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

Wordle 240 5/6

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Hanging on to 5/6

After 4 guesses, I needed about 20 minutes to figure out the correct word in the 5th guess.

Wordle 240 5/6

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Wordle 240 6/6

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I think the hardest one I’ve done yet.

TRACE
CHOMP
CLING
CIDER
CUBIC
CYNIC

I think this was my first 6/6. (Although I failed at least once in the past). My 5th guess was quite appropriate.

Wordle 240 6/6

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BRING
FINED
SONIC
TUNIC
PANIC
CYNIC

Wordle 240 4/6 St. Valentine's Day 2022

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ROBIN → Move the N around, try another vowel and a T
TUNIC → Oh boy, this may be a long one. Is there an A?
PANIC → Nope. Can’t think of any words ?ENIC, what about ?YNIC? There’s one…
CYNIC

I was also thinking about [EY]?NIC for a while, but really couldn’t think of anything there.

Wordle 240 5/6

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BEARD
QUILT
JIFFY
YOGIC
CYNIC

After a bad start I managed to piece it together in 4, but it took me a long time to come up with both the third and fourth guesses.

Wordle 240 4/6

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STARE
WOUND
ZINGY
CYNIC

Two C’s? Damn, that’s diabolical!

Can’t wait till we get to CRICK.

Plus, hey, a bad start is kind of a good start, when you count all the letters you eliminated on your first two guesses…

I took one look and thought, “Holy crap, that looks ridiculously hard, but I guess I’ll give it a shot.” And then:

nerdlegame 26 3/6

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https://nerdlegame.com #nerdle

Not a good day for me, but I got there.
Wordle 240 5/6*

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It was on one of the alternate sites, but one time I got “fluff” as the target. After five guesses I had just the “u” in the right place and added the “l” in guess six. Worst result EVA.

GUIDE
TOILS
BRAIN
MANIC
CYNIC

I knew my fourth guess was wrong because of the A, but I was pretty stumped and wanted to confirm the NIC. I should have thought about it longer.

I finally got redirected to the NYT site, and now the share button isn’t working for me.

Lucky guess

Wordle 240 2/6*

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CRYPT
CYNIC

~Max

Another average showing.

Wordle 240 4/6*

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IRATE
CLING
CUMIN
CYNIC

I’m gradually going through the Wordle arcives. The only one i didn’t get was: after four guesses i had _ERRY. i guessed BERRY. No, so how about MERRY? No, so i lost. It was FERRY.

It’s tomorrow in Down Under land, and this was not going to be my third guess, but I changed my mind last minute.

Wordle 241 3/6

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Hahahaha I love this, wordle for chess openings.

Chessle 2 (Normal) 5/6

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https://jackli.gg/chessle

Calling @glee who will likely be able to do expert mode.

Did somebody say my name?! :heart_eyes:

Well I started Chessle on normal (3 moves) and went:

  1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 (Ruy Lopez) … this scored 0 green and 0 yellow

So next I played the Nimzo-Indian:

  1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 … this scored 4 green and 2 yellow (Nf6 / e6)

So clearly the game began:

  1. d4 e6 2. c4 Nf6 3. Nc3 Bb4 … 6 green

I think 1. … Nf6 is far more popular than 1. … e6 (as it prevents 2. e4 by White.)

So I don’t know how much being a chess expert helps…

I’ve found that if I reload the page after the initial results display, the share button reappears.

Wordle 241 4/6

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