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

The Game Room
7861

Wordle 542 4/6

SLANT
CHORE
SMOKE
SPOKE

After my second guess, it came down to a coin flip between SMOKE and SPOKE. Sometimes you win the coin toss, sometimes you lose.

7862

Wordle 542 3/6*

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BEARD
SPIKE ← :astonished:
SPOKE

7863

Wordle 542 4/6

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CRANE
TOILS
SHOVE
SPOKE

7864

Wordle 542 5/6

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NOISE
STORE
SHOVE
SLOPE
SPOKE

7865

Wordle 542 5/6*

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Not a good starting word, today.

FAVOR
TOKEN
CHOKE
SMOKE
SPOKE

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Wordle 542 3/6

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HEART
SPOIL
SPOKE

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Wordle 542 5/6

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ORATE
NOISE
SHOVE
PLUCK
SPOKE

After three, I had a choice to either sidestep the trap and guarantee a five, or dive in head-first hoping to luck into a four (but risk a six or even a fail). It was not a difficult decision. Sometimes you gotta take the bogey.

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Aarrgghh. I gotta start going more with my instincts.

Wordle 542 4/6*

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IRATE
CHOSE
SLOPE
SPOKE

I had SPOKE before SLOPE, but then I thought… they wouldn’t use another ‘K’ already, would they? Oh, yes. Yes, they would. :woman_facepalming:

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Wordle 542 4/6* 10/13/2022

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APPLY → One and only one P, placed. Best consonant to lead with is an S, so…
SPORT → Good luck on the O. It’s a bit trappish, though. Try a double, like I didn’t yesterday?
SPOON → Nope. What’s left? An E, though only one letter to go between them…
SPOKE

Might have gone with SPOKE first if I had seen it. Still, not bad.

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Wordle 542 6/6

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Alien
Mouse
Store
Shove
Scope
Spoke

7871

Wordle 542 5/6

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SLANT
SERUM
SHOVE
SCOPE
SPOKE

I probably should have been more systematic/done more research after getting the S (with position) and E, but I don’t tend to enjoy playing that way. Oh, well.

It’s made up almost entirely of words I’ve seen in other people’s guesses in this thread (so thanks to all!) :slightly_smiling_face:

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Wordle 542 4/6

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GREAT
CHOSE
SLOPE
SPOKE

Same! And the two P’s and L yesterday made it a difficult choice of which word to go with. Wordle being tricksy again, but that makes it more challenging, if you like that sort of thing. :wink:

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nevermind…made a silly mistake

7874

Wordle 542 5/6*

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LEAST
SNIDE
SCORE
SMOKE
SPOKE
Arghh! I thought that SMOKE was less probable than SPOKE so I don’t know why I went with it first. And I see that I wasn’t the only one in the S_O_E trap.

And didn’t someone say upthread that there seem to be more O words than usual this month?

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Wednesday, December 14th

Wordle 543 4/6

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CROPS
STALE
NASAL
USUAL

And thus ends my 3 streak.

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Wordle 543 4/6

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RATIO
LEANS
SULFA
USUAL

This one I count as a loss because I cheated. It took me forever to find SULFA and after that I was completely lost so I resorted to an anagram finder. In my mind doing that or looking at a word list is cheating. YMMV but I want to think of the words on my own but I just couldn’t get it.

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Wordle 543 3/6*

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GROVE
ASPIC
USUAL

Felt a bit brave jumping in with the double U

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Wordle 543 4/6

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EARTH
LIONS
DUMPY
USUAL

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Wordle 543 3/6

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AUDIO
SAUCE
USUAL

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Wordle 543 3/6

SLANT => a good start with the, um, usual starting word
LASER => thought this might be the solution, but it was a good followup regardless
USUAL

This one was fun. Went off the usual sequence for a second guess that I thought might have been the solution, but if not, was going to be very helpful anyway. When I wrote down the possible positions of the letters I knew after 2 guesses, the solution jumped out at me pretty quickly, but it took a few minutes to make sure I wasn’t overlooking alternatives. And of course, it’s always good to get a 3.