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

Wordle 420 4/6*

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AISLE
GROUP
FUNKY
HUNKY

Can help but feel my 3rd was a more pleasing word than the answer.

That is cruel luck. This is not only a personal loss for yourself, but also a community loss.

I started with music, which gave me the first vowel. I got tripped up with the _unky possibilities, and picked funky and junky as my last two. I thought about the winning word, but rejected it as not likely enough.

Wordle 420 4/6*

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BEARD
QUILT
MUNCH
HUNKY

More splendidness.

Wordle 420 4/6

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EARTH
LIONS
DUMPY
HUNKY

Wordle 420 3/6

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CRANE
LINTS
I saw the _UNKY words. I decided to try one of them. It would show that it is one or them, or give information about U and Y., I picked the _UNKY word that had the most common letter (I think) and got lucky,.
HUNKY

Wordle 420 4/6

SLANT
CHORE
DUMPY
HUNKY

Went from having little to go on after two guesses, to having it basically nailed after three. Having the H rather than the K kept me out of the _UNKY trap.

While HUNK is certainly a common word, I rarely if ever see its adjectival form. So I’d question whether the solution itself is a common word.

Wordle 420 3/6*

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Comet
Braid
Hunky

Unlucky
Unlucky
Extremely lucky with 38 solutions remaining according to wordlebot.

Well that was unexpected! Of all the words I could have picked somehow got it in two.

Wordle 420 2/6

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ENTRY
HUNKY

Wordle 420 4/6

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ORGAN
SHUNT
LUNCH
HUNKY

My standard first word is ORATE . On the very rare occasions that this is all grey, I go for PINKY , where I was two stops away via FUNKY . Quite lucky, really.

Drumroll, please:

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(Though I feel kind of bad posting this now after @EllisDee’s excruciating news. Sorry, ED.)

Wordle 420 5/6

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ORATE
MUSIC
FUNNY
HIJAB
HUNKY

My 200th sure wasn’t a gimme. I thought it was going to be JUNKY, but wasn’t confident enough to plunk it down over the four other possibilities (B, P, G, or H). Took a while to cram three of those consonants into a five-letter word. It wasn’t a six, but I felt like it was a “Phew!” moment regardless.

Another 4 person, me.

Wordle 420 4/6*

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IRATE
CLOUD
BUSHY
HUNKY

Sorry, @EllisDee. Will you begin again tomorrow? You have a good average, at least!

Congrats, @Wheelz! Carry on. :slight_smile:

It is quite common slang here in the UK so perhaps a holdover from the original pre NYTimes word list?

Wordle 420 5/6*

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DEBIT
PRANK
KNOWN
FUNKY
HUNKY

That makes sense, then. Wardle’s from/on your side of the pond, and I’ve noted a number of solutions that are words rarely used in America but have a definite British feel to them.

AFAIK, the list hasn’t changed other than to remove some solutions that the NYT felt were objectionable, most famously ‘penis.’

Wordle 420 6/6* 8/13/2022

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LABEL → Nada. Nada?
ROIST → Again? At least I’ve eliminated nine letters. Which vowel is left?
PUDGY → Both of them. OK. What pair of consonants goes between U & Y?
MUCKY → Got one of them. Middle letter must be an N, so… two possibilities left
FUNKY → Not that one. Try the last one…
HUNKY

It wasn’t until I saw @EllisDee’s post I realized I had missed one other possibility. Wish I could transfer my luck to keep that streak going!

Amazing!

An inauspicious start for tomorrow’s.

Wordle 421 4/6

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Wordle 420 3/6

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SHORE
FAITH
HUNKY

Well, that was a surprise! I was trying to check the U and Y and wasn’t even sure that’d be an answer word, especially given it’s considered a slang word. Nice to get a 3 for a change too.