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

Good point! I’ll try that soon.

Tomorrow’s Wordle, Today
Just unlucky this time.

Wordle 359 5/6

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Wordle 359

FLUNG
TRAIN
NEVER
HONOR
DONOR

Hmmm. Past Wordles have included BELCH, BLEED, CHOKE, COLON, DEATH, ENEMA, GROIN, LARVA, MOULT, OFFAL, RETCH, STINK, SWILL, and ULCER. And IIRC, PENIS was going to be the Wordle several weeks back, but the NYT decided that was unacceptable, and swapped it out.

Wordle 358 3/6

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SLANT
BLEAT
FLOAT

Nice find! I just looked for it out of curiosity…had no idea where that game number was hiding (other than coming with the “share” button once pasted in a post). Why they put it in tiny light gray font at the very bottom of the settings window I know not. Thanks for including that now. :slight_smile:

Side Note: Just noticed we had almost the same three words for today’s game (358).

Wordle 359 4/6

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CLASP
TENOR
MINOR
DONOR

Good luck yesterday followed by bad luck today.

Wordle 359 3/6

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RATIO
DONER
DONOR

I don’t know where that second word came from. I was only trying to get an e and a few more common consonants.

Wordle 359 4/6*

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MELON
SNOOP
HONOR
DONOR

Ton up!!

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Wordle 359 4/6

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STONE
HAIRY
CLUMP
DONOR

I had it down to boron or donor, (i think) and guessed lucky.

Wordle 359 3/6

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CRANE
SNORT - The first words I thought of were DONOR, HONOR and a word that I remember being the answer about 3 or 4 months ago (a very lucky 2). I’m sure there are others (after I finished I checked and there were two others). But, rather than searching for words I decided to pick one of the two. D is more common, so…
DONOR - Lucky 3

Wordle 359 5/6*

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Meh! Wasted a guess. But wordlebot thinks my vocabulary* is impressive and better luck next time.

Noisy, wound, monde*, gonad, donor

Wordle 359 5/6

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Made this harder than it was.

HEART
ROSIN
CORNY
MOURN
DONOR

Wordle 359 3/6*

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BEARD
DRIFT
DONOR

That’s more like it.

I got a 3, after my first two standard words, but my third guess I consider to be lucky. There have to be several words that fit the pattern although none come to mind right now.

Wordle 359 3/6

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EARTH
LIONS
DONOR

I’ll take the 4.

Wordle 359 4/6*

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IRATE
SCOUR
HONOR
DONOR

Wordle 359 4/6

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ACUTE
BROIL
SORRY
DONOR

A fun four. I had a feeling and took a flyer on a double R and terminal Y, only to come up empty on both. But that did help the correct word fall into place. Fortunately, I didn’t think of HONOR first.

Wordle 359 6/6* 6/13/2022

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FLOAT → Not a great start, what can I do with the O?
POISE → Two vowels left and no consonants locked in yet
MOURN → Could there be a Y? One word to check…
CORNY → Running out of time. Two Os? If so, they can’t be doubled. R either first or last, N first or middle…
HONOR → What a relief.
DONOR

After the fourth guess, I thought my goose was cooked. Though I should have had it in five, as much blood as I have given in my life…

Took some effort to work through tomorrow’s.

Wordle 360 5/6

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Interesting. I believe those won before I started playing (in late January) so perhaps I had a distorted view of the possibilities.

So since the NY Times took over, the point might still hold (though not if we look at the full history of the game, as you point out).

Wordle 359 4/6

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ROAST
PORCH
BOWER
DONOR

Took me too long, but otherwise unremarkable.

Wordle 359 3/6*

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NIECE
ARGON
DONOR