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

Woo-hoo! Wordle 405 2/6

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SPORT
UPSET

Wordle 405 4/6

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EARTH
LIONS
DUMPY
UPSET

Wordle 405 3/6* 7/29/2022

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STOMP → Three consonants, unplaced - but what about vowels?
PASTE → Got the S placed, and found an E. P must be 2nd or 4th, if the latter: TESP?, no help, if second, TPSE? or ?PSET…
UPSET

A case where using yesterday’s solution gave a good start.

@SeaSun, I’m sorry I didn’t get to the spoiler sooner. I see someone did. In future, best to flag the post. That way, all mods will see it and can fix it if I’m not around. All of us can fix spoiler tags, so that will get it fixed soonest. Bonus: My game won’t be ruined before I play! Thanks. :slight_smile:


Today’s took a damn long time.

Wordle 405 4/6*

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IRATE
CHEST
ONSET
UPSET

There’s always tomorrow!

Wordle 405 3/6

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OILER
ASHEN
UPSET

Yesterday’s three was mostly luck. I’m more proud of today’s; I thought carefully and reasoned out the best possible word choice. Yay me!

I didn’t know about the “flag the post” feature. I will do it that way if there is a next time so you don’t have to get spoiled - glad someone else took care of it so you could still play the game! :slight_smile: I went ahead and took the 1 :wink:

Oh, no worries at all. If I’m around, I’m happy to fix spoiler tags. But I’m not always around, and I don’t usually open this thread until after I’ve played. I hate to think anyone is waiting on me when any mod can handle it!

I should have got tomorrow’s much quicker than I did.

Wordle 406 5/6

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#405 4/6

SLANT
HORSE
BESET
UPSET

When I first realized __SET was one of the main avenues of possibilities, how the heck did I see BESET and not UPSET? Blew my chance at a 3.

Wordle 405 4/6

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STARE
TESTY
INSET
UPSET

Similarly to RTFirefly’s experience, I saw the less-common “inset” before the more-common “upset.” At least it was a fast-play day.

Wordle 405 3/6*

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PLAIT
SWEPT
UPSET

Tomorrow’s Wordle, Today
First two guesses were complete whiffs, which makes up for yesterday’s 2/6. Wordle isn’t kidding anymore, I think.

Wordle 406 4/6

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Wordle 406

TRICK
SHAME
WOUND
BLUFF

Wordle 405 3/6

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audio

stump

upset

Wordle 406 4/6

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CREST
NOPAL
BULLY
BLUFF

‘Nopal’ was just rearranging letters hoping for a word. Happy to get a 4 considering I never check B, U or F.

Wordle 406 4/6*

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CRANE
LIONS
DUMPY
BLUFF

I hate it when all that comes up from 3 guesses are 2 yellows, surprised that I guessed it in 4

Wordle 406 2/6*

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FLOUT
BLUFF

After a lucky opener I was fairly confident with 2nd guess.

How did Hard Mode allow you to ignore the L from Lions when you used DUMPY?

I’m not playing in Hard Mode, that’s why

Wordle 406 4/6

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RATIO
DUNES
CHUMP
BLUFF

I was running out of letters.

ETA: 150 in a row!

That’s weird. The asterisk after the number of guesses indicates hard mode.