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

Wordle 573 3/6

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IRONY
CAJUN
HUMAN

Wordle 573 3/6*

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Alone
Ranch
Human

Wordle 573 4/6

SLANT
PROBE
HUMID
HUMAN

Tried a different second word this time, which meant a different third word as well. Probably would have got there in 4 if I’d gone with my usual second and third words.

Wordle 573 4/6*

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BEARD
FAINT
LOGAN
HUMAN

Good day today.

Wordle 573 3/6*

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CHAIN
HAVEN
HUMAN

Wordle 573 3/6

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HEART
HANDY
HUMAN

Sucking lately.

Wordle 573 5/6

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Wordle 573 4/6* 1/13/2022

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LEAPT → Gotta figure out some good consonants to go with it…
RACES → And sure enough, I used the E again. Sigh. Need to try some other vowels for a change…
AMNIO → At least I eliminated I & O. Gotta try a U… and the suffix looks like -MAN, so
HUMAN

I wish there were a Wordle mode that flagged repeats of letters not in the solution, even if there were some kind of override. It seems like I’m consistently reusing known wrong letters.

Wordle 573 5/6

Sorry for the two second oops with not spoilering my words! I hope no one saw that.

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COAST
ADIEU
FAUNA
URBAN
HUMAN

I thought it wasn’t a bad idea to check for the vowels with my second word, but wish now (of course in hindsight) that I checked for the H and other more common consonants, which I almost did with Laugh for my 3rd word, but for some reason I just was feeling Fauna (a bit of a risk with the double A and the F, but it did give me the N, so there’s that). Then I narrowed things down to Human and Urban and just went with the wrong one.

Nice! :slight_smile:

@gkster I like your new profile pic…cute kitty. :cat:

Wordle 573 4/6

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ADIEU
SNORT
GLYPH
HUMAN

After 3 I was stumped. Walked away for a few hours, then it came to me.

Wow, nice!

A rather lucky 3 today.

Wordle 573 3/6*

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IRATE
HANDY
HUMAN

WordleBot advises that after my second try, there was no other answer. Took me long enough to find it, though.

Wordle 573 4/6

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ALIVE
SONAR
UNCAP
HUMAN

I got a bit stuck on wanting to start with UN. I might have come up with HUMAN upon further thought. Still a nice satisfying par.

I don’t play in hard mode. You’d think that in addition to forcing you to use discovered letters it would also prevent you from using letters known to be incorrect.

I’m not sure I would want to prevent that kind of usage, because sometimes when I’m stuck I’ll reuse a known-wrong letter consciously to try a word that might have other letters I want to try or just to get myself out of a mental rut. But some kind of flag - pre-coloring the box where you typed the known-bad letter, or making the box jump or jiggle, something like that - would help my boneheaded errors.

Agreed, but since the name is hard mode, it’s kind of weird that it doesn’t enforce that. As you say, it would make it harder.

Wordle 573 4/6

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STARE
DAILY
AMONG
HUMAN

This one took a long time; eventually when after guess three I had M, A, and N, I started looking for words that included MAN, which helped.

Wordle 574 3/6

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RATIO
LOANS
KOALA

Proud of myself for getting this one. I wonder if there were any other possibilities after the second guess.

Wordle 574 3/6

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CRAMP
STALE
KOALA

This took me a friggin’ hour. __AL_ is a brutal template to fill when you can’t use C or E. (Chalk, whale and scale/scaly were the only words I could see for the longest time, but all were excluded.)

Thanks! He’s an annoying but cute kitty. There’s a thread that inspired my avatar update, Cat avatars on the Dope, but my phone isn’t letting me copy the link.

As for 1/13’s Wordle 573, a ho-hum 4 that’s not worth posting about

Wordle 574 4/6*

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Atone
Roach
Loamy
Koala

I switch up my starting word, and it costs me.