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

Wordle 334 3/6*

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Table, laugh, glass

Gaining ground in threes

Wordle 334 4/6*

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BEARD
CLASP
FLASH
GLASS

Cool, I drew a rocket !

Wordle 334 5/6*

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TRACE
SWAIN
FLASK
PLASM
GLASS

Wordle 334 5/6

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Made more work of this than I should have

HEART
GLAND
GLAZY
GLAMS
BLASS

Wordle 334 4/6

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Summary

SNORT
MEDIC
LAUGH
GLASS

This brought the old Rolling Stones song to my mind — Jumping Jack Flash, it’s a glass*

* — gas

Wordle 334 5/6* 3/19/2022

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SCOUR → A little under my expectation, but plenty of freedom for guess #2
HASTE → For a second I thought ASIDE, but the E… so
PLASM → Perhaps a “middle trap”? At least BLAST is out…
FLASK → Gotta have a double S, so
GLASS

The activity of an overwoked bio lab tech, perhaps?

Wordle 334 4/6

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ARISE
COAST
FLASH
GLASS

I was pretty confident in FLASH. Dang double-S!

Wordle 334 4/6*

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IRATE
CLASP
FLASK
GLASS

And the following one is a rocket too. It had a person standing outside (at least that’s what I see)

Tomorrow’s took me a few tries. Even elimination of common letters is no guarantee it will be immediately helpful.

Wordle 335 6/6

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Wordle 334 4/6

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AROSE
CLASP
THIEF
GLASS

THIEF was a test word to eliminate some possibilities. Much less fraught, today.

Wordle 334 5/6

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HATER
FLACK
PLAIN
CLANG
GLASS

I wanted to get an H in my start word today, and looking back, Heart would have been a nicer word to start with (same letters) :wink:, but doesn’t matter as my instincts were wrong for an H. It ruled out some commons though, but I made a stupid mistake for my 4th word…I already knew there wasn’t an N. Doubt I’d have come up with the answer then anyways. I was getting a little nervous, but thankfully got it.

As a side note, Wordle seems to be mocking me today with the answer word. I broke a unique piece of beach glass today (in three shards) by dropping a pair of scissors on top of a bowl of beach glass. :roll_eyes:

Tomorrow’s Wordle, Today
I dodged a bullet on this one.

Wordle 335 4/6

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Wordle 335

TABLE
CAPER → It’s a trap!
WRONG → Deliberately chosen to eliminate as many possibilities as possible.
GAMER

Wordle 335 3/6

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CLOMP
STEAM
GAMER

Hey, I resemble this wordle! I am, in fact, a steam gamer. I also frequently get clomped.

Wordle 335 3/6

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RATIO
LARGE
GAMER

It always seems pure luck when I get less than a four.

Wordle 335 5/6*

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VIOLA
PASTE
RACED
WAGER
GAMER

I sort of ambled along today until I eventually reached the solution with no great effort. I imagine the answer is a more prominent word in the vocabulary for many here than it is in mine.

Bah, typo. I shouldn’t try this on my phone so early.

Wordle 335 5/6

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Game 100 for me. I have 99 wins and a 74 game winning streak.

CRANE
PAGER - Now I know 4 letters. I see three possible words. Do I do a guaranteed four or take a chance of a 3 with the possibility of a 5? I took the chance. I let Excel’s random number generator pick the order. I’ve done that twice recently and both times the correct answer was the last one.

Surprise in 3, I was doubtful about it.

Wordle 335 3/6*

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Haunt, Eagle, gamer,