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

I guess it’s one of the 14,855 words (or in this case, ‘words’) that one can use as a guess. But that ‘word’ and my reaction to it are one and the same. :smiley:

Wordle 633 3/6

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PLANT
LOSER
SURLY

Not loving that one of my go-to second guesses has become loser, but it does work.

Wordle 633 4/6

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NOISE
SAUCY
SULLY
SURLY

Wordle 633 4/6

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HEART
BROIL
TRULY (Know there’s no T, but wanted to see if I had U or Y or both)
SURLY

Wordle 633 4/6*

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BEARD
GROUT
MURKY
SURLY

Wordle 633 5/6*

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ADIEU
CLOUT
FULLY
BURLY
SURLY
After fully, Scoredle told me to choose burly which of course was wrong. This could have easily been a 6!

Ugh. I didn’t have my vowel until guess 5. Hard Mode

Wordle 633 5/6*

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CRATE
SHORE
SWIRL
SLYER
SURLY

StG

Wordle 633 3/6

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CRANE
SPOIL - okay, so it has to be a ‘u’, and the ‘s’ eliminates ‘burly’
SURLY

Wordle 633 3/6

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CAUSE
SPOUT
SURLY

Thought SUNNY first, but wanted to get two new consonants out instead of just one. And there are a couple common ones left, so how about… SURLY?
I was proud of this three, but I see I’m not exceptional today.

I don’t know why, but this one was not easy.

Wordle 633 4/6*

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FLAME
BUILT
GULLS
SURLY

I got really lucky. I thought I was still letter-placement testing. Instead, I stumbled into the answer.

Wordle 633 3/6*

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IRATE
SWORN
SURLY

WordleBot made sure to point out it was pure luck. :roll_eyes:

Wordle 633 3/6*

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MARCH
PURSE
SURLY

Wordle 633 5/6

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SLANT
SOLID
SHELL
SKULK
SURLY

Tough one, for some reason. With all the vowels except U eliminated and the high likelihood that it had to fall in 2nd position, a Y at the end seemed to be probable (though I did look at endings LC, LP, etc.).

Wordle 633 5/6*

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ALONE
PILCH
LUSTY
SULKY
SURLY

I screwed up, but still managed.

Wordle 633 3/6*

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CHOIR
STARE
SURLY

WordleBot gave me a 96 for skill and 63 for luck, but I felt more lucky than skillful.

Wednesday, March 15th

Wordle 634 3/6

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PLANT
SPORE
SWEEP

I saw sweep before sheep.

Wordle 634 5/6

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RATIO
DUNES
SHEEP
SLEEP
SWEEP

Wordle 633 4/6

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REACT
SHORN
SYRUP
SURLY

Played this one too fast and forgot to check the previous answer list…would have seen Syrup already been used - it wasn’t even that long ago on 2/26 (it seemed familiar - lol).

I found this one to be a tough one.

Wordle 634 5/6

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\begin{aligned} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\text R} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\text A} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\text T} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\text I} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\text O} \\ \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\text C} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\text L} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\text U} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\text E} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\text S} \\ \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\text N} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\text Y} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\text M} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\text P} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\text H} \\ \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\text B} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\text A} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\text D} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\text G} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\text E} \\ \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\text S} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\text W} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\text E} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\text E} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\text P} \end{aligned}

With thanks to @pjd and @Topologist .

Wordle 634 4/6*

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STALE
SNEER
SPEED
SWEEP

Glad I tried the double E early.