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

Wordle 514 3/6

SLANT => Dayum, that’s a good start. So if it isn’t
SNAIL => then it must be
SNARL

Exact same sequence as @newtosite :slight_smile: .

Wordle 514 6/6*

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BEARD
SWARF
STARK
SCARY
SHARP
SNARL

Damn. So many choices after guess 2. Very nearly went with SMARM as my last guess.

Wordle 514 4/6

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NOISE
SPAWN
SNACK
SNARL

Wordle 514 5/6

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HEART
DIARY
ALARM
GNARL
SNARL

Wordle 514 3/6

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CRANE
UNARM
SNARL - either this or ‘snark’. I have chosen. . .wisely.

Wordle 514 2/6

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ARIEL
SNARL

Went against my usual strategy. Normally I’d have put another vowel in my second word (MORAL, MURAL, CAROL, etc), but for some reason I really wanted the N in there. It worked out.

My last four days have been 5-2-5-2. I’m all over the place.

Wordle 514 4/6*

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TWINE
URBAN
SONAR
SNARL

Wordle 514 3/6

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SLANT
SNAIL
SNARL

Exact same sequence as BOTH Rufus and newtosite! (Three with the same guesses: surely that’s a first, here.)

Anyway: this one took three minutes, which is the way I like it. (Obviously Guess 1 isn’t always as lucky as it was today.)

More with the 3s.

Wordle 514 3/6*

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IRATE
CHARM
SNARL

This one was due to a lot of luck. Well, that and my propensity to eliminate ‘S’ and ‘L’ from consideration if possible. This was the only word I found that would let me do that in one go.

Wordle 514 3/6

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TEACH
SLAIN
SNARL

Wordle 515 6/6

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RATIO
LADEN
CAPER
GAMER
WAVER
BAKER

And checking common letters also does no good. Just lucky to get it at all. I don’t see how I could have done much better.Not sure even a test word would have helped.

Wordle 514 4/6* 11/15/2022

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MAPLE → More common consonants, and another vowel, perhaps?
TRAIL → A right in the middle means it may be the only vowel. R?A?L goes nowhere, so let’s try ??ARL…
GNARL → Why did I think of this first before the word that uses an S?
SNARL

Coulda had it in 3, if I had thought a bit longer.

Wordle 515 6/6

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EARTH
LIONS
DUMPY
WHACK
FAKER
BAKER

Wordle 515 4/6

SLANT
CHORE
GIMPY
BAKER

I was lucky to hold this to a 4, as there were certainly other possibilities for my 4th guess. Got a little nudge in the right direction from the Death Pool thread. :slight_smile:

Wordle 515 3/6*

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BEARD
BREAK
BAKER

Well, that’s better.

Wordle 515 5/6

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CRANE
PAGER - One of those _A_ER words
MIGHT - Looking for letters
WALKS - Still looking for letters, found the K
BAKER

Wordle 515 3/6

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IDEAL
TRACE
BAKER

Wordle 515 6/6

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In the immortal words of Ted Striker: what a pisser

HEART
RACER
LAYER
PAPER
WADER
BAKER

Wordle 515 4/6

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OUNCE
LEAST
BREAK
BAKER

Very glad I didn’t fall into the _A_ER trap. You might say I caught a lucky BREAK at three.

Wordle 515 4/6

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Don’t know how I managed to pick the correct first and third letters in one shot.

SPATE
CLEAN
EAGER
BAKER