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

Wordle 414 3/6

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CRANE
PAGER
I picked SMEAR over a couple of other S_EAR words based on a character in one of the Naked Gun movies.

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Wordle 414 5/6*

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BEARD
TAPER
SHEAR ← Oh, here we go !
SWEAR
SMEAR ← 3rd time lucky.

Wordle 414 5/6

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HEART oh goody, 3 letters. should be a piece of cake
GRAPE or not
RACER woot. 3 guesses in and one letter placed
SWEAR finally down to one more letter
SMEAR

Wordle 414 4/6*

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Onset
Swear
Spear
Smear

Wordle 414 4/6*

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WHIRL
ACTOR
RADAR
SMEAR

Wordle 414 3/6

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MOUSE
STEAM
SMEAR

Quick and easy today.
Congrats on the 200th, @Aspenglow!

Thanks, @Wheelz! We take our small victories where we find them. :slight_smile:

Today was a bog standard 4. Could have gone better, could have gone worse. There was still one choice after I got the word, so I’ll take the 4 and be happy.

Wordle 414 4/6*

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IRATE
SHEAR
SWEAR
SMEAR

A fair number of 2’s yesterday and today. I didn’t manage that, but I got 3’s both days, and I’ll take it. :slight_smile:

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SLANT
CLEAN
ALIEN

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SLANT
SPERM
SMEAR

Tomorrow’s was frustratingly short of a two.

Wordle 415 3/6

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Wordle 414 3/6

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Wordle 413 4/6

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OUTER
SHEEN
MAVEN
ALIEN

Standard game, basically.

Wordle 414 4/6

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AROSE
SHEAR
MAPLE
SMEAR

This shows the limitations of my habit of not really taking time to strategize. After getting four letters I should have brainstormed all the possibilities and then found a test word; as it was I didn’t deploy a test word until step three.

Oh, well: we play in the way we enjoy and don’t play in ways we enjoy less, I guess. :slight_smile:

Wordle 414 6/6* 8/7/2022

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ALIEN → A pretty typical opening with such a word… let’s get some consonants
STARE → OK, not bad… juggle the last three around and try an H…
SHEAR → Trap? I think there’s only three words left, so I shouldn’t die… try the one with the different rhyme sound
SWEAR → That wasn’t it. Weapon?
SPEAR → Should have tried the M.
SMEAR

On easy mode, WHOMP would have been a good third guess for me.

Wordle 414 6/6

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STARE
BAVIN
SPEAR
SWEAR
SHEAR
SMEAR

Had to really work for this one…I thought I was in the wrong trap! After my first word, I was thinking it was SA_ER, and I had 7 words to choose from. So I came up with a word that would check three of the seven words (had to look it up to be sure it was even a word - lol). And that showed me it wasn’t SA_ER!

Now I’m in a different trap. Thankfully I had enough tries left to cover all four of the words it could be, and I just rolled the dice on which one to play each time…go figure it was the last choice, but at least I didn’t fail!

Tomorrow’s Wordle, Today
I can play this game, Wordle.

Wordle 415 4/6

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Wordle 415

BEARD
PIVOT
QUILT
UNFIT

Wordle 415 4/6

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CLAMS
TROPE
NINTH
UNFIT

After two all I saw were ninth and digit, in that order, but it took a while to find either. Then it took forever to see unfit.

Wordle 415 4/6

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RATIO
TEPID
UNLIT
UNFIT

Wordle 415 5/6*

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PLEAT
SKIRT
MIGHT
CUBIT
UNFIT

I was down to two LIKELY possibilities, UNFIT and INUIT

I tried Inuit but it said that wasn’t a valid guess.

Wordle 415 5/6

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EARTH
LIONS
DUMPY
WHACK
UNFIT

This one was a thinker.

Wordle 415 3/6

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TRANS
LOUIE
UNFIT