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

Wordle 298 4/6

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LEAST
ROUND
SWUNG
CHUNK

More splendidness,…
Wordle 298 4/6*

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BEARD
QUILT
CHUMP
CHUNK

Wordle 298 3/6

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TRACE
CLING
CHUNK

Wordle 298 4/6

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HEART
SHILL
PHONY
CHUNK

Once the U was made obvious by elimination of A, E, I, and O, I could only come up with one word that fit for the 4th guess.

Today was my 100th win in a row, and I did it in style!

Wordle 298 2/6*

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Wordle 298 3/6*

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Almost went Dr Seuss on this one!

Blink
Trunk
Chunk

Hey hey hey! Nicely done! I tried to get to 100, but alas only made it to 82. My current streak is 28.

Congratulations!

A 3 at last.

Wordle 298 3/6*

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IRATE
CLOUD
CHUNK

Not bad, considering my first word was a complete bust.

Wordle 298 4/6*

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SNOUT
UNDER
BUNCH
CHUNK

Wordle 298 4/6

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ANISE
ROUND
BLUNT
CHUNK

Kicking myself a bit because I thought of THUNK on three and rejected it. Not mad that I didn’t use THUNK, but I should have looked a little longer for something closer to it, and I probably would have come up with it.

Wordle 298 4/6

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TREAD
FLOWS
BUNNY
CHUNK

It was a bit rough today with the two complete fails at the start.

Wordle 298 5/6* April 13, 2022

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ROYAL → About what I expected. At least three vowels are gone!
HEIST → Now five vowels are gone. And a slew of common consonants…
CHUMP → Kinda followed from known H & U. Do we have a repeat letter?
CHUCK → Nope, but there’s not much left…
CHUNK

I feel like I should have gotten that one earlier since I had used every other one of the Wheel Of Fortune common letters.

Nice to see psychobunny with the same closing sequence (remember, great minds think alike), and a tip-o’-the-cap to Johnny_Bravo for the streak reaching 100!

Wordle 298 3/6*

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BRAIN
COUNT
CHUNK

Did okay with tomorrow’s. Though it could’ve gone bad if I hadn’t picked the right initial letter. Spoilt for choice.

Wordle 299 3/6

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Bravo Johnny!

Wordle 298 3/6

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AROSE
CLING
CHUNK

Only “u” left does help with narrowing down the possibilities.

And congratulations, Johnny!

Tomorrow’s Wordle, Today

Wordle 299 5/6

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Wordle 299

TONER
DANCE → Oho, it’s going to be one of those words
SYLPH → Let’s be smart and test out a bunch of possibilities
WINCE → Didn’t work. I even chose the more common word
MINCE

Wordle 299 3/6

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RATIO
SINCE
MINCE

Only two options after the second guess. Just lucky in trying something with relatively common consonants and the E.

Wordle 299 6/6

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CLAPS
TORCH
QUICK
NIECE
WINCE
MINCE

Yikes. Not a great day for my opener to not include M. And then my second word was poor, with an H instead of my preferred E or I. The guess on 3 was fine, guess 3 isn’t supposed to check good letters in my strategy, it’s supposed to solve. But then still not having checked e or m, I needed three more guesses to just barely keep the streak alive.

I may need to move N up higher in my letter priority. It’s tough with only a max of 7 consonants after two guesses (CLMPSTR, ideally), but I really kind of need to check 3 vowels. Case in point today’s 6. Maybe I’ll tie N to M, as in always check either or both but never neither.

Wordle 299 3/6*

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RAISE
WINCE
MINCE