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

Wordle 447 4/6*

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BEARD
CHIME
RHYME
THEME

Wordle 447 3/6

SLANT => Slow start
CHORE => Better! But where’s the T? Could be theme or thyme, but white works too
THEME => Figured if I was wrong, I’d still have it in 4. But guessed right

Wordle 447 3/6

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CRANE
TOILS
THEME

Wordle 447 3/6

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AGENT
TWERP
THEME

Wordle 447 5/6

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HEART
THIEF
THOSE
THYME
THEME

Wordle 447 4/6

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OLIVE
CAUSE
METRE
THEME

Two words in with nothing but a terminal E had me worried for a bit, but my third rescued me. Not sure if the NYT would go with the British spelling of METRE (probably not), but it was a valid and helpful guess.

Can you guess? Another 4!

Wordle 447 4/6*

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IRATE
STONE
THYME
THEME

An acceptable three for tomorrow’s.

Wordle 448 3/6

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Wordle 447 3/6

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STARE
TINGE
THEME

Found “tinge” in my list of recent guesses (which are word not yet winners, with a couple of accidental exceptions.) Excluded letters made “theme” a logical next guess.

Wordle 447 4/6* 9/9/2022

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CLASS → clean miss. Common letter word, anyone?
TROPE → Two hits is very not bad. Can’t think of a T???E word using U, so I’ll try an I…
TITHE → Missed on the repeat T, hit on the H. So probably TH???E. Haven’t tried N or M yet… the latter gives me two possibilities; I’ll try the more common one
THEME

Big turnaround from first guess to second today.

Tomorrow’s Wordle, Today
I think Wordle is still in mourning.

Wordle 448 4/6

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Wordle 448

DOING
TORUS
HOTEL
LOFTY

Wordle 447 4/6

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LIONS
CRATE
DUMPY
THEME
Enough with the repeated letters!

Wordle 448 4/6

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RATIO
TOUCH
BOOTY
LOFTY

Didn’t spend too much time on this one. Just tried to find letters that fit.

Wordle 447 4/6

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MANOR
SMILE
THYME
THEME

I really thought I had it at 3, but nope. Wordle forgot to tell us it’s double-letter word month. Now we know.

Wordle 448 4/6

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EARTH
LIONS
LOTTO
LOFTY

Wordle 448 5/6*

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GLEAM
PILOT
TROLL
LOTTO
LOFTY

I didn’t do that very well, but I got away with it as I approach my second 100 streak.

Wordle 448 3/6

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CRANE
TOILS
LOFTY

Wordle 448 6/6*

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BEARD
QUILT
STOOL
MOLTO
LOTTO
LOFTY

That was hard work …

Wordle 448 4/6

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CRAMP
STOLE
LOTTO
LOFTY

Could not see lofty for the life of me. Couldn’t see anything that would fit at 3 other than lotto, which I don’t love as an answer. And of course assuming it wasn’t lotto, the double double wouldn’t offer a lot of research value. But I could not see anything else so I slept on it. Woke up, still nothing, bit the bullet and guessed lotto. Those greens saved my ass.

I now have more 4s than 3s. I think I’ve lost the touch. Sad panda.

Made work of this one.

Wordle 448 5/6

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HEART
STILL
CLOTS
MOUTH
LOFTY