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

First time playing for me today, although I’m familiar with Lingo and did pretty well on 538 Riddler’s version of the game where you guess your first four words (out of 5) with no feedback.

My three guesses:

TALES
TRILL
TROLL

STARE
GROUT
TROMP
TROLL

4 tries.

RATIO
TORUS
TROPE
TROLL

Haha, got it in 2!

STARE
TROLL

4 tries.

Ladle

Bouts

Dirty

Troll

(Puzzle #195)
Well the new one was interesting. For the first time, I got no letters at all on the first guess. Then only two letters on the second guess, one in the correct position. But that turned out to be so restrictive that I could only think of one possible word that fit, and got it on the third guess.

RATES
DOING
UNIFY

Much the same thing happened to me today, and I even chose words with the same letters you did on my first 2 attempts… but I didn’t get as lucky matching a position like you did on try #2 so it took me 4 tries.
Dec. 31st.

STARE
DINGO
UNHIP
UNIFY

Got it in 3! This was a tricky one.

WRIST
HONEY
UNIFY

5 tries. 4th one was not really necessary.

BEIGE
COINS
TRAIN
UNITY
UNIFY

Took me five tries, the first time I’ve had to go past 3.

4 tries again (darn it). Like many of you, I had no letters after 1 guess and only 1 letter (wrong pos) after 2nd guess. Third guess gave me 3 (all in wrong position - and I reused my letter from 2), but those three were distinct enough to give me the final word.

SWEAT
CHOIR
FLUID
UNIFY

Unity?
No, that’s not it, but…
Unity, that must be it…
but no “t”. so, …
unity? I was like Rick James wanting to smash someone in the face with a “unity” ring.

:slight_smile:

I’ve been there. Not on today’s word, but I feel ya.

Thanks. I cheated and came here to find “unify”. Not proud, but.

Got today’s in three. It’s nice when your first word fails every letter on hard. Really allows you to narrow down the options for the second word.

SOARE
TUNIC
UNIFY

Four, this time.

ETHER
WISPY
INLAY
UNIFY

3 tries, but I got lucky with the 3rd.

RATIO
FLIED
UNIFY

Use spoiler tags, pls.

Jumps
Wrist
Blame
Doggy

Unify

First time getting it on the very last guess. It was very satisfying.

CHOIR
SIZED
BAILS
TWINS
QUILT
UNIFY