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

The Game Room
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Wordle 515 4/6

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CLOPS
TAMER
FADER
BAKER

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Wordle 515 4/6*

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GRAIN
ULTRA
ABHOR
BAKER

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The streak of 3s is over.

Wordle 515 4/6*

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IRATE
CLEAR
SABER
BAKER

Identifying the ‘B’ with my third try was lucky, else I’d have been in the same boat as others.

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Wordle 515 4/6

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EARTH
RAISE
CAPER
BAKER

My ‘go through the alphabet’ habit saved me; after step 3 I made a list of all the still-allowed letters and started looking at words beginning with B. BAKER was the first one. Seeing the _ A _ ER trap would be huge, I abandoned the idea of making a full list (I’d have missed a bunch anyway) and just tried BAKER to eliminate (at least) FAKER, MAKER, RAKER, and WAKER.

Luck is important in this game.

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Wordle 515 3/6

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Slant
Abhor
Baker

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Wordle 515 5/6

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COAST
PANEL
HAVER
GAWKY
BAKER

No idea why I went with Haver over Baker, and then I was in a doozy of a trap and had to toss out a sleuth word at 4. Still could have been 3-4 other words, but I made the right choice, thankfully.

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Wordle 516 3/6

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CRISP
TAMER
THERE

Nice and quick, but undoubtedly lucky.

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Wordle 516 3/6

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RATIO
TUNER
THERE

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Wordle 516 2/6

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EARTH
THERE

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Wordle 516 3/6

SLANT
CHORE
THERE

Is it just me, or has the game become a bit too easy in the week and a half since the NYT took over curating the solutions? 3 guesses seems to be the new normal in this thread, and there’ve been an unusual number of 2’s.

For me personally, the 3’s have been easy 3’s, not really requiring much thought or skill to get a 3 rather than a 4, and I think that’s the part that bugs me. On any given day a 2 requires a big dose of luck, so if the solution comes easily in 3, where’s the challenge?

For all its idiosyncrasies (screw you, PARER!), Wardle’s list had overall a good level of challenge, and I felt like I was doing well to get a lot of 3’s mixed in with my 4’s. Now I’m starting to feel like I’m swimming in the kiddie pool.

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My scores have certainly radically improved since the takeover, no question.

Is Wardle’s original list still available online anywhere? What were the original words supposed to be?

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Wordle 516 3/6

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CRANE
TIROS
THERE

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This is the list what the next 8 words would have been. The only words in the list are those that have been answers in the last 10 days. This does include today’s word.

UNITE, SNARL, BAKER, THERE, word they may omit, maybe tomorrow’s word, word they may omit, SPELL

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Interesting. And great research, thanks much!

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Wordle 516 2/6

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After yesterday, they owed us an easy one.

HEART
THERE

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So no RAINY, MEDAL, VALET, INANE, MAPLE, on that part of Wardle’s list?

Thanks for looking!

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Wordle 516 3/6

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NOISE
FLUTE
THERE

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Wordle 516 5/6*

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BEARD
SPIRE
CHORE
WHERE
THERE

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Whodathunkit?

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They didn’t mention another meaning of ‘homer,’ a local sportscaster whose announcing is a bit too tilted towards the home team.

I can understand why English-speaking people who’ve not lived in America might be a bit upset about a solution like ‘homer.’ All I can say to them is"howdy, y’all."