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

Wordle 445 3/6

SLANT => Thought I’d start doing this bit of bolding greens and italicizing yellows
CHORE
LEERY => Was really thinking this would tell me for sure where the E and L were; got lucky

Wordle 445 3/6

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CRANE
OILER
LEERY - Similar to a previous post. Telling me where the E was and finding checking a spot for L and R.

Tough nut today.
Wordle 445 5/6

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HEART
WEIRS
MERRY
DECRY
LEERY

Wordle 445 3/6

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MAUVE
OILER
LEERY

I’m not even sure I had any other options, but I saw LEERY immediately and just typed it in instead of my usual overthinking, and there it was! A very quick three.

Another day, another 4.

Wordle 445 4/6*

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IRATE
BUYER
REPLY
LEERY

Wordle 445 6/6

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I shouldn’t play when I’m distracted. :roll_eyes:

POISE
SERUM
DEATH - Head smack
NEVER
EERIE - Another head smack
LEERY

Wordle 445 5/6*

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FARCE
SOBER
ERUPT
REIGN
LEERY

Got tomorrow’s in a nice tidy three.

Wordle 446 3/6

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Test - kept hitting ‘reply’ in another thread and the button acted as if it didn’t work

ETA: works fine here, just not there.

Wordle 445 4/6* 9/7/2022

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TAUNT → No love from the Ts. Ah, well. Let’s try a common-letter word…
SHORE → Not bad. Two more vowels to try. Can I find a word with both of them?
FIERY → Yes! I can’t see that it’s much of a trap, but I think I need a second E. EVERY, or…
LEERY

A fairly lucky guess for the 4.

Also, @Aspenglow had the sequence IRATE-BUYER-REPLY-LEERY which sounds like a lot of my interactions with Craigslist

Wordle 445 4/6

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CRATE
LIONS
LEPER
LEERY
Ugh, double letters again

Tomorrow’s Wordle, Today
Back to normal, I guess.

Wordle 446 4/6

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Summary

GRAPE
CHANT
CLAIM
CLASS

Wordle 445 5/6

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EARTH
REIGN
DECOR
WEARY
LEERY

After step 3 I could think of only two words to fit the “E_R” pattern (with several letters disallowed): JEWRY and WEARY. I was 100% certain it wouldn’t be the first one, and the second was disallowed due to the A…but I wanted to know if my guess that Y had to be the last letter was correct, and so went forward.

After what seemed forever I finally saw LEERY. What a slog!

Wordle 445 4/6

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SCARE
FIERY
QUERY
LEERY

This one had me sweating bullets a bit. I had a list of 6 words it could be after my 2nd word. I could have done a sleuth word, but couldn’t really come up with a good one with the letters I needed to check (V, Q, L, M, U, and second E). I chose to just try my chances and got lucky!

Wordle 446 3/6

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CREST
CHASM
CLASS

For some reason I just forgot about A. I struggled coming up with a second word using all the other vowels, but all of them seem to end with an E. Finally I saw chasm and just punched it in without realizing there were more A possibilities. (Also clash, but chasm eliminated that.)

It would only partially test the second E, but punching those letters into an anagram solver returned velum. Not the paper; that has two L’s. Apparently the one L version has a long E sound and means the soft palate, or other membranous structures similar to it.

Wordle 446 4/6

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RATIO
SHALE
FLASK
CLASS

Wordle 446 5/6

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EARTH
LIONS
DUMPY
WHACK
CLASS

Wordle 446 5/6*

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AGILE
SMALL
BLAST
FLASH
CLASS

Feel like I should have done better. Wasn’t really focused at the start and made silly mistake on 2 repeating a letter in a known wrong position.

Wordle 446 3/6

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taser
clasp
class