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

The Game Room
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Wordle 273 3/6

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CLAMS
BLOAT
ALLOW

My first guess narrowed it down to B/P/LEAT, PLEAD, B/F/LOAT, ALPHA, ALLOW, ALOUD and ALTER. Guessing BLOAT for my second word would positively identify the answer if it were any of those words. (Since GLOAT was already an answer recently.)

I had to actually write down what each result would be if I guessed BLOAT to make sure all feedback would be unique:

BLEAT => BLXAT
PLEAT => XLXAT
PLEAD => XLXAX
FLOAT => XLOAT
ALPHA => XLXaX
ALLOW => XLoaX
ALOUD => XLOaX
ALTER => XLXat

Worked way too hard on this one…

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I kind of like that. I almost prefer yellows to greens, especially in my first guess.

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Wordle 273 4/6*

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REACT
BASIN
MODAL
ALLOW

I was a bit unsure after 3 whether to just go for a guess or spend a bit more time on it as committing to a double letter seems a waste when you’re wrong. In the end I reasoned that A was more likely as the first rather than last letter and AL was a common enough digraph so took the plunge for a par.

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Wordle 273 4/6

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RATIO
MOLES
ALLOY
ALLOW

I hope I didn’t spoil anybody. I had trouble blurring on the iphone. And yes I always seem to go for the obscure word over the common one.

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Wordle 273 5/6

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AIERY
LOTUS
MUNCH
FUDGE
ALLOW

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Wordle 273 5/6

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TRACE
FINAL
LAUGH
ALLOY
ALLOW
Took a while to find out where the A and L(s) were

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Wordle 208 X/6

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Wordle 273 4/6

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I’d already ruled out “y”, so i think the answer was the only legal word by guess 4.

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Wordle 273 5/6*

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TOUCH
AGONY
ADORE
AXIOM
ALLOW

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Wordle 273 4/6*

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Stare
Fancy
Polka
Allow
I’ll allow I’m satisfied with a fancy polka stare. :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

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Wordle 273 4/6*

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ARIEL
ALOUD
ALLOT
ALLOW

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This was my first loss and I had the same last word as you. I did a quadruple facepalm when I saw the correct word. :man_facepalming:

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Wordle 273 3/6

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NOISE
FLOAT
ALLOW

Seems like everyone else wanted to go with ALLOY before ALLOW. I’ll admit that didn’t even occur to me. I was a bit hesitant to try double letters on three, but I couldn’t think of a better option. I don’t usually go to the trouble of mapping out all the possibilities; I just tend to put down the first thing I think of that fits and seems like a common enough word, and that style worked out well today.

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Didn’t occur to me either. In fact, I would bet a dollar that if I went back and compared all my posts in this thread against the answer list, in every single case where I post a count or enumeration of possible words, there will be at least one valid wordle answer I didn’t think of. Often multiple.

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Wordle 273 5/6*

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PEARS
CANDY
AUDIO
ATOLL
ALLOW

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This one took awhile.

Wordle 273 3/6*

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IRATE
CLOAK
ALLOW

As usual, it took me forever to get over the double letter usage. But nothing else worked, and once I finally started down the double-letter path, I only thought of two words. The other was ALLOY, and I just thought ALLOW was more likely.

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Wordle 273 4/6* 3/19/2022

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SAUTE → Some good knock-outs, here
GRAPH → Even more. Running out of common letters. Probably two vowels… but which is the other one? Can I test two others?
ABOIL → At least I’ve placed the A. I think I’m down to
ALLOW

Though I didn’t even think about ALLOY, so I could have been 5 easily.

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Wordle 273 5/6

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I’m yet another ‘thought of ALLOY before thinking of ALLOW’ example.
OUTER
LIMBO
SALON
ALLOY
ALLOW

As to why–maybe we’re subconsciously more likely to believe that Wordle will use nouns rather than verbs…?

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Didn’t like yesterday’s or tomorrow’s.

Wordle 274 5/6

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Tomorrow’s Wordle, Today

Wordle 274 5/6

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Wordle 274

DRIVE
REACH
REBUT
RESOW
RENEW