# "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:** 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:** [March 28, 2023, 11:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/61 "2023-03-28T11:10:05Z")
Wordle 647 4/6 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜ ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 RAISE PROUD CURRY HURRY ---
**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:** [March 28, 2023, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/62 "2023-03-28T11:25:33Z")
Wordle 647 3/6\* \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[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt C} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt H} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt N} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt H} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt Y} \\ \end{aligned} That’s more like it. ---
**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:** [March 28, 2023, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/63 "2023-03-28T12:08:42Z")
Wordle 647 3/6 🟩⬜⬜🟩⬜ 🟩⬜🟨🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 HEART HOURS HURRY ---
**Author:** ![minor7flat5](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/minor7flat5/32/258_2.png) [@minor7flat5](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minor7flat5)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2023, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/64 "2023-03-28T12:18:54Z")
Wordle 647 6/6\* ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟨🟩⬜⬜🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Boy was that one painful. Blanked the first choice, and got a single letter in the second. Scoredle 6/6\* 14,855 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ SLATE (1,059) ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ POUND (69) 🟨🟩⬜⬜🟩 RUMMY (7) ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 FURRY (4) ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 CURRY (3) 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 HURRY ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2023, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/65 "2023-03-28T12:28:47Z")
Wordle 647 5/6\* 🟨⬜⬜⬜🟩 🟨⬜⬜🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 READY USURY FURRY CURRY HURRY Aaaauuuggh! I hate I when I’ve got four green boxes and I have to Whack-a-Mole my way to the finish! ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2023, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/66 "2023-03-28T12:57:15Z")
Wordle 647 3/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜ 152 ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ 6 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 SLART NICHE HURRY =\> No, I think I’ll just take my time, thanks. πŸ™‚ First 3 in ten days, my longest such drought since I started keeping track of my results. Scoredle says another possibility after my second guess was MYRRH, which I honestly didn’t see. ---
**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:** [March 28, 2023, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/67 "2023-03-28T14:43:33Z")
Wordle 647 5/6 ⬜🟦⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟧🟧⬜🟧 ⬜🟧🟧🟧🟧 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧 CRANE SPOIL - okay, so it’s a β€˜u’ and likely a β€˜y’ MURKY FURRY - I have chosen. . .poorly HURRY ---
**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:** [March 28, 2023, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/68 "2023-03-28T16:22:17Z")
Wordle 647 3/6\* ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ πŸŸ©β¬›πŸŸ©β¬›πŸŸ© 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 SLATE HORNY HURRY Just luck today, really… Scoredle only got 4/6 after my first guess. ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2023, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/69 "2023-03-28T16:57:56Z")
> **Wordle 647 5/6\* 3/28/2023** > > ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ > 🟨🟩⬜⬜🟩 > ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 > ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 > 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 > > G **U** ANO β†’ Can’t think of a good place for E or I… I’ll try high-frequency consonants and see what I get > _R_ **U** ST **Y** β†’ Good one! I’ll try the R in both other places and guarantee myself another green with this guess… > C **URRY** β†’ Make that two more greens! I can only think of one other word… > F **URRY** β†’ Oh. Make that _two_ more words. Sigh… > **HURRY** > > Only a five, but kinda fun. ---
**Author:** ![eschrodinger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschrodinger/32/122_2.png) [@eschrodinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschrodinger)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2023, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/70 "2023-03-28T16:59:14Z")
Wordle 647 3/6\* β¬›πŸŸ¨β¬›β¬›β¬› β¬›β¬›πŸŸ©β¬›β¬› 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 TRAIN SCREW HURRY Wordle Bot got a 5 today, and the average was 4.2, I think (probably just for hard mode) ---
**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:** [March 28, 2023, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/71 "2023-03-28T17:29:00Z")
Bit of luck for me today, but I still struggled with this one! Wordle 647 3/6\* β¬›πŸŸ¨β¬›β¬›β¬› β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¨πŸŸ©β¬› 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 IRATE SPURN HURRY As usual, I resisted the double consonant and kept trying to work an β€˜O’ in there. Nothing worked, so I finally had it down to FURRY, HURRY and CURRY. HURRY seemed most likely – lucky me. ---
**Author:** ![Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/half_man_half_wit/32/21766_2.png) [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Half_Man_Half_Wit)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2023, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/72 "2023-03-28T19:28:04Z")
Wordle 647 4/6\* ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 CRANE PORTS FURRY HURRY Went with the double consonant there on a lark, but just missed the guess. ---
**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:** [March 28, 2023, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/73 "2023-03-28T21:21:52Z")
**Wordle 647 3/6** 🟨⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜🟨⬜🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 REACH WHIRL HURRY ---
**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:** [March 29, 2023, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/74 "2023-03-29T01:06:00Z")
Wordle 647 5/6 β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¦β¬›β¬› β¬›β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¦β¬› β¬›πŸŸ§β¬›β¬›πŸŸ§ β¬›πŸŸ¦β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¦ 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧 AMUSE CLOUT FUNKY GRAPH HURRY \_U\_\_Y conjured up bad memories of MUCKY, which was my first-ever fail. Still had a lot of possibilities left so I did what I should have done back then and found a good test word. I’ll take a five over a loss any day. ---
**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:** [March 29, 2023, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/75 "2023-03-29T04:03:21Z")
MAR 29 Wordle 648 4/6\* β¬›β¬›β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¦ πŸŸ¦β¬›πŸŸ¦β¬›β¬› πŸŸ¦β¬›πŸŸ¦πŸŸ§πŸŸ¦ 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧 ALONE SHERD TUBES BESET …_sherd?_ ---
**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:** [March 29, 2023, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/76 "2023-03-29T04:16:56Z")
Wordle 648 3/6 β¬›β¬›β¬›β¬›πŸŸ© β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¨πŸŸ¨πŸŸ© 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 PLANT CREST BESET Tough to find any word after 2. Eventually I saw a beset. Kept looking but never found anything else so I just went with it. This is now the third time plant has returned a single green T in last position within the past week or so. Starting to annoy me, though I have done well on them. (4, 3, 3) ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2023, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/77 "2023-03-29T05:54:19Z")
Wordle 648 3/6 ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟨⬜🟨⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 RATIO SPENT BESET ---
**Author:** ![Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/half_man_half_wit/32/21766_2.png) [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Half_Man_Half_Wit)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2023, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/78 "2023-03-29T06:54:29Z")
Wordle 648 5/6\* 🟨⬜⬜🟩🟩 ⬜⬜🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 SALET ONSET UPSET RESET BESET I was all SET for a quick win, but got bogged down in the mud there… ---
**Author:** ![QMatic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/aeb1de/32.png) [@QMatic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QMatic)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2023, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/79 "2023-03-29T07:06:42Z")
Wordle 648 5/6\* ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 🟨🟨🟨⬜⬜ 🟨🟩🟩⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 PIOUS STEAL TESTY RESET BESET ---
**Author:** ![eschrodinger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschrodinger/32/122_2.png) [@eschrodinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschrodinger)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2023, 8:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/80 "2023-03-29T08:16:41Z")
Wordle 648 4/6\* β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¨β¬›β¬› πŸŸ¨β¬›β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¨ πŸŸ¨πŸŸ©πŸŸ©β¬›β¬› 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 OCEAN SHIRE TESTY BESET [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659.md?page=5)