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

More “impressive” luck !
Wordle 362 3/6*

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BEARD
ARGON
APRON

I almost got tomorrow’s in two. I had the exact word, but decided against it.

Wordle 363 4/6

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Wordle 362 3/6

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ADIEU
AMONG
APRON

Almost forgot to play today! First time I tried ADIEU as a starter and it went well. I have a mini three-streak going; I’m sure it will come crashing down soon.

Wordle 362 4/6

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STERN
CROWN
BORON
APRON

I ran afoul of my unfortunate tendency to eliminate possibilities if the pronunciation I use differs from that of the word itself. To wit: I was running down ‘words that end with RON’ by going through the alphabet systematically, including “I _ RON”, “U _ RON”, and “A _ RON” with all non-eliminated letters put in place of the space. When I got to P I mentally pronounced the A as “ah” instead of as a long A, and so dismissed it as a possibility, until going over it again. (Thereby making a 5-minute game into a 15-minute game!)

TMI quite possibly, but: there it is.

I fall into a similar trap, @Sherrerd, where different pronunciations hide from me. It’s particularly bad when running through the alphabet checking every letter for a single blank, just like you describe.

Yeah. It’s not the biggest deal in the world, but I do hate that face-palm ‘gee I’m an idiot’ feeling I get after one of those!

Tomorrow’s Wordle, Today
Frak this.

Wordle 363 X/6

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Wordle 363

GRUNT
SALON
LEMON
OLDEN
CLOWN
FLOWN

I remembered the first time I noticed it: _ATCH. Batch, catch, latch, …, watch? Not a word. Wait a minute!

Wordle 363 3/6

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CLOTS
FLOWN
BLOWN

Even though I saw blown first, I feel good about not guessing it because on second look I started seeing a bunch of possibilities: blown, flown, glory, flour; at that point I stopped looking and resigned myself to a full research guess for 2, just like my strategy dictates. Since I had already seen two F words the choice was obvious.

Wordle 363 5/6

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RAISE
DOUBT
BLOCK
BLOOM
BLOWN

I knew I should have checked an n.

Wordle 363 X/6*

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GRIPE
MANOR
WOUND
KNOWN
SHOWN
CLOWN

My first failure :sob:
I was down to 3 possibilities on the last guess and I picked wrong.

Wordle 363 6/6

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EARTH
LIONS
DUMPY
WHACK
FLOWN
BLOWN

Wordle 363 3/6

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CRANE
LINTS - First thig I think of are FLOWN and BLOWN. Try to find other words. Came up with NOBLY, The B in NOBLY decides it for me,
BLOWN

Slow and steady today.
Wordle 363 5/6

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HEART
SPOIL
CLOCK
BLOOD
BLOWN

Wordle 363 4/6*

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ADMIT
CHORE
FLOWN
BLOWN

Wordle 363 5/6*

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Throw, would, flown, clown, blown

Ah well the streak continues!

Wordle 363 3/6*

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BEARD
BOING ← :slightly_smiling_face:
BLOWN

The luck continues !

Wordle 363 4/6*

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IRATE
SCOWL
FLOWN
BLOWN

The average continues!

Wordle 363 6/6

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MOUSE
PINTO
WRONG
CLOWN
FLOWN
BLOWN

Ugh. The streak lives, anyway.

Wordle 363 5/6

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STARE
ONION
CLOWN
FLOWN
BLOWN

Oh, well.

I was caught by that exact same one.