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

The Game Room
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Having the answer list (I don’t use it while solving a puzzle) I see that they have skipped over some Brit terms. A recent one was BOBBY.

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Yesterday I completely inadvertently made a coherent sentence. (Puzzle #400).

FLAME
THEIR
UNDER
COVER
POWER

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Wordle 401 4/6* 7/25/2022

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POWER → I feel like Air Group Captain Lionel Mandrake here, trying different combinations of P O & E
DEPOT → 'Cause I’m a train enthusiast, and also DOPER was already excluded
SLOPE → Ooh, good guess! Must be a repeated letter…
ELOPE

@hajario : sounds like something a member of a revolutionary cell might say…

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Probably because it’s a proper name, which was where it came from in the first place.

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Wordle 401 4/6

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ROAST
CLONE
GLOVE
ELOPE

At word 3 I was in the exact same position as was RTFirefly, with “GLOVE, GLOBE, ELOPE” being the possible solutions I could see. Obvious tactic: trying one of the first two to eliminate the other, leaving ELOPE as the last word standing. So to speak.

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Tomorrow’s Wordle, Today
Easy peasy, lemon squeezy.

Wordle 402 3/6

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Wordle 402

WHEAT
CRUSH
CINCH

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Wordle 401 3/6

SLATE
PLUME
ELOPE

Can anyone explain the reasoning behind Wordlebot here? I don’t get the numbers.

"Your guess cut the number of remaining solutions to one. This is pretty good, but guessing

BIPOD or BINGO

here eliminates more solutions than your guess

PLUME

69 percent of the time. But you’ve narrowed it down to one possible solution. You should solve the puzzle on your next turn."

I’m not sure why Wordlebot says that BIPOD or BINGO are better guesses? I don’t know that I would have gotten the solution using either of those words.

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Wordle 402 3/6

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CRAMS
CLOTE
CINCH

I didn’t expect clote to be a real word, but it used the right letters so I figured I’d give it a shot.

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Wordle 402 4/6

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That spoiler tab is unresponsive for me :woman_shrugging:
Anyway4 yay. Don’t believe my third word was on the list, I’ll run it by the bot see what wisdom is given.

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Wordle 402 6/6

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RATIO
LINED
PINCH
WINCH
FINCH
CINCH

This is the third trap in a row and the third six in a row. It made sense to play hard mode with only three possibilities after guess three, but it is still making me crazy. All I want now is just one five. I am tired of worrying that I missed something on the last guess.

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Wordle 401 4/6

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LEASH
CLONE
GLOBE
ELOPE

I was real happy with my second word and thought I had a chance of getting it in 3, but I then had a list of four words I felt it could be (Bloke, Globe, Glove, Elope), unless I was missing something. And Globe could rule out three of them, so it was the best choice for my 3rd guess. And that’s what happened…so Elope it was.

EDIT to add: Ok, now reading the comments for today’s game, I see that Bloke was an answer word previously. I wasn’t sure if it would be considering it’s “informal British”. Doesn’t matter as I wasn’t going to play it over Globe, and that word ruled it out. But it just goes to show, we can’t make assumptions on what Wordle decides for answer words. :wink:

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Wordle 402 4/6

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EARTH
LIONS
PINCH
CINCH

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#402 3/6

SLANT
CHORE
and from here, this one was a
CINCH

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Wordle 402 5/6*

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BEARD
QUILT
COMIC
CHICK
CINCH

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Phew indeed.
Wordle 402 6/6

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HEART
SHIPS
MIGHT
WINCH
FINCH
CINCH

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I had a quick interaction with Wordle this morning. Yikes! Maybe I’m starting to think like Wordle! :scream:

Wordle 402 3/6*

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IRATE
CHILD
CINCH

WordleBot said my second guess eliminated all choices except the correct answer, from 130 after my opening word. So the second word was a pretty good choice. The coffee’s still hot.

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Wordle 402 5/6*

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PLANE
NORTH
FINCH
WINCH
CINCH

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Wordle 402 5/6

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MAUVE
BROIL
SWIFT
PICKY
CINCH

Certainly not a CINCH for me today. I generally don’t mind the first guess or two eliminating letters, but having only a single misplaced I after three was rather frustrating. Fortunately, it came together in time. But not my favorite game experience on this one.
ETA: SHIFT would have been a wiser guess than SWIFT. There are probably better choices that that too. So I admit I made my own bed by playing a little too fast and loose. Not that big a deal though.

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I forgot to post yesterday’s. No comment on tomorrow’s.

Wordle 403 4/6

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Wordle 402 4/6

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SLANT
NUDGE
PRION
CINCH

Not fun, today (too time-consuming).