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

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Wordle 536 3/6* Pearl Harbor Day 2022

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AMBER → An anagram of BREAM. Well, anyway, let’s try something with O & I…
STOIC → OSTEO is out, I think the ST are an ending, O must be second - try something with a U?
JOUST

A very lucky 3 for me. Upon reflection, my second guess should have been HOIST to try the H, which would have led directly to the answer.

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A rare two for me in 536, by virtue of my standard starting word (which I doggedly stick with even though it isn’t that statistically advantageous): JOULE.

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It really isn’t statistically advantageous: this is only the sixth time that the letter J has been part of a solution.

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Wordle 536 4/6*

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CLOUD
TOUGH
MOUNT
JOUST

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Wordle 536 3/6

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EARTH
JOINT
JOUST

“BOING” is on my short list of ‘words to try because they can test untested vowels, but don’t have R, S, or T because I’ve probably already checked those consonants.’ But today I DID need the T, so tried “JOINT” as a similar word. Lucky!

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Wordle 536 4/6

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SLICE
TRASH
BOSSY
JOUST

I forgot to play the T in my 3rd word…could have had this in 3. :roll_eyes:

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Wordle 537 3/6

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RATIO
LINER
INFER

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Wordle 537 4/6

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CLIPS
MERIT
IRATE
INFER

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Wordle 537 4/6

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EARTH
LIONS
INNER
INFER

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Wordle 537 4/6*

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PIOUS
IMAGE
INSET
INFER

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Wordle 537 4/6

SLANT
CHORE
GIMPY
INFER

Took a bit of work, but was still able to pull out the 4. It’s days like this that make it interesting.

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Wordle 537 4/6*

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BEARD
GRIME
FIRES
INFER

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btw, has anyone tried Bindle ?

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Wordle 537 3/6

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CRANE
LINER
INFER

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Wordle 537 4/6

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ASIDE
TIGER
INNER
INFER

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Wordle 537 5/6

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HEART
JOKER
WISER
INNER
INFER

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Google provided a list of most searched words, events, etc. of 2022.
The most popular search is for “Wordle”.
Of the 10 “most searched definitions”, eight of them were Wordle answers this year.

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Bah. Even Wordlebot couldn’t find anything good to say about this effort.

Wordle 537 5/6

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CRANE
NERVE
SANER
UNDER
INFER

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A 2! My 28th out of 324 games played.

Wordle 537 2/6*

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IRATE
INFER

WordleBot said there were 3 other possible words besides the answer. I found one of them (INNER), but I wouldn’t have tried any of them before trying INFER. (They were ICIER and IDLER.) I still resist double consonants, which is often a mistake. But not today. :slight_smile:

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Wordle 537 3/6

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AGILE
INTER
INFER

Lucky second guess. Or smart - however you want to look at it. :blush: