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

Wordle 343 3/6*

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BEARD
GRIPE
CREPT

Well, I was impressed.

Wordle 343 3/6

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STERN
CLOUD
CREPT

Tomorrow’s probably would’ve been easier if I hadn’t strayed with a weird starter word.

Wordle 344 5/6

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Wordle 343 4/6

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DOILY
REACT
CREST
CREPT

I was certain it was Crest! The P didn’t occur to me, but even if it had, I probably would have gone with Crest anyways. Not mad about the four…good average score.

Wordle 343 4/6

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STARE
TREND
ERECT
CREPT

I had a mental block about this one as past-tense verbs are not at all common in the ‘winners’ list for Wordle. But: there it is.

Wordle 343 3/6

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Tomorrow’s Wordle, Today
My current strategy has come to bite me in the ass.

Wordle 344 4/6

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Wordle 344

TRUCK
AFOUL
AUDIO
BAYOU

Wordle 344 5/6

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CLAMS
TAPER
HANDY
KAYAK
BAYOU

Started with one yellow, next word placed it green but nothing else. Then another yellow, and yet another word to place that. Four words to place two letters. This is what happens when I forget to check vowels.

Wordle 344 2/6*

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Rayon, bayou
Thanks to Waffle for my starting word today!

Wordle 344 3/6

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RATIO
SALON
BAYOU

I would never have gotten this except I always have trouble with this word on octordle. I seemed to have some sort of block against it which made it come to mind more quickly.

Wordle 343 3/6

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This one had me buffaloed for quite awhile.
Wordle 344 5/6

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TRANS
LOUIE
ALOUD
CAMPY
BAYOU

ALOUD and CAMPY were guesses because I didn’t know where to go after my standard opener. From there I realized that none of my yellows could be the first letter, and from there, after some thinking, realized that the only way they could be arranged in the last three was “YOU”, and that’s when the right answer came to me.

Wordle 344 4/6*

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LONER
AUDIO
OAKUM
BAYOU

I found that sticking with Hard Mode hard today. After my 2nd guess I was struggling to find any words at all to try and after my 3rd I resorted to looking stuff up. I imagine depending on where you live the solution may come more readily to mind than it did for me.

Wordle 344 3/6*

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MURKY
YOUTH
BAYOU

It took me a long time of staring to think to add another vowel for my final try.

Wordle 344 5/6*

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BEARD
BASIL
BATCH
BAGGY
BAYOU

My first 6 since ZESTY awhile back, and I’ve got no one but myself to blame. After my standard starting word, SLANT,

I decided to tweak things and do PERCH as my second word rather than CHORE which had been my standard. My normal third word, if I’m still lost, would be DUMPY, and if I’d gone the SLANT-CHORE-DUMPY route, I’d have known after 3 words (and got the answer in 4) what it wound up taking me 5 to learn (and barely avoiding the loss). Anyhow:

SLANT
PERCH
MOWED
QUICK
FOGEY
BAYOU

Sheesh.

Wordle 344 4/6

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CRANE
TOILS
A lot of thinking… It turns out there were two possible answers
MAMBO - The wrong one of the two possible answers. It did show the B which helped in finding the other word.
BAYOU

Wordle 344 5/6

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HOUSE
GROUT
JUMBO
UPBOW
BAYOU

I don’t recall ever having a letter in every possible wrong position before placing it (the U in this case.) The O was in three wrong spots, the B in two; I just couldn’t get those damn letters where they needed to be! OU at the end of a word is not an intuitive placement. Really tough one for me today, but a good mental workout.

Quite challenging today. According to WordleBot, I could have had it in three if I had consulted the Wordle Solutions list, but I never have. So a four it is.

Wordle 344 4/6*

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IRATE
SALON
KABOB
BAYOU

Had the second and third in the fourth line and couldn’t think of a single additional word that would work. Left it for a few hours and there it was.

Wordle 344 5/6*

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