# "Wordle," a strangely compelling word game (Part 2)

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659
**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
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### Author: ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)
#### Post date: [December 6, 2023, 10:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/4681 "2023-12-06T10:45:41Z")

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Wordle 900 4/6

⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜ 441  
⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ 50  
⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ 5  
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

SLANT  
CHORE  
GIMPY  
WOMAN - Could’ve also been NOMAD

Happy with a 4, could’ve been a 5.

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### 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: [December 6, 2023, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/4682 "2023-12-06T12:25:28Z")

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Wordle 900 3/6

⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜  
⬜🟩🟨🟩⬜  
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

RAISE  
TONAL  
WOMAN

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### 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: [December 6, 2023, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/4683 "2023-12-06T13:04:00Z")

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Wordle 900 4/6

⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜  
🟨⬜🟨🟨⬜  
⬜🟨🟨⬜🟨  
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

HEART  
AGONY  
BANJO  
WOMAN

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### 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: [December 6, 2023, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/4684 "2023-12-06T14:48:35Z")

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Wordle 900 4/6

⬜⬜🟦⬜⬜  
⬜🟧⬜🟦⬜  
⬜🟧⬜🟧🟧  
🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧

SLATE  
POUND  
HOGAN  
WOMAN

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### Author: ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)
#### Post date: [December 6, 2023, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/4685 "2023-12-06T15:29:15Z")

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You’re never gonna get over that banjo woman. 😁

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### 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: [December 6, 2023, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/4686 "2023-12-06T15:35:53Z")

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Yeah I felt like I wrote a country song with that one.

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### 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: [December 6, 2023, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/4687 "2023-12-06T17:06:34Z")

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Wordle 900 5/6

🟦⬛⬛🟦⬛  
🟦🟧⬛⬛⬛  
⬛🟧🟦⬛⬛  
⬛🟧⬛⬛🟧  
🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧

OPINE  
NORTH  
BONUS  
LOGON  
WOMAN

Dammit. This shouldn’t have been as hard as it was. I didn’t like LOGON, but for the life of me I could not see anything else. (I also missed COLON, as it turns out,)  
Not my best effort, but it’s my first five (or higher) in 21 days, so I had a pretty good run there.

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### 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: [December 6, 2023, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/4688 "2023-12-06T17:42:36Z")

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Wordle 900 4/6\*

⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛  
🟨🟩⬛⬛⬛  
⬛🟩🟨⬛⬛  
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

PLAID  
AORTA  
COACH  
WOMAN

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### Author: ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)
#### Post date: [December 6, 2023, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/4689 "2023-12-06T18:10:46Z")

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> **Wordle 900 4/6\* 12/6/2023**
>
> ⬜🟩⬜🟨⬜  
> ⬜🟩🟨🟩⬜  
> 🟨🟩⬜🟩⬜  
> 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
> 
> Y **O** U_N_G → Not bad, and with half of vowels gone I can afford to try two comcons with another vowel.  
> S **O** _N_ **A** R → Good hit on the A. N first or last? And I’d like to get L and/or T in there. Probably wanted to do so a bit too much, since I found  
> _N_ **O** D **A** L → from which I immediately saw  
> **WOMAN**
> 
> So I saved par. With three letters known and only two spaces for one of them, I probably should have looked a little harder for the birdie.

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### 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: [December 7, 2023, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/4690 "2023-12-07T04:58:16Z")

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Wordle 900 3/6\*

⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜  
⬜🟨⬜🟨🟩  
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

SLATE  
RAYON  
WOMAN

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### 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: [December 7, 2023, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/4691 "2023-12-07T05:06:47Z")

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Oh, yeah, I should post my results for the day. 🙂

Happy today with another 3.

Wordle 900 3/6\*

⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛  
⬛⬛🟨🟩⬛  
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

IRATE  
CLOAK  
WOMAN

WordleBot advised there were 3 possibilities after CLOAK: WOMAN, NOMAD and GONAD. I might have tried NOMAD before WOMAN if I’d seen it, but not GONAD. Good to know that’s a possible.

> [@BobLibDem](#):
>
> Yeah I felt like I wrote a country song with that one.

You did!

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### 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: [December 7, 2023, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/4692 "2023-12-07T05:20:28Z")

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**Thursday, December 7th**

Wordle 901 4/6

🟨🟩⬛⬛⬛  
🟩🟩⬛⬛🟩  
🟩🟩⬛⬛🟩  
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

PLANT  
SLURP  
SLOOP  
SLEEP

Bad 4 here. Definitely should have thought of sleep before guessing sloop.

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### Author: ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2023, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/4693 "2023-12-07T05:22:51Z")

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Wordle 901 3/6

⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜  
🟨⬜⬜🟩🟨  
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

RATIO  
LUNES  
SLEEP

I changed out my second word ( with a first word strikeout I usually go for DUNES or NUDES to get the vowels) to try a better letter and it definitely paid off. If I am doing a two word start for Quordle or Octordle, I will sometimes change out RATIO/DUNES for RADIO/TUNES. I know it’s the exact same letters but it makes me feel I am trying something new and I like the thematic consistency.

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### 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: [December 7, 2023, 9:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/4694 "2023-12-07T09:45:05Z")

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Wordle 901 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[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt M} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt P} \\ \end{aligned}

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### Author: ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2023, 10:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/4695 "2023-12-07T10:29:47Z")

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Wordle 901 3/6

🟩🟩⬜⬜⬜ 51  
🟨⬜⬜⬜🟨 1  
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

SLANT  
PRIME  
SLEEP

Back to a 3 after three 4’s in a row.

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### 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: [December 7, 2023, 10:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/4696 "2023-12-07T10:30:23Z")

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Wordle 901 3/6

🟩⬛🟩⬛⬛  
🟩⬛🟩🟨⬛  
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

**STERN**  
 **SMELL**  
 **SLEEP**  
.  
SLEEK had already been used.

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### 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: [December 7, 2023, 10:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/4697 "2023-12-07T10:39:21Z")

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Wordle 901 3/6\*

⬛🟧⬛⬛🟦  
🟧🟧🟧🟦⬛  
🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧

ALONE  
SLEPT  
SLEEP

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### 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: [December 7, 2023, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/4698 "2023-12-07T12:05:19Z")

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Wordle 901 3/6

⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜  
🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜  
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

HEART  
EBONY  
SLEEP

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### 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: [December 7, 2023, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/4699 "2023-12-07T12:29:00Z")

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Wordle 901 3/6

⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨  
🟨🟨🟨⬜⬜  
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

RAISE  
PESTO  
SLEEP

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### 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: [December 7, 2023, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/4700 "2023-12-07T14:22:30Z")

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Wordle 901 4/6\*

⬛⬛🟩⬛⬛  
⬛⬛🟩⬛⬛  
⬛⬛🟩🟩⬛  
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

TREAD  
CHEWY  
QUEEN  
SLEEP

Nice to get a par out of this one! Luckily I put in the double E. Didn’t see SLEEK, SWEEP or BLEEP, FLEEK? Plurals wouldn’t fly: EPEES, OGEES.

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