Wordle 554 3/6
CRANE
EAGER - This eliminated 88 of 89 possible answers, according to Wordlebot
EXTRA
This one took longer than I thought it would, but I got there. Still in the Three Club today.
Wordle 554 3/6*
IRATE
AFTER
EXTRA
Glad this is done for the day. Happy holidays, all!
Wordle 554 4/6* Christmas Day 2022
POISE → Some good vowel eliminations, at least. Try a word with an A…
TREAD → Should have taken a page from Bullitt and gone with EARTH here to try the H. I like an -ER ending, shuffle around A & T to get…
AFTER → So, RET?A or RETA? (maybe RETAG?), but if E is first it’s EATR? or E?TRA, the last would be…
EXTRA
Doesn’t seem to be a theme…
Wordle 553 4/6
OUTER
ENDOW
GLOVE
POISE
Took a while. As with others posting here, I had in my mind that there might be some sort of Christmas Eve theming–which slowed down my guessing process.
Wordle 554 4/6
AROSE
REACH
MAKER
EXTRA
This one was more about eliminating possible positions for the three letters I got at step one.
This seems like a good idea to me–it would do a lot toward eliminating inadvertent spoiling.
There’s no particular advantage in playing the game early in the 24-hour period as opposed to later. So the only real objection the NYT might come up with would be ‘the way it is now, everyone knows “midnight, my time” is the time the new game is available, and if we changed it everyone would have to memorize a new availability time.’
But, again: how many players prioritize playing right after the new game becomes available? (Maybe it’s a huge number; I’ve no idea.)
If insomnia strikes (and it strikes me fairly often), it’s handy to have the new day’s Wordle up at 2 or 3 am. But it wasn’t like I never had insomnia before Wordle existed, so I’m sure I could manage if the new game wasn’t already available at midnight.
Midnight GMT is 4 pm where I live. I’m usually a morning solver, but I’d like to keep the option to play anytime throughout the day. One could potentially play at 3:55 today and then 4:05 tomorrow, and oops, I just lost my streak. That would piss me off.
Wordle 554 4/6*
LOSER
CREAM
APTER
EXTRA
Wordle 555 4/6
RATIO
DUNES
BUDGE
JUDGE
After three I was left with JUDGE, FUDGE, and PUDGE. I figured only two were likely so decided to take my chances.
Wordle 555 5/6
CRANE
TOILS - for letters. None
DUMPY - figured BUDGE, FUDGE, or JUDGE
BEFOG - which starting letter. None, so it has to be:
JUDGE
After 3 guesses I was pretty sure it was either fudge or judge or budge so used a throwaway word, fable, to ensure I got it in 5.
Wordle 555 5/6
EARTH
LIONS
DUMPY
FABLE
JUDGE
Wordle 555 6/6
SLANT
CHORE
GIMPY
FUGUE
BUDGE
JUDGE
My first 6 in forever. Might’ve been able to get this in 5 if I’d been more systematic about my fourth guess.
Wordle 555 6/6
CLIPS
TAMER
OZONE
QUEUE
FABLE
JUDGE
Ouch! Fucked this one up pretty badly. Didn’t even see the trap until the 5th guess, at which point I had to bail on hard mode.
I should know that when my clamp store opener hits almost nothing, “__dge” is likely. I remembered “__nky” and “qu___” but just totally spaced on dge.
Wordle 555 5/6
NOISE
ACUTE
FUDGE
BUDGE
JUDGE
Wordle 555 5/6*
BEARD
SLIDE
DUNCE
FUDGE
JUDGE
Wordle 555 6/6
HEART
POISE I know a recent wordle but fishing for vowels
FLUME
CURVE
NUDGE
JUDGE lucky not budge or fudge
Naw, you knew it wasn’t fudge, because you knew it wasn’t flume.
Wordle 555 4/6*
ROUGH
BUDGE
NUDGE
JUDGE
Wordle 555 6/6
IRATE
LOUSE
DUNCE
BUDGE
PROOF
JUDGE
Two mistakes here. DUNCE was a foolish guess, as it’s kind of a stand-alone (i.e. no other _UNCE or DUN_E words). Then I shouldn’t have plopped down BUDGE at four without looking for other _UDGE words.
At that point, it was either eat the six or take a 1 in 3 chance of losing my 335 day streak.
At least I’m not the only one eating a six today.
Wordle 555 6/6* Boxing Day 2022
EXTRA → Slow start. Can’t think of a word to knock off two other vowels, so…
SMILE → Should I try a second E? Or other vowels? Almost tried COUPE here, but fortunately I went with…
FUDGE → …which turned out to be a trap! Only two other words I can think of, though, so I believe I’ve got it…
NUDGE → Not that one, so it must be…
BUDGE → Dang it! Missed at least one. Look at consonants again… OK, I think I’ve got this
JUDGE
Phew is right. I would have lost if I had tried COUPE at 3.
Joining the ranks of the disappointed today.
Wordle 555 6/6