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

The Game Room
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Wordle 345 4/6

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CAMEO
BROAD
ALONG
ATOLL

Not much to say bout this one; each word let to the next fairly intuitively. Pretty sure ATOLL was my only choice at the end, so the double L wasn’t even a risk.

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Wordle 345 2/6*

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STAIR
ATOLL

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Starting to think Wordle is on a popularity slump. Anyways, here’s tomorrow’s.

Wordle 346 3/6

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Wordle 345 4/6* Memorial Day (USA) 2022

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BAYOU → Do I even need to look at E & I? I’m going to ignore them for the moment
ROAST → Neither vowel in the 2-spot means they’re probably paired… try
GLOAT → whoops, I repeated the T where I knew it wasn’t but it paid off with the L. So now…
ATOLL

At least I didn’t have to agonize over it like yesterday’s…

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Wordle 345 4/6

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AROSE
ABOUT
ATOMY
ATOLL

Wasn’t sure that third one was a word, but apparently it is.

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Wordle 345 3/6

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PASTE
TRAIN
ATOLL

Finally, I listened to my first instinct today, and it paid off! For my third guess, it was the first word that came to me, though I hesitated due to the double L, but I went for it anyways…and to my surprise, it was correct. Gotta love it when that happens.

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Wordle #345

I only know it to mean a ring-shaped coral island or a small island, and thought it was a fairly common word. Is there another slang meaning to it or something?

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Tomorrow’s Wordle, Today
Wordlebot always uses the same opening word. How boring.

Wordle 346 3/6

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Wordle 346

BLUNT
NACHO
MANOR

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The only time I’ve ever encountered the word before was in the context of the nuclear bomb testing at Bikini Atoll during World War II. I would consider it way too obscure, but I didn’t actually know what it meant so I assumed it was an esoteric war-related word.

I guess maybe if you vacation in the Caribbean or something it might be more familiar? I’m more of a ski vacation kind of guy.

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I’ve never been to the Caribbean. Hawaii yes though, and I’ve sailed around some of the islands there, though not sure that’s how I know the word. I’ve just seen and heard it often enough to be familiar with it. Being familiar with some people’s guess words is another story though…learned a few new ones since I started playing the game.

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Wordle 346 5/6

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RATIO
LABOR
FAVOR
PAYOR
MANOR

This one really had me sweating. So many possibilities.

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Wordle 346 4/6

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CLOTS
MOPER
MINOR
MANOR

Bad day to not check A.

This was my 125th game; I’m curious to see how just my last 25 look.

Subtracting the above from my current totals I’m left with:

1:0
2:1
3:11
4:10
5:3
6:0

3.60 average. Nice, improvement without even any 2s to speak of. Didn’t expect that. (I’m guessing my total average is around 3.65.)

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Although, interestingly, it is different if you are in hard mode or not.

My first 3 in awhile. Hooray.

Wordle 346 3/6

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COURT
GROAN
MANOR

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Wordle 346 4/6*

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FLAME
MATZO
MASON
MANOR

An unremarkable 4 for me today.

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Wordle 346 2/6*

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Meant, manor.

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Wordle 346 2/6

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CRANE
MANOR

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Props to chela and Author_Balk for their deuces.

Wordle 346 4/6

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HEART
GROAN
AROMA
(Stately Wayne) MANOR

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Wordle 346 4/6

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STERN
CLOUD
IMAGE
MANOR

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Wordle 346 3/6

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ROUSE
BROAD
MANOR

Quick and easy three. Same second word as yesterday; would have been funny if that was it.

Just calculated my average and it’s 3.86.
Like some others here, I consider 4 to be “par,” so I’m happy with that.

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Today’s has the potential for some inadvertent amusing phrases. We’ll see.