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

Wordle 417 2/6*

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GRIEF
CLING

Obviously I am more cleverer than wot you is today, luck had absolutely nothing to do with it - ha ha ha.

Wordle 417 5/6

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EARTH
LIONS
DUMPY
WHACK
CLING

Wordle 417 4/6*

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BEARD
QUILT
CLINK
CLING

Wordle 417 3/6

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CRANE - two greens
COUNT - vowel(s) not A or E, how about O or U?
CLING

Wordle 417 6/6

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HEART
SPOIL
CLIMB
CLIFF
CLINK
CLING

Up way too early, but I wanted to make sure to Wordle today. A four I’ll take gratefully.

Wordle 417 4/6*

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IRATE
CLIMB
CHILD
CLING

It could have gone so much worse.

Wordle 417 4/6*

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Depth
Vying
Using
Cling

Not fun!

Wordle 417 3/6

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SHARE (a frequent start word)
COUNT
CLING

Wordle 417 5/6

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OILER
UNTIL
FLING
SLING
CLING

Sometimes you’re the windshield, sometimes you’re the bug. Coulda been a three, a four, or a five. I’ve been on the lucky end of these before, so I guess it all evens out.

Wordle 417 2/6

SLANT
CLING

Been a couple months at least since the last time I scored a 2. After my first guess (and a fair bit of work) I had 11 possibilities for the solution, and the one I went with for my second guess was simply the best choice to narrow down the possibilities and all but guarantee a 3. Happy to get lucky and get a 2 instead!

It was a fun exercise: after my first guess, I had L_N. The middle letter had to be a vowel, and I’d only eliminated A. But eliminating A was enough to figure out that the first letter wasn’t a vowel. So I had four possibilities for vowels in the middle, a cluster of possible consonants for the first letter, and a different cluster of consonants plus silent E for the last letter. Playing around got me my 11 suspects, and I did a little matrix grouping them by first and last letters, and indicating their middle vowels. No matter which letters of CLING came up duds, I was going to be well positioned for guess #3. Instead, everything turned green. :slight_smile:

Tomorrow’s gets a three. I’ll take that, with gratitude.

Wordle 418 3/6

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There should be _ blanks before and after what’s in the spoiler box, but Discourse disappeared them. And of course I didn’t notice that in the right hand screen because they were in a blurred-out spoiler. I have no idea why it disappeared them, or how to keep Discourse from doing that. But if anyone was trying to follow my blurred comment, I’m sure it made it a good deal more confusing.

Wordle 417 3/6

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EARTH
SLICK
CLING

Nothing from guess 1; for guess 2 I wanted to try an S start, maybe with L? and then I, O, or U? “I” came first so that’s what I tried, giving me quite a lot of information, as it happened.

Wordle 417 5/6*

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PRIDE
AVION
STINK
FLING
CLING

Wordle 417 4/6* 8/10/2022

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PATTY → Not unexpected. At least two vowels are gone, though one of 'em is uncommon.
SHONE → For a lot of common letters, only getting one hit seems rough. N in 4th… ING ending?
RUING → Yes, and I’m out of vowels. Two Is would be ICING, an L in second would match BLING, FLING and CLING, so…
CLING

BLING was too slangy to try anyway, as “IMING” would have been.

Tomorrow’s Wordle, Today
I’ll take it.

Wordle 418 3/6

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Wordle 418

GRIME
GUESS → Was it too much to ask that this be the right answer?
GLEAN

Wordle 418 4/6

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CRIMP
STALE
LEGAL
GLEAN

Thought I had it with legal.

Wordle 418 4/6

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RATIO
PLANE
CLEAN
GLEAN

Quick and easy today

Wordle 418 4/6*

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AISLE
PLEAT
CLEAN
GLEAN

Wordle 417 5/6

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CHORE
CAULK
CLIMB
CLIFF
CLING

Another case of having two words to choose from (after my 3rd word) and just picking the wrong one. Can’t get it right every time.