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

Wordle 635 3/6*

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SLATE
CREDO
CIDER
My 2nd guess of CREDO was lucky, eliminating all but 2 words

Agree with @RTFirefly that somehow this one shouldn’t be a streak-killer, but WordleBot says that the NYT average (in hard mode) is 4.3

Friday, March 17th

Wordle 636 3/6

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PLANT
SCALE
MEALY

I wasn’t in love with mealy as my third word, but not in the sense that I objected to it being on the answer list. More that I am overly drawn to M, and that I should keep looking. But darn if I could find anything else so I just went with it.

Wordle 636 4/6

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RATIO
CLUES
NYMPH
MEALY

Wordle 636 4/6

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RATIO
ASHEN
MEDAL
MEALY

Wordle 636 4/6*

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PIOUS
GREAT
LEAKY
MEALY

Wordle 636 4/6*

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RATIO
MAUND
MESAS
MEALY

Ugh, brain fog today…

Wordle 636 3/6*

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ALONE
DEALT
MEALY

Wordle 636 3/6

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SLART
WHALE
MEALY

Had that same result from my starting word the other day with EMAIL, and I still had my scribbles from then, which helped. Scoredle said there were 3 words left after my second guess, but the solution was really the only one (though it took me a good while to be sure of that), the other two besides the solution were bullshit words.

got lucky today

Wordle 636 3/6

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NOISE
EARLY
MEALY

Wordle 636 3/6*

\begin{aligned} &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \\ &\bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt M} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt Y} \\ \end{aligned}

Wordle 636 4/6

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HEART
BEADY
LEAFY
MEALY

Wordle 636 3/6*

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SALET
LEAVE
MEALY

Got lucky today.

A lot of threes today.
Wordle 636 3/6

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IRATE
PEALS
MEALY

According to Wordlebot, mealy was the only word remaining. Not a word I use that often, except when eating bad apples or watermelon, but it came to me immediately. That puzzle took a minute or so.

Wordle 636 2/6*

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MOUSE
MEALY

A lucky 2.

Wordle 636 4/6

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ATONE
LAGER
PLEAD
MEALY

I’ve used Mealy for a start word a few times, and it was on my mind since guess #2, but I just didn’t play it for whatever reason…darn it. So an average 4 it is for today.

Wordle 636 3/6

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OPERA
MEATY
MEALY

An extremely fortunate second guess.

This one got away from me.

Wordle 636 5/6

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CRANE
BEAST
HEARD - stupid choice, since the ‘r’ was dead
LEAVE
MEALY

Wordle 636 4/6* St. Patrick's Day 2023

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CIDER → Well, that’s something. Move the E over and try something else…
SHEOL → Still haven’t tried a T, but I can’t find a word with a good fit for it. Let’s try LEA-- for starters…
LEAFY → Lucky hit with the Y. Usually I want to try N or M by now, so it fits well to go…
MEALY

Scoredle says VEALY is a word. I say Scoredle is full of it.

My luck ran out. Although not entirely, at least.

Wordle 636 4/6*

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IRATE
PEACH
LEAKY
MEALY

I’m going to take an L for the day since I came in here before I completed the grid. I was out of ideas after so many misspelled guesses.