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

The Game Room
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Wordle 552 4/6*

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BEARD
RIVAL
MAJOR
AORTA

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Nice to be back to a three.

Wordle 552 3/6*

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IRATE
PARTY
AORTA

I wasn’t really sure AORTA was the answer, but the word allowed me to test placement of the ‘A’ in both remaining spots. I figured the worst I could do was a four. Then WordleBot tells me it was the only word left after my second try. So yayyy, I guess.

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Got confused on the colors. Thought blue was correct. :roll_eyes:
Wordle 552 5/6

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CRANE
TRAIL
SMART
WARTY
AORTA

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Wordle 552 4/6

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MAUVE
TRAIN
ABORT
AORTA

Like @psychobunny, I doubted ABORT would be a Wordle answer, but I wanted to get an O in there and that was all I could think of. It led me to a par, so I’m not mad.

I’ve noticed that Scoredle’s algorithm routinely uses repeated letters in its guesses. I think trying to get the letters you have into the right spots is a viable strategy.

(Unspoilered because Sherrerd was referring to yesterday’s puzzle)

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AROSE
AORTA

I don’t play every day, but something told me to open with “arose” and lo and behold a two-worder!

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Wordle 552 4/6* 12/23/2022

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EXCEL → OK. Time for one of my favorite second guesses…
ROAST → I tried several possibilties here - including HORTA (just in case Wardle was Trekker), and remembering SOLAR from a couple of days ago tried at random…
TOLAR → And somehow that’s a word. So, AO[RT][TR]- or -O[RT][TR]A. Why not both As?
AORTA

Never heard of TOLAR before, but it did yeoman’s work in getting me to the answer in 4.

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Wordle 552 4/6

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STARE
SPOIL
OCCUR
AORTA

I did see the #552 answer when posting about #551, last night. As it was partly NOT my fault (none of us have had to check game numbers before clicking on the faded-out text for a long time), and also partly WAS my fault (I should always be checking on the game numbers before clicking!), I decided to take a par score for the day.

Hence “SPOIL” and “OCCUR”—couldn’t quite come up with a viable sentence to reflect the situation.

Interesting. That’s not a site I’ve checked out, but as you say, getting letters into a potentially correct position does have some value, so I can see that the ‘repeated letters’ option might be useful in that context.

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I clicked on the blur too, and forgot the solution very effectively, except for the 1st letter, which didn’t help me too much anyway

Wordle 552 4/6*

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ADIEU
ABHOR
AROMA
AORTA

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Wordle 553 3/6

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RATIO
NOISY
POISE

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Wordle 552 6/6

Yikes!

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FOAMY
POLAR
COCOA
VOILA
TRUST
AORTA

Beads of sweat on this one! I actually thought of Aorta after my start word, but felt it may not be used…there haven’t been too many anatomy words (other than Torso and Tibia, that I know of). I then was going with a few “theme” words…might as well. And since Tracy said in the interview that she may toss out some slang words that are commonly used, I went for Voila, which in hindsight wasn’t so smart.

I then made a mistake with thinking I had more words than I did (didn’t realize a few were ruled out), which is why I went with a sleuth word at guess #5. In any case, my sleuth word ruled out the other words, and it was indeed Aorta. :roll_eyes:

Side Note: Gouda was one of my choices, and I tried it on my 4th word, but Wordle wouldn’t let me play it, which was surprising.

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Wordle 553 3/6

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EARTH
LIONS
POISE

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Wordle 553 3/6

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Crane
Spoke
Poise

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Wordle 553 4/6

SLANT
CHORE
MOUSE
POISE

After my second word, when MOUSE was one of the few words I could come up with that still fit, I thought, “not a creature was stirring…” - theme word?? So I was disappointed that that wasn’t it.

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Wordle 553 3/6*

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CRIME
SPICE
POISE

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Wordle 553 4/6

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CLAMP
TROPE
OPINE
POISE

Screwed this one up by not checking S. When the P hit I had to drop S, T or R to fit it in, and S is the bottom of my list of those three.

If I had chosen to drop T instead, my second guess would have been prose, leading to an easy 3.

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Wordle 553 4/6

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ABIDE
WHITE
SPIRE
POISE

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Wordle 553 3/6

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Another 3.
Average of the 48 words since the change: 3.31
Average of the last 48 words before the change: 3.52

CRANE
TOILS
POISE

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Wordle 553 3/6

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CRANE
SPITE
POISE

Not bad for pre-coffee!

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Wordle 553 4/6*

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BEARD
CHIME
SNIPE
POISE

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Wordle 553 3/6

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HEART
NOISE fishing for vowels and came up lucky
POISE