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

Wordle 500 3/6

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IRATE
PLIED
PINEY

Wordle 500 6/6*

SUMAC
THEIR
BEING
LIKEN
DINED
PINEY

So, here is my complaint:


Going through Wordlebot, it really criticized my pick of DINED, even though it’s a perfectly valid word, along with the other remaining words FINED, PINED, VINED, WINED, NIXED and PINEY. Wordlebot believed that of these 7 remaining words PINEY was 99+% likely to be the answer and all the others were virtually impossible. I’m not entirely sure how I’m supposed to know that.

Wordle 500 4/6

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HEART
COVEY
COVEY Gotta be another vowel, let’s try I. And I haven’t used N yet. Wonder if PINEY is a word?
PINEY

I’m not entirely sure how I’m supposed to know that.

I’m guessing it had to do with past tense.

I assume that’s a typo, and you didn’t really make the same guess twice.

Thank you for noticing. The picks were:

HEART
FLUME
COVEY
PINEY

:+1: :slight_smile:

Past tense… I’ll have to remember that going forward.

Much appreciated.

Wordle 500 5/6

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ROUSE
FEIGN
INLET
MINED
PINEY

I doubted MINED would be the answer, but I wanted to officially eliminate the possibility of an ED ending, and that got the INE in place.
So I figured I was dealing with a Y. But my dictionary app didn’t like VINEY, and PINEY and WINEY both came up as “variant spelling of piny/winy,” rendering them very questionable. With no other ideas, I took a shot with PINEY.
Not a fan of this one.
ETA: I actually typed in HINEY first. Wordle did not accept it. :smile:

Wordle 500 4/6

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CRANE
LIVEN
SINEW
PINEY

The answer took a long time to come to me, for some reason. I thought my 3rd guess was brilliant, though. Wordlebot said that some of the choices could have been past-tense words, which I thought were not allowed. Am I wrong on that?

I checked the answer list and there are about 10 word that look like past tense words to me. Maybe some could be considered adjectives.
The 10 are… bused, clued, cried, dried, freed, fried, plied, shied, spied and tried

I don’t know about ‘allowed,’ but there are very few instances of the past tense in the 500 Wordle solutions prior to today (numbered 0 to 499). When I went looking, the only instances I found were FOUND :smiley:, UNMET, and UNFED. No instances of your standard -ED past tense ending appear. Worth keeping in mind.

While I’m rambling about data about our 500 past solutions, there are 145 instances of one letter appearing twice in a solution, four instances of a letter appearing three times in a solution, and eight instances of two different letters appearing twice each (e.g. CIVIC). Also worth keeping in the back of one’s mind.

Wordle 500 5/6*

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BEARD
SLIME
INEPT
PINES
PINEY

This one was vaguely irritating, because I had the answer after 2 guesses but thought it was such an unlikely word I kept hunting. Cost me an extra turn.

Wordle 500 4/6*

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IRATE
WIELD
VIXEN
PINEY

And I was a little surprised Wordle accepted VIXEN but not SKEIN.

Wordle 500 was the first time I’ve played that I’ve never even heard of the word. I still don’t even know what it means! Pine-scented? I got it in 4 with a lucky guess because I couldn’t think of anything else to try. Just a stab in the dark.

Wordle 500 5/6*

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Stupid reuse of a letter I’d already eliminated.

HOARD
FIRTH
LIEGE
PIXIE
PINEY

I hate when I do that.

I wish hard mode would warn me about that as well as scold me from trying to play a word without all the known letters.

Be nice, wouldn’t it? But I suppose that would make it “too easy”.

Wordle 500 3/6

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SLANT
NEIGH
PINEY

Long slog through words ending “EE” (mostly borrow words), “EIN” (Stein was eliminated by guess 1), “REN” and more. I resisted PINEY for a long time–second day with Y ending plus sort of a lame word.