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

Got lucky that my first word eliminated a lot of dangerous letters.

Wordle 300 5/6

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PLANK
CHART
SHAVE
SHADE
SHAME

Wordle 300 2/6*

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STEAM
SHAME

I can’t say SHAME sums up how I feel for getting this in 2

Have you no… compassion?

Wordle 300 4/6

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AIERY
LOTUS
MUNCH
SHAME

Wordle 300 4/6

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Once again it was fun figuring out an actual word that used only unused letters for the third guess. There were so many possibilities after the second guess that I felt I needed to.
PANTO
SLAKE
GRIMY
SHAME

Wordle 300 4/6

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HEART
PHASE
LAKED - to suss out the missing letter
SHAME

Everyone’s favorite…a trap word! :wink: For my third guess, I decided to do what I have never done…come up with a word to rule out the missing letter. It paid off. :slight_smile:

Aw over too soon! I knew I jinxed myself with that last 2/6
Wordle 300 X/6*

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Smhis

Wordle 300 5/6

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TRACE
LENDS - The purpose of this word was the possibility it’s one of the SHA_E words. L and D eliminate two of the words. If the S wasn’t in it, then it wouldn’t be one of those words.
SHAPE - Yes it is one of the words
MOVES - For a guaranteed 5, rather than maybe getting a 6.
SHAME
So, even though I thought of SHA_E from the first word it still took me 5 guesses. I should be ashamed.

Not this time, satan.

Wordle 300 6/6*

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Wordle 300 5/6

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I had high hopes after my first guess.

Wordle 300 4/6*

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TRACE
PLATE
IMAGE
SHAME

Wordle 300 3/6

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HEART
SHAVE
SHAME

I got it in two today for the first time. Total luck on the second word, I only had one green letter and no yellows in the first guess. Stunning and kind of crazy luck.

Wordle 300 2/6

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CHOIR
SHAME

Phew !
Wordle 300 6/6*

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BEARD
GLAZE
QUAKE
SPACE
STAVE
SHAME

Wordle 300 X/6

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:green_square::green_square::green_square::white_large_square::green_square: funny thing happened on the way to a solution.

Unrelated, I hate it when you’re waiting for that long piece in Tetris and it never comes…

Wordle 300 6/6*

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Phew indeed. Luckily my first two words eliminated a lot of possibilities.

POINT
LASER
SHADE
SHAKE
SHAVE
SHAME

Wordle 300 2/6* 4/15/2022

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MINCE → Doesn’t look like much, but that yellow M was key…
SHAME

A crazy lucky first guess (OK, “sequence of answers”) to avoid the trap and get it in 2. Of course I’m now superstitious because the last time I got a 2, I missed completely on the next day’s word.

Wordle 300 5/6

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ARIEL
CHEAT
SHAPE
SHAKE
SHAME

Dodged a bullet! I thought I could cover all possibilities within six, so I didn’t use my fourth word to look for letters. SHAVE would have been next, but I totally missed SHADE, so I’m quite lucky my streak is intact.

Nasty one today.

Wordle 300 4/6*

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IRATE
PLACE
SHAKE
SHAME

It could have gone so wrong.