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

The Game Room
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From what I’ve read, if you enter in the old URL and let it redirect to NYTimes, it should preserve your stats. It did for me, in any event.

For today’s game;

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TRANS/LOUIE gave me a U in the middle and the presence of an A and an L. I was kinda stumped from there and tried PLUMB, which didn’t give me much except for where the L wasn’t. I then tried ADULT, which gave me the L in the fourth space. At this point, it was clear that either the first or second letter had to be a vowel, and A wasn’t the first letter so therefore it had to be the second, and I came to CAULK as the correct word that fit those parameters.

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3 again.

Wordle 242 3/6*

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Wordle 242 2/6

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Black
Caulk

Yo! And my stats reappeared!

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Okay now I’m a little worried — I’ve kept an iOS Safari tab only for the game. All other browsing is done on other tabs. Will my stats be preserved if I should close that tab? I would think so… right?

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Wordle 242 4/6*

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Another difficult one.

Wordle 242 5/6

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Wordle 242 5/6*

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Lucky third try for me today.

Wordle 242 3/6*

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IRATE
SHOAL
CAULK

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Wordle 242 4/6 2/16/2022

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AROMA → Well, only one A. Perhaps try U & E?
PAUSE → Hope I haven’t peaked too soon. Let’s assume no more vowels,
BAULK → Darn it, it’s
CAULK

Lucky guess on #3, as [DTV]AUNT, [FV]AULT, were all still on the table. On reflection, VAULT would have been a better choice.

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Sure enough, today’s word on the old site was AROMA.

Then some weird things happened. I finally closed my old tab and opened the NYT version, did the puzzle, and… no stats other than today’s puzzle. :frowning:
I then tried typing in the old URL (https://powerlanguage.co.uk/) only to see not a Wordle but an “about me” page from Wordle’s creator.
Thinking “oh well, guess I’ll have to start over,” I was about to close the tab when I noticed a link at the bottom to the NYT version. With nothing to lose, I clicked it and - Voila! - there were my stats!
Then I went back to the NYT tab I had previously opened an my stats were there too - including my one and only “1” for today’s repeat word! :laughing:
So all is well, I suppose. Until the inevitable paywall goes up.

Anyway…

Wordle 242 3/6

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SNEAK
BLACK
CAULK

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Oh, and by the way, I’m convinced that yesterday’s “glitch” was entirely intentional, to get holdouts like me to switch over. And it worked.

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Failed tomorrow’s, due to too many options. Good luck everyone.

Wordle 243 X/6

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Nice Tetris stack!

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243, five turns, no yellow
Wordle 243 5/6*

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Wordle 243 3/6

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LATER
SPADE
SHAKE

My first two guesses eliminated several of the options for the third, and I got lucky.

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Ditto!

Wordle 243 5/6*

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SPIRE
SLATE
SHADE
SHAME
SHAKE

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Wordle 243 4/6

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SALON
STARE
SPACE
SHAKE

I consider myself lucky to get it in four. Though I would like to complain that the game wouldn’t let me guess SHART for my second guess. That’s a high quality word for this game and would have materially helped me.

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Wordle 243 6/6

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Just made it in six!

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Today nearly undid me as well.

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TRANS
LOUIE
SCAPE
SHADE
SHAME
SHAKE

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Yeah, that was a tough one:
Wordle 243 6/6*

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My old start word would have given me green, blank, green, blank, green on the first line, but looking at some of the other grids, it probably wouldn’t have made that much of a difference!