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

The Game Room
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Wordle 481 4/6

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CRANE
STEAL
MEDAL
EQUAL

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That worked out well …

Wordle 481 3/6*

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SPAWN
VAGUE
EQUAL

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Wordle 481 3/6

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HEART
BLEAK Bleak indeed. E must be first. L is probably last. E - - AL. Oh yeah!
EQUAL

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I’m ashamed! I broke down and looked up the answer for the first time. :smile:

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Wordle 481 4/6

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CRANE
HOIST - Sacrificial lamb
LEGAL
EQUAL

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My customary 4. As usual, no other answer was possible by the time I solved it.

Wordle 481 4/6*

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IRATE
CHEAP
MEDAL
EQUAL

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Wordle 481 5/6

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AISLE
LEAKY
PLEAD
ECLAT
EQUAL

Not my best effort. After finding A and E, I gave up on the idea of a third vowel, and Q is always a blind spot. ECLAT is a very unlikely answer, but I know it from crossword puzzles, and it did (finally!) get the E and L into place. The L got to visit all five spots today! More of a struggle than it should have been.

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Wordle 481 5/6* 10/13/2022

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IONIC → A not unexpected strikeout. Next!
TRADE → Should have gone TASER or STARE here, to get the S into play. Since I was so fixed on the S, I felt like I had to repeat the A in the 3rd spot to play…
LEASH → …which at least got me the L, so that’s good.
GLEAM → E must be in first, L in third or last… E?LA?, but I’ve already tried E & T, so ECLAT is out. E??AL, and I haven’t tried the U yet, so…
EQUAL

I feel kinda happy with the five, as the Q made that one a little tricky. Perhaps I should increase priority of guessing U to spot possible Q-puzzles in the future?

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Wordle 481 3/6*

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Summary

Imbue
Chute
Equal

Still a 4 avg but a 3 today

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Wordle 481 4/6

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STERN
VIOLA
LEAFY
EQUAL

VIOLA was a throwaway guess as it doesn’t contain an E; I wanted to check the remaining vowels…except U, of course, which turned out to matter quite a lot. A long time between guesses 3 and 4–hundreds of words would have fit if not for the eliminated ‘already have been winners’ and ‘contain excluded letters’ words.

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Wordle 481 4/6

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SHALE
CLEAN
RELAX
EQUAL

I struggled to place that E and L, but after my 3rd word, they could only be first and last, so an easy solve from there as it could only be one word with that A in green too.

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Wordle 482 4/6

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CREST
MOLAR
FLOUR
FLOOR

Thought I had it with flour.

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Wordle 482 4/6

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RATIO
DRONE
SCOUR
FLOOR

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Wordle 482 6/6

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EARTH
LIONS
DUMPY
WHACK
BEFOG
FLOOR

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Wordle 482 3/6

SLANT
CHORE => _LO_R could be ‘floor’ or ‘flour’
FLOOR

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Wordle 482 4/6

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There should be a good joke about getting floor in four and “four on the floor”. “Four to get four”? Not quite. Anyway…
CRANE
TIROS
HUMOR
FLOOR.

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Wordle 482 5/6*

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BEARD
ROIST
CROWN
FLOUR <–Bastard !
FLOOR

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Fluke, but I’ll take it.

Wordle 482 3/6*

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FIELD
FAULT
FLOOR

There was only one vowel left after the first two words, so I thought “it has to be a double”. And it was.

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Wordle 482 4/6

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HEART
BROIL
PROUD throwaway to eliminate the U
FLOOR

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Hah! I out-Wordled Wordle. Earned this one through diligence.

Wordle 482 3/6*

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IRATE
SCOUR
FLOOR

Once I worked out that there is no possible word with a space between ‘O’ and ‘R’ with all other vowels eliminated (at least that I know of), it could only be a double ‘O’ – and then the two consonants immediately threw themselves at me.

Even WordleBot was impressed. :wink: (Not really.)