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

The Game Room
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Wordle 243 4/6*

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This one almost got me!

STEIN
SHARE – four greens! awesome!
SHAPE – hold on. There are four more super common words it could be! And that’s assuming SHALE is too obscure to be the answer.
SHADE
SHAKE – hallelujah! My streak is safe.

Not that there’s any shame in having a close shave.

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Coffee! :wink:

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LOL, agreed. Wordle is the second thing I do after starting my day. (Actually, that’s not strictly true. But the others are too mundane.)

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Wordle 244 4/6

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ALERT
POISE
VOGUE
DODGE

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Wordle 243 was so hard it made a news story:

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Wordle 243 3/6

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Lucky on the third guess given the potential options.

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I guess I’m weird for having noticed three possible legal answers at that point, and guessing a random weird that used a few of the possible letters, for a solid 2-guess solution?

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Wordle 244 5/6

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SLATE
PRIDE
DUNCE
FOLKY
DODGE

Totally blew this one. After three guesses I had a lot of information but no clue. Stuck, I had to burn my fourth guess on five new letters. (But looking now I see I only managed four new letters.) Even still with that it took me forever to come up with the right answer.

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Yeah I really struggled with 244 as well. I only got it after I jokingly entered DOGEE and my partner told me I was “soooo close”.

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I wouldn’t say it was “hard”, it just required some luck. A hard Wordle is when you are struggling to think of a word with the available letters. 243 was easy to think of words that fit, but it was just a matter of luck picking the correct one.

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Wordle 244 5/6

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Wordle 244 3/6

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COAST
BOGEY
DODGE

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Wordle 244 4/6 2/18/2022

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SHAKE → At least I knocked four good letters out. Try something with a couple more vowels…
COUPE → Probably both vowels, but no consonants yet. Can’t think of T or R words here, so…
LODGE → Well, I guess we have a double letter
DODGE

I think it’s my first all-green board.

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Wordle 244 4/6*

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Wordle 244 5/6

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I was sure my fourth guess was the answer…

COURT
MEANS
POKED
LODGE
DODGE

I always start with those first words. The third placed some letters and tried some new ones.

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Wordle 244 5/6

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Bastard!

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Average day today
Wordle 244 4/6

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Lucky I could only think of one word that matched the last 4 letters.

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I was lucky today on my second guess which took away the challenge. I got it in three,

STONE
LODGE
DODGE

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Got lucky on my first guess.
Wordle 244 3/6

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TRADE
DOUSE
DODGE

Knew D was unlikely to be the 2nd or 3rd letter and from there is was just running through what could possibly fit.