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

The Game Room
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Wordle 529 3/6

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CRANE
TOILS
STUDY - There are several options. Picked the right one.

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Wordle 529 4/6

SLANT
CHORE
STUMP => Thought this might be the solution, so I took a shot
STUDY => Well if you STUDY, you won’t get STUMPed

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Wordle 529 4/6*

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MOIST
ASTER
DUSTY
STUDY

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Wordle 529 3/6

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ABIDE
MOODY
STUDY

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Wordle 529 3/6*

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BEARD
DONUT
STUDY

My favorite type.

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Wordle 529 5/6

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Made work of this one.

HEART
STICK
STOOP ok, gotta be a U then, huh?
STUNG
STUDY

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Slate isn’t a fan of the NYT’s recent cutesiness in its editing of Wordle solutions.

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Wordle 529 5/6

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I’m sure Wordlebot will chastise me.

SLATE
STOMP
STINK
STUFF
STUDY

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I’m right there with yas. Not a wonderful Wordle morning. WordleBot wasn’t too harsh, though.

Wordle 529 5/6*

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IRATE
SHOUT
STUCK
STUMP
STUDY

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Wordle 529 3/6

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MOUSE
STUNK
STUDY

Nice hit on the middle U. There could have been another vowel but in this case I thought going for consonants would be more useful, and I was right. After STUNK it was either STUDY or STUFF, so no drama here today.

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Wordle 529 3/6* 11/30/2022

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UNDUE → Good start. Try another vowel, and shuffle known letters with common consonants…
ADULT → Middle U! So, only vowel? If I want to try an S, I would have STU?D or STUD?, the latter could be
STUDY

Now that Wordle has gotten cutesy with solutions, I wonder if this has to do with fall term exam week coming up…

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Wordle 529 2/6

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Summary

tardy

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Warm fuzzy for me. Not my usual start word. I was mad about yesterday-which I got in 6 after I mistyped my 5th guess.

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Exam week, huh? FINAL hasn’t been used yet.
Wonder if there’s a good 5-letter word having to do with all-nighters.

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Wordle 529 3/6

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EARTH
TOILS
STUDY

After TOILS I couldn’t be certain the solution would start with STU, but it did seem fairly likely. Out of the words I saw immediately (STUDY, STUFF, STUMP, STUNT, STUNG–I missed STUNK and STUCK), STUDY seemed most Wordle-like, so I gave it a shot.

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Wordle 529 5/6

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STOLE
STRAP
STUCK
PODGY
STUDY

Great to hit the ST in green out the gate, except way too many words it could be. I almost took a chance on Study for my 4th word, but I took the safer move and tossed out a sleuth word.

So 5 it is to end the month, which was actually a pretty good month for me overall, so I can’t complain too much.

2 = 1, 3 = 12, 4 = 11, 5 = 4, 6 = 1
(and I missed playing one game).

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Wordle 530 4/6

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RATIO
TUNES
DWELT
EJECT

Unfortunately, my average is slightly over 4 with a run of high numbers recently. This one took some thinking.

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Wordle 530 4/6

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CRIMP
SCALE
DECOY
EJECT

Had the hardest time placing the C. Speaking of that C, hitting it on the first word meant I couldn’t check all 10 letters. Bad day to drop T.

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Wordle 530 4/6*

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TRIAL
MOUNT
BESET
EJECT

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Wordle 530 5/6

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EARTH
LIONS
DUMPY
WHACK
EJECT

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Wordle 530 4/6

SLANT
CHORE => just seeing EDICT, EVICT, and EJECT from here
EDICT => narrows it down to
EJECT => only the 5th J in a solution: Q has appeared 6 times, X,Z 9 times each

One very common letter has been all but absent since the NYT took over.