After 2 I thought I had narrowed it down to one possible answer, but then the first two letters weren’t green. Doh! Tricksy double letters. Glad it wasn’t noose, and also that my opener already eliminated loose and moose.
A nice-looking pyramidal shape which almost makes up for the 5.
SLATE
PRISE
CHOSE
MOOSE
GOOSE
I rightfully guessed that “noose” was less likely to be the answer because not only of its rarity but also its associations.
CRANE
TOILS
I looked for possible words and came up with five. Rather than picking one of them and risking getting a five, I found a word that would let me know which of the five is the word (assuming that I didn’t miss a word).
CHOMP
GOOSE
If I would have picked one of the words it would have been MOUSE or MOOSE (HOUSE/GOOSE), If I had picked MOUSE then I had a choice between GOOSE and POSSE. With two wrong 50/50 choices I would have got a five.
Something strange happened just now. I solve the wordle just after midnight as part of my ‘closing down’ routine. This one I had got caught in a mini-trap of four possibilities, and naturally picked two wrong ones first, getting a ‘phew’ comment and a 6 score.
After reading the thread this morning I was curious how my order of choosing compared with the ones posted, so I opened the page again to double check what I’d done. The Wordle came up as unsolved!
As in, it sat there looking as if I had just entered my FOURTH word, waiting for me to continue.
Huh?
So I typed in the correct answer, and it comes up all green, and now I have a score of FIVE. Okay, a poor score, but a definite upgrade.
AND… I just loaded the page again, and it’s back to showing me as waiting to input word five again!
I’m living Groundhog Day!
Has this happened to anyone else? If it keeps throwing away my ‘completion’ of the word, will it end up breaking my chain of successful wins???
Not thinking today. I should have eliminated U on two (my strategy is usually vowel-heavy). Then, with far too many possible solutions, the smart thing to do would have been to test the P, L, and G at that point, rather than wasting a move on a total shot in the dark. I turned what should have been an easy four into a five. Though, I’m not that worried about my overall stats as long as I keep my streak alive. But I could have played this one better.
PIETY → Some good eliminations. Test another vowel and some common consonants… SHARE → Can’t think of many ?S??E or ??S?E words, so SE-ending it is.
CLOSE → Seems a bit trappish. But I don’t think we have two leading consonants, so perhaps a double-O?
MOOSE → LOOSE is already gone, NOOSE is provocative… GOOSE
A fun five. Really built from the back to the front on this one.
I’ll take the lucky 3. I saw bloat and gloat, and in fact this puzzle felt very familiar. Pretty sure one of those has already been used. Anyway, float was the first one I saw so I went with that.