# "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:** 168
**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 20, 2023, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/3341 "2023-09-20T03:49:30Z")
Just before midnight, a nice way to kick off the next 100 games… Wordle 822 2/6 β¬›πŸŸ©β¬›β¬›β¬› 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 PLANT CLOSE Just my standard follow-up to a single green L. ---
**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 20, 2023, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/3342 "2023-09-20T04:02:09Z")
WED SEPT 20th Wordle 823 4/6\* πŸŸ¦β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¦πŸŸ§ β¬›πŸŸ¦πŸŸ¦β¬›πŸŸ§ β¬›πŸŸ§πŸŸ§β¬›πŸŸ§ 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧 ALONE DANCE KNAVE SNARE ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2023, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/3343 "2023-09-20T04:17:17Z")
Wordle 823 5/6 🟨🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 RATIO SHARE SCARE SPARE SNARE Could have had a guaranteed four with a test word but decided to try for a three. This is where I suspect the old word lists might have helped me. ---
**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 20, 2023, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/3344 "2023-09-20T06:21:05Z")
Wordle 823 2/6 β¬›β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ¨β¬› 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 PLANT SNARE Again just using my standard follow-up. I’m digging these answers. > [@psychobunny](#): > > This is where I suspect the old word lists might have helped me. A little, but not a ton. Only one of those words has been an answer before. ---
**Author:** ![Newtosite](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/newtosite/32/8623_2.png) [@Newtosite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Newtosite)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2023, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/3345 "2023-09-20T07:04:46Z")
Wordle 823 2/6 🟩⬜🟩🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Slant Snare ---
**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 20, 2023, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/3346 "2023-09-20T07:06:05Z")
Wordle 823 3/6 πŸŸ©πŸŸ¨β¬›πŸŸ¨β¬› πŸŸ¨β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¨β¬› 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 SALET ROUND SNARE ---
**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 20, 2023, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/3347 "2023-09-20T07:07:32Z")
Nice going there @EllisDee ! ---
**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 20, 2023, 9:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/3348 "2023-09-20T09:23:18Z")
😲 Wordle 823 5/6\* \begin{aligned} &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt H} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt C} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt P} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt N} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \\ \end{aligned} Spooky ! ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2023, 10:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/3349 "2023-09-20T10:10:36Z")
Wordle 823 2/6 🟩⬜🟩🟨⬜ 21 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 SLANT SNARE SNACK, SNAFU, and SNAKY had already been played; could’ve also been SNAKE, SNARK, SPAWN, or SWAIN, although that last is kinda archaic. So a lucky 2, and happy to join EllisDee and newtosite in back-to-back 2’s today. This is my first ever getting them back to back. πŸ™‚ ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2023, 10:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/3350 "2023-09-20T10:22:57Z")
> [@EllisDee](#): > > This whole 100 games I felt like I was doing much worse than the previous 100 because my 3s to 4s ratio was so much worse. Turns out getting even just a couple more 2s while also getting a couple fewer 5s and 6s really helps the average. Oh yeah. If you’re trying to get in the neighborhood of a 3.5 average, you need five 3’s to make up for one 6, and three 3’s to balance out a 5. > [@EllisDee](#): > > In the past 200 games, there have been many, many times when I’ve thought β€œWow, N is really _so much better_ to check first compared to M.” I believe switching from M to N turned a handful of potential 5s and 6s into 4s. Haven’t summed up the numbers in a couple months, but through Wordle 762, N had appeared 175 times, while M had only shown up 106 times. So yeah, big difference there too. ---
**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 20, 2023, 10:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/3351 "2023-09-20T10:35:02Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > Haven’t summed up the numbers in a couple months, but through Wordle 762, N had appeared 175 times, while M had only shown up 106 times. So yeah, big difference there too. It’s not just because of the hits, either. There are countless times where I will think of a possible answer but then realize it has an N and I already eliminated N. It’s not all that often that the possible answers I think of have an M. As a quick example, there have been at least a dozen times my mind has gone to INERT, only to then discard it because of having already eliminated N. So many times I would have wrongly guessed an N word\* if I had started by checking M first. \*Google voice hyphenated that. Yikes! ---
**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 20, 2023, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/3352 "2023-09-20T11:49:40Z")
Wordle 823 4/6 ⬜🟨🟩🟩⬜ 🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 HEART SPARE SCARE SNARE ---
**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 20, 2023, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/3353 "2023-09-20T11:51:35Z")
Wordle 823 2/6 🟨🟨⬜🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 RAISE SNARE ---
**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 20, 2023, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/3354 "2023-09-20T14:35:41Z")
Wordle 823 3/6\* β¬›β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¨β¬› πŸŸ©β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŸ© 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 TODAY SHARE SNARE I got lucky not to fall into the trap too far! ---
**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 20, 2023, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/3355 "2023-09-20T15:13:09Z")
Two twos in a row! Wordle 823 2/6 ⬜🟦🟧🟦🟧 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧 CRANE SNARE ---
**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 20, 2023, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/3356 "2023-09-20T16:04:11Z")
Wordle 823 2/6 β¬›β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¦πŸŸ§ 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧 LOUSE SNARE Lots of twos today, and I’m happy to be one of them! I should attribute this one to pure dumb luck. But I actually gave a good bit of thought to my second guess, so I’ll take at least a _little_ credit. ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2023, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/3357 "2023-09-20T16:33:19Z")
> **Wordle 823 3/6\* 9/20/2023** > > ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟩 > 🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩 > 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 > > CLO_S_ **E** β†’ For a second there I thought I was going to get a fourth K in a row. I should have known S & E would bail me out. OK, another vowel and a couple more comcons > **S** T **ARE** β†’ Oh my. Technically a trap, but it doesn’t threaten a loss - SCARE is out. SHARE/SNARE/SPARE, I think that’s it, I’ll try H then N then P > **SNARE** > > A good luck guess disarms the trap. Plus, I’ve got a great starter word for tomorrow! ---
**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 20, 2023, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/3358 "2023-09-20T22:15:57Z")
[spoiler]Wordle 823 4/6 ⬜🟨🟩⬜⬜ 🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩[/spoiler] CRAWL SHARE SPARE SNARE ---
**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 20, 2023, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/3359 "2023-09-20T22:20:49Z")
Boo! A 4 today! Wordle 823 4/6\* β¬›πŸŸ¨πŸŸ©β¬›πŸŸ© πŸŸ©β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŸ© πŸŸ©β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŸ© 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 IRATE SPARE SHARE SNARE WordleBot was patronizing, which is the worst. ---
**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 21, 2023, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/3360 "2023-09-21T00:02:17Z")
**Wordle 823 4/6** 🟩⬜⬜🟩🟩 🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 STORE SPARE SHARE SNARE [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659.md?page=167) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659.md?page=169)