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

The Game Room
7881

Wordle 543 4/6

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CRANE
TOILS
SALSA - Not a double A
USUAL - A double U

7882

Wordle 543 3/6*

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BEARD
ASPIC
USUAL

7883

Somewhat difficult one today.

Wordle 543 4/6*

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STAIN
PARSE
SULFA <— this was dumb, I knew S wasn’t the first letter!
USUAL

7884

Wordle 543 5/6

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Note to self- figure out the vowels first
HEART
PLAID
CALLS
SNAIL
USUAL

7885

I decided to go more on instinct and not second-guess myself. That worked out today. For a change.

Wordle 543 3/6*

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IRATE
CLOAK
USUAL

7886

Wordle 543 4/6

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NOISE
STARK
BASAL
USUAL

Yep. I talked myself out of a 3 today. Was going to put SAUCY as my second word, but thought the terminal Y waould be a poor choice so early. Had I done that, USUAL would have been my only third option.

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Wordle 543 4/6

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CRANE
ALOUD
FAULT
USUAL

7888

Wordle 543 3/6

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EARTH
SLAIN
USUAL

Put in a fair amount of time looking for words starting with A or L, but eventually got around to “_S_AL” and of course that led to ‘usual.’

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Wordle 543 4/6* 12/14/2022

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SPOKE → Not much of a start. Common letters and two different vowels…
STAIR → But it would have helped to change where I guessed the ‘S’… sigh… move 'em around this time
AUNTS → A hit on the guessed U - but I already tried a ‘T’. SAUNA is out. Haven’t tried an L yet. Hmm…
USUAL

Two misplays. I got rather lucky today.

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Thursday, December 15th

Wordle 544 3/6

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CLASP
LATER
RIVAL

So satisfying to go from only yellow to all green.

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Wordle 543 4/6

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TEACH
GRAIN
DOULA
USUAL

Well there I go again playing a yellow letter in the same spot twice. Took me a while to see the word too, but got there in 4, so that’s fine.

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Wordle 544 2/6

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RATIO
RIVAL

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Wordle 544 4/6*

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PLAIT
INLAY
AXIAL
RIVAL

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Wordle 544 3/6

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EARTH
LIONS
RIVAL

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Wordle 544 4/6

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CRANE
PARTY
MOLAR
RIVAL

7896

Wordle 544 4/6

SLANT
CHORE
RURAL
RIVAL

After my second guess, LARVA would have been a possibility, but I was surprised to find out it had already been used. Wardle’s list was…interesting.

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Wordle 544 2/6

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RAISE
RIVAL

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Wordle 544 3/6

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HEART
BRIAR
RIVAL

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VERY good day for me. Good first guess.

Wordle 544 2/6*

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RAISE
RIVAL

@chiliwillybing, looks like we took the exact same route.

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Yep! RAISE is one of my favorite starter words. I almost went for RIATA but figured that might not be a wordle word.