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

Couldn’t it have been GLOSS ?

Wordle 620 5/6*

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ADIEU
SHEEP
TESTY
CLOSE
MOOSE
Tricky one! I had several words to choose from but tried moose.

No, because he’d seen the E.

Wordle 620 3/6*

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ALONE
SHORE
MOOSE

Yes, that too! But with my guess #3 that would become apparent.

Ah.

No it couldn’t ! You already had the E ! :roll_eyes:

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Wordle 620 4/6*

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HEART
PULSE
NOISE
MOOSE

Wordle 620 6/6

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HEART
ENEMY
MOPED
MOILE
MOUSE we’re going to need a bigger mammal
MOOSE

Wordle 620 3/6*

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AIERY
EMOTE
MOOSE

Lucky second word.

I ran this through Scoredle and they said there were 1,351 second-word choices for me.
Also cool: this is the first one that I saw Scoredle lose.
“What would Scoredle do?
SLATE->POSSE->WORSE->HOUSE->NOOSE->GOOSE”

Guessing the answer from two days ago didn’t do scoredle any favors.

What is scoredle, by the way?

I’m a consonants-first guy myself, but if you prefer a vowel-heavy starting word, I think yours (which I’d never heard of before, but if Wordle accepts it as a guess, that’s all that matters!) is a much stronger choice than the oft-recommended ADIEU.

It’s a handy tool for evaluating your game play.

After you finish Wordle, you put the word and your guesses into Scoredle and it will tell you which words remain at each guess, as well as telling you what its own algorithm would have chosen. Give it a shot with your Wordle from today.

And I just discovered that they provide an enhanced Share option that I will be using from now on.

Scoredle 3/6*

14,855
:white_large_square::white_large_square::yellow_square::white_large_square::white_large_square: AIERY (1,351)
:white_large_square::yellow_square::green_square::white_large_square::green_square: EMOTE (3)
:green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square: MOOSE

Wordle 620 4/6* 3/1/2023

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POLKA → One hit is not a bad start. Common consonants, anyone?
ROIST → Got the S. Any more vowels? E, U & Y are still out there, I can get two of 'em…
MOUSY → I’m pretty sure it’s not an H or C on the end, which leaves us with an E (deferred to the 4th guess? I’m slipping) so it’s time for a double letter…
MOOSE

Here’s hoping tomorrow is FIRED and Friday is LLAMA

Wordle 620 4/6

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CRANE
SPOIL
THOSE
MOOSE - first two words eliminated ‘loose’, ‘noose’ or ‘chose’ and I was just lucky not to pick ‘goose’. My Alaskan past, I guess.

I checked it out. I have a very good vocabulary, but that site listed two words I’ve never heard of as possible solutions. I could understand that I might not recognize one of them, but both is highly unlikely.

I believe that those are the real words that Wordle would accept as options, whether or not I think they are bogus. When there are dozens of options, half of them are usually weird opaque things, to me at least.

Anyway, it’s nice to be able to see the list of options for those times when I spent a half hour staring at an entry before finally figuring out a word.

Ooh, I like that!

Scoredle 5/6*

:black_large_square::green_square::black_large_square::black_large_square::black_large_square: COATI (1,160)
:black_large_square::green_square::black_large_square::green_square::green_square: LOUSE (21)
:black_large_square::green_square::black_large_square::green_square::green_square: HORSE (14)
:black_large_square::green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square: GOOSE (4)
:green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square: MOOSE

After LOUSE, I ran through the keyboard and convinced myself it could only be HORSE. Completely missed the double O possibility. [headsmack emoji]
I figured NOOSE wouldn’t be a solution, but guessed wrong between the other two options.

Wordle 620 5/6

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READY
OUTIE (eliminates unused vowels)
SHONE
CLOSE (now I’ve used up all of etaoin shrdlu, let me try a double O)
MOOSE (lucky guess)

Hey, a win’s a win.

I, too, had a lucky 2nd word today.

Wordle 620 3/6*

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IRATE
SMOKE
MOOSE

There was no other word after my 2nd try. I didn’t even need WordleBot to tell me that.

Lemme try this:

Scoredle 4/6

14,855

:yellow_square::white_large_square::white_large_square::white_large_square::white_large_square: SLART (1,209)
:white_large_square::white_large_square::white_large_square::white_large_square::green_square: NICHE (31)
:white_large_square::white_large_square::yellow_square::white_large_square::white_large_square: DUMPY (1)
:green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square: MOOSE

Looks different from what you guys have, but close enough!

ETA: OK, now it’s looking the same. In the preview, it still looks the way it does on the Scoredle website.

Wordle 5/6

:white_large_square::green_square::white_large_square::yellow_square::white_large_square: HONEY
:white_large_square::green_square::white_large_square::white_large_square::green_square: FORTE
:white_large_square::green_square::white_large_square::white_large_square::green_square: VOGUE
:white_large_square::green_square::yellow_square::white_large_square::green_square: BOMBE
:green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square: MOOSE

Wordle Analyzer

Serious process of elimination here.

I’ve been using Wordle Analyzer. I’ll have to check out Scordle. Interestingly, the AI at Wordle Analyzer did not lose today. It got a 5/6.

ETA:. I have used Scordle before. I like the share product from Scordle better in terms of what is displayed here, but WA gives a link to the full analysis too.