# "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:** 258
**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:** [January 4, 2024, 8:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/5141 "2024-01-04T08:09:49Z")
Wordle 929 3/6 πŸŸ©πŸŸ¨β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¨ πŸŸ©β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŸ© 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 **STERN** β€” _a pretty good start; it’s likely scant shunt slant; it also could be saint snout, but those have been used_ **SLANT** **SCANT** ---
**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:** [January 4, 2024, 8:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/5142 "2024-01-04T08:15:40Z")
Wordle 929 2/6 🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Slant Scant That was fun. πŸ™‚ ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2024, 9:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/5143 "2024-01-04T09:29:24Z")
Wordle 929 2/6 🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩 1 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 SLANT SCANT The only way that could have been quicker and easier would have been if my starting word had been the solution. ---
**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:** [January 4, 2024, 9:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/5144 "2024-01-04T09:58:56Z")
Wordle 929 4/6\* \begin{aligned} &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[lime,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[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt C} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt H} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt N} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt N} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt C} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt K} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt C} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt N} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \\ \end{aligned} ---
**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:** [January 4, 2024, 10:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/5145 "2024-01-04T10:37:52Z")
Wordle 929 3/6\* πŸŸ¦β¬›β¬›πŸŸ§β¬› πŸŸ§πŸŸ¦πŸŸ§πŸŸ§β¬› 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧 ALONE STANK SCANT ---
**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:** [January 4, 2024, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/5146 "2024-01-04T12:40:48Z")
Wordle 929 3/6 ⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜ 🟩🟨🟩🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 RAISE STACK SCANT ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2024, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/5147 "2024-01-04T12:49:51Z")
> [@EllisDee](#): > > (Now watch there’s like a half dozen other answers I just didn’t see.) Once you’ve solved the day’s Wordle, you can always use Scoredle to see whether there were other potential answers you missed. (In this instance, there weren’t any after 3. Scoredle lists lytic, but that’s not gonna be a solution ever.) ---
**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:** [January 4, 2024, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/5148 "2024-01-04T13:07:43Z")
Wordle 929 3/6 ⬜⬜🟩⬜🟩 ⬜⬜🟩🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 HEART BLAST SCANT ---
**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:** [January 4, 2024, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/5149 "2024-01-04T15:22:50Z")
Wordle 929 2/6 🟦⬜🟧🟧⬜ 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧 CRANE SCANT Nice, after my fours and fives over the past week. ---
**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:** [January 4, 2024, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/5150 "2024-01-04T15:37:58Z")
Wordle 929 3/6\* 🟨🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ANGRY PANTS SCANT ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2024, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/5151 "2024-01-04T15:50:44Z")
> **Wordle 929 3/6\* 1/4/2024** > > 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ > 🟩🟨⬜🟩⬜ > 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 > > _T_WIRL β†’ At least there were three comcons there. Try two more with two vowels; hoped for A & E but this word was too good not to guess > **S** _T_O **N** E β†’ And that was a very good guess, it turned out. S?TN? goes nowhere (TN? How would you even pronounce that?) so S??NT, must be A or U in there, no STUNT due to redundant T, I thnk just SHUNT or SCANT, I’ll try the A so > **SCANT** > > Scoredle says SAUTE would have been the best second guess, and trying three vowels would be good - but it turns out the other comcon was key. ---
**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:** [January 4, 2024, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/5152 "2024-01-04T17:47:50Z")
Wordle 929 3/6 β¬›β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŸ© β¬›β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŸ© 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 PLANT GRANT SCANT I’ve been struggling lately, though the struggle for this one was because I just didn’t like scant as an answer. I saw it almost immediately but kept looking. Did manage to come up with chant, but that’s already been used. So I figured screw it, maybe scant is the answer after all. ---
**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:** [January 5, 2024, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/5153 "2024-01-05T02:12:46Z")
**Wordle 929 3/6** 🟩⬜🟩🟨⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 SLATE PINKY SCANT There were a lot of words after my start word, so up went PINKY to sleuth them out. I was really glad that just left one 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:** [January 5, 2024, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/5154 "2024-01-05T04:50:09Z")
Wordle 929 2/6\* 🟩⬜🟩🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 SLATE SCANT A lucky guess, but somehow I didn’t see many of the 14 other possibilities ---
**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:** [January 5, 2024, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/5155 "2024-01-05T05:47:00Z")
**Friday, January 5th** Wordle 930 3/6 β¬›πŸŸ¨β¬›πŸŸ¨β¬› πŸŸ©β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ¨β¬› 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 PLANT LONER LUNGE Again found this difficult, but at least this time I got past the struggles before going to sleep. I got very focused on lense, but google adamantly asserted that lense is not a word; there is no e on the end of it. After giving up, lunge came to me a half hour later. Progress! Maybe one of these days I’ll be able to solve a Wordle in a single sitting… ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2024, 8:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/5156 "2024-01-05T08:06:07Z")
Wordle 930 3/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 RATIO LUNES LUNGE Almost had a two. I was looking for a better second word with the common letters and unused consonants but decided I needed the S. ---
**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:** [January 5, 2024, 10:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/5157 "2024-01-05T10:49:09Z")
Wordle 930 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[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 S} \bbox[yellow,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[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt W} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt H} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \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 U} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt N} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt G} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \\ \end{aligned} ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2024, 10:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/5158 "2024-01-05T10:57:14Z")
Wordle 930 3/6 ⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜ 98 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 6 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 SLANT CROME LUNGE ---
**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:** [January 5, 2024, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/5159 "2024-01-05T12:38:12Z")
Wordle 930 3/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 ⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 RAISE OUNCE LUNGE ---
**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:** [January 5, 2024, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/5160 "2024-01-05T12:43:25Z")
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