# "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:** 165
**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 16, 2023, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/3281 "2023-09-16T17:31:11Z")
Wordle 819 3/6 β¬›πŸŸ¦β¬›πŸŸ§β¬› πŸŸ§πŸŸ§πŸŸ§πŸŸ§β¬› 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧 CAMEO ANGER ANGEL Thought I had a two. Should have been thinking more peaceful thoughts, I guess. ---
**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 16, 2023, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/3282 "2023-09-16T17:45:49Z")
Not in the 3 club today. Oh, well. Wordle 819 4/6\* β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¨β¬›πŸŸ¨ β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¨πŸŸ¨β¬› πŸŸ¨πŸŸ¨β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ¨ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 IRATE SPEAK LADEN ANGEL To my detriment, I’ve learned I have an aversion to playing words that start with a vowel. Ironic, considering my opening word. Congrats to all the 3s and 2s today! 🎊 πŸŽ‰ πŸŽ† ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2023, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/3283 "2023-09-16T19:24:05Z")
> **Wordle 819 5/6\* 9/16/2023** > > 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ > ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨 > ⬜🟨🟨🟨🟩 > 🟨🟨⬜🟩🟩 > 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 > > _E_XERT β†’ OK, three spots left for that E. Three comcons and another vowel, hey! > SHI_NE_ β†’ Any help? NE help? Not in this case. Try something with an A and an L > P_ENA_ **L** β†’ I’ve chased the E around perdition’s flames and I finally know where to put it! N must be 1st or second, ditto A (to avoid AEL) so try > _NA_V **EL** β†’ Alas, wrong order. Gotta be > **ANGEL** > > Can I just say here I’m hoping for GLEAN tomorrow? No? ---
**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 16, 2023, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/3284 "2023-09-16T19:42:43Z")
May I just say I really admire your devil-may-care approach to this game? You clearly have a playful side. I will hope for GLEAN tomorrow, too. πŸ™‚ ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2023, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/3285 "2023-09-16T19:43:34Z")
Wordle 819 3/6 ⬜🟨🟨🟨⬜ 87 🟨🟩⬜⬜⬜ 6 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 SLANT ENVOY ANGEL A lucky 3; it could’ve also been ANGLE or ANKLE. It was a year ago today that PARER stumped a hell of a lot of players, including myself. Here’s how I’ve done in the year since: 2 - 17 times 3 - 162 " 4 - 149 " 5 - 31 " 6 - 5 " (two of which were in the last 10 days, dammit!) X - 1 " (JOKER) Averaging in the loss on JOKER as a 7, I have a 3.58 average for the past year. ---
**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 17, 2023, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/3286 "2023-09-17T02:20:01Z")
**Wordle 819 3/6** ⬜🟨🟨⬜🟨 🟨🟨⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 SLATE NAVEL ANGEL ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2023, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/3287 "2023-09-17T04:06:35Z")
Wordle 820 2/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2023, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/3288 "2023-09-17T04:48:05Z")
[spoiler]Wordle 820 3/6 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩[/spoiler]? CLEAR TONIC MUSIC ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2023, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/3289 "2023-09-17T05:10:50Z")
Wordle 820 3/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜ 🟩⬜⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 RATIO MEDIC MUSIC Nice three with all greens. ETA: the one time I forgot to check the spoiler tags were wrong. I hope nobody was spoiled ☹ ---
**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 17, 2023, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/3290 "2023-09-17T07:18:12Z")
Wordle 820 4/6 πŸŸ¨β¬›β¬›β¬›β¬› β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¨β¬›β¬› πŸŸ¨β¬›πŸŸ¨πŸŸ¨β¬› 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 SALET ROUND CHIMP MUSIC ---
**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 17, 2023, 8:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/3291 "2023-09-17T08:00:36Z")
Wordle 820 4/6 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ πŸŸ¨πŸŸ¨β¬›β¬›β¬› β¬›πŸŸ¨πŸŸ¨πŸŸ¨πŸŸ¨ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 PLANT SCORE FICUS MUSIC This was a bad 4; I should have seen music before ficus. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2023, 10:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/3292 "2023-09-17T10:55:16Z")
Wordle 820 4/6 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ 1,376 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ 20 ⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ 1 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 SLANT CHORE GIMPY MUSIC Apparently my first two guesses narrowed it down to just a couple of possibilities, but there was really no way for me to know that, so I kept on fishing for letters. Just for your NSFW entertainment, here are Scoredle’s first few choices after my second guess: ducks fucks mucks dicks ---
**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 17, 2023, 11:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/3293 "2023-09-17T11:08:29Z")
Wordle 820 4/6\* ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ πŸŸ¦β¬›πŸŸ¦β¬›β¬› β¬›πŸŸ¦πŸŸ¦β¬›πŸŸ¦ 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧 ALONE SHIRT DIMPS MUSIC ---
**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 17, 2023, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/3294 "2023-09-17T11:31:52Z")
> [@EllisDee](#): > > This was a bad 4; I should have seen music before ficus. 'specially after your second guess ! Wordle 820 4/6\* \begin{aligned} &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \bbox[silver,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[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt Q} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \\ &\bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt C} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt M} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt N} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt M} \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 I} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt C} \\ \end{aligned} ---
**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 17, 2023, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/3295 "2023-09-17T11:50:37Z")
> [@pjd](#): > > 'specially after your second guess ! I would like to say it was overpowered by my first guess, except that the first word I saw after 2 was mucus, which I didn’t think would be the answer. It’s understandable how I saw ficus after mucus, but I could have just as easily seen music after mucus. It certainly is a more common word. ---
**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 17, 2023, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/3296 "2023-09-17T11:58:40Z")
Wordle 820 3/6 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩⬜🟨🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 IDEAL MOIST MUSIC ---
**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 17, 2023, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/3297 "2023-09-17T13:21:35Z")
Wordle 820 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟨⬜⬜🟩⬜ 🟩⬜⬜🟩🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 HEART SPOIL MINIS MUSIC ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2023, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/3298 "2023-09-17T15:11:54Z")
> **Wordle 820 4/6\* 9/17/2023** > > ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ > ⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜ > 🟨🟩🟩⬜⬜ > 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 > > ANGEL β†’ Well, I guess we’re about as far from GLEAN as we can get. Time for a perennial second guess! > RO_US_T β†’ I stopped here right before I went to bed. I was not seeing anything. After my subconscious wrestled with it overnight, I came back and tried > _C_ **US** HY β†’ Which, given β€œI” was still unused, led pretty quickly to > **MUSIC** > > In one sense I took eight hours to solve this one; in another, less than three minutes. Maybe I’m better at this when I’m asleep. ---
**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 17, 2023, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/3299 "2023-09-17T15:34:03Z")
After the first two duds, I’ll take the four. Wordle 820 4/6 🟦⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟦⬜⬜ ⬜🟧🟧⬜⬜ 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧 SLATE POUND FUSSY MUSIC ---
**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 17, 2023, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/3300 "2023-09-17T15:52:20Z")
Wordle 820 5/6\* ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ β¬›πŸŸ¨β¬›πŸŸ¨β¬› β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ¨πŸŸ¨β¬› β¬›πŸŸ©β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ© 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 RANGE WITCH JUICY ← oops, i wasted a guess, but found a U CUBIC MUSIC [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659.md?page=164) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659.md?page=166)