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

Solved it in four and was thrown a bit because one letter is repeated.

I have been seeing this game all over Twitter and was wondering what it was. There is also an Android app called Wordle which I played a bit but that is different.

Wordle 204 4/6*

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Took me a while (5 moves) because I thought I had eliminated the fourth letter when it showed up as green. Didn’t realize that that meant it was still a possible for the remaining gray blank.

Same here Roger.

Wordle 204 5/6*

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Started a new streak today after yesterday’s debacle:
Wordle 204 5/6*

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:black_large_square::black_large_square::green_square::yellow_square::black_large_square:
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SWEAR
TIRED
PURGE
FORGE
GORGE

Five, for January 9:

ACORN
PROBE
ROUGE
FORGE
GORGE

That second one was a careless mistake; I didn’t realize till after I hit enter that I was putting a misplaced letter back in that same wrong place. I don’t know whether I’d have managed fewer than five if I’d done something else there, though. Like several others I wound up with a fifty/fifty choice on my next to last guess and guessed the wrong one.

Backed into this one today:

Wordle 204 4/6*

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:green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square:

STARE
RIDGE
FORGE
GORGE

I keep tripping up on this letter. And this one demonstrates why.

Wordle 204 5/6

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:yellow_square::green_square::white_large_square::yellow_square::white_large_square:
:white_large_square::green_square::green_square::white_large_square::green_square:
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Not so much when you only show the color blocks.

If you know the answer, then figure it out.

Phew.
Wordle 205 6/6.

I was going to post my boxes, when I realized that even those are a spoiler of sorts.

Wordle 205 5/6*

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I kept putting the same invalid letter in the fourth slot, for some reason. I think I need sleep.

REINS
TOWER
PARED
QUEER
QUERY

#205

GORGE
TEARS
EVERY
QUERY

RATIO
SERUM
QUEER
QUERY

I messed up today. Somehow my brain decided half way through to change the meaning of the color-blind mode high contrast color* for “right letter, wrong position”, so my first loss has the “absurd” pattern:

TRAIN
ROUSE
UDDER
UPPER
UTTER
UMBER

Sorry dude! It’s QUERY!

I think perhaps I was so certain before completing the third word that this was the correct placement of the three letters I’d gotten right that I ignored the game telling me I was wrong. :smiley:

* I’m not color blind, but switched it on earlier to see what colors it uses.

Wordle 205 3/6

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:white_large_square::green_square::white_large_square::yellow_square::yellow_square:
:green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square:

RATIO
SUPER
QUERY

Got it in 3 which is probably the lowest without huge luck. Of course getting that second letter on the second word was lucky.

Wordle 205 5/6*

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:white_large_square::yellow_square::yellow_square::white_large_square::green_square:
:white_large_square::yellow_square::green_square::white_large_square::green_square:
:white_large_square::white_large_square::green_square::green_square::green_square:
:green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square:

Haven’t lost yet, but these last few have been close.

Wordle 205 4/6*

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Waffled on guess 3 between two choices and went with the wrong one.

Better than others I’ve played lately - yesterday I was on my last guess before I got it.

Wordle 205 3/6

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ROAST
WHERE
QUERY

Lucky today.

Wordle 205 3/6*

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