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

Wordle 643 4/6

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CRANE
FRISK
PROUD
GROUT

In hindsight, I should have played Proud second…I was considering it. Oh well, a 4 it is for today.

Wordle 643 3/6

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STARE
TRUCK
GROUT

With R needing to be in second position I wasted some time listing impossible solutions (due to prohibited letters; FRUIT, BRUTE, etc.) Finally started running down the alphabet looking to fit a “_R_UT” template, and that worked.

MAR 25

Wordle 644 3/6*

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ALONE
VOTED
VOTER

I didn’t think that was a possibility…

Wordle 644 3/6

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PLANT
STORE
VOTER

I was thrown by all the yellows for a minute. At first I was stuck on otter/utter until I realized my second guess eliminated both. Then looking at _OTER the answer became obvious.

Wordle 644 1/6*

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I accidentally saw a vague spoiler on the comments section to an unrelated newspaper crossword. Once seen I couldn’t un-see it. I feel that I have cheated and been cheated in equal measure. Bad day.

Wordle 644 2/6

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RATIO
VOTER

Not spoiled. Just lucky.

Wordle 644 4/6

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RAISE
OTHER
TOWER
VOTER

Voter came to mind first, but I thought tower was more likely, I was wrong.

Later today, Saturday 25 March 2023, we’ll have 10,000 posts in this thread!

Wordle 644 3/6

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CLUES
RATIO
VOTER

Wordle 644 5/6

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HEART
TRITE
ENTER
UTTER
VOTER

Wordle 644 5/6*

\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[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt G} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt M} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt W} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt C} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt V} \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 V} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \\ \end{aligned}

“Great” Wordle ?
No need to be sarcastic.

Total bust.

Wordle 644 X/6

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I keep waiting for Wordle to say, Loser! When you dont get it in 5.

Really! But I bet that would make Josh Wardle’s blood curdle.

This is real embarrassing. My hard mode got turned off somehow, and here I was blaming the robot for not acknowledging that I was following hard mode rules.

Wordle 644 5/6*

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READY
SPORE
OTHER
TOWER
VOTER

Poor showing today. But anything less than seven guesses is still a win, amirite?

Wordle 644 X/6

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ROUSE
LONER
WIMPY
DRECK
BOXER
HOVER

Fail!
Just too many _O_ER words with too many different letters. Even two test words couldn’t save me. Bah!

Another lucky second try for me, resulting in a 3 today:

Wordle 644 3/6*

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IRATE
TOWER
VOTER

After TOWER, there was nothing left but VOTER. Took me a few minutes to find it, though.

Wordle 644 2/6

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OUTER
VOTER

OUTER, in my regular rotation of starting words, turned out to be very lucky. The only other _OTER word I could see other than VOTER was “NOTER”–which though a word, is a really rather lame one. (Not that that’s always stopped them.)

Next-to-last post! I guess…)

Wordle 644 6/6

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PLANE
CREEK
FIBER
MOWER
HOVER
VOTER

Just wasn’t my day today, though I’m a tad annoyed at 5 days in a row with a T and also 5 V’s this month. :roll_eyes:

Oooh, just squeezed in before the new thread!