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

Wordle 631 4/6

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SLART
NICHE => Girth’s been done, Firth is too esoterically Scottish, so either
MIRTH => or (sometimes you lose the coin toss)
BIRTH

Wordle 632 5/6

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RATIO
SHALE
PLACE
BLAZE
BLAME

Back to semi-random guessing. Should have gone with more common letters but then would probably have tried BLADE first anyway.

Wordle 632 5/6

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PLANT
CLASH
GLARE
FLAME
BLAME

Three 5s in a row, baby! I keep resisting the B.

Wordle 631 3/6

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STARE
PRINT
BIRTH

Almost forgot to play…I had about 5 minutes before midnight, and I went with the first words that quickly came to mind, and totally got lucky. :slight_smile: So glad this wasn’t a trap-word slog!

Edit to add: I see now that it could have been a mini-trap with Mirth and Firth as two additional options (Girth was already an answer)…pretty sure I still would have gone with Birth first though.

Does anyone know if you start the game before midnight, but don’t finish until after midnight, if it still takes it? I feel like I’ve done that before and it didn’t work, but just can’t recall.

Wordle 632 2/6*

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BREAM
BLAME

The analyzer pronounced my first word “unbelievably lucky.” Getting a 2 is always pretty satisfying.

Wordle 632 6/6*

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RATIO
LASED
GLAZE
PLANE
FLAKE
BLAME

Ugh, I BLAME the Monday morning brain fog…

Wordle 631 5/6* 3/12/2023

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EMAIL → Not much of a start. But, like a cyclops, I have one I to work with…
ROIST → So here I really screwed up. I got excited about trying a TH combo followed by IR, neglecting to see that the I couldn’t be in the middle anyway, and then - to boot - I mistype it…
THRID → but, at least, the H comes out well. So now let’s try the TH on the end, I in the second slot, choose the first first letter that comes to mind…
FIRTH → And if I had taken a couple seconds to think about it, I would have come up with two better guesses. I’ll try the first…
BIRTH

At least I didn’t get GIRTHed.

I was lucky to get it in 4.

Wordle 632 4/6

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◆ RATIO
◆ CLUES ➜ this leaves 11 possible words: algae blade blame blaze bleak flame glade gleam glean plane plead

Way too many. So I chose my next word to eliminate 4 letters.

◆ PLANK ➜ this leaves 5 possible words: blade blame blaze flame glade
:white_check_mark: BLAME — A lucky guess!

I got lucky.

Wordle 632 2/6*

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TRACE
BLAME

Not as lucky as I did!

Wordle 632 3/6

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CRANE
GHOST - nothing
BLAME - lucky, there are still a lot of options.

Wordle 632 4/6

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SLART => more than 2 dozen common, unused _LA__ words
KNIFE => knocks it down to blade, blaze, blame, glade, glaze, place
BLAZE => leaves only BLADE and, winning today’s coin toss…
BLAME

Wordle 632 4/6

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RAISE
PLATE
BLADE
BLAME

Wordle 632 6/6

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HEART
PLACE
BLADE
BLAZE
BLASE
BLAME Danced around this more than Fred Astaire

Wordle 632 3/6*

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BEARD
BLAZE
BLAME

An annoying game today.

Wordle 632 5/6*

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IRATE
SNAKE
PLACE
FLAME
BLAME

Confession: I flipped off WordleBot.

Wordle 632 4/6

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CRANE
SPOIL
FLAME
BLAME

Yeep

Wordle 632 6/6*

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FAKIR
ABOUT
BYLAW
BLADE
BLAZE
BLAME

Wordle 632 6/6

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RADIO
CRANE
WHALE
GLAZE
BLADE
BLAME

A very poorly-played six. Deciding the L had to be in the second spot, I narrowed it down to GLAZE or GLADE and figured I was home free. Totally didn’t see the BL start (or FL, for that matter). I BLAME daylight saving time.

Apropos of nothing in particular, why is it that most people’s diagrams come out grey, yellow, and green, and a few people’s diagrams are black, blue, and orange?

oh, by the way:

Wordle 632 4/6

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READY
SHAKE
PLACE
BLAME

Splendid! (actually, I’m happy every time I don’t get Phew!)

I almost made my second word SHAME, which would had given me a shot at a three

Wordle 632 4/6*

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LEAST
ELAND
PLACE
BLAME

3 common letters in the 1st guess still left me with too many choices, so I feel lucky that I got it in 4