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

[Newtosite]

Wordle 564 4/6

Slant
Whale
Legal
Layer

[chiliwillybing]

Wordle 564 6/6

ALONE
LEACH
LATER
LASER
LAGER
LAYER

Just barely made it today

[pjd]

Me too.
Wordle 564 5/6*

BEARD
EXTRA
MAKER
SAFER
LAYER ← Lucky. several alternatives available.

[RTFirefly]

Wordle 564 4/6

SLANT
CHORE
RELAY
LAYER

After my second word, I had the layer/lager/lamer cluster, and the relax/relay/regal/feral cluster. ‘Relay’ seemed to narrow things down faster.

[Gyrate]

Wordle 564 2/6

My usual starting word paid off in spades today:

AIERY
LAYER

[Bullitt]

Wordle 564 4/6

ADIEU
SNORT
GLYPH
LAYER

[Wheelz]

Wordle 564 3/6

RAISE
LATER
LAYER

I decided to step right into the _A_ER trap and emerged unscathed. My other inkling for word two was EARLY, which of course would have worked out fine as well.

[Chefguy]

Ugh.
Wordle 564 6/6

[SunUp]

Wordle 564 5/6* 1/4/2022

ANTIC → It’s a start.
SHARE → Good improvement. Wordlebot would probably hate my next guess, what with the two Rs and all, but I really like the -EAR ending
DREAR → OK. Vowels are falling into place. Need some consonants stat. ?A?ER could be PALER, PAPER, PAYER, LAYER, LAMER, CABER, WAKER, WAGER, WAVER, MAKER, GAMER, FAKER, BAKER… I’m officially scared. I’ll try to dope out the P&L group, then try something with the Ws, then hopefully I can solve…
PALER - Whew. LAMER could be the second guess, but I think it will be…
LAYER

Sweating for a 5.

[BobLibDem]

Wordle 564 5/6

Too many possibilities.
HEART
RACER
PAPER
EAGER
LAYER

[Sherrerd]

Wordle 564 4/6

EARTH
RAISE
MAKER
LAYER

After seeing the _A_ER trap I started the tedious slog through the alphabet–reaping a LONG list.

Helpful here: the fact that so far they don’t seem to be repeating words (I checked all the options against the ‘already won’ list). Also helpful: a conviction that a noun was more likely to be the answer; I decided to guess one of the noun results rather than the other parts of speech.

@RTFirefly

After my usual ‘slant’ opening, I considered ‘natty,’ but rejected it more on the grounds that as a colloquialism, it was more in vogue 50-60 years ago than now. But there were some words I rejected simply because they were slang, natch.

Interesting point–when they resort to slang words, are they more likely to go with current slang as opposed to ‘decades back’ slang? (Someday someone will do at least a master’s degree thesis on that…) -----ETA this was about a guess (from a day other than today), NOT about a winning word.

[Aspenglow]

Oh! I forgot to post this morning. I had a bit of luck today.

Wordle 564 3/6*

IRATE
CLEAR
LAYER

LAYER happened to be the first LA_ER word I came across, so I tried it. Lucky.

[psychobunny]

Wordle 565 4/6

RATIO
DUNES
SLEEP
SLEEK

[RTFirefly]

Wordle 565 3/6

SLANT
PRIME
SLEEK

I had 11 possibilities after SLANT. PRIME eliminated all but one.

[Newtosite]

Wordle 565 4/6

Slant
Slice
Sleep
Sleek

[pjd]

Wordle 565 5/6*

BEARD
CHIME
EXTOL
SLEEP <–bastard !
SLEEK

[Author_Balk]

Wordle 565 4/6

Looks like we might have a lot of SLEEP before SLEEK today.
CRANE
STEEL
SLEEP (need more sleep)
SLEEK

[chiliwillybing]

Wordle 565 4/6

NOISE
SWEET
SLEEP
SLEEK

[EllisDee]

Wordle 565 4/6

CLOTS
SLIME
SLEEP
SLEEK

After 1 I could see slake, slave, sleek, sleep, slide, slime and slump. I started looking for the perfect research word to identify among them, ignoring hard mode rules. But then I thought “Flash? Flask? Plush?!”

Since I had not yet confirmed that S was in the first position, I decided to stick with hard mode rules. In the above list, the only one that actually follows my strategy in terms of the first two guesses was slime, so I decided to just play it straight with slime.

[BobLibDem]

Wordle 565 4/6

HEART
SPIEL
SLEEP knowing P wasn’t there, fishing for location of L and possible second E
SLEEK