riding a camel in the desert.

The United States Camel Corps, perhaps?

Close one for me this time.

Wordle 268 6/6*

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LAUGH
RELIC
STEEL
SPELT
SMELT

Wow! No one was more surprised than me at my score today.

Wordle 268 2/6*

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IRATE
SMELT

I was just trying to think of words that used the 2 letters I’d discovered and take out a few common consonants. Lucky guess. :slight_smile:

Wordle 268 5/6

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OUTER, TEACH, STILE, SPELL, SMELT

This is me being brilliant for tomorrow’s puzzle.

Wordle 269 2/6

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I’ve got a word for you.

Wordle 269 2/6

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Wordle 269

BEAST
TEASE

Wordle 269 3/6

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CLOMP
STARE
TEASE

CLOMP contributed nada, zilch, the big squadoosh. STARE all by itself was sufficient. Ah well, I’ll take the 3.

Wordle 269 4/6*

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ARISE
PAUSE
CHASE
TEASE

Wordle 269 3/6

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TRANS
LOUIE
TEASE

Wordle 269 5/6*

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I thought I’d have it in two, but wasn’t so lucky.

WEARY
DEALT
HEATH
TEAMS
TEASE

Wordle 269 3/6*

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HOARD
BEAST
TEASE

Wordle 269 3/6*

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Stead
Taste
Tease

Wordle 269 3/6*

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Seems to be a relatively easy one.

AIERY
STALE
TEASE

I struggled with this one. Wasn’t thinking straight.

Wordle 269 6/6

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AIERY
LOTUS
MUNCH
FUDGE
STATE
TEASE