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

The Game Room
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Wordle 285 3/6*

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ALERT
LUCKY
LOWLY

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Well, shit. Not my week here.
Wordle 285 X/6*

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TRACE
BORON
SOUGH
FOLIO
MOLDY
WOOLY

2603

Sorry for your loss.

Wordle 285 4/6*

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Summary

Scram
Pilot
Would
Lowly

Fun one today!

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Yeah, a tricky one. I was getting worried.

Wordle 285 5/6*

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AIERY
PUSHY
MOLDY
LOFTY
LOWLY

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Wordle 285 5/6* 3/31/2022

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STOVE → I call this the “daylight saving time” start, because EST is out.
PRION → Wow, no help there. Can’t think of anything with a starting O, so try it in second position…
DOULA → Lucky L! And no U or A, so let’s try a terminal Y, which may be…
FOLLY → No, it was wise. Not much left for the third letter…
LOWLY

A lot of 5s are excruciating, but - as tricky as it was - that one was kinda fun. I’m still trying to figure out the right timing to try repeats, but it worked well here.

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Wordle 285 5/6

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ROUSE
POACH
JOINT
WOOLY
LOWLY

Five seems to be the order of the day around here.
Perhaps P and J weren’t the best initial letters for my second and third, but I was still shocked at having only one letter in three guesses. Don’t think I’ve ever had that happen before. But I’d used up so much of the alphabet by then that I wasn’t too worried. Had to either be two O’s or a Y, so trying both got me there.

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Wordle 285 4/6*

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BEARD
QUILT
HOLLY
LOWLY

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Wordle 285 4/6

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STARE
BLOCK
LINGO
LOWLY

Not too much suffering today; took about 10 minutes of cogitating.

2609

Did okay with Tomorrow’s.

Wordle 286 3/6

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Accidentally spoiled today’s by looking at this thread before I realised I hadn’t done it.

Tomorrow’s was better.

Wordle 286 3/6

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Tomorrow’s Wordle, Today
This was going to be another one of those words. Fortunately, there weren’t that many possibilities.

Wordle 286 4/6

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Wordle 286

HEART
SCOUT
SPOUT
SNOUT

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Wordle 286 3/6

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PRINT
DONUT
SNOUT

My first non-C starter in weeks left me discombobulated. On the plus side, I never saw the S_OUT trap at all thanks to my opener including the correct trap letter N.

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Wordle 286 4/6

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RATIO
TONED
STONY
SNOUT

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Wordle 285 3/6

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ROAST
WOULD
LOWLY

Well darn it all…just got spoiled for tomorrow’s Wordle (#286). After I just posted my results for today (#285), I unblurred someone’s words thinking it was today’s. That’s the hazard with all the different time zones. Lesson learned. :roll_eyes:

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Got it in two this time!

Wordle 286 2/6

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TRANS
SNOUT

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Wordle 286 6/6*

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SLIME
SABOT
SHORT
SPOUT
STOUT
SNOUT

:scream:

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Wordle 286 4/6

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AIERY
LOTUS
MUNCH
SNOUT

Fortunately the third word identified the missing letter as N and not C or H. Otherwise it could have been SCOUT or SHOUT, or also STOUT or SPOUT.

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Wordle 286 3/6

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TRACE
POINT
SNOUT
The second word gave me the T at the end, Eliminated A, E and I, and gave me the N. It made it easy

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Wordle 286 4/6*

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LOATH
FROST
SCOUT
SNOUT

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Wordle 286 4/6

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HEART
PILOT
SCOUT
SNOUT