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

The Game Room
1921

Wordle 261 5/6*

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Shift
Guard
Shard
Heard
Hoard

1922

How did you get two yellows with that first word?

1923

Wordle 261 4/6*

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CLEAT
GROAN
ABHOR
HOARD

1924

Another deuce!
Wordle 261 2/6

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HEART
HOARD

1925

Wordle 261 3/6

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tries
charm
hoard

1926

Like pulling teeth today for me as well as some homonym fun.

Wordle 261 5/6

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BLIMP
GHOST
CONCH
HORDE
HOARD

1927

Maybe their first word was really DRIFT?

1928

Wordle 261 4/6*

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ALERT
SPARK
CHARD
HOARD

1929

Wow. I usually come in at 4 guesses, so this is spectacular for me.

Wordle 261 2/6*

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1930

You are correct, it was drift as in my minded drifted and I CRS :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

1931

Wordle 261 3/6

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HAIRY
CLUMP
HOARD

I was planning to try a “hairy, clump, stone” start, but i had so much information after two that i went ahead and guessed.

1932

My first loss. I had two greens after the second pick. But, I made a wrong assumption and wasted a couple of picks. I got to the last word and had it narrowed down to two possible words. I picked the wrong one.

1933

Just realized I lucked out with today’s (261) wordle. Laid my two groundwork words then spent several minutes trying to come up with a word for the third guess, and it was correct. But it shouldn’t have taken minutes and it should have taken me four guesses instead of three.

I hadn’t checked either H or B, so by all rights I should have quickly guessed BOARD instead of jumping straight to HOARD.

1934

Wordle 261 3/6*

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IRATE
SHARP
HOARD

Heh, heh.

1935

A lucky opening word led to my second two in a row.

Wordle 261 2/6

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BROAD
HOARD

Though it took me a while to come up with the right answer. After a couple minutes of staring, I almost plunked down OARED, but resisted. Since there are no ‘S’ plurals in the game, I figured an ‘ED’ suffix wasn’t likely either. I actually stepped away for a while until HOARD came to me.

1936
Wordle 261 3/6* 3/7/2022

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CLOTH → Not a bad start. Try something with E & R…
HORDE → Should have tried something with A & R…
HOARD

Like @Folly I had some fun with homonyms today.

1937

Wordle 261 3/6*

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BEARD
CHARD
HOARD

That’s more like it.

1938

Here’s my result for tomorrow’s. Satisfyingly symmetrical.

Wordle 262 3/6

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1939

Wordle 261 3/6

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OUTER, BROAD, HOARD. Glad to have another 3 to offset some of those 4s and 5s.

1940

Here’s tomorrow’s puzzle

Wordle 262 6/6

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Wordle 262

LIVER
DOTES
STEEP
SHEET
SKEET
SWEET

Double letters are my Kryptonite.