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

The Game Room
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Done. Easy mistake to make – thanks for bringing the oversight to my attention.

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Today’s word is a little… strange. Not common.

Wordle 399 5/6

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EARTH
LIONS
DUMPY
MIXED
MIDGE

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I’m glad I didn’t either!

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Wordle 400 6/6

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RATIO
FORUM
DONER
LOSER
WHACK
POWER

It’s a trap!!! I was vacillating between COVER and POWER for guess five, so I’m glad I don’t play hard mode. I also saw COWER, POKER, HOVER, BOWER,JOKER,BOXER and I am sure there are many more. I had to throw a Hail Mary at guess five to try to limit the options and I got lucky. Not my favorite today.

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Wordle 400 3/6

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CRIMP
TAPER
POWER

Quick and easy.

Aw crap, apologies everyone.

Thanks much!

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Wordle 400 4/6*

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SPINE
LEAPT
POKED
POWER

5087

You need some bad days to make the good days better.

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Wordle 399 5/6* 7/23/2022

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TRYST → Clean miss; leaves vowels on the table, but common consonants are out
ADIEU → Two vowels and the only consonant hit, not bad…
CHIDE → Wasted the I placement, but at least the E is set
DOGIE → D in middle by process of elimination, GID?E/IGD?E look unpromising, so ?IDGE - R is gone, so
MIDGE

Almost forgot to post this; if the page on my phone’s browser had refreshed, I might have forgotten my intermediate words.

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Wordle 400 4/6*

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Edify
Bleat
Spore
Power

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Wordle 400 5/6

SLANT
CHORE
MOVER
POKER
POWER

Used my third guess poorly: I should have seen after #2 that I’d have to sort through a ton of _O_ER possibilities, but I was distracted by words like ERROR and RODEO, and was too focused on eliminating them. Recovered as best I could after that.

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Wordle 400 5/6

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EARTH
LIONS
DUMPY
WHACK
POWER

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Wordle 400 4/6*

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BEARD
GRIME
TOPER
POWER

My run of luck continues.

5093

Finally broke my four streak.

Wordle 400 3/6

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SPINE
PENAL
POWER

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A very lucky 3 this morning!

Wordle 400 3/6*

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IRATE
CLERK
POWER

This one truly was a pure stroke of luck. WordleBot said there were 49 possible words after my second try. I was just trying to place the ‘ER’ in the word. Hee!! Glad I didn’t try MOWER first.

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That would have been the coup de grass.

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Wordle 400 5/6

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COATI
MOUSE
WOVEN
BLIMP
POWER

I’m glad I found the W when I did; it really narrowed down the possibilities, but I still needed to use word 4 for research. This was a hard-fought five.

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Wordle 400 4/6

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HEART
SNORE
PORED
POWER

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Wordle 400 3/6*

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HOARD
FORCE
POWER

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A decent four for tomorrow’s.

Wordle 401 4/6

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Wordle 400 5/6

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AROSE
MOVER
BLOND
EPACT
POWER

Like psychobunny and RTFirefly, I fell into the _O_ER trap, and hard. I saw at least a dozen words that were likely to be Wordle winners as well as at least another dozen that were less-likely but still possible (such as DOPER or ZONER).

My two test words helped but the winner could still have been POKER. Since I was on guess 5, I rolled the dice (to mix metaphors) with POWER, first.

EPACT, by the way, came from a crutch I use occasionally: a “rhyming dictionary,” in which I look for ideas for words that end a certain way. My mind is less good at coming up with those than at coming up with words that begin a certain way. (“Epact” is a term for the age of a phase of the Moon and is used in determining the date of Easter, as it turns out.)