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

Wordle 600 X/6

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PATIO
NEATH
STALE
STARE
STAKE
STAVE

Ugh. I gotta start paying more attention. I skimmed through the keyboard and thought I had every possibility covered within six. Totally missed the G.
This is my second fail in 21 days, after a 358-day winning streak. Whatever mojo I had for this game, I don’t have it any more.

Wordle 600 4/6* 2/9/2023

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FLAIL → Kind of a meh start. Hard to say if I need vowels or consonants more, I guess I’ll focus on consonants, given that A may be the sole vowel…
ROAST* → ?SAT? gives little help, so STA?? is likely. Perhaps with a terminal E?
STAKE → Could be STAGE or STAVE… I’ll try the former.
STAGE

And I would have taken the six if it had been STATE.

Wordle 600 3/6*

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ARISE
SLATE
STAGE

I got lucky with the 1st 2 guesses eliminating a lot of possibilities. And I didn’t even notice the 2 other solutions left (STAKE, STAVE) until I was done

Wordle 600 4/6

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STERN
STROKE
STAVE
STAGE

I feel rather foolish at having tried STAVE before STAGE. This game does have some less-common words, but in general the more-common one is more likely to be the winner.

Wordle 600 2/6

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MORSE
STAGE

Well, that was a nice surprise! :partying_face: And the elusive G finally appears. :laughing:

Friday, February 10th

Wordle 601 4/6

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CLOTS
REMAP
WEAVE
HEADY

Wordle 601 3/6

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RATIO
SCALE
HEADY

Wordle 601 4/6*

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PIOUS
MEANT
REACH
HEADY

Wordle 601 2/6

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DEATH
HEADY

Sometimes it’s better to be lucky, than good.
— Left Gomez, New York Yankees

Wordle 601 4/6*

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ALONE
TEACH
HEAVY
HEADY

Wordle 601 3/6

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CRANE
LEAST - I see HEAVY, HEADY and BEADY.
HEADY - If it is one of the three words, then this would give four greens, or be the right word.

Wordle 601 4/6

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NOISE
EARLY
MEATY
HEADY

Wordle 601 3/6*

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BEARD
DEATH
HEADY

Wordle 601 3/6

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HEART (first 3 letters popped up and I thought I had an ace}
HEAVY (wait a minute, that didn’t work???)
HEADY (I can hear Harvey Korman say “That’s Headley”)

Wordle 601 5/6

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ARIEL
STEAM
PEACH
HEAVY
HEADY

HEAVY, HEADY, and HEAVE were left at four; each would eliminate one of the other two, so it was just chance from there. The three-sided coin did not turn up lucky.
And my streak stands at one.

Wordle 601 4/6

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CRANE
HEATH
HEAVY - crap, chose wrongly
HEADY

Bah. Me, too.

Wordle 601 4/6*

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IRATE
PEACH
HEAVY
HEADY

Never even saw BEADY. Good thing!

I didn’t even have to look up previous answers for that one. I remember when it was an answer, and thinking at the time: Really?

Wordle 601 4/6

SLANT
CHORE
HEAVY
HEADY

“He ain’t heavy, he’s my Wordle solution.”

That’s funny. :smiley: I never checked any of my choices. I always say I’m going to do that, but I almost never do. It has cost me a few times, too.