Wordle 291 5/6*
Plank
Farce
Ducat
Achoo
Comma
Not a good starting word today.
Wordle 291 4/6*
IRATE
CLOAK
COCOA
COMMA
My incredible streak of needing 5 continues. Mark your calendars.
Wordle 291 5/6
GRIND
PLUCK
CHAFE
COSTA
COMMA
Wordle 291 4/6* 4/6/2022
NATAL → A fairly strong start, considering… KOed 3 common consonants and no repeated A
STARE → I’m doing better negatively than positively…
MOCHA → OK. No ?OMCA words, so must be CO??A, with one ? being an M. I think both must be…
COMMA
Two straight days with a repeated letter.
Hi. Long-time Wordle thread reader, first-time Wordle thread poster. I expect my streak to hit 100 in a couple of days and was toying with self-indulgently chiming in then, but today is apt to prove more interesting.
Wordle 291 6/6*
TOWER
POLKA
COBRA
CONGA
COCOA
COMMA
So, no yellows today, and if Wordle had accepted my original third guess of GOUDA then presumably I would have lost my streak today. I used to switch starting words all the time but the one I used here has generally served me quite well (today notwithstanding) and so I’ve become pretty committed to it.
I first learned about Wordle from this thread! Clearly it had been around awhile but I feel I got in ahead of its explosion in popularity. My stats say I have played 99 times with a streak of 98, but I think I failed twice if I remember correctly including once before making a point of playing every day… I was caught off-guard by a repeated letter before I knew that was a thing, and 99 games ago was a word I didn’t know (FERRY and TAPIR). I also almost certainly would have lost the streak if the NYT hadn’t switched out that too-obscure-for-us-Yanks word that one time.
Wordle 291 6/6
AROSE
TALON
POACH
VOCAB
COCOA
COMMA
This one kicked my ass hard. I was completely stumped after three and had to step away. When I came back I was still stumped. VOCAB was a bit of a Hail Mary, but at least it confirmed CO__A.
Then came the huge and stupid unforced error: I thought, “Oh, we’re doubling up on both the C and the O,” and I completely ignored the previous placement clues. Aaargh! Wasted a move at five and was pretty sure I was headed toward my first loss.
So I stepped away again, and just let “CO__A” bounce around in my head for a while. An eternity later, COMMA came to me.
Phew indeed.
Wordle 291 4/6*
BEARD
ALOFT
HAVOC
COMMA
Splendid.
Wordle 291 5/6
OUTER
SOLID
COACH
COPAY
COMMA
Another ‘took too long’ entry. Grrrr!
Tomorrow’s Wordle, Today
I had to hammer this one out, almost letter by letter.
Wordle 292 5/6
Wordle 292
CRATE
RABID
APRON
MORAL
FORAY
Wordle 292 4/6*
DEPOT
ORGAN
ROYAL
FORAY
As the tiles flipped, I was sure that I had beaten the 5 try curse and gotten it on the 4th try. NOPE! 5 it is.
Wordle 292 5/6
CRIME
ROWDY
SORRY
FORTY
FORAY
Wordle 292 4/6
RATIO
CROAK
MOLAR
FORAY
Another day, another four. Didn’t really think this one through, just guessed possible words.
Oh an thanks for the tip to put the spoiler tags on separate lines. That was apparently the problem.
You can also do inline blurred text like this, where the tags obviously aren’t on their own lines. I think you just can’t mix and match; if either spoiler tag is on its own line, they both have to be. I have not confirmed this.
Wordle 292 4/6
CRIMP
STARE
RANDY
FORAY
After two I thought I had short-circuited the trap: _ANDY (CDHRS). But alas, there was one more possibility.
Darnit! I could’ve had this in 3! Instead I got 4.
Wordle 292 4/6
AIERY
LOTUS
MORAY — in going through the alphabet I bypassed F, to M
FORAY
Wordle 292 5/6
SHORE
BOARD
MORAL
TORAN
FORAY
Messed up on my second word…already was shown the R didn’t go there. After I put Moral and had the ORA, I got a bit stumped. Foray just didn’t occur to me, for whatever reason, so I randomly put Toran (not familiar with the word, but I am now). A little bit more staring at the keyboard and finally I saw it.
Wordle 292 4/6
TRACE
LAIRS
APRON
FORAY
After the 2nd pick I was looking for a ORA word but couldn’t think of one. I gave up and went to the A at the beginning. When that was wrong I went back to the ORA words and finally found it. I guess I quit too soon.
Wordle 292 4/6*
STAIR
MARCH
APRON
FORAY
Wordle 292 4/6
HEART
CARDS
MORAL
FORAY
I don’t know if there were any other choices for that last guess, I’d have been stumped if there were.
Wordle 292 4/6*
If I was paying closer attention I would’ve had it in three.
Claim
Faker
Fraud
Foray
Wordle 292 3/6* 4/7/2022
COMMA → Two vowels to start. No common consonants eliminated. Don’t think I can afford to try TOAST…
TOADY → Lucky on the Y! ?O?AY… (long gap here)
FORAY
I spent about 20 minutes just letting it percolate around in my head before I hit on the solution. But in retrospect I’m surprised I didn’t try ROAST for the second guess… and without the Y I’d have never gotten it in 3.