Wordle 453 4/6
EARTH
STONY
CLOUT
DOUBT
Wordle 453 5/6
PIOUS
TUMOR
YOUTH
COUNT
DOUBT
Ugh, starting another five streak, I guess. This shouldn’t have been such a slog. That BT ending was just unusual enough to block my brain from seeing it earlier.
Nope, I’m out again. No more Wordle for me. Here’s tomorrow’s.
Wordle 454 X/6
Wordle 453 3/6*
Summary
Yeast grift doubt
Wordle 453 5/6
STERN
TALLY
OPTIC
BOOTH
DOUBT
Sometimes I get lucky with the opener; today I did not.
Wordle 453 4/6* 9/15/2022
THYME → An apt start. More consonants, please?
STRIP → No luck there. Gotta try some more vowels before I run out
FOUNT → Oooh, lucky guess! What goes between OU and T? Can’t be S, R, N. L? Nah. G or C? Couldn’t be. Wait, there’s one word with a B…
DOUBT
This ended pretty fast. I’m glad I got ?OU?T late so a lot of consonants had already been eliminated.
Tomorrow’s Wordle, Today
I know what this word means. I have never seen it in use. Boooo.
Wordle 454 X/6
Wordle 454
GHOST
INURE
BREAD
WAFER
CALMS
PAPER
Yeah, today’s was hard. Got it on the fifth but I was riding the strugglebus.
Wordle 454 5/6
CLASP
TAPER
GRAVY
PAWER
PARER
This answer is some bullshit. Nobody says parer, they say paring knife.
Anyway, after 2 I had positively narrowed it down to PA_ER, and had already eliminated paper. Running through the letters in my mind I could see pager, paver and payer so I guessed gravy to positively identify the answer. Nada.
So now being pissed, I cheated with an anagram solver. Plugged in all my unused letters to see if anything created a five letter word. The only thing that hit was pawer, so I tried that. Still nada.
Finally in disgust I realized that my anagram checks didn’t check for double R’s. This answer was some stupid Scrabble bullshit. The kind of thing that turns me off the game. I’ll keep playing for now, but this really took the shine off it for me.
Wordle 454 X/6
RAISE
LATER
MAKER
NYMPH
CAPER
PAVER
Darn! I made it to 197. I knew there were a ton of words possible so I went for a letter hunt on 4. I still think CAPER was a good guess, to distinguish between that, PACER and PAPER. I ended up with PAGER, PAVER and PARER and I guessed wrong. I am not sure what else I could have done.
ETA: I guess I should have tried to guess letters starting at The third guess. If I had guessed NYMPH, then CAPER then VIRGO I would have had it in six.
Oh man, I know how that feels. My first loss was at 199. It’s super frustrating; you have my sympathies.
Wordle 453 4/6
REACH
POINT
JOUST
DOUBT
Wordle 454 X/6
HEART
LIONS
DUMPY
WHACK
PAPER
PAGER
(PARER)
I guessed wrong too.
Wordle 454 6/6
Taser
Caper
Pager
Payer
Paver
Parer
I was so sure I’d get it in two, or at the most, three.
Almost didn’t get it at all!
Wordle 454 4/6
CRANE
PAGER - From experience I know there are a lot of _A_ER words with a P or G. With my normal way of playing I would struggle with those words (apparently like others have/will today). PAGER is a common second word for me to identify if it’s one of the P/G words. It helped today.
REPLY - Searching for letters. No help
PARER
Wordle 454 X/6
My first loss, and I see I had plenty of company today, which takes some of the sting off. Also, I feel I approached this problem in as intelligent a fashion as I could manage, and still lost, so I’m not slapping my head over some stupid mistake, and that takes some of the sting off too. And I share Terminus Est’s and Ellis Dee’s sentiments about this word. Nobody ever says, “parer,” they say “paring knife.”
SLANT
CHORE
AMBER
WAGER
FAKER
RARER
Summary
So after two guesses, I had the A,E.R, just not in position. AMBER took care of that, but then of course I was in the _A_ER trap, with a couple dozen legitimate words, even considering the consonants I’d eliminated, of which I took a half-dozen seriously. (PARER wasn’t one of these.) Also, just for fun, SF-related proper nouns VADER and ZAGER (as in Zager & Evans, “In the Year 2525,” enjoy the earworm!) fit.
My top possibilities were FAKER, GAZER, PAGER, WAFER, WAGER, and WAVER. (PAPER was out, it was a previous solution.) WAGER (guess 4) overlapped with all but FAKER, so FAKER was my fifth guess. At which point I was going “aw shit.”
So now I’m down to stuff like DARER (“I double dog dare you!” “Darers go first!”), PARER, PAVER, RAGER, RAKER, RAPER (I didn’t think the NYT would let this one through, though), RARER, and RAVER. RARER seemed to be (a) the most commonly used, and (b) a triple letter seemed to be just the sort of surprise to trip people up. So I went with it, and lost. Such is life.
ETA: Maybe I could’ve gotten it if I’d gone with my usual DUMPY on my third guess, because having that P would’ve helped immensely. But I already had three letters, and it seemed like it was time to start working towards the solution more directly, rather than fishing for more letters.
Wordle 454 4/6*
BEARD
GREAT
PARSE
PARER
Lucky 3rd guess.
Wordle 454 6/6
Got the first 4 letters in 3 tries. Then tried the old “is it a word?” game sticking in unused letters and found words I didn’t know existed. Then I realized there was a letter used twice.
HEART
DARES
PAREN
PAREV
PAREU
PARER
Wordle 454 X/6
My first loss in a long time. I got to a near win in three moves, then used GLOVE to wipe out three potentials winners leaving two to go. My problem: I didn’t think of PARER.
IRATE
SPEAR
PACER
GLOVE
PAYER
PAPER
ARGH! I hate the words where I’m only missing one letter and there are more possibilities than guesses left!
Wordle 454 X/6*
PHAGE
PEARL
PAPER
PACER
PALER
PAVER