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

Wordle 337 4/6

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CRANE
LINES - After this MONEY was the first word I saw. But, I decided to think on this and come up with a better answer.
RHOMB - Wordlebot told me “this is exactly what I would’ve guessed in this situation”,
MONEY - If I had gone with my first thought I would have got a 3. With the “best” answer for the third pick I got a 4

Wordle 337 3/6*

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Other,model,money

WB got it in 4 neener!

Got it in two after a lucky first word!
Wordle 337 2/6

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PHONE
MONEY

Wordle 337 3/6

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ROUTE
MOSEY
MONEY

Getting the R out quickly helped a lot, but still plenty of O_E choices. I decided to flip a coin between MOSEY and HOVEL. Somehow N escaped my notice at two, but if it hadn’t I probably would have gone with HONEY, so same result. Happy with two threes in a row.

Wordle 337 4/6*

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I’m OK with my 4

TREAD
SPINE
LUMEN
MONEY

Wordle 337 4/6* 5/22/2022

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SCRAP → Good elimination word, at least…
HOTEL → Time to concentrate on the consonants…
MOWED → Not much left, and the final D coming up grey killed a lot of possibilities.
MONEY

A score under 4 today should be considered quite good.
Wordle 337 4/6

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HEART
SMILE
ENEMY
MONEY

Missed yesterday’s puzzle, dang it. Still no losses, but win streak starting again at 1.

I’m ok with mine, too.

Wordle 337 4/6*

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IRATE
SHELF
WOVEN
MONEY

Wordle 337 5/6*

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4 seems to be my sweet spot. According the stats, I’ve played 119 games and my longest streak is 65. Meh.

STAIN
BOUND
NOVEL
HONEY
MONEY

According the stats, I’ve played 119 games and my longest streak is 65. Meh.

My longest streak is 33, but your streak ends if you just skip a day, which is how all my streaks have gotten broken. (Amazingly enough, I’ve never lost a game when playing Wordle proper, which I can only ascribe to dumb luck: while playing Wordle archive back when you could do that, I failed to solve a number of Wordles in 6 tries.)

I switched from a vowel-heavy approach (opening guess was ADIEU) to a consonant-heavy approach (opening guess is SLANT) about 6 weeks back, and trying to get the consonants first is working much better for me. Ratio of guesses to games played is down to about 4.09, and it had been up around 4.27.

Got today’s in 4:

SLANT
CHORE
DUMPY
MONEY

Wordle 337 4/6*

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BEARD
SLOPE
COVEN
MONEY

Did okay on tomorrow’s. Sometimes I just choose the right words to reduce my options to one.

Wordle 338 3/6

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Wordle 337 5/6

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CHAIN
LONER
TONED
BONES
MONEY

Coulda Shoulda Woulda…had it in 4. I had the answer word down on the board for my fourth word, but changed it at the last second. Could have been worse, glad it wasn’t.

Wordle 337 3/6

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STARE
MEDIC
MONEY

Nice to have a fast 3 for a change.

Hmmm. I’ll have to look in to that. It would probably help if I didn’t use a different word each time.

Tomorrow’s Wordle, Today

Wordle 338 3/6

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Wordle 338

TRIAL
SINCE
HINGE

I wonder if this is commentary on the Depp/Heard imbroglio?

Wordle 338 3/6

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RATIO
LINED
HINGE

Wordle 338 3/6

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CLANS
NOTER
HINGE

Hinge was the first solution I saw, then binge. (And singe and tinge but I’d already checked s and t.) In cases like this I always like to go with the first one I saw.

Also, ‘noter’? No clue but I do love those letters. (ETA: I should have kept looking and gone with toner instead. I always feel better about using simple words I know rather than scrambling letters hoping for a valid guess.)

Wordle 338 5/6

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STERN
CLOUD
IMAGE
BINGE
HINGE

Wordle 338 4/6

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TRANS
LOUIE
MINGE
HINGE

I’m kinda surprised that MINGE is still a legal word considering how NYTimes has been sanitizing the list.