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

Wordle 449 5/6

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OPIUM
IRATE
SAINT
VITAL
TIBIA

An unforced error at three put me in a very tough spot. Fortunately, VITAL gave me TI__A, and a quick run through the available letters gave me only one choice.
Still kicking myself for putting that I where I knew it didn’t go. On the other hand, had I gone with, say, SATIN, it would have left me in much the same situation. I just hate messing up like that.

Wordle 449 5/6

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This was a tough nut, but after 4 guesses it had to be T _ _ IA and I saw only one possibility
HEART
GATED
ATOMS
FLAIL
TIBIA

Wordle 449 4/6*

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BEARD
ABOUT
TABBY
TIBIA

I was ready for a 3, and I got one. (Finally!)

Wordle 449 3/6*

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IRATE
FAINT
TIBIA

May this trend continue.

Wordle 449 4/6* 9/11/2022

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LOFTY → That’s about right. Look for where the T goes…
TRADE → Found it, and a vowel as well. Not in the middle, so perhaps two vowels… we (that is, U and I) are left
TAINT → No repeated T. A must be 4th or 5th. If 4th, TI?A? goes nowhere, but if 5th, we’re looking at TI??A or T??IA… or maybe both…
TIBIA

Took some time to think of the solution after the third guess; had to put the phone down partway through, which I think helped.

I was stumped for tomorrow’s, I wasted multiple turns just to eliminate letters.

Wordle 450 6/6

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Wordle 449 4/6

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AROSE
FAITH
GIANT
TIBIA

A slog. ‘Two vowels, one of them repeated’ is not a pattern I tend to see with any sort of speed.

Seems like a faintly Biblical story there, though…

I remember something about the jawbone of an ass, but not the giant tibia. :laughing:

Tomorrow’s Wordle, Today
I’m going to need one of those, too.

Wordle 450 5/6

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Wordle 450

FEMUR
AGILE
SCOPE
EVOKE
BOOZE

Wordle 449 5/6

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RAISE
PLAIN
AVOID
MAFIA
TIBIA

I guess it really is double-letter month (7 out of 11 days so far anyways).

Wordle 450 4/6

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RATIO
LODEN
MOUSE
BOOZE

“When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”

Wordle 450 4/6

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CRITS
PANEL
HEDGE
BOOZE

Yet another 4 but at least I feel good about this one. Took a few minutes to see booze, but not overly long. I don’t see any other possible answer it could be, which I find oddly satisfying with only having identified a single letter.

Wordle 450 6/6

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EARTH
LIONS
DUMPY
WHACK
BEFOG
BOOZE

Wordle 450 3/6*

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SNAIL
ROUTE
BOOZE

Wordle 450 4/6

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My string of 3’s ended.

CRANE
TOILS
VOGUE
BOOZE

Sheesh.

Wordle 450 6/6*

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GAUNT
CRIMP
SHELF
KEBOB
BOXED
BOOZE

I swear, next time I started with ZEBRA.

Wordle 450 5/6

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This one will drive you to drink.
HEART
BLEND
BICEP
BOGUS
BOOZE

Wordle 450 3/6*

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BEARD
BLOKE
BOOZE

I sense a theme.

Wordle 350 3/6

SLANT
CHORE
BOOZE

After my second guess, I had 13 consonants left, so I wrote down the possible endings, from OBE to OZE. There were almost no pairs among those consonants that worked in combination, so I assumed a consonant-vowel start, so I mentally tried each vowel (except A, obviously) in the second spot with each of those 13 endings, to see if it would bring any words to mind. Got DIODE, GEODE, and BOOZE. The first two didn’t seem out of bounds given that BIOME was a previous solution, but BOOZE just seemed more likely.

ETA: Hope nobody saw my solution during the few seconds that it was un-spoilered.