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

Wordle 581 4/6

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HEART
GLORY
SLURP
BLURB

Hey, I finally figured out how to copy my results.

Wordle 581 4/6

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LAKES
COLOR
BRUNT
BLURB

Wordle 581 5/6

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CRANE
SPOIL - eliminated all vowels but ‘u’ and ‘y’.
BURLY - nope, no ‘y’
BLURT - aw, c’mon
BLURB

Wordle 581 4/6

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NOISE
GRAPH
BURLY
BLURB

I figured I may be looking at a double letter word after two strike outs (except for the R in yellow), and almost went with Furry, but changed my mind as I then saw Curly and Burly…chose the best one to get the B in green! Then I was down to two choices, Blurb or Blurt, and totally forgot to check the previous answer list - I found out afterwards Blurt was already used, but happy I chose the right one in any case. :slight_smile:

UNDEE PANTS? (I actually call my undies that sometimes) :laughing:

Back to 4s.

Wordle 581 4/6*

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IRATE
PORCH
USURY
BLURB

Wordle 580 5/6

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STARE
TREAD
EARTH
AFTER
ALTER

Getting four letters at guess 1 should be a big advantage, but these particular four letters combine into a surprising number of words that haven’t yet been Wordle solutions. Took a long time!

Wordle 581 3/6

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OUTER
URBAN
BLURB

Wasted a lot of time looking for words starting with R that would fit, but finally tried U as an initial letter. At least that gave me the B.

Wordle 581 4/6* 1/21/2023

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ALTER → Only one good place left for the R… can I guess two vowels too?
GLORY → Placed the R, but no luck otherwise. Would try FLIRT but the T is gone. Something with a U?
SLURP → U is correct. Running out of consonants, though… oh, it’s a repeat…
BLURB

Not sure what happened to my yesterday post, but it was a 5, alas.

Wordle 581 4/6*

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RAISE
FLOUR
BLURT
BLURB
I didn’t even think of BLURB until I saw that BLURT wasn’t the solution. Yes, it’s a real word, but I feel about it the way that people felt about CHARD and PINEY: it wasn’t what I expected.

Sunday, January 22nd

Wordle 582 4/6

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CRAPS
METAL
MATED
MATEY

I don’t think past tense “…ed” verbs are in the answer list, but I didn’t see any other reasonable option. Matey? Seriously? Not in love with the editing.

Wordle 582 5/6

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ASIDE
COURT
NYMPH
MEATY
MATEY

What kind of word is that? Slang? It was the only possibility after MEATY failed.

The only context I know is a pirate saying “Ahoy, matey!”

Wordle 582 4/6

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RATIO
LATCH
PESKY
MATEY

I actually talked myself out of a three. I was going to guess the correct answer but told myself to go for more of a research work to get more letters.

Wordle 582 4/6*

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BEARD
CLEAN
GATES
MATEY

Wordle 582 4/6

SLANT
CHORE
TWEAK
MATEY

Is today “talk like a pirate day” or something?? If not, they could have at least saved it for that.

After SLANT and CHORE gave me the A,E, and T (and crossed out a bunch of popular consonants), I thought of MATEY pretty quickly, but went “nah…” and kept looking. So when I came across TWEAK, I jumped on it - just a perfect Wordle word, right? Not this time. Took me awhile longer to beat the bushes, give up, and try MATEY.

Can’t forget “Arrr, matey!” but same difference. Sheesh.

Wordle 582 3/6

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CRANE
STEAL
MATEY - It helps that I have played practice games and have seen this word before

Wordle 582 5/6*

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Alone
Teach
Water
Sated
Matey

Someone upthread said “Sheesh.”

I, too, will say “Sheesh.”

Wordle 582 4/6

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RAISE
CAMEL
MAVEN
MATEY :roll_eyes:

Terrible word. Blech.

Wordle 582 4/6

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ADIEU
SNORT
GLYPH
MATEY (really?)

Wordle 582 4/6

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RADIO
TAUPE
EATEN
MATEY

Count me as another who saw MATEY earlier but dismissed it. A lot of crap words lately.