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

Wordle 357 4/6

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CLOMP
STORE
WHOSE
GOOSE

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.

Wordle 357 5/6

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RATIO
NODES
MOUSE
LOOSE
GOOSE

Wordle 357 2/6*

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Slightly uncanny two.

GRIND
GOOSE

Yours is cooked in two. For me, a four.

Wordle 357 4/6

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EARTH
LIONS
SMOKE
GOOSE

Wordle 357 5/6

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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.

Wordle 357 4/6

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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. :wink:

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???

Too strange!

Wordle 357 4/6*

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Fetch, dream, globe, goose

Bah.

Wordle 357 5/6*

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IRATE
CLOSE
WHOSE
MOOSE
GOOSE

Wordle 357 6/6

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Thought my goose was cooked. Those double vowels make it tougher for me.
HEART
SMELL
DENSE
POISE
SOUSE
GOOSE

Wordle 357 5/6*

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BLOAT
PROUD
SMOKE
WHOSE
GOOSE

Wordle 357 4/6*

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BEARD
GLOVE
GNOME
GOOSE

Wordle 357 5/6

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CANOE
HORSE
MOUSE
PLUGS
GOOSE

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.

Wordle 357 3/6*

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MARSH
BOOST
GOOSE

Wordle 357 5/6* 6/11/2022

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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.

Tomorrow’s was a quick and easy one.

Wordle 358 3/6

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Wordle 357 4/6

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OUTER
CHOSE
GLOOM
GOOSE

“GLOOM” was a test word to eliminate possibilities in the face of the “OOSE” trap.

Tomorrow’s Wordle, Today
It took me an astonishingly long time to come up with the answer, and even then I got lucky on my guess.

Wordle 358 4/6

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Wordle 358

DRUNK
AISLE
LATCH
FLOAT

Wordle 357 5/6

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SNARE
CHOSE
LOOSE
MOOSE
GOOSE

Wordle 358 3/6

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CRISP
METAL
FLOAT

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.