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

Wordle 441 4/6

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HEART
SPOIL
CLUNK
GULLY

I had the same sort of crappy start, with the same result.

Wordle 441 4/6

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POISE
TAUNT
BULLY
GULLY - I debated over “fully” instead of “gully” and got lucky.

Not so good day today. Alas!

Wordle 441 6/6*

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CHILD
ANKLE
MOULT
LULLS
BULLY
GULLY

Wordle 441 6/6

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AUDIT
OUNCE
LUMPY
BALKS
FULLY
GULLY

An ugly six for me. An alarming number of words remained in play after I placed the Y. BALKS eliminated many of them, but I was still worried even at six. I started wondering if HULLY, WULLY, and ZULLY were words. This game can mess with your head.
But I lived to Wordle another day.

Wordle 441 4/6* 8/3/2022

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CHARM → Strikeout, with some common letters in there. Huh.
STENO → Another. Half the vowels are gone. Something with U & I? (aka we together)
FLUID → Can’t be UVULA. Is there a Y? If so, probably at the end… so maybe a double L…
GULLY

Getting nowhere until it all came together.

Horrible word.

IRATE
CLOUD
LUMPY
GULLY

I had all the possible ‘ULLY’ words after my second guess after trying lots of other letter orders. I was afraid of that. My third try pretty much confirmed it. Out of the 4 remaining choices, ‘GULLY’ was just a lucky try.

Happy with a 4 today.

Someone may get tomorrow’s in one, but it sure wasn’t ever going to be me.

Wordle 442 4/6

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Wordle 442 6/6*

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BEARD
GRIME
LINER
INFER
INNER ← Stupid - A slip of the keyboard !
INTER

I blame the late hour and the whisky.

Wordle 440 2/6

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STARE
CHARM

Same exact play as Lumpy had. In my case, it was ‘looking for common consonant pairs’ to fit that _ _ A R _ pattern that proved to be the, er, you know.

Wordle 441 4/6

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I had a list of about a half-dozen words that were not yet winners, that would fit after guess #2; “JUMPY” eliminated all of them except GULLY and SULLY. Tried them in alphabetical order (which sometimes works and sometimes does not.)

Wordle 441 5/6

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Spoiler tag not working for me. Ugh, I could have had it in 4 but outsmarted myself.

Tomorrow’s Wordle, Today
I hate it when I’ve hit so many yellows but still have too many possibilities.

Wordle 442 4/6

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Wordle 442

GRAPE
BUILT
THEIR
INTER

Wordle 442 3/6

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RATIO
LITER
INTER

This was a semi cheat. I accidentally clicked on one of the early posts and saw the last word but for some reason thought it was an incorrect guess. Meanwhile, I think that it was the only word possible after my second guess so I tried it even though I “knew” it was wrong.

Wordle 442 3/6*

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FLUTE
THEIR
INTER

Wordle 441 4/6

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LEAST
BROIL
DULLY
GULLY

After my second word with only the L in yellow, and all vowels but U and Y ruled out, I saw the trap. Thankfully two of the words were ruled out, and I had enough guesses left to not fail, so it was a matter of rolling the dice. Happy to get it in 4 with luck on my side this time.

Wordle 442 3/6

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EARTH
LIONS
INTER

Wordle 442 4/6

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A lot of yellows and greens and still a 4,
CRANE
LINER
INFER
INTER

Wordle 442 2/6*

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Nitro
Inter

Wordle 442 4/6

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CREST
LATER
ENTER
INTER

Well that’s annoying. It feels like enter should have been the answer for a 3. Rabble rabble grumble grumble.

Your second word had me thinking of meter. Also my third word enter, unless it’s already appeared as an answer.

Yeah, I sailed right past INTER because it’s a prefix, right? It had to be ENTER, I thought: got this sucker nailed in 3. Except ‘inter’ is also what you do with the deceased’s remains, and in that context it’s a word in its own right.

Anyway, grrr argh. Thought I had that 3 nailed, but nope.

Wordle 442 4/6

SLANT
CHORE
ENTER
INTER