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

Perfectly happy with 3 today.

Wordle 464 3/6

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HEART
BROOM
BRISK

Got real lucky on my 3rd work which instantly solved the puzzle. And while I don’t strictly play in “hard mode”, I typically do unless I am not getting letters.

Wordle 464 4/6
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IRATE
CRIMP
DRIBS
BRISK

Wordle 464 4/6

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ROUTE
BRAIN
BRICK
BRISK

The BR on two was fortunate; I was strictly looking for vowels there. I still chose wrong on three, but this could have been much tougher than it turned out to be.

I played this way up till now. But twice in the last several days I’ve tried words that were already answers. It irritates me, because if I had remembered, I wouldn’t have tried the word.

Every day there are more words that are “has-beens” that could have been the answer otherwise. My approach to playing is rigid and so not remembering has a decided downward push on my stats. (Which probably don’t matter anymore anyway, since it’s going to be a long time before I exceed my last streak!)

Anyway, that’s my excuse and I’m sticking with it. :wink:

Wordle 464 3/6*

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IRATE
CRISP
BRISK

Coffee’s still hot. :slight_smile: (Old fashioned manual pour-over cone with a reusable stainless steel filter, with freshly ground whole beans from a roaster I’ve been ordering from since… well, a really effin’ long time.)

Holy … something or other. Second day in a row this has happened.

Wordle 464 2/6*

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CLASH
BRISK

Nah, you don’t need any excuses. We’re all playing the game however we want to, and I wouldn’t have it any other way.

Wordle 464 5/6* 9/26/2022

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ADMIT → OK. Guess I get to try my recent go-to second word…

SHIRE → That paid off well! With a central vowel, maybe it’s the only one… but I should check
RUINS → OSIER would almost fit, but the E does it in. So it must be ?RIS?, and no terminal H or T. Two ?RISK possibilities, but only one ?RISP, so try
FRISK → Ah, well.
BRISK

If I had thought like @RTFirefly I coulda had a 4.

Again, we were very close but your second word, which was the same as mine but with an S, was the better choice. You bested me today! I also again finish before my coffee was ready. Takes about 5 minutes for the water to boil (I grind the beans by hand as I’m waiting while also doing Wordle - I’m quite the multitasker :wink: ), then another 4 minutes in the French press.

Wordle 464 4/6

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taser
flown
crisp
brisk

Wordle 464 3/6

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ROAST
SWISH
BRISK

Word ending “IS_” and the blank cannot be a T or an H…going through the alphabet…“ISC” maybe, but “ISK” is closer to standard English (i.e. not being a borrow-word from French or such). “ISP” is another good possibility.

Try “ISK”…brisk; frisk—try BRISK to narrow things down…

So cool. :smiley:

Wordle 465 5/6

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CLIPS
STARE
SHOWN
SMOKY
SOGGY

Super distracted watching the end of the Giants game. Reused O in a known bad position with guess 4. And now the Giants lost.

Wordle 465 4/6

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RATIO
NODES
LOUSY
SOGGY

Wordle 464 4/6

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CORAL
PRUNE
FRISK
BRISK

Wordle 465 4/6*

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GLEAN
THIGH
FOGGY
SOGGY

Wordle 465 4/6

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crane
twist
shout
soggy

Slow start…but I got it. :slight_smile:

Got this one in three off a lucky guess.

Wordle 465 3/6

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TRANS
LOUIE
SOGGY

I didn’t actually expect that to be the right answer, I was juat trying to figure out if Y was a vowel.

Wordle 465 4/6

SLANT
CHORE
DUMPY
SOGGY

Another of those ‘what letters do I still have left?’ solutions.

^ Yes.

Wordle 465 4/6*

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BEARD
QUILT
SPOOK
SOGGY

Wordle 465 4/6

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EARTH
LIONS
DUMPY
SOGGY