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

Wordle 446 4/6*

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Early
Slain
Glass
Class

Wordle 446 3/6

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CRANE
TOILS - ignoring the two greens and finding more letters.
Has to be CLA_S. Other than plural words the only word I see is
CLASS

Wordle 446 3/6

SLANT => Could be clash, clasp, class, flash, flask (glass has been used)
CLASH => Down to class and clasp. Am I feeling lucky?
CLASS => Won the coin toss

Wordle 446 5/6

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HEART
BLANK
PLAID
GLASS
CLASS

Wordle 446 4/6

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Better focus than yesterday, which wouldn’t take much. Alphabet coin toss made me miss getting it in three.

HEART
SLANG
GLASS
CLASS

Wordle 446 5/6*

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BEARD
SLACK ← Woohoo !! 3 for me today …
CLASH ← ?! Bastard !
CLASP ← ??? Double Bastard !!!
CLASS ffs !

Me and another 4. I figure I should write a song.

Wordle 446 4/6*

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IRATE
POACH
SCALY
CLASS

Wordle 446 4/6

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NOISE
MARSH
CLASP
CLASS

Like pjd, I thought I had a three. (But only after the letters started turning over.) CLASH was already eliminated, so at least the four was in the bag.

Wordle 446 4/6* 9/8/2022

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LEERY → Need some more common letters
PLAIT → Lucky double match! With A in the middle, there may be no other vowels… let’s hit some more consonants
SLANG → Hmm. Wordle hates plurals, so ?LAS? is likely. Can’t think of a BLAS? word (not BLAST or BLASE). FLASH maybe. or CLASH, or…
CLASS

CLASH was probably a better triage word, but I have a bias towards repeat letters.

Not so good, but still successful.

Wordle 446 6/6*

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OCEAN
ARTIC
CALYX
CLAMP
CLASH
CLASS

My starter word for tomorrow’s was contemporarily themed, but it turned out I had it backwards.

Wordle 447 5/6

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Wordle 446 3/6

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STERN
CHAOS
CLASS

A lucky guess 2 (to test two more vowels plus a consonant-combo, after a dud guess 1) led to a fairly obvious word to try for guess 3–and it worked out.

Tomorrow’s Wordle, Today
My first guess was decidedly sub-optimal, but I thought it appropriate.

Wordle 447 3/6

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Wordle 447

QUEEN → R.I.P.
LIEGE
THEME → There is one, isn’t there?

Wordle 446 3/6

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CRATE
LIONS
CLASS
Pleased to get it in 3, even though it contains yet another double letter, a pet peeve of mine

Wordle 446 4/6

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COAST
CLASH
CLASP
CLASS

C’mon Wordle…four days in a row of double letters? At this point, I know they are just trying to mess with us.

My start word was great…three greens. But then I had another long list of words it could be. I decided to go with the CL words since there were three of them, and good choice, but now was left with choosing between two words again, and again choosing wrong. I was actually happy to get it in 4 though, considering how many possible words there were after my start word.

@EllisDee, that is a good idea to use an anagram solver for next time I need a sleuth word! I usually try to use my own brain power, but it doesn’t always cooperate. :wink:

Wordle 447 4/6

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CLIPS
TORAN
TEETH
THEME

I don’t know what a toran is. I tried all permutations of amrot but there doesn’t appear to be a word there. So I switched M for N, and the very first attempt hit.

I think by any measure that technique is fair play – brute forcing the five letters you want until you stumble onto a valid guess – but I’m starting to wonder if there’s any functional difference between that and just using an anagram solver.

Wordle 447 3/6

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RATIO
LUSTY
THEME

Just another lucky guess. I assume that there were other options but I say this word and went with it.

Wordle 447 3/6*

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GROAN
IMPEL
THEME

Not sure how I got here in 3

Wordle 447 4/6

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EARTH
LIONS
DUMPY
THEME

Wordle 447 3/6

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taser
twine
theme