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

Wordle 299 5/6

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WATER
FEIGN
NICHE
SINCE
MINCE

Wordle 299 6/6

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TRANS
LOUIE
NINER
BINGE
WINCE
MINCE

As of today the statistics popup is now showing me an ad for Spelling Bee. I hope this is the NYT’s alternative to paywalling the game.

Wordle 299 5/6*

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Eh.

AIERY
TILES
BIOME
MIDGE
MINCE

BTW, the ongoing multiplication of Wordle continues. For those wanting 64 words to solve, I give you Sexaginta-quattuordle. Although frankly once you’ve solved half of them, you’ve pretty much got the letters for the other half anyway.

Wordle 299 2/6*

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Voice
Mince

Aw over too soon!

Wordle 299 3/6*

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BEARD
POISE
MINCE

Impressive (according to wordle)

Wordle 299 3/6

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TRACE
LIONS
MINCE
I was going to put SINCE as the second word. But i chose a word that had a couple new letters (I knew the C and E were at the end). In some cases this approach probably helps. But, in this case it added NEICE as a possibility. Chose MINCE over WINCE and got lucky,

Wordle 299 3/6*

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STEIN
NIECE
MINCE

Another good/lucky starting word. I went to a double letter early and it was wrong, but it was also very useful. I’m happy with this one.

Wordle 299 6/6*

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Another one with multiple first letter possibilities. Luckily I ran out of possibles before I ran out of guesses.

TRAIN
NEIGH
FIEND
WINCE
SINCE
MINCE

Wordle 299 4/6

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AIERY
LOTUS
MUNCH
MINCE

Wordle 299 5/6*

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NIGHT
PINEY
SINCE
WINCE
MINCE

WordleBot says my third guess was exactly what it would’ve picked, which feels weirdly validating.

Wordle 299 4/6

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HEART
SPIEL
FIELD
MINCE

Wordle 299 5/6* 4/14/2022

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CHUNK → Those two probably make a digraph…
LANCE → Correct! But is this a trap word?
SINCE → I think just two possibilities left. Which one to try?
WINCE → No, not that one
MINCE

I see Johnny_Bravo and I reached the same ending from different starts…

Luckily impressive.

Wordle 299 3/6*

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IRATE
CHIDE
MINCE

Lucky first guess on all the available ‘INCE’ words. My coffee is still hot!

Wordle 299 3/6

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HOUSE
PLANE
MINCE

Very lucky third guess!

I’ve been slowly working my way through the Wordle archive that someone posted a link to here. Today, it was taken down. I’m bummed. I think I still had around half of the archive to go. It was not unexpected, though. The person running the site said they had been wondering what was taking the NYT so long, (as had I).

They left a note of thanks to supporters, and this additional note:

“To those of you who ‘requested’ I take down the archive, I ‘thank’ you.”

Here is number 300 for Easter Friday. I stumbled upon another multiple possibility ambiguous letter as my empty slot, which was frustrating.

Wordle 300 4/6

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Tomorrow’s Wordle, Today
It’s a trap!

Wordle 300 X/6

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Wordle 300

CRATE
SHADE
SHAKE
SHALE
SHAPE
SHAVE

I somehow skipped the actual word during my rundown.

Wordle 300 2/6

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CLAMP
SHAME

Almost guessed TRAMS to check R but then I realized R was unlikely at best. So instead, went for the win on 2.

Feels good to follow up yesterday’s 6 with a 2.

Wordle 300 4/6

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RATIO
CLAMP
SEAMY
SHAME

Avoided the trap with the second guess.

That’s such a… disappointment.