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

The Game Room
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Wordle 594 4/6

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ADIEU
SNORT
GLYPH
TASTY

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Wordle 594 4/6*

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ALONE
SHARK
PASTA
TASTY

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Wordle 594 3/6

SLANT
CHORE
TASTY

Very pleased with this 3. My first guess gave me a lot of information without narrowing things down much, but the biggest cluster of possibilities I could see was words ending in _ASTE or _ASTY. Drawing a blank with CHORE cleared out a lot of possibilities, leaving me with PASTY and TASTY. And the latter just seemed more, well, appetizing. :wink:

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Wordle 594 6/6*

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BEARD
FLOAT
SATIN
HASTY
PASTY
TASTY

Phew indeed.

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Wordle 594 4/6

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ALONE
SAUCY
PATSY
TASTY

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Wordle 594 5/6

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HEART
STOMA (took a chance on an odd word, got one letter for my trouble)
CASTS
NASTY
TASTY

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Wordle 594 3/6*

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A bit of luck today.

AIERY
MANGY
TASTY

Scoredle tells me that when I got down to MANGY there were 97 possible words, about a third of which were perfectly decent Wordle options, so I was lucky indeed to stumble upon TASTY.

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A bit of luck for me today, too.

Wordle 594 3/6*

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IRATE
SALTY
TASTY

I’ve overcome my aversion to double consonants sufficiently to try TASTY before HASTY and PASTY, which both seemed less likely Wordle words to me. And classic WordleBot today. It informed me that TASTY would have been more “efficient” as my second guess than SALTY. Well, sure. If you today’s answer is TASTY!!

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Wordle 594 4/6

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ROUTE
FAITH
NASTY
TASTY

No blues (yellows) doesn’t necessarily make things easier, but there were surprisingly few options left after FAITH. Consulting the used words list would have gotten me a 3, but that’s OK.

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It would have been even more efficient as your first guess! :rofl:

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LOL, I know, right??

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Wordle 594 3/6

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STARE
TASKS
TASTY

After guess one, with three letters, I started listing possible five-letter words and checking to see which had already been solutions. Every one I could think of that had its A somewhere other than position 3 had already been a winner. My massive mental block led me to try an impossibility (a plural noun using ‘s’).

Took a LONG time.

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Wordle 594 4/6

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TAPER
TANGO
FLASK
TASTY

Sleuth word at 3 guaranteed me a 4…had a lot of TA words to choose from, so I’ll take it.

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FEB 4 - Wordle 595 4/6*

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ALONE
LINTY
UNTIL
UNLIT

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Wordle 595 4/6

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CREPT
MOIST
GIANT
UNLIT

Saw Inuit first but kept looking.

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Wordle 595 2/6

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RATIO
UNLIT

Twos are always just luck.

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Wordle 594 3/6* 2/3/2023

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SHIRK → Slow start, lots of common letters to try from…
TALES → Hit on two of 'em. S goes 3rd or 4th, and there’s probably another vowel in 5th, which is almost certainly a Y. TAS-Y, should I try a repeat letter?
TASTY

A little bit of luck and a lot of thinking.

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Wordle 595 3/6

SLANT => Can be INLET, UNLIT, or KNELT
INLET => knocks out KNELT too, therefore it’s
UNLIT

Soooooo close to that 2. Horseshoes, hand grenades, etc.

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Wordle 595 4/6

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ADIEU
SNORT
UNFIT
UNLIT

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Wordle 595 4/6

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ABIDE
PINCH
LOGIN
UNLIT