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

The Game Room
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Wordle 539 4/6

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LEAST
YOUNG
UNION
KNOCK

I was really thinking Union could be it considering the strike, and I completely overlooked that the U wasn’t valid. I still would have gotten it in 4 probably, as I had Onion and Minor in consideration and Knock wasn’t on my radar at that time.

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Wordle 540 3/6*

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CRANE
ANGLE
NAIVE

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Wordle 540 3/6

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CRANE
TONAL
NAIVE

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Wordle 540 3/6

SLANT
CHORE => could be MANGE or ANODE…nah, let’s go with
NAIVE

Back-to-back 3’s for the first time in a while. Had to work at it a bit, but worth it!

Tidbit: when I put the solution in my Excel spreadsheet, it turned the i into ï. Sometimes Excel is smarter than you expect.

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Wordle 540 2/6

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RAISE
NAIVE

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Wordle 540 3/6

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EARTH
LIONS
NAIVE

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Wordle 540 5/6

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Had to dance all over this one, using words with letters known not to be there just to try to place a letter or two.
HEART
CLEAN
ANGER
DANCE
NAIVE

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Me too.
Wordle 540 5/6*

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BEARD
TWEAK
MANGE
NACHE ← never heard of it !
NAIVE

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Wordle 540 2/6

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ALIEN
NAIVE

One of my favorite starting words did me well today!
It’s not often that the first word narrows it down to exactly one choice.

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Good guesses today.

Wordle 540 3/6*

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VALUE
WAIVE
NAIVE

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Wordle 540 4/6* 12/11/2022

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KNOCK → Not much there. Hunt for vowels and consonants…
STAIN → Not bad. Probably need no more vowels, but let’s try a Y while I have this in my head…
RAINY → So N must go first, and my assumption I would need no more vowels looks a bit…
NAIVE

I really like it when the position of a letter you have in yellow suddenly becomes apparent because other letters go green in the remaining positions (save one).

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I thought of MAIZE too, but didn’t know if that was a wordle word or not.

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Wow, another two!
Wordle 540 2/6

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CRANE
NAIVE

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A 4. Not my favorite.

Wordle 540 4/6*

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IRATE
ABIDE
MAIZE
NAIVE

I must have blown right past NAIVE in my word trials the first time, because I surely would have tried it over MAIZE if I’d seen it. Bah!

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Wordle 540 4/6

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AROSE
WHALE
DANCE
NAIVE

I always resist the idea of a diaeresis being part of a Wordle solution, but there it is.

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Wordle 540 4/6*

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LEAST
CREAM
APNEA
NAIVE

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Monday, December 12th

Wordle 541 3/6

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CREPT
SPOIL
APPLY

I feel like there was more than just the one answer possible after two. Luck counts!

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Wordle 540 5/6

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MEALY
GREAT
ASHEN
DANCE
NAIVE

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Wordle 541 4/6

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RATIO
SCALE
AMPLY
APPLY

Lucky third guess.

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Wordle 541 4/6

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EARTH
LIONS
DUMPY
APPLY