# "Wordle," a strangely compelling word game (Part 2) **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** board-card-word-game\ **Created:** [March 25, 2023, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659 "2023-03-25T23:59:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 157
**Author:** ![QMatic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/aeb1de/32.png) [@QMatic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QMatic)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2023, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/3121 "2023-09-07T07:40:15Z")
Wordle 810 5/6\* ⬜⬜⬜🟩🟨 ⬜⬜🟩🟩⬜ ⬜⬜🟩🟩⬜ ⬜⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 GUILE SHELF KNELT QUELL DWELL ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2023, 9:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/3122 "2023-09-07T09:27:15Z")
Wordle 810 3/6\* \begin{aligned} &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt Y} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt W} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \\ \end{aligned} ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2023, 10:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/3123 "2023-09-07T10:39:57Z")
Wordle 810 6/6 ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ 640 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 90 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 17 🟨🟨⬜⬜🟩 2 ⬜⬜🟩🟩🟩 1 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 SLANT CHORE GIMPY LEVEL QUELL DWELL A fine followup to yesterday’s 2. 😠 ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2023, 10:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/3124 "2023-09-07T10:45:21Z")
Wordle 810 5/6 β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¨πŸŸ¨β¬› β¬›β¬›β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¨ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ πŸŸ¨πŸŸ¨πŸŸ¨β¬›β¬› 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 **SALET** **ROUND** **CHIMP** β€” _from here it’s almost certainly either LEDGE, DWELL_ **LEDGE** β€” _damn, looks like it’ll be a 5 today_ **DWELL** Like @The_Other_Waldo_Pepper said, it was a slog. ---
**Author:** ![chiliwillybing](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chiliwillybing/32/12394_2.png) [@chiliwillybing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chiliwillybing)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2023, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/3125 "2023-09-07T11:44:50Z")
Wordle 810 2/6 ⬜🟨🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 IDEAL DWELL very lucky today, only one word left ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2023, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/3126 "2023-09-07T12:20:45Z")
Wordle 810 4/6 ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 HEART SLICE NOVEL DWELL ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2023, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/3127 "2023-09-07T15:39:20Z")
Wordle 810 3/6 ⬜🟦⬜⬜🟦 ⬜🟦🟦🟧⬜ 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧 SLATE JELLY DWELL Well, I did better than most for a change. ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2023, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/3128 "2023-09-07T17:53:00Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > A fine followup to yesterday’s 2. 😠 Wordle never lets us get too cocky. As evidenced by today’s 5: Wordle 810 5/6\* β¬›β¬›β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¨ β¬›β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ©β¬› β¬›β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŸ© β¬›β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŸ© 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 IRATE SHELF QUELL KNELL DWELL If it was the wrong answer, I picked it today! ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2023, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/3129 "2023-09-07T18:15:15Z")
Wordle 810 4/6\* ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ πŸŸ¨β¬›β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¨ β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¨πŸŸ¨πŸŸ© 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 MUSIC LARGE BOWEL DWELL I kept trying to find vowels! ---
**Author:** ![mattgg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ccd318/32.png) [@mattgg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mattgg)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2023, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/3130 "2023-09-07T19:40:54Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > That illustrates the difference between Wordlebot and Scoredle. The latter is working from a list of 14,855 words that are legitimate guesses, but I assume Wordlebot’s working from the list of ~2300 actual solutions. Wordlebot used to work from the list of actual solutions (which, see next paragraph, doesn’t exist anymore) but now it works from a broader list that they compiled by gathering all of the five-letter words published in the New York Times over some period of years. They weeded out words that are known to not be possible answers, like plurals formed by adding β€œs”. This left somewhere around 3,400 words, I think. The list includes the frequency of the words, which helps Wordlebot when it makes its choices. For example, yesterday at one point both β€œchasm” and β€œmiasm” were still possible answers but it gave β€œmiasm” a 0.1% chance of being the answer. Since the answers are now chosen by an editor instead of using the original answer list, there’s a chance that someday Wordle won’t be able to solve it because the answer isn’t in its list of words. ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2023, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/3131 "2023-09-07T23:07:01Z")
Wordle 810 4/6 β¬›β¬›β¬›πŸŸ§πŸŸ¦ β¬›β¬›πŸŸ§πŸŸ§β¬› β¬›β¬›πŸŸ§πŸŸ§πŸŸ§ 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧 AGILE SPELT QUELL DWELL I see I’m not the only one who went QUELL before DWELL. Makes me feel a _little_ better, I guess. ---
**Author:** ![SeaSun](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/seasun/32/14820_2.png) [@SeaSun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeaSun)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2023, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/3132 "2023-09-08T02:33:31Z")
**Wordle 810 4/6** ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨 ⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 SLATE MELON PIXEL DWELL * * * * * * > [@chiliwillybing](#): > > very lucky today, only one word left Nice 2! Your start word turned out to be the _ideal_ word. πŸ˜† ---
**Author:** ![gkster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gkster/32/14107_2.png) [@gkster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gkster)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2023, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/3133 "2023-09-08T03:28:41Z")
Wordle 810 2/6\* ⬜⬜🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 STEAL DWELL Just as lucky as @chiliwillybing because there were 5 other possible words left, and I went with the 1st one I saw ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2023, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/3134 "2023-09-08T03:38:24Z")
Wordle 810 6/6 β¬›πŸŸ¨β¬›β¬›β¬› β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¨πŸŸ¨β¬› β¬›β¬›β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ¨ β¬›β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ©β¬› β¬›β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŸ© 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 PLANT ROLES BIBLE FEELY QUELL DWELL I kind of went wacky after 2. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2023, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/3135 "2023-09-08T04:04:03Z")
**FRIDAY, SEPT 8th** Wordle 811 4/6\* β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¦β¬›πŸŸ§ β¬›πŸŸ§πŸŸ¦β¬›πŸŸ§ πŸŸ§πŸŸ§β¬›πŸŸ¦πŸŸ§ 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧 ALONE PORTE ROGUE ROUSE ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2023, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/3136 "2023-09-08T04:34:31Z")
Wordle 811 5/6 🟩⬜⬜⬜🟨 🟩🟨⬜🟨⬜ 🟩🟩⬜🟨⬜ 🟩🟩⬜🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 RATIO RECON ROWED ROGUE ROUSE I was trying to find words with common letters but nothing was coming to be. I predict that most people will get this in less than five. ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2023, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/3137 "2023-09-08T05:44:44Z")
> **Wordle 810 4/6\* 9/7/2023** > > ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ > ⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜ > ⬜⬜⬜🟩🟨 > 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 > > GNASH β†’ Whole lotta nuttin’. > TI_LE_R β†’ E the sole vowel? Seems unlikely. The more I stared at this the more I saw a repeat-letter word, which seemed a bit early to try but it did give me a vowel to try, so > CYC **L** _E_ β†’ which gave me very little, but having broken the repeat letter taboo, I found it easy to try again with > **DWELL** > > I think I might have bitten on the QU- prefix first, so it’s a good thing I didn’t see it. Turns out there were a bunch of good third guesses, though. ---
**Author:** ![QMatic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/aeb1de/32.png) [@QMatic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QMatic)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2023, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/3138 "2023-09-08T06:43:41Z")
Wordle 811 6/6\* ⬜⬜🟨🟨🟨 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 PIOUS DOUSE MOUSE HOUSE LOUSE ROUSE ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2023, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/3139 "2023-09-08T07:02:23Z")
Wordle 811 3/6 πŸŸ¨β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¨β¬› πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŸ©β¬›β¬› 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 **SALET** **ROUND** **ROUSE** β€” _easy peasy!_ ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2023, 8:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/3140 "2023-09-08T08:52:59Z")
Wordle 811 4/6\* \begin{aligned} &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt G} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt M} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt F} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt C} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \\ \end{aligned} [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659.md?page=156) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659.md?page=158)