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

EBONY also fits.
Update: but not with your second guess.

I found tomorrow’s particularly challenging. Not because it took a lot of attempts, but because of the letters I had available.

Wordle 281 3/6

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Wordle 280 4/6*

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Summary

BEARD
SLIME
TOKEN
EPOXY

I wondered if that word was going to stump many.

Wordle 280 4/6

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TRIPE
PAGES
EPOCH
EPOXY

I thought I had it with epoch. And here I wondered why a trademark was being used as a word, turns out it was something that I got wrong all these years.

Wordle 280 4/6

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This one really beat me up, time-wise. After my first word I knew “O” in the middle and an “E.” And figuring that the O and E wouldn’t be next to each other (as “oe” and “eo” five-letter common English words are–not common), I guessed the first letter must be E.

So I thought of all the “E _ O _ _” words I could but that list didn’t include “EPOXY”—that one didn’t occur to me until more than 30 minutes after I’d started.

I need to start setting myself a time limit.

AROSE
PLUCK
EMOJI
EPOXY

Wordle 280 5/6*

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Tough one.

NAIVE
STREP
PEPPY
MOPEY

MOPEY I knew wasn’t right, but needed another letter to figure it out. I took a long time between guesses at the end, too.

Holy smokes, that was a toughie!
Wordle 280 5/6

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I thought for sure that my 4th word was it. Then looking at the unused letters, I saw only one possibility.
HEART
POEMS
COPED
EPOCH
EPOXY

Tomorow’s Wordle, Today
I think they’re really pushing it now.

Wordle 281 4/6

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Wordle 281

WHEAT
HOURS
CLICK → At this point, I had eliminated all five vowels. So what was left?
NYMPH

Fair, but hard. Took me four, after getting all of one letter after two guesses.

I also eliminated all 5 regular vowels after three guesses.

Wordle 281 4/6

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BRINK
SNOUT
PANEL
NYMPH

Wordle 281 3/6

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CLOPS
GRAPH
NYMPH

Tricksy tricksy. And at this point I’m just throwing letter combinations up for my opener hoping for a valid guess.

I had a hard enough time coming up with even a second word, but finally came up with both adapt and graph. Choosing either would have likely left only one word. Thankfully I had checked O or I might have tried OOMPH.

Wordle 281 4/6

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AIERY
LOTUS
MUNCH
NYMPH

Wordle 281 3/6

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TRANS
LOUIE
NYMPH

My standard opener told me that there was an N in the word and that Y had to be the vowel, and I lucked out with the first one that came to mind.

Wordle 281 4/6*

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ALIVE
PROUD
GYPSY
NYMPH

Wordle 281 4/6*

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CHEAT
BRUSH
GLYPH
NYMPH

I think there was only one choice available after 3 but it took me a long time to come up with it.

Wordle 281 3/6*

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ALTER
FISHY
NYMPH

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My random guess with five other letters was right!

Wordle 281 3/6

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RATIO
DUNES
NYMPH

I feel like such a cheater. After the first two I could not think of a word and I didn’t want to waste a guess with a word I knew was wrong just to hunt for more letters so I used an anagram finder to look for words containing the letters I knew had to be in the word. What are your thoughts? Is it cheating to look at a list of possible words?

Wordle 281 4/6

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TRACE
LIONS
HUNKY
NYMPH
My normal for the main game is TRACE. And I came up with LIONS as the second word if there are no letters from TRACE. When I was finished I used Excel and the word list and there were only three words that fit - HUNKY, FUNKY and NYMPH. If I only used words from the list I would have got it in 3 or 4. But, it took some time to find the words.

Y’all striking out in top rows then nailing it in 3, respect!

Wordle 281 4/6*

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Summary

Lover
Think
Punch
Nymph