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

The Game Room
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Wordle 276 3/6*

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LEAST
BLUSH
SLOSH

Options had narrowed considerably after 2. An enjoyable birdie.

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Wordle 276 4/6

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AIERY
LOTUS
MUNCH
SLOSH

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Wordle 276 5/6*

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I wanted to escape hard mode so bad! But I stuck it out.

Summary

Reins
Stamp
Showy
Skosh really? A skosh?
Slosh

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Wordle 276 3/6*

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Wordle 276 4/6

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Tough nut today. Had to exhaust 4 vowels before getting it right by elimination.

HEART
CHILD
PLUSH
SLOSH

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Not my favorite word, but I got it in 3:

Wordle 276 3/6

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STAMP
CLOUD
SLOSH

I wasn’t really left with many choices for the final one; SLOSH is all I could think of that wasn’t a plural or a verb conjugation ending in -s (which I assume is probably not a valid answer word) that starts with SLO-.

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Wordle 276 3/6

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AROSE
FLOSS
SLOSH

Got a little lucky on a tough word. As usual, I was hesitant to use a double letter at two, but couldn’t come up with an alternative. It worked out.

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Wordle 276 4/6*

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Should have thought of it for 3.

MEANS
SPOIL
SLOWS
SLOSH

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I’ll take it in 4 today.

Wordle 276 4/6*

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IRATE
CLOUD
GLOSS
SLOSH

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Wordle 276 3/6* 3/23/2022

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THEIR → Beesnest is right, this is a good starting word.
POACH → One vowel? No TH or CH ending, so SH likely… OSH ending? Not FROSH… do I need two S’es?
SLOSH

I’m trying to get over my aversion to guessing words with repeated letters early - it worked out in this case.

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I’ll never get a 1, because I use yesterday’s word to start today’s puzzle… Though sometimes it works extraordinarily well.

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Wordle 276 4/6

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STONE
SHARP
LAUGH
SLOSH

I suspect i had enough information after the first two guesses, but i couldn’t think of anything, so i decided to check some new letters and the placement of the “H”.

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Wordle 276 3/6

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AROSE
GHOST
SLOSH
A fairly quick one, today, due to having three letters by stage 2, and not all that many words that could fit those parameters.

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Tomorrow’s Wordle, Today
I take back what I said about cutesy openings. I could have gotten this in one.

Wordle 277 3/6

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Summary

GREAT
ROGUE
PURGE

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Wordle 277 3/6

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CRITS
POLAR
PURGE

Pretty psyched it accepted CRITS as a word. I’m starting to run out of C openers altogether. Will have to switch to P soon.

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Wordle 277 5/6*

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ALERT
RESIN
BROKE
CURVE
PURGE

Good grief!

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Wordle 277 5/6

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TRASH
DIRGE
FORGE
MERGE
PURGE

Don’t know how just the R got me to that ending so fast but that sure didn’t help because there are so many words that end -RGE

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Went fast, but that was a close one!

Wordle 277 6/6

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BLACK
POINT
PRUDE
PURSE
PUREE
PURGE

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Wordle 277 4/6*

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SPARE
PRUNE
PUREE
PURGE

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Wordle 277 3/6

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RATIO
NUDER
PURGE