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

Wordle 523 3/6

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STERN
LEAST
FEAST

I’m another who couldn’t quite believe they’d be so overt with the holiday-theming. I could easily have had a 2! But at least (!) this was a fast 3.

Wordle 523 4/6*

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PIANO
SLATE
YEAST
FEAST
I saw YEAST before FEAST, which I should have guessed given the recent themed trend

This went very well today.

Wordle 523 2/6*

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FLOAT
FEAST

Friday, November 25th

Wordle 524 4/6

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CLOMP
TRACE
SCUFF
ITCHY

Screwed up by not using the T for my attempted solution at 3. I don’t know how many words were possible, but it felt like none until I finally saw itchy.

Wordle 523 2/6

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CRANE
FEAST

I’ve been checking for the C all month (it’s often in my first two words)…last time it showed up was 10/27, which is a little unusual. Anyhow, when the A hit in 3rd spot, and E in yellow, I figured it had to be: Beast, Feast, Least, or Yeast. And I just knew it had to be the “theme” word, and yep. :slight_smile:

Hope everyone had a Happy Thanksgiving! :turkey:

Wordle 524 4/6

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RATIO
TILED
STING
ITCHY

I was expecting a Black Friday reference. Not sure how this one relates.

Wordle 524 4/6

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EARTH
LIONS
SIMPLY
ITCHY

Wordle 524 4/6

SLANT
CHORE
WIPED
ITCHY

Before I even started, I checked the list of past solutions to make sure BLACK (as in Friday, of course) was already taken (it was).

After my first two words, I was assuming a TCH ending, so I was coming up with BITCH, DITCH, PITCH, WITCH, BUTCH, and previous solution DUTCH. I figured BUTCH was unlikely and BITCH was right out, so I went with WIPED as my third word to see which one of the others it was. It wasn’t any of them, as it turned out, but I saw the solution pretty quickly then.

Wordle 524 4/6

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CRANE
LOTIC
STICK
ITCHY

Wordle 524 3/6

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SAUCE
IRONY
ITCHY

Mrs. solost and I play Wordle together. She had a theory that since the change in word curation, they’ve been doing words themed to the day or a current event, which she thought was stupid if true. Her evidence? The word UNITE a couple days after the election. MEDAL on Veteran’s Day. I thought, eh, could be a coincidence.

Then yesterday, Thanksgiving Day, the word was FEAST :roll_eyes: I knew it as soon as I got the F and the A.

Also, BEGIN for the first day NYT took over the curation. Obviously they can’t do this every day, but with the three you mention, and BEGIN and Wednesday’s DRIVE, that’s five seemingly themed solutions in the 19 days since they took over curating the list. They really need to ease way off on this, even if it does provide an unusual number of opportunities to get a 1.

ETA: Thinking ahead, LIGHT has already been used, which is the only 5-letter word that I can think of that’s Hanukah-related. For Christmas, GOOSE has been used, but SANTA himself is still available, as are two of his reindeer: VIXEN and CUPID. (COMET’s been used.) They’re more likely to save CUPID for Valentine’s Day, so…

Wordle 524 4/6*

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BEARD
QUILT
STOIC
ITCHY

BAH.

I’ll take it because it’s not a loss.

Wordle 524 5/6*

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JOUST
TRIAL
FETID
PITCH (stupid me, I know the T doesn’t go there!)
ITCHY

Wordle 524 4/6

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HEART
THINK
PITHY
ITCHY

Comet and vixen are not necessarily proper names, but the other two are. Is that allowed?

Anyway, on to today’s:
Wordle 524 4/6

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CRANE
SCOLD
HITCH
ITCHY

Wordle 524 4/6

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CAMEO
TUNIC
PITCH
ITCHY

Kind of a fun par. I had four letters, in order, and just needed to shift them all one space to the left and add a Y.
Now I have “:musical_note:The Itchy and Scratchy Shoooow! :musical_note:” stuck in my head.

I really hope the NYT is not considering opening the game up to proper nouns. I doubt they are though.

Another 3. I had to wrench on this one, though. The coffee is cold!

Wordle 524 3/6*

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IRATE
INPUT
ITCHY

Even WordleBot was impressed, because my second try eliminated all other words but the solution. :wink:

I noticed this morning that DUTCH was a past solution (#119). (Blurred for its relevance to today.) It’s not a noun, but it’s capitalized as if it were a proper noun. (Proper adjective - is that a thing?)

For Christmas they could use either snowy or white, but I didn’t check if either had been used.