# "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:** 266
**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:** [January 13, 2024, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/5301 "2024-01-13T19:25:56Z")
I have used crate many times. Also stare. ---
**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 13, 2024, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/5302 "2024-01-13T20:01:15Z")
Wordle 938 2/6\* ⬜⬜🟩⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 SLATE HEARD I got it in two! Lucky guess. ---
**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 14, 2024, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/5303 "2024-01-14T00:57:22Z")
Wordle 938 3/6 β¬›β¬›πŸŸ©β¬›β¬› β¬›β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŸ¨ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 PLANT SCARE HEARD My struggles continue. This time inexplicably, in that I have no idea how it took me so long to see heard/beard. I was confident the answer would be of the form \_EAR\_, but I just couldn’t see that terminal D. Then finally saw both heard and beard almost at the same time. That brought up the dilemma: Go with the first thing I saw, or trust the B? Thankfully I chose correctly. ---
**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 14, 2024, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/5304 "2024-01-14T03:06:16Z")
**Wordle 938 3/6** ⬜⬜🟩⬜🟨 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 SLATE BEARD HEARD ---
**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 14, 2024, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/5305 "2024-01-14T04:39:37Z")
Wordle 938 4/6\* ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜🟨🟨🟨 🟨🟩🟩⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 TROPE SPEAR REACH HEARD ---
**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:** [January 14, 2024, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/5306 "2024-01-14T05:17:19Z")
[spoiler]Wordle 939 3/6 ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩[/spoiler] COAST FOUND DOING ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2024, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/5307 "2024-01-14T05:52:14Z")
Wordle 939 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨 🟨🟩🟩⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 RATIO NOISE GOING DOING ---
**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 14, 2024, 8:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/5308 "2024-01-14T08:41:58Z")
Another boring 4… Wordle 939 4/6 β¬›β¬›β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¨ β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¨β¬›πŸŸ¨ β¬›β¬›πŸŸ©β¬›β¬› 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 **STEEN** **ALOUD** **CHIMP** **DOING** ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2024, 11:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/5309 "2024-01-14T11:21:20Z")
Wordle 939 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜ 210 ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ 26 ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟨 3 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 SLANT CHORE BOUND DOING - could’ve also been DOWNY > **Summary** > > You’ve got traps to the left, traps to the right… > > After 2, I figured the O was in the #2 slot. I saw DOING right away, but also realized that an OU vowel combination…oh wait, that’s the _8-trap!_ As in -OUND, preceded by your choice of BFHMPRSW. > > Turns out the 8-trap has been mostly de-fanged, since FHPRS have already been used. (And my first two words had knocked out HRS anyway.) But that still left BOUND, MOUND, WOUND. And -OING was a mini-trap too, with GOING as well as DOING, and possibly the sound-effect BOING. > > Also, just before I noticed the 8-trap, I’d thought I should check for words ending in Y, which is the second most frequent 5th letter in Wordle solutions. But the traps distracted me, and I never did get back to that, so if the solution had been DOWNY, I’d have gotten a 5. Fortunately, it wasn’t. (After 2, BONNY was also still a possibility. And OWING. If the latter had been the solution, it would have been the only possibility after 3; the hard part would have been finding it!) > > So I went with BOUND on 3, which would have told me which trap I was in, and narrowed it down to 2 possibilities in the 8-trap and just one in the -OING trap. So DOING on 4 for the win, and as already noted, lucky it wasn’t DOWNY. ---
**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 14, 2024, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/5310 "2024-01-14T12:15:27Z")
Wordle 939 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[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt C} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt H} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt Y} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt N} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt G} \\ \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 14, 2024, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/5311 "2024-01-14T12:37:01Z")
Wordle 939 3/6 ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ 🟨⬜🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 RAISE GUILT DOING ---
**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 14, 2024, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/5312 "2024-01-14T13:00:45Z")
Wordle 939 4/6\* β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¦πŸŸ§β¬› β¬›πŸŸ§β¬›πŸŸ§β¬› πŸŸ§πŸŸ§β¬›πŸŸ§β¬› 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧 ALONE MOUNT DOWNY DOING ---
**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 14, 2024, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/5313 "2024-01-14T13:04:01Z")
Wordle 939 4/6 β¬›β¬›β¬›πŸŸ©β¬› β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¨πŸŸ©β¬› β¬›πŸŸ©β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ¨ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 PLANT SCONE BOUND DOING Last night after 2 I was sure it was the \_ound trap, but I was too tired to go through the previous answers. Falling asleep I thought of shrub as a sleuth word. This morning, previous answers eliminated most of the trap letters, leaving only three. I figured I’d shoot for the 3 with the first one I had seen, which also let me trust the B. When that U came up black it was a real β€œDoh!” moment. I did see downy but dismissed it as a brand name. I’m fortunate it wasn’t downy. ---
**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 14, 2024, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/5314 "2024-01-14T15:12:29Z")
Wordle 939 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜ ⬜🟨🟩🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 HEART SPOIL IDIOM DOING ---
**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 14, 2024, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/5315 "2024-01-14T15:19:41Z")
Wordle 939 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟧⬜🟧🟦 🟧🟧⬜🟧⬜ 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧 SLATE - groan POUND DOWNY - [quote=β€œRTFirefly, post:5309, topic:981659”] could’ve also been DOWNY[/quote] - Yes. . .yes it could DOING - Took me forever to get of the long β€˜o’ sound ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2024, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/5316 "2024-01-14T15:41:30Z")
> [@EllisDee](#): > > I did see downy but dismissed it as a brand name. Downy feathers on a baby bird, etc. The word I was wondering about on account of today’s Wordle is BONNY. It can be a girl’s name, but it’s also an adjective (a β€˜bonny lass’) but its flavor is mostly Scottish; AFAICT it doesn’t get used much that way in American English. It’s the sort of word that might or might not be on the solutions list. (I’m happy to leave it in that state of indeterminacy.) ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2024, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/5317 "2024-01-14T15:52:39Z")
> **Wordle 939 3/6\* 1/14/2024** > > ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 > 🟩🟨🟨🟨⬜ > 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 > > HEAR_D_ β†’ Well, at least it knocks off some high-frequency letters. I’d like to try two of STLN to go with I & O, can I build a letter that also uses the D? Can’t be SOLID, I need to place D… so > **D** _INO_S β†’ That worked well. Rearrange INO… DOINT? or > **DOING** > DOILY would have been as good or better a second guess by my criteria, while Scoredle wanted to try DOWDY, so I guess had had more than my share of luck. ---
**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 14, 2024, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/5318 "2024-01-14T19:04:54Z")
Wordle 939 4/6\* ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 LEAST POUCH WOODY DOING I just thought of something regarding the used word list. If I think of word to use, and it’s on the list, what if it is the correct word just added today? What time is it updated? ---
**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 14, 2024, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/5319 "2024-01-14T19:11:53Z")
It’s a boring 4 kind of day, except for all the clever 3s! Wordle 939 4/6\* πŸŸ¨β¬›β¬›β¬›β¬› β¬›β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ©β¬› β¬›β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ©β¬› 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 IRATE SPINY BLINK DOING ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2024, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/5320 "2024-01-14T19:57:01Z")
Hey, my 4 was an _interesting_ 4! 😁 πŸ˜‰ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659.md?page=265) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659.md?page=267)