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

Wordle 500 3/6* All Saints' Day 2022

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APTLY → Not a bad start. Hunt for P position, along with a couple more vowels…
DOPEY → Still another vowel out there. I, U or a second E. Oh, and starts with P. Too sleepy, I’m off to bed. So, next afternoon, I open it up and I see…
PINEY

I grew up in North Carolina, where this is most emphatically a word.

Thanks for that. Talk about freakin’ obscure!

Wordle 500 4/6
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SLATE
EIDER
VIXEN
PINEY
Boo indeed! I also saw PINEY on my 3rd guess but rejected it and went with VIXEN, preferring it as being a real word.

Wordle 500 6/6

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CHOIR
SAINT
WINDY
PINKY
PINNY
PINEY

Dumb word. Who uses that word…ever? I mean, do people walk in the forest and say, “mmmm, smells nice and piney!” I don’t. That said, I have no idea why I didn’t check the E earlier on, so that’s on me. At least I didn’t fail though, so there’s that.

Wordle 501 3/6

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CLIPS
GIMPY
INEPT

Clips narrowed it down so much that I started guessing for the answer immediately. Lucky opener gives an easy 3. (Lucky that I happened to check i, which only 4 of my 18 openers do.)

Wordle 501 4/6

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RATIO
TILDE
EXIST
INEPT

Wordle 501 3/6

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EARTH
LIONS
INEPT

I’m not finding any of these on my list of past solutions. Which Wordles were they the solutions to? And if you’re looking at an online list, a link would be helpful.

Wordle 501 2/6

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Slant
Inept

Wordle 501 3/6

SLANT
INGOT
INEPT

I was going to go with INERT as my second guess, so I went with INGOT instead. Have no idea why I didn’t see INEPT first. Coulda had a 2!

ETA: And Newtosite pulls it off. WTG!

There are lists on the internet with the word list and date. However, NYT has removed words. I removed the date and sorted it so I don’t know if they are past or future words.

Wordle 501 3/6

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My picks yesterday were:
CRANE, LEMON, INEPT, PINEY
Today they were:
CRANE, LEMON, INEPT I

Wordle 501 4/6

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alone
stein
inert
inept

Wordle 501 4/6

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HEART
EVENT
KNELT
INEPT - so Wordle is insulting us now

I don’t want to make a big deal of it, but a warning would be appreciated when a spoiler box potentially contains future solutions.

Wordle 501 5/6

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With good reason.

CRANE
DENSE
NOVEL
QUEEN
INEPT

I didn’t give any words. I was saying that the words and dates are available on the internet. It would take away the fun of the game for me if I used the words for solving a game.

Wordle 501 3/6

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AISLE
INTER
INEPT

Fun three. I don’t usually worry about getting all the Wheel of Fortune consonants out early, but in this case it certainly helped.

I agree with Rufus. Any words from a leaked future answer list shouldn’t be on this thread, even without dates.

Um…

You gave ten words. You said they were from “the answer list.”

And then you said this:

I’m open to an explanation other than that you shared ten words from an answer list that included both past and future solutions, and you don’t know which are which, but I can’t come up with that explanation on my own. That has to come from you.