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

The Game Room
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Wordle 324 3/6*

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STEAM
SPIRE
SHINE

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Two different words appearing for 324.

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New York Times drops ‘fetus’ as an answer to Wordle – but not for all players | New York Times | The Guardian

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Ah, I guess that means I know tomorrow’s already then.

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Wordle 324 3/6*

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Strap me slime me shine me :flushed::see_no_evil:

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Wordle 324 5/6*

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BEARD
GLOVE
THINE
WHINE
SHINE ← why didn’t i try this as guess 3 ? I don’t know.

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Wordle 324 4/6

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CRANE
TOILS - Getting more letters. It narrowed it to 3.
SPINE
SHINE - and if it was SWINE it would be 5

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Wordle 324 5/6*

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It’s always that last letter.

TRAIN
FIEND
SWINE
SPINE
SHINE

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Second time for me to get it in 2.

ALIEN
SHINE

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Wordle 324 3/6

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HEART
SHEIK
SHINE

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Wordle 324 4/6

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SNORT
MEDIC
SINGE
SHINE

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Wordle 324 4/6*

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SMEAR
SNIDE
SPINE
SHINE

I’m glad I picked SHINE over SWINE for entry 4.

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Wordle 324 4/6* 3/9/2022

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CANNY → No repeated Ns, at least… what’s next?
TREND → Probably one more vowel in there. Took me a while thinking about where the E should go before I tried
SPINE → And then it hit me
SHINE

Though I didn’t consider SWINE on my fourth try, so I could well have ended up with a 5.

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Wordle 324 5/6

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OLIVE
TREAD
UNMET
GETUP
FETUS

Well, that sucks. Did they replace today’s word, or jump ahead by a day like with AGORA? Anyway, I know what my starting word will be tomorrow. If I’m off sync I’ll be pissed.

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Thanks for the sanity check. I was wondering why my wife and I had different words today.

Wordle 324 2/6*

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I got really lucky with my first guess, TORUS.

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Wordle 324 4/6

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I think this is the first time I ever got the solution without getting a yellow near miss.

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Yes.

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Per the article:

Which I did - several times - to no avail.
It’s still not clear to me what to expect tomorrow. I guess I’ll find out soon enough.

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I got very lucky with my second try.

Wordle 324 2/6*

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IRATE
SHINE

Just a seriously lucky guess to test the position of that ‘I’.

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Wordle 324 3/6

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SHORE
PLAID
SHINE

My start word sure was lucky, but could have been one heck of a trap if it was SHA_E. So, to find out if it was SHA or SHI, and to eliminate some letters that could be in the SHA trap, I went with PLAID for my second word, which then told me it wasn’t going to be a trap…phew! Easy three, which was nice after all the 5’s I’ve been getting lately. :slight_smile: