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

The Game Room
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Wordle 517 4/6*

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BEARD
QUILT
SLOOP
GLYPH

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Wordle 517 4/6

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HEART
WHICH
BLUSH
GLYPH

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Wordle 517 3/6*

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Summary

Hyena
Psych
Glyph

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Quite happy to settle for a 4 today.

Wordle 517 4/6*

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IRATE
CLOUD
SLYLY
GLYPH

I did kind of burn a try on SLYLY, but it just seemed like such a Wordle thing to do.

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Wordle 517 3/6

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Well, that was different.

ORATE
MUSIC
GLYPH

I think we’ve all had five blanks on the first word occasionally, but ten blanks on the first two? What??
So Y has to be the only vowel… DRYLY, SLYLY, TRYST, NYMPH, LYMPH, SYLPH - all eliminated. What else, what else?
I stared for a while, took a break and played some Words With Friends, came back, stared some more, and as I downed the last sip of my coffee, it came to me.
Helluva ride.

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Same thing happened to me with different words.

AROSE
TUNIC
GLYPH

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Wordle 517 3/6* 11/18/2022

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THERE → A skimpier start than I hoped for.
CLASH → OK, -TH, -SH, and -CH endings are all out. Can’t think of any words ?L?GH. So ?L?PH it must be, which leaves…
GLYPH

I’m with EllisDee here; it seems like it should be a hard word to get in 3, but with good early eliminations (e.g. mattgg and Wheelz) it kinda falls out.

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Wordle 517 4/6

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CRANE
SPOIL
PLUMP
GLYPH

An odd and difficult word. I would suspect a lot of folks not getting it at all.

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Wordle 517 4/6

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STARE
BOING
GULCH
GLYPH

Only a par, but very fast and kind of fun. (Though it might not have been if I hadn’t used BOING to check O and I–as it gave me the G.)

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Wordle 517 3/6*

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TEMPO
GRAPH
GLYPH

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Wordle 517 4/6*

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ADIEU
STORY
NYMPH
GLYPH
Pleased to get it in 4; WordleBot says that the NYT average for today is 3.8

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That’s happened to me more than once.

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Wordle 517 3/6

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COAST
REIGN
GLYPH

Getting the G in my second word was key, along with knowing only U and Y remain for vowels, and it didn’t end in GY. I came up with 4 possible words: gummy, gully, guppy, and glyph. I chose the one without the double letters. :wink:

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Wordle 518 5/6

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RATIO
TRAMP
STRAW
ALERT
AVERT

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Wordle 518 3/6

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CREST
OVERT
AVERT

Killer opening word but still couldn’t manage a 2. At least I remembered that inert had already been an answer.

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Wordle 518 3/6

SLANT
CHORE
AVERT

After my second guess, there weren’t a lot of alternatives to check out, and I’m pretty sure the solution was the only word that fit.

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Wordle 518 4/6

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CRANE
PAGER
ALERT
AVERT

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Wordle 518 4/6

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ASIDE
AMBER
ALERT
AVERT

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Wordle 518 3/6*

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BEARD
AFIRE
AVERT ← Lucky i saw that before ALERT !

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Wordle 518 3/6

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HEART
ALERT
AVERT