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

The Game Room
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I found tomorrow’s relatively straightforward, mostly through the luck of the letters.

Wordle 345 3/6

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Well, shoot. I thought I’d done today’s so I was looking at how people had done, only to discover I had not, in fact, done today’s.

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Wordle 344 4/6

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Oh shoot, take a mercy win at 6, keep the streak going!

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Frogger!??!!

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Wordle 344 5/6

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OUTER
SOUND
GHOUL
AUDIO
BAYOU

At step 4 I used a D I knew was prohibited, because I just couldn’t get unstuck. The final answer took WAY too long.

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Wordle 344 4/6

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WHOLE
MANOR
TABOO
BAYOU

I had the answer word typed in for my third guess and changed it at the last second. Did that the other day too and didn’t listen to my first instinct. Arghh. But if I was right, then I’d say yay, glad I changed it. :wink: You just never know. So four it is again for today, which is totally fine.

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Oh darn it! I second what Chela says…take a 6 and keep the streak going. :wink: Or just take the 1 and ignore it in your stats - have you gotten a 1 yet?

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Tomorrow’s Wordle, Today
Back on the ball.

Wordle 345 3/6

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Wordle 345

SHRUB
PETAL
ATOLL

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Once! I used STAIR as my starting word and it was the word.

ETA: and I managed to forget the word, and it took me 3 to get back to it …

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Wordle 345 3/6

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RAISE
ALOUD
ATOLL

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Wordle 345 4/6

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CRITS
PLANT
TABLE
ATOLL

Weird. I would have bet a dollar that atoll was a valid guess but not a valid answer. I don’t think I would have put that in an answer list in a game I was designing for a girlfriend.

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Wordle 344 4/6* 5/29/2022 (for most of you, yesterday)

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CREPT → Five swings, all misses. Common letters, perhaps?
FLASH → One vowel right. Try for some more…
NOWAY → Didn’t think this would be a kosher word. OK, think. A??OY, ?AYO? but so few high frequency consonants left. AMBOY unlikely, MAYOR no, can’t get an I to fit in there, but a U…
BAYOU

I took so long between guesses 3 and 4 that it’s almost tomorrow where I am.

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Got it!!!

Wordle 344 5/6

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STERN
CLOUD
IMAGE
HAPPY
BAYOU

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Wordle 345 4/6*

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PLUME
VALID
FOCAL
ATOLL

One of those popular crossword words where I can never remember, is it double T or double L?

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Wordle 345 4/6

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TRANS
LOUIE
PETAL
ATOLL

Should’ve got it in three, but I also didn’t think “atoll” was likely going to be in the game.

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Wordle 345 3/6

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STERN
CLOUD
ATOLL

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Wordle 345 4/6*

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POINT
THROW
SMOTE
ATOLL

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Wordle 345 2/6*

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Alive, atoll. Almost went with apply but I thought of atoll first.

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Wordle 345 4/6

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HEART
TANGO
OATHS
ATOLL

Not a word you come across all the time, but luckily in my childhood I was a fan of the Beany and Cecil Show and remember their voyage to the No Bikini Atoll.