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

The Game Room
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Wordle 532 4/6*

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PULSE
HARSH
FIRST
TORSO

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Wordle 532 3/6

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HOUSE
MOIST
TORSO

Had to run through the keyboard with T in both positions twice before I saw TORSO. It was my only choice, but still tough to get. Nice mental workout.

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Yes, let’s carry on with the 3s!

Wordle 532 3/6*

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IRATE
SHORT
TORSO

Quick one today, the coffee’s still hot. WordleBot says I’m smarter than I look. (Not really.)

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Wordle 532 3/6

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Happy to oblige with another 3.

I’d have been happy with a 4, but a 3 even more so.
HEART
TRICK
TORSO

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Wordle 532 3/6

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Very lucky guess with the second word.

CRANE
STORM
TORSO

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Wordle 532 4/6* 12/3/2022

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CHAFE → Clean miss. Try two more vowels and common consonants
PRION → Not bad. Another vowel, and S & T?
ROUST → I don’t need U. R must go in middle, so T at start, TORS- means
TORSO

If I had gone with RO(I/U)ST instead of PRION for the second guess, I might have gotten it in 3.

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Wordle 532 3/6

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OUTER
TORCH
TORSO

My usual-rotation starter gave me three letters, and guessing a ‘start with the T’ word for choice 2 gave me the solution. (Was there any other word that could have fit after choice 2?)

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The only other word I can see that would fit is torts, but as a plural ending in s that would only be a valid guess, not a valid solution.

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Sunday, December 4th

Wordle 533 3/6

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CLOPS
THORN
ADORE

Couple departures from my usual strategy here: I used a rare H in my second word (normally trying for clamp store) and also didn’t check even a second vowel, much less a third. Both were because neither of my normal follow-ups in this situation (trope, metro) followed hard mode rules.

Neither change seemed to particularly help or hurt me this time, though it felt a little unnerving having only checked a single vowel.

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Wordle 532 4/6

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ORATE
STORM
ROTOR
TORSO

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Wordle 533 4/6

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RATIO
SOLAR
ACORN
ADORE

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Wordle 532 4/6

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Wordle 533 2/6

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This one really surprised me!
Crane
Adore

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Wordle 533 4/6*

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PRIME
GLARE
NACRE
ADORE

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Wordle 533 3/6

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EARTH
LIONS
ADORE

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Wordle 533 3/6

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CRANE
PARSE
ADORE

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Wordle 533 4/6

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RAISE
CRATE
AGREE
ADORE

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Wordle 533 3/6

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HEART
SPARE
ADORE

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Wordle 533 3/6

SLANT
CHORE
ADORE => I only saw one other possibility, and that’s AMORE. :wink:

From yesterday:

My dead-trees dictionary had torsi as an alternative plural of the solution, but that’s got to be way too obscure to be a solution. So effectively no.

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Wordle 533 4/6

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LOUSE
TRONE
CHORE
ADORE

I didn’t think TRONE was actually a word (it’s a type of scale, apparently), but I wanted to get T, R, and N. I’ll have to remember that one for future use.
Had a shot at a 3 if I’d done my usual vowel check, but I’m OK with the par here.