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

Still on my 5 streak.

Wordle 223 5/6

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QUEST
BRACE
FINER
JERKY
PERKY

I did today’s puzzle and got a different word. Did you do yours before midnight in your local timezone?

@Newtosite used a different site for that - in their post it says they used http://hellowordl.net/ , instead of the more broadly known Wordle site.

Yes, I was on the hellowordl site on their “Today’s” page. It’s not a biggie I was just curious.

Wordle 223 4/6* 1/28/2022

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MOUNT → at least I’ve knocked those letters out…
SHARE → Between I & Y, what next vowel should I try?
REPLY → Is DERPY a legal word? No. Looks like P is first. PERCY? Also not a word. Oh.
PERKY

Eliminating 3 vowels and 4 common consonants in the first two words helped a lot. If I had tried PERIL as my third guess, it might have pushed me down to 5/6.

Wordle 224 3/6

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TRIED
POUND
COULD

Wordle 223 4/6

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PLUNK
PICKY
PESKY
PERKY

My streak is still alive — just barely — at 36 and 100%. I needed 6 guesses today.

Wordle 223 6/6

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AUDIO — I tried @Smapti’s AUDIO strategy
SH E ET — uh-oh not a great start

B E LL Y — at this point I’m thinking this’ll be easy

PEGGYHEY!! since when is PEGGY a word?

PENNY
PERKY — by the skin of my teeth, I got it

I fell into the “use a word unlikely to be the answer but which is nonetheless a word” trap today. On my fourth guess I’d narrowed it down a bit but guessed PERVY because I didn’t run through the entire alphabet looking for a better word and that was where my mind went. Got it on my fifth guess, though.

Wordle 223 5/6

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I thought of that too. Instead I played around with PEGGY and was utterly shocked when it was accepted!

Lucky first random word today.

Wordle 223 3/6*

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PARSE
PERCH
PERKY

First time playing, got it in 5 tries. It was fun

I completely messed up tomorrow’s word. Fail!

Wordle 224 X/6

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I got frustrated with the game and didn’t play for a couple of days, but I’m back.

Wordle 223 6/6 (1/28/22)

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ADIEU-- my standard starting word eliminates most of the vowels from the equation but indicates to me that there’s an E out of place.
GROUP-- no O, either, but there’s an R and P.
REPEL-- found the right place for the E, and realized there’s only one. I struggled hard before coming up with this word.
PERCH-- the PER are all in the right place. Now I know that C and H aren’t in the puzzle.
PERKS-- got the K. The only other thing it can be is:
PERKY

This is the most interesting variation on Wordle I’ve seen. There are two words to guess but you can only enter one word at a time which it tests against both words. You need to think about your tactics.

Daily Dordle #0004 4&6/7
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BEAST
STEAK
STERN
STEEP
TIMED
TASTE

Just came to post mine. Fun once, not sure I’ll do it regularly.

Daily Dordle #0004 5&2/7
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My late entry:

Wordle 223 4/6

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TRANS
CHORE
UMBER
PERKY

Got lucky with that last guess.

29 Jan 2022 WORDLE 224

Wordle 224 5/6

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Wordle 224 4/6*

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Thought I had it on 3.


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