Well, like the game it’s based on, it’s not always going to be the most popular line. Still, I admit this variation on Wordle never occurred to me, so I’ll give it a few more tries for the fun of it.
Wordle 241 3/6
CREST
DRAWN
AROMA
After the second guess I was sorely tempted to reuse a known bad letter, but I held fast and a few minutes later came up with a word that fit everything I knew while also checking multiple letters for the first time. Pretty happy with this effort.
Wordle 241 4/6
You’ve got the exact same pattern I do!
TRANS/LOUIE gave me R as the second letter and the presence of an A and an O. Every word I can think of where R is the second letter has the R followed by a vowel, and it wasn’t A, so I determined the O had to be there. I tried BROAD, which confirmed that guess but still had the A in the wrong place, so the A had to be either the first or last letter, and I quickly realized it was both and won with AROMA.
Cool! Here are our words. Our third words were the same.
Smapti — — Bullitt
TRANS — — IRATE
LOUIE — — LOCUS
BROAD — — BROAD
AROMA — — AROMA
Another 4:
Wordle 241 4/6
COAST
BANJO
AVOID
AROMA
Back on 3 finally - been working a string of 4s with one 5 (yesterday’s word):
Wordle 241 3/6*
RATIO
FORAY
AROMA
@GuanoLad: I’m guessing you went RATIO, ABORT, AROMA?
Very close. First word was AM/FM.
Didn’t even think about that one!
Wordle 241 3/6
That didn’t take long.
Apparently there are 2 answers for no. 241
Comparing the source code of the NYTimes version and the original version via the Wayback machine, it appears that AGORA would have been today’s word in the original version and AROMA would have been tomorrow’s word, but for some reason the former was deleted when the conversion was made, so the latter is now today’s word. I believe the word for the following day is the same in both versions, but I didn’t bother to look at it too closely and it has already escaped my short-term memory.
Maybe the Times thought that having two similar words back-to-back would’ve felt like a cheat.
Wordle 241 5/6*
Not my best
AGORA?! What the hell kind of wordle answer is that? I’ve never even seen that word before other than as a prefix for a phobia.
Wordle 241 4/6
Average day for me
TEARS
PARCH
ARBOR
AROMA
I remember learning the word in sixth grade or so, as describing the public square/commons of an ancient Greek city.
A bit obscure, I’ll grant, but I wouldn’t think it would be unfamiliar to any adult with a substantial vocabulary.
My lame start word, TRAMS, finally generated a good hit.
Wordle 241 2/6
Zing! heh.
Wordle 241 4/6 2/15/2022
CYNIC → Not a world-beating start, yesterday gave me…
STARE → But I get to use a classic opener second.
ABHOR → Also thought about ROYAL, which wouldn’t have been as good for the A, but now I can try
AROMA
If I hadn’t had the A locked in as the initial, I wouldn’t have had the guts to try something with 2 As.
I always start with the previous day’s word, so that would have been a boon to me. Already helped on ULCER/ULTRA.
Wordle 241 3/6*