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

Wordle 577 4/6

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ASIDE
ADULT
ADAPT
ADOPT

Wordle 577 3/6

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CRANE
SPOIL
ADOPT

Well, bollocks.

Wordle 577 5/6*

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IRATE
ANGST
ALLOT
ABOUT
ADOPT

Congrats to all the 3s!!

Wordle 577 4/6

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PATIO
TOPAZ
APORT
ADOPT

Gah. I drove the green and then three-putted.
With four letters in the first word, you’d think this would be a gimme. After looking for a long time, the only words I found with P, A, T, and O were TOPAZ and APORT. Don’t know how I missed that D, but there you have it.

Now that is a quality analogy.

Wordle 577 5/6* 1/17/2023

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FROCK → Hah! A one-vowel word? Who knows. I should at least start to try some others…
SMOTE → Picked up the T, but where does it go? Would like to try an N, too, but I’ll settle for an L and an A…
GLOAT → Looks it starts with an A, then. Can think of two words left…
ABOUT → I hope I don’t have to fish for another with my sixth guess…
ADOPT

I accuse my starting word.

Wordle 577 3/6

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STONE
BROTH
ADOPT

Well that was a nice surprise! After my 2nd word, I had a list of 5 words to choose from (4 additional ones were already answers, thankfully), and I just went with the one I was feeling the most, which paid off this time.

Wordle 577 3/6

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Slant
About
Adopt

Wordle 577 3/6

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SLANT
BEGAT
ADOPT

Similar to @Newtosite --with About having been a better choice than Begat. After my guess 2 it was clear A had to be in either 1st or 2nd position, and I decided to try 1st-position words, first. (And a lot have already been solutions. So far they don’t seem to be repeating, as was threatened a while back…)

Wordle 577 3/6*

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LEAST
ABOUT
ADOPT

WordleBot & I had all the same guesses; it said “Sensational. We are as one.”

JANUARY 18 -
Wordle 578 4/6*

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ALONE
SHART
CHARM
CHARD

…did not know ‘shart’ was a valid word.

Wordle 578 5/6

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CLOMP
CRATE
CHAIR
CHARS
CHARD

That’s some bullshit. I’ve never encountered the word chard before.

Wordle 578 4/6

SLANT
CHORE
CHARY
CHARD

Since CHARM had already been used, it came down to a choice between two pretty obscure words, CHARD and CHARY. (I knew of both, but c’mon.) If you’re gonna have an editor, NYT, and your editor isn’t going to screen out a solution like this, why bother having one?

Wordle 578 4/6

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RATIO
CRANE
CHARM
CHARD

Wordle 578 4/6*

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STARE
CHARM
CHARY
CHARD

Hadn’t heard of chard either, and later discovered that charr, chara and chark might be words as well

Wordle 578 4/6

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CRANE
CHART
CHARM - still not it
CHARD - finally

Wordle 578 2/6*

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BEARD
CHARD

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Took about 5 seconds !

I thought for sure I’d have it in 3.

Wordle 578 5/6*

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NICHE
CHART
CHARM
CHARY
CHARD

Same here, with almost matching word list.
Wordle 578 5/6*

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ARISE
CHART
CHARM
CHARY
CHARD

IMHO that was a bogus word.

Now I’ll go look up CHARD (and CHARY).

Wordle 578 4/6

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IRONY
STARE
CHARM
CHARD

Another CHARM CHARD. I’m surprised that some folks have never heard of chard. I grow it in my garden every year, the fresh new leaves are delicious.