# "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:** 264
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2024, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/5261 "2024-01-11T11:47:47Z")
Wordle 936 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 1,713 ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨 176 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 42 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 SLANT CHORE DUMPY BRIEF Lucky, lucky, lucky! Of those 42 words that Scoredle says were possibilities (that’s what the numbers are from) after my third guess, about a dozen of them were legit possibilities, so chances are that several of them haven’t been used already. So I’m very, very happy to have gotten out of this one with a 4. ---
**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 11, 2024, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/5262 "2024-01-11T12:57:09Z")
Wordle 936 3/6 🟨⬜🟩⬜🟨 ⬜🟨🟩🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 RAISE WEIRD BRIEF ---
**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 11, 2024, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/5263 "2024-01-11T12:58:04Z")
Wordle 936 3/6 ⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜ 🟩⬜⬜🟩🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 HEART BONER BRIEF ---
**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 11, 2024, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/5264 "2024-01-11T14:02:48Z")
Wordle 936 5/6\* ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 🟨🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟩🟨 ⬜🟩⬜🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 SLATE RERUN MOWER GREED BRIEF This one was hard for me! ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2024, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/5265 "2024-01-11T14:56:09Z")
> **Wordle 936 4/6\* 1/11/2024** > > ⬜⬜🟨🟩⬜ > ⬜⬜⬜🟩🟨 > ⬜🟩⬜🟩⬜ > 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 > > TH_R_ **E** W → I like an -ER ending, so I’ll try one with two comcons and an A > LAS **E** _R_ → No luck. Need to try an N… and is a double E too rare to try now? I’ll say no > G **R** E **E** N → Yeah, that was probably a mistake. At least I placed the G. Need a vowel between them… TRUED? Nah. With an I, I can see > **BRIEF** > > I got pretty lucky with this one. I didn’t even think about the [CDFP]RIED trap, and if I had seen it after missing on the (actual) answer, I’d have had a coin flip’s chance of going out. Sweated a par. ---
**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 11, 2024, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/5266 "2024-01-11T21:06:47Z")
Much better than the last couple of days! Wordle 936 3/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟧🟧⬜🟦 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧 SLANT - Oh crap, not again PRIME - Things are suddenly looking brighter! BRIEF - It was very unlikely that the ‘e’ would be the starting letter or the second letter, which left ‘ie’. I made a lucky pick. ---
**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:** [January 11, 2024, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/5267 "2024-01-11T23:06:18Z")
Wordle 936 X/6 ⬛🟦⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛🟧⬛🟦 🟧🟧🟧⬛⬛ 🟧🟧🟧⬛⬛ 🟧🟧🟧⬛🟦 🟧🟧🟧🟧⬛ ABOUT CLIMB BRING BRISK BRIBE BRIER Ugh. I haven’t had a fail in a _looong_ time. I blame not playing with my morning coffee as usual. Just had a long, tiring work day and figured I’d knock out Wordle while on the toilet. My head wasn’t in it. I was sure I had it solved at three, then four, then five. By six, I had BRIE\_. I literally looked at every available letter _three times_ and concluded that BRIER, however obscure, was the _only_ possible solution. Can’t say why I kept skipping over that F. (And why I didn’t bring the E in much earlier.) But again, long day at work. My brain was shot. ---
**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 11, 2024, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/5268 "2024-01-11T23:48:48Z")
Wordle 936 4/6 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛⬛🟨🟨 🟨🟩🟩🟩⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 PLANT SCORE FRIED BRIEF This is the kind of Wordle I used to really enjoy but now just feels like work. After 2 I kept seeing more and more possible answers. I think I ended up with 18 possible answers that haven’t been used before, and there are probably even more but that’s how many I ended up with. The most common letter those 18 answers started with was D, then F, then B. There were also a bunch of I’s involved. So fried ended up being a way to check the three most common letters to try and save par. Fortunately I didn’t have to worry about the \_RIED trap since I’d already eliminated C & P and I was checking F. I spent entirely too much time getting this 4. ---
**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 12, 2024, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/5269 "2024-01-12T01:48:43Z")
Wordle 936 4/6\* ⬜🟩⬜⬜🟨 ⬜🟩🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 TROPE CREAM DRYER BRIEF ---
**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 12, 2024, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/5270 "2024-01-12T01:57:37Z")
**Wordle 936 4/6** ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 SLATE CHOIR PUDGY BRIEF I was seeing about 10 words after my two start words, so I went for a sleuth word (PUDGY), and that thankfully told me exactly what it was. ---
**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:** [January 12, 2024, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/5271 "2024-01-12T02:04:52Z")
I’ll count my 3 fortunate today. Wordle 936 3/6\* 🟨🟩⬛⬛🟨 ⬛🟩🟩🟩⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 IRATE PRIED BRIEF WordleBot gave me only 64 for skill today, even though my opening word eliminated all but 9 words and my second word eliminated all but 4. I’m beginning to suspect that WordleBot just sort of phones it in, and its heart isn’t really in the game anymore. @Wheelz, rotten luck! I hope your new streak is spectacular! ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2024, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/5272 "2024-01-12T06:40:15Z")
**Friday, January 12th** Wordle 937 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 524 ⬜⬜🟨🟨🟩 5 ⬜🟩🟨🟩🟩 2 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 SLANT CHORE FORTE ROUTE After 2, had a 3-way choice involving my 3rd and 4th guesses, and TORTE (the dessert). ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2024, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/5273 "2024-01-12T07:51:10Z")
Wordle 937 3/6 🟩⬜🟨⬜🟨 🟩🟩⬜⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 RATIO ROBOT ROUTE ---
**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 12, 2024, 8:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/5274 "2024-01-12T08:03:28Z")
I guessed wrong. Wordle 937 4/6 ⬛🟨🟨🟨⬛ ⬛⬛🟨🟨⬛ 🟨🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 **STERN** **ALOUD** **OUTER** — _I guessed wrong_ **ROUTE** ---
**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 12, 2024, 11:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/5275 "2024-01-12T11:13:09Z")
Wordle 937 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[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[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \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 T} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \\ \end{aligned} ---
**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 12, 2024, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/5276 "2024-01-12T13:29:21Z")
Wordle 937 3/6 🟩⬜⬜⬜🟩 🟩🟩⬜🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 RAISE ROGUE ROUTE ---
**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:** [January 12, 2024, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/5277 "2024-01-12T13:39:52Z")
Wordle 937 3/6 ⬛⬛🟧⬛🟧 🟦🟦🟦⬛⬛ 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧 CAUSE TROMP ROUTE Bounced back nicely from yesterday’s debacle. Rarely does a sleuth word pay off so perfectly! ---
**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 12, 2024, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/5278 "2024-01-12T13:42:42Z")
Wordle 937 3/6\* ⬛⬛🟦⬛🟧 🟧🟧⬛🟦🟧 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧 ALONE ROGUE ROUTE ---
**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 12, 2024, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/5279 "2024-01-12T15:09:36Z")
Wordle 937 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟦 ⬜🟦⬜🟧🟧 ⬜🟦🟧🟧🟧 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧 SLANT QUITE BRUTE ROUTE Really thought I might have another three. At least Wordlebot liked my choices. ---
**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 12, 2024, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/5280 "2024-01-12T15:17:47Z")
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