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

YIKES—THANKS! I haven’t done that for a long time (thank heavens). Maybe this will keep me from doing it for a much longer time! :grimacing:

good thing I kept my screen up and saw that…and great quick fix by you. :slight_smile: I’ve done it before too (a few times!), but caught it in time, thankfully.

Yes, I’m very grateful to you. (And glad I hadn’t yet signed off.)

I hope no one was spoiled–if anyone was, I owe you a large, giant, great, hefty, bulky, heavy apology!

Besides knowing its regular meaning I am friends with someone with the surname CHARD so I’m more used to seeing the word than most people. Even so, I’m going to predict that everyone here griping that they’ve never heard of it before will suddenly start seeing it seemingly everywhere.

I thought for a moment that I had it in 2!
Wordle 578 5/6*

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CHOIR
CHARM
CHARY
CHART
CHARD

Grrrr…that one came out of left field. Annoying too because I know the word well, have eaten Swiss chard many times, have cooked it several times, and the week before Christmas there was much hilarity in our house when a card arrived from a relative who had a new address, at 1234 Swiss Chard Circle.

I didn’t know that CHARM had been used already. Where are people seeing the list of used words?

JAN 19

Wordle 579 5/6*

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ALONE
SHIRT
DUMPY
MUGGY
MUCKY

Wordle 579 5/6

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CROPS
ANTIC
DEUCE
LUCKY
MUCKY

Tough one for me. Just bad luck that I had to substitute N for M, and also that I chose to skip L when I had to repeat the C.

Wordle 579 4/6

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RATIO
DUNES
CHUMP
MUCKY

I was going to use BULKY as my third word but my brain apparently short circuited and told me the U could not be second. I think it would have been a four either way.

Wordle 579 4/6

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Slant
Chore
Picky
Mucky

Wordle 579 4/6

SLANT
CHORE
GIMPY
MUCKY

Wordle 579 5/6*

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BEARD
QUILT
JUMPY
MUSKY
MUCKY

Wordle 579 4/6*

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FLOUT
PAUSE
QUICK
MUCKY

Wordle 579 4/6

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NOISE
FRAUD
CHUMP
MUCKY

Wordle 579 4/6

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CRANE
LOTIC - not much help
SHUCK - not it, shucks
MUCKY

Yikes, I missed it!

SMILE
MOUNT - Here, I’ve killed it and narrowed it down to 5 words with 4 guesses left
MUMMY
MUDDY
MUGGY
MURKY - should have gone with this as my first guess, but rushed into the selections.

Hrmph. I actually thought of the right word for guess 4 and then decided I was wrong. Sometimes it’s better to go with your gut.

Wordle 579 5/6*

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CLEAR
FICUS
UNCUT
MUCHO
MUCKY

Wordle 579 4/6

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HEART
SPOIL
DUNGY
MUCKY

It’s clear that an uncut ficus is mucho mucky.

I found them by Googling. Some of them include the current day’s solution, so it’s advisable to wait and look after you’ve done that day’s Wordle.

(I assume they can still be found. I’ve been maintaining my own spreadsheet of past solutions since last spring or summer.)

ETA: Here’s one for you. No spoiler of today’s answer, so it’s safe if you haven’t done today’s yet.

Wordle 579 5/6

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CRANE
SPOIL - elimination word
CLUCK - not the best choice, but the ‘u’ and the ‘ck’ position were great
DUCKY
MUCKY