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

Wordle 623 2/6*

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BEARD
TREND

Magnificent !

Wordle 623 4/6

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HEART
TROVE
TRESS
TREND

Wordle 623 2/6*

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ALERT
TREND

Lucky choice of starting word.

Wordle 623 4/6

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READY
WIDER
DRECK
TREND

Joining the merry band of twofers today:

Wordle 623 2/6

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CRANE
TREND

Wordle 623 5/6

SLART
HOMIE => fishing for vowels
GUNKY => still gotta be another vowel, right? Nope.
ENTER => Surely this is the solution, right? Shirley says nope.
TREND => Finally there.

Bad enough that I made a mess of this, but really stinks to get a 5 when everyone else is getting 2’s and 3’s.

Just got lucky on the opening word, which I use every day. With the revealed letters, there was only one solution. Dumb luck, not skill.

Should’ve followed my first instinct on my second word, which became my third word. I’d have gotten it in 3.

Wordle 623 4/6*

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IRATE
ERUPT
TRIED
TREND

Oh, well.

Wordle 623 2/6

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OUTER
TREND

Complete fluke to get it in two–I saw TREAD, TREND, and TRESS, and liked the middle one best, so gave it a try.

Nice to have an easy go of it, once it a while.

Wordle 623 3/6

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ARISE
CRUEL
TREND

My first instinct was to put the E in the middle, and yeah, there’s a good chance TREND would have been my word. But I just couldn’t help myself from checking another vowel. Damn!

Wordle 623 3/6* 3/4/2023

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SQUAT → Can I get a word with I & E & two common consonants? There’s one, though I’m sure it’s not an answer…
TILER → But, a good guess. Only O & Y vowels left… but maybe there’s just the E, which would put it in the middle most likely. TRE??, I should try N or M here, so TREN? looks like…
TREND

Scoredle said TROPE would have been the best third guess for me. I was lucky to have fixated on needing to check the N there.

Wordle 623 4/6*

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BAULK
CRIME
ORDER
TREND

Sunday, March 5th

Wordle 624 4/6

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PLANT
STORE
TOUCH
TOXIC

After 2 I felt like I was in such uncharted territory having not checked C yet, so naturally I gravitated to touch. Then I was happy that I’d already checked N and P, leaving toxic as the only option. (Of that little mini-trap, at least. I didn’t keep looking.)

Another lucky three. I had a one in three chance of guessing it in three.

Wordle 624 3/6

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ASIDE
COURT
TOXIC

It could have been TONIC or TOPIC.

Wordle 624 5/6

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RATIO
STOIC
TONIC
TOPIC
TOXIC

Well crap. I was sure I had it in two or three.

Wordle 623 4/6

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CHAIR
SNORE
NERDY
TREND

After my 2nd word, I had a list of 7 words* - my top three choices were Nerdy, Nervy, and Trend…thought I’d check that terminal Y. Well, ya can’t get lucky every time :smirk:, and I’ll gladly take the 4.

*Scoredle said I had 28 choices after my 2nd word - the majority of them I’ve never even heard of, but I got to learn a new word…Nertz, which is slang for Nuts (as in crazy or nonsense)…I think I’ll add that to my vocab next time one of my cats does something nertzy. :laughing:

Edit to add: So many 2’s today! I thought I was fortunate to get it in 4 with all the words I had to choose from. Too bad this wasn’t the answer on Feb. 20th (#611), as I went with Trend for my start word that day.

Wordle 624 4/6

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Four seems to be my most common.

Slant
Fetch
Topic
Toxic
I sure got lucky with my third word.

Wordle 624 5/6*

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VOICE
COMIC
LOGIC
TONIC
TOXIC

Wordle 624 3/6*

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ALONE
TOUCH
TOXIC

Wordle 624 4/6

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CRANE
LOTIC
TOPIC
TOXIC