# "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:** 268
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2024, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/5341 "2024-01-15T23:54:56Z")
> **Wordle 940 5/6\* 1/15/2024** > > ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ > ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ > ⬜🟩🟩⬜⬜ > ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 > 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 > > DOI_N_G β†’ N, no vowels. At least D & G are gone, too. A, E and two comcons on the way > S_N_ARE β†’ And… strikeout. I feel like I’d better try both U and Y here. The only reason I don’t try FUNNY is because I’ve already got checked the N in 4th, so let’s go with another consonant > F **UN** KY β†’ Good placements… but now I see a trap on the way. End in -CH, but BHLM all still unguessed. Don’t see any other traps, so I should try at least one of these. I have a hunch it’s not HUNCH, so I’ll try > B **UNCH** β†’ and while recapping this later, I just realized I did a Marky Mark callout. Fortunately, it was time for > **LUNCH** > > 40% chance of a loss with that one (Scoredle reminded me I forgot about PUNCH) so I’m happy with my five. ---
**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 16, 2024, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/5342 "2024-01-16T00:01:08Z")
Silly day, silly word. Wordle 940 4/6\* ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ πŸŸ¨πŸŸ¨β¬›πŸŸ¨β¬› β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ¨πŸŸ©πŸŸ© 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 IRATE CLOUD GULCH LUNCH ---
**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 16, 2024, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/5343 "2024-01-16T03:44:25Z")
**Wordle 940 3/6** ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟨🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 SLATE CHOIR LUNCH Well, that was a quick solve for me…saw Lunch right away and just went for it - good thing I didn’t think of Gulch or Mulch. ---
**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 16, 2024, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/5344 "2024-01-16T03:52:40Z")
Wordle 940 3/6\* ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 TROPE SLAIN LUNCH My guesses were identical to WordleBot’s, so no Bot rudeness today. And thankfully I stopped to reconsider before entering my original 3rd guess, which was LUNKY ---
**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 16, 2024, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/5345 "2024-01-16T05:05:14Z")
TUE JAN 16 Wordle 941 3/6\* β¬›πŸŸ§πŸŸ§πŸŸ§β¬› β¬›πŸŸ§πŸŸ§πŸŸ§β¬› 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧 ALONE PLONK BLOND ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2024, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/5346 "2024-01-16T05:08:22Z")
Wordle 941 3/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜🟩🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 RATIO SHONE BLOND ---
**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 16, 2024, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/5347 "2024-01-16T05:21:02Z")
Wordle 941 4/6 β¬›πŸŸ©β¬›πŸŸ©β¬› β¬›πŸŸ©β¬›πŸŸ©β¬› β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŸ©β¬› 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 PLANT SLING CLONE BLOND This is what happens when I abandon my strategy and try for the win at 2. What’s extra frustrating about this one is that my third guess would have been a perfect second word for my normal strategy, and very likely would have gotten me a 3. It’s after midnight and the word I was checking all day from yesterday is still not in the previous answers list. So it looks like the answers get added to the list at 3am Eastern the following day. ---
**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 16, 2024, 8:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/5348 "2024-01-16T08:14:09Z")
Wordle 941 3/6 β¬›β¬›β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¨ β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ©β¬›πŸŸ© 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 **STERN** **ALOUD** **BLOND** ---
**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 16, 2024, 10:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/5349 "2024-01-16T10:01:19Z")
Wordle 941 3/6\* \begin{aligned} &\bbox[lime,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[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt N} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt N} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \\ \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 16, 2024, 10:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/5350 "2024-01-16T10:45:33Z")
Wordle 941 4/6 ⬜🟩⬜🟩⬜ 29 🟩🟩⬜🟩⬜ 3 🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩 1 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 SLANT BLINK BLEND BLOND After 2, it was down to my 3rd and 4th guesses, and this time I lost the coin toss. It happens. πŸ™‚ However, I really should have come up with a better sleuth word at 2: > **Summary** > > after SLANT, I’d narrowed things down to six very plausible solutions (BLEND, BLIND, BLOND, BLINK, CLONE, FLUNK) and four more iffy ones (PLINK, CLINK, CLUNG, FLUNG) but I’m not sure how iffy those were - Wordle 724 was PLUNK. If I’d thought of BIKED on 2, it would have ID’d any of the good six, and if the solution was one of the others, it would have narrowed things down to a coin toss between CLINK and PLINK, or between CLUNG and FLUNG. You live, you learn. πŸ™‚ ---
**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 16, 2024, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/5351 "2024-01-16T12:26:56Z")
Wordle 941 3/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 RAISE COUNT BLOND ---
**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 16, 2024, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/5352 "2024-01-16T12:55:27Z")
Wordle 941 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 HEART SPOIL BLOOD BLOND ---
**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 16, 2024, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/5353 "2024-01-16T13:32:06Z")
Wordle 941 3/6 πŸŸ¦πŸŸ¦β¬›β¬›β¬› πŸŸ¦πŸŸ¦πŸŸ¦β¬›πŸŸ¦ 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧 LOUSE NODAL BLOND Whoops, put the O back where it didn’t belong. Amazingly, that worked out great for me anyway. Go figure. ---
**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 16, 2024, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/5354 "2024-01-16T15:34:33Z")
Wordle 941 3/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟧⬜ ⬜🟦⬜⬜⬜ 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧 CRANE MOIST BLOND - Briefly considered β€œplonk”, but it didn’t seem likely. ---
**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 16, 2024, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/5355 "2024-01-16T15:37:58Z")
Wordle 941 4/6\* 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟩⬜🟩⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 LEAST GULCH BROIL BLOND ---
**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 17, 2024, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/5356 "2024-01-17T01:58:12Z")
**Wordle 941 4/6** ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 SLATE CLIMB BLOOD BLOND ---
**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 17, 2024, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/5357 "2024-01-17T02:03:09Z")
Another weird word, but at least I found it with 3. Wordle 941 3/6\* ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ©β¬›πŸŸ© 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 IRATE CLOUD BLOND ---
**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 17, 2024, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/5358 "2024-01-17T04:42:06Z")
Wordle 941 4/6\* ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩⬜🟨 ⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 TROPE SHOAL CLOUD BLOND ---
**Author:** ![Mark\_Finn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/34f0e0/32.png) [@Mark\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mark_Finn)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2024, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/5359 "2024-01-17T05:08:33Z")
I don’t believe it - a 1! It’s been my first guess word for months (you can look at my previous posts for verification). Has anyone else ever got a 1? Wordle 942 1/6 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 COURT ---
**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 17, 2024, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/5360 "2024-01-17T05:42:09Z")
[spoiler]Wordle 942 2/6 🟩🟨⬜🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩[/spoiler] CRATE COURT [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659.md?page=267) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659.md?page=269)