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

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Wordle 635 6/6

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RATIO
BRINE
LIVER
WIDER
RETCH
CIDER

Trap!Trap!Trap! Not even sure which are the actual -IDER words. CIDER, HIDER, and RIDER were my top three options so I used a test word to try to get lucky.

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Wordle 635 4/6

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RATIO
CLUES
CRIED
CIDER

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Wordle 635 4/6*

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SMITE
INFER
HIKER
CIDER

That could have gone horribly wrong after 3. Dodged a bullet.

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Wordle 635 3/6

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SLART
NICHE
CIDER

Apparently Scoredle couldn’t even find any bullshit words it could’ve been after my second word. I loved the way it put it:

“There is now 1 possible guess.The best guess to make next would be [that guess].”

Well no shit, Sherlock - if there’s only one possibility remaining, that would be the best guess, alright! When you’ve eliminated the impossible, and all that.

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Wordle 635 4/6*

\begin{aligned} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \\ &\bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt V} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt W} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt C} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \end{aligned}

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Wordle 635 2/6

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REACT
CIDER

Thought I’d check the ER ending, and I just went with the first one I thought of out of the list of words I had. Lucky guess!

I missed playing yesterday’s game (#634).

Thank you…I didn’t expect everyone to feel the same way as I did - I’m just a lot more sensitive to that sort of thing than most, but it was nice to see all of that go away…until now - I see what you are talking about with the new “thingummy” that’s being posted, and I agree with you and @Wheelz on that one too.

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Wordle 635 4/6*

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TRANS
RELIC
DICER
CIDER

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Wordle 635 5/6

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HEART
SPIRE
RIVEN
BIKER
CIDER

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Wordle 635 3/6

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ABIDE
DINER
CIDER

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And there was also EIDER, the kind of duck you get eiderdown from.

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Wordle 635 4/6*

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CRATE
COPER
CHEER
CIDER

StG

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Wordle 635 4/6

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CRANE
CLERK
COVER
CIDER

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Oh, that word was on my list. I listed the three mostly likely to me but I had a long list of possibilities.

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According to Wordlebot, this one is killing about 1 out of 10 win streaks. Interesting to see that no one here lost theirs…yet. The day is still young. :slight_smile:

Wordle 635 4/6

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IRATE
RESIN
FIRED
CIDER

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Wordle 635 5/6

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MAUVE
TONER
SLICK
DICER
CIDER

So all I knew after two was that it ends in ER (and probably has an I). Better throw as many consonants out there as I can. Though I usually stick with hard mode, that turned out to be the right idea.
C in the third spot jumped at me first, so I used an extra guess transposing the C and D. (At least I’m not the only one, @Half_Man_Half_Wit :wink:)
Not thrilled with a five, but I survived a tough one.

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Wow. Today’s solution just doesn’t seem to be the sort of word that would be a big streak-killer. It’s a well-known word, not tricky in any way I can think of, and four of its five letters are among the 10 most frequently appearing letters in Wordle solutions. (And the fifth isn’t that far behind.)

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This one knocked me out.

What got me, essentially, was nailing down 4 letters and still having 5 possible answers. In hard mode, that means I’m just hoping to pick the right one, and I didn’t.

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See directly below you :slight_smile:

I got luckly. After 3, I still had 6 words left and I guessed the correct one. One of the possibilities I would never get since it isn’t a word I ever think of, so I’m expecting my streak to break when it eventually comes up. This is playing hard mode which I almost always do now (I didn’t use to).

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Me, too!

Wordle 635 2/6*

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IRATE
CIDER

Long time since I’ve had a 2, so it was a little thrill. Lucky as can be. WordleBot advised there were 58 (!!!) available words after my first try, but I still just had a feeling it was the right word. And it was!

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Wordle 635 5/6* 3/16/2023

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SWEEP → OK, not much to start on, but at least the E is placed. What common-letter word can I pick for next?
LINER → Ooh, good one. But looks trappish as well. I definitely want to get T out of the way… TIGER? or…
BITER → No luck. And TIGER is out now too. Looking through letters left, I’ll try…
DIVER → Lucky! HIDER, or…
CIDER

And because I wasn’t looking at letters already found, RIDER would have sunk me - as would AIDER, as Scoredle so generously points out. Makes me glad my start had eliminated WIDER. I can see why this one has been a streak-ender for so many in the gen-pop…