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

The Game Room
8681

Wordle 584 3/6

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CRANE
CLUNK
COUNT

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Wordle 584 3/6

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ADIEU
SNOUT
COUNT

It could’ve been count or fount or ungot or knout or mount, and I got lucky.

8683
Wordle 584 3/6* 1/24/2023

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ELUDE → Try some common letters, and at least one other vowel. Might have gone FAULT here if the L wasn’t gone…
TOUCH → And a good thing I didn’t! COUT- goes nowhere without the H, but COU-T should be…
COUNT

Don’t let Dracula hug you!

8684

Looks like a ‘3’ kind of day. :slight_smile:

Wordle 584 3/6*

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IRATE
SHOUT
COUNT

8685

Wordle 584 3/6

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SONIC
NOTCH
COUNT

Glad to get this in 3. But that’ll do with the U’s…there have been 4 of them in the last six days - it’s the least common vowel. :roll_eyes:

8686

Wordle 583 3/6

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ROAST
EQUIP
ELUDE

Guess 2 was lucky, giving me positions for two letters, plus the fact that not many words would have worked (EXUDE and EDUCE, but I though ELUDE seemed more likely and tried that first.)

Wordle 584 4/6

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SLANT
EVENT
BRUNT
COUNT

Did one guess worse than Rufus who had the same starting word. I got a bit stuck on the idea that the U would be preceded by a consonant pair, which, of course, turned out not to be the case.

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Wordle 584 3/6*

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INLET
CHANT
COUNT
Felt lucky to get it in 3 after a string of 4s and 5s

8688

Another “so close to a 2”.

Wordle 585 3/6

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ASIDE
NAIVE
MAIZE

NAIVE and MAIZE were the only two common words with _AI_E, and i guessed the wrong one.

8689

Wordle 585 5/6

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CLAPS
TAMER
MAYBE
MANGE
MAIZE

I saw maize first but discarded it as not a Wordle answer. I feel like Americans know it from elementary school, but not sure about worldwide. Don’t Europeans consider corn to be pig food, not human food?

Then I saw maybe and that felt like a real answer. Then mange, less so but still barely passable. After that I was left with only maize.

Boo on maize.

8690

Wordle 585 3/6

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RATIO
NAILS
MAIZE

Second guess was just to find more letters. It took awhile to even find anything that fit for the third guess.

8691

Wordle 585 3/6*

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CRIME
SMITE
MAIZE

8692

Wordle 585 4/6

SLANT
CHORE
DUMPY
MAIZE

With not having any consonants until my third guess (still fishing for letters at that point!), I was happy to get this in 4.

8693

Wordle 585 6/6*

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ALONE
SHAPE
MAYBE
MATTE
MAUVE
MAIZE

Kind of wasted that fourth attempt, there.

8694

Wordle 585 4/6*

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BEARD
TAPES
MANGE
MAIZE

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Wordle 585 3/6

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CRANE
TAILS
MAIZE

8696

Wordle 585 5/6*

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SLAIN
DIARY
FAITH
WAIVE
MAIZE

8697

Wordle 585 3/6

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RAISE
NAIVE
MAIZE

Naive, waive or maize, eeny, meeny, miney, moe.
I thought naive would be the most likely.

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Wordle 585 5/6

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OILER
THINE
SWIPE
JUICE
MAIZE

Bleh. I tried to put in an A at three and could find nothing.
Then I’d eliminated so many letters I was absolutely sure JUICE had to be it. A frustrating solve, and it turns out I missed ABIDE and BEIGE, so it was a potential fail as well.
I used to be good at this game.

8699

Fucking hell, man.

Wordle 585 6/6

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8700
Wordle 585 5/6* 1/25/2023

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COUNT → Strikeout. At least that means some progress…
SHALE → 0 for 6 on consonants. At least I picked up those vowels. Where should the A go? It’s not ALGAE, so… second?
PADRE → 0 for 9 now. I almost thought about trying GAFFE next, which would have been a… well, you know… but thought the better of it when I saw…
WAIVE → But still no consonants! Started going through the alphabet on what’s left before I saw…
MAIZE

I think today’s ranks high on the ol’ difficulty level.