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

This might be the first time I went strategic with one of the guesses to eliminate letters.

Wordle 317 4/6

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BAIRN
STORK
MONEY
STORY

Wordle 317 4/6*

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GRIME
ROAST
STORK
STORY

Could so easily have been a 3 but I’ll happily take the 4.

Wordle 317 5/6

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SNORT
SHORE
STORM
STORK
STORY

Guess #2 was not a smart play.

Wordle 317 4/6*

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RANGE
SPORT
STORM
STORY

Wordle 317 4/6

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SLATE
STORM
STORK
STORY

Thought I had it in 2 tries with four green tiles turning over. Another tease. From there I could only see two choices, so I had a 50/50 chance of getting it in 3. I went with my first instinct, and unfortunately it did not pay off, so 4 tries it is.

Thr same last three guesses as me, but i had an extra one at the start. Took me five, coukd have had it in three.

Wordle 317 6/6*

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BEARD
QUIRT
THORN
STORK
STORM
STORY

Looks familiar !

Wordle 317 4/6*

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Abide
Pouch
Glory
Story

Wordle 317 3/6

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CRANE
TIROS
STORY (according to wordlebot there were six possible words after the second guess. I got lucky

Woot! Another deuce!
Wordle 317 2/6

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HEART
STORY

Sometimes there are too many words.
Wordle 317 6/6*

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CRASH
SWIRL
STERN
STORM
STORK
STORY

Tomorrow’s Wordle:

Wordle 318 2/6

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I was lucky with my choice of starting word.

Editing to spoil, but anybody can figure out the logic.

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A comment on showing pictures but blurring out the letters.
On today’s I had four yellows. There were six possible words (I didn’t know that at the time).

Several people have three picks with the first four tiles green, and the final one is all green.
If I had seen that picture it would basically eliminate three of the words. For those there aren’t three words that have the same first four letters.

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Wordle 317 5/6* 5/2/2022

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FORGO → Not a bad start, considering… try some other vowels
OREAD → Not much help. Need more consonants…
ROIST → Darn it, I already knew the O wasn’t there. At least I have four yellows. Where from here? ST digraph at front, at least
STORK → OK, STORM or STORY, at least I already checked the E… I think I’m safe now
STORY

I feel a little lucky with the five.

Wordle 317 4/6

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ASIDE
SOUTH
STONY
STORY

I was fortunate to get the Y in place and avoid the STOR_ trap. All in all, I’ll take it.

I guess, I dunno. I’ve trained myself to be careful about looking at the puzzle number first, and if I see tomorrow’s number I can sort of ignore the squares, more so than ignoring words. Just how my brain works, I suppose.

Anyway, I obviously have no problem with people posting according to their own time zones; that’s not something you can control. I usually avoid this thread after noon, and I guess I got a little irked at seeing discussion about the next puzzle at 7:30am my time. Forgive me if I overreacted. (FWIW, it didn’t seem to have affected my experience solving today’s.)

Carry on.

(sigh…) Maybe I don’t like this game so much after all.

Wordle 317 5/6*

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IRATE
THROW
COURT
STORM
STORY

At least I got lucky on the last try instead of pooching it with STORK!

Reduced it to three possibilities after two guesses. Went with the most likely candidate and got it in three.

Hrrumpf. Well, at least WordleBot was impressed…

I was doing a similar

STORE
STORM
STORK
STORY (sigh) :slight_smile:

The sheer number of us who guessed stork before story is remarkable. I thought I’d be one of the few, but it turned out to be a trend.

Another easy one for tomorrow’s, in my opinion.

Wordle 318 3/6

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