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

The Game Room
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Wordle 338 3/6*

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RISEN
NIECE
HINGE

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Wordle 338 3/6*

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Heard, house, hinge

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Wordle 338 4/6

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CRANE
LINTS
BINGE
HINGE - It looks like most people are picking HINGE before BINGE, I guess a 4 is my punishment for being different

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Shoulda thought of the answer sooner,.

Wordle 338 4/6

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HEART
HOIST
HIKED
HINGE

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Wordle 338 4/6*

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STARE
BUDGE
LIEGE
HINGE

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Wordle 338 5/6

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IRATE
NOISE
MINCE
BINGE
HINGE

I made this one harder than it should have been. Should have figured G was more likely in the 4-spot. Then, when I was down to two possible words (I checked, thoroughly), I picked the wrong one. A possible 3 turned into a 5. Oh well.

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Wordle 338 5/6*

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BEARD
CLIME
PIQUE
WITHE
HINGE

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Wordle 338 4/6*

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IRATE
SHINE
NICHE
HINGE

By #2, I’d narrowed it down to two choices. Picked the wrong one for #3.

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Wordle 338 5/6* 5/23/2022

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MONEY → Not a bad start, try consonants…
TENDS → Strikeout. Terminal E? Which means ??NCE as a possibility…
WINCE → Got lucky with the I. I kinda overdid it last night, so
BINGE → so it must be the other one
HINGE

I kinda went back and forth on this before I settled on the answer. In retrospect, LANCE should have been my third guess, but it probably would have made no difference.

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My first word for tomorrow’s had a rarer letter that was instrumental to solving it quickly.

Wordle 339 3/6

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Wordle 338 3/6

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HEART
HOKEY
HINGE

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Wordle 338 4/6

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OUTER
PEDAL
CHIME
HINGE

A quick 4, with a lucky 3rd guess (which gave me that crucial “H”).

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Tomorrow’s Wordle, Today
I am experimenting with low-vowel openings. Didn’t do too badly this first time.

Wordle 339 4/6

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Wordle 339

PSYCH
BOARD
TABLE
ALBUM

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Wordle 338 4/6*

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NOISE
INURE
WHINE
HINGE

I made a mistake on 3, repeating a known bad position. But I don’t think I’d have gotten it in 3 if I’d noticed.

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Wordle 339 4/6

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RATIO
SHALE
ALWAY
ALBUM

First of all, what kind of word is ALWAY? I was trying to avoid playing ALLAY and trying to check at least one more consonant. After I knew that I needed a U, the final word took me a few minutes to get. This one I earned.

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Wordle 339 5/6

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CREST
NOPAL
LAUGH
QUALM
ALBUM

This was an excellent wordle to foil my strategy. Bad luck that my opener did not include M, which it often does. After the opener returned all black, the remaining letters I wanted to check were LMPAO. I couldn’t figure out a word using all five so I switched M for N and just randomly plugged in letters until I stumbled on a valid guess.

I was super confident the answer was LAUGH, but no joy. After that, for a while the only solution I could see was VULVA, but that felt unwordle-like. Then I remembered I had a blind spot with QU, so I tried that.

After 4 I had positively identified the answer to fit A__UM, with one of the blanks being an L. Even with all that it still took me a hot minute to come up with the answer.

Fun! Sadly this ended my streak of six consecutive 3s, but this wordle earned its ‘victory’ over my strategy.

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Wordle 339 2/6*

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BLAME
ALBUM

Sometimes things just go your way.

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Wordle 339 4/6*

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QUERY
PIOUS
AWFUL
ALBUM

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Wordle 339 3/6

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STERN
CLOUD
ALBUM

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Wordle 339 3/6

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Zebra,cabby,album