# "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:** 405
**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:** [June 28, 2024, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/8081 "2024-06-28T19:28:49Z")
Wordle 1,105 3/6 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛🟩🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 PLANT SCORE DROVE Almost forgot to play today. After 2 I could see broke, drove, grove and froze. I did not see erode, but even if I did it wouldn’t have mattered. Of those five choices, four have already been answers. ---
**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:** [June 29, 2024, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/8082 "2024-06-29T01:53:37Z")
Wordle 1,105 3/6\* ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 PLATE DRONE DROVE Lucky 2nd guess. And @Aspenglow I see a theme similar to mine in your guess from yesterday. ---
**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:** [June 29, 2024, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/8083 "2024-06-29T03:42:57Z")
**Wordle 1,105 4/6** ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 ⬜⬜🟩⬜🟨 ⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 SLATE CHOIR PRONE DROVE ---
**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:** [June 29, 2024, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/8084 "2024-06-29T04:03:23Z")
[spoiler]Wordle 1,106 6/6 ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨 🟨⬜🟨🟩⬜ 🟨⬜⬜🟩⬜ ⬜🟨🟨🟨⬜ ⬜🟨🟩🟩🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩[/spoiler] ---
**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:** [June 29, 2024, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/8085 "2024-06-29T04:15:49Z")
Today wasn’t bad. Wordle 1,105 3/6\* ⬛🟩⬛⬛🟩 ⬛🟩⬛🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 IRATE CRUDE DROVE WordleBot said it was down to two words, DROVE and DRONE. I chose the right one for a change! > [@gkster](#): > > I see a theme similar to mine in your guess from yesterday. Yours was funnier! ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2024, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/8086 "2024-06-29T04:52:04Z")
Wordle 1,106 3/6 🟨🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨🟩🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 RATIO SNARE ZEBRA That took forever. I could not come up with a word. I even went to my cheat and tried an anagram finder but it only listed words starting with A or B and I didn’t think ACERB would be the answer. So back to staring and trying out all the words ending in RA until it finally clicked. ---
**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:** [June 29, 2024, 8:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/8087 "2024-06-29T08:52:36Z")
Wordle 1,106 2/6\* \begin{aligned} &\bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[yellow,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[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt Z} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \\ \end{aligned} ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2024, 9:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/8088 "2024-06-29T09:18:15Z")
Wordle 1106 3/6 ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ 1,191 ⬜⬜⬜🟩🟨 8 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 SLANT CHORE ZEBRA Could’ve also been FAERY, I suppose, but that seemed a bit too off the beaten track. ---
**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:** [June 29, 2024, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/8089 "2024-06-29T11:51:50Z")
Wordle 1,106 5/6 ⬛⬛🟨🟩⬛ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛🟨⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 **STERN** **CLOUD** **GIMPY** **HAWKS** — _at this point it’s looking bleak; I don’t have much but am **very** grateful to have the **R** in position 4; there are MANY words with A, E, R…; fortunately there’s only one word that fits_ **ZEBRA** — _bingo_ ---
**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:** [June 29, 2024, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/8090 "2024-06-29T14:54:48Z")
Wordle 1,106 3/6 🟨🟩🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟨🟨🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 READY CREAM ZEBRA In my defense, I was really run ragged at work last night, else I would not likely have misplaced my only correct first turn placement. It did make it clear where the other vowel needed to be, and that made all the difference. ETA: And I beat the bot! ---
**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:** [June 29, 2024, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/8091 "2024-06-29T14:57:47Z")
Another ‘meh’. Wordle 1,106 5/6 ⬜🟦🟦⬜🟦 ⬜⬜🟦🟦🟦 🟦🟦🟦⬜⬜ 🟦⬜⬜🟧⬜ 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧 CRANE SHEAR EARLY - Okay, fine, so the ‘e’ and the ‘a’ don’t go together APART - Exasperation sets in and I made a dumb mistake ZEBRA ---
**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:** [June 29, 2024, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/8092 "2024-06-29T15:03:59Z")
Wordle 1,106 2/6 ⬜🟩🟨🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 HEART ZEBRA ---
**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:** [June 29, 2024, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/8093 "2024-06-29T15:40:03Z")
Wordle 1,106 4/6 ⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛ 🟨🟨⬛🟨⬛ ⬛🟨🟨🟨⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 PLANT RACES FREAK ZEBRA Holy tough one, Batman! I didn’t love freak as an answer but I kept seeing possibility after possibility but they’ve all been used before. So I went with it and still no greens. Yikes. A lotta staring was involved before coming up with zebra. ---
**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:** [June 29, 2024, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/8094 "2024-06-29T15:42:38Z")
Funny storyline too! ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2024, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/8095 "2024-06-29T16:50:52Z")
> **Wordle 1,106 5/6\* 6/29/2024** > > ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨 > 🟨🟨🟨⬜⬜ > ⬜⬜🟨🟨🟨 > ⬜🟩🟨🟩⬜ > 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 > > D_R_OV_E_ → Ok, about what I expected, maybe a little better. I’d like to try an A here, but I’ve only tried one WoFcon so far, and I can only see words with one more… except for, perhaps, EARLS. Which leads me to another possibility… > _EAR_TH → EARLS probably wouldn’t have made much difference. I"ll keep those letters together and try them in another place… > SP_EAR_ → This is getting frustrating, but at least I’m narrowing things down via the process of elimination. OK, I see one word that will definitely place that R… > R **E** _A_ **R** M → and the E too. And that A pretty much has to go at the end. ?E?RA, both unknowns must be new letters. I sat on this for a while, trying letters, until I thought about the B in the middle and it came right to me > **ZEBRA** > > Scoredle does better from my start than from its own SLATE; it places the R with RARER on the second guess, then picks up the unplaced A next which gets it to where I was after four in three guesses. On the plus side, it picks REARM in the same place I did so at least I had a good play in the endgame. ---
**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:** [June 29, 2024, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/8096 "2024-06-29T19:44:42Z")
Wordle 1,106 3/6\* ⬜🟩🟨⬜⬜ 🟨🟩⬜🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 LEAST RERAN ZEBRA ---
**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:** [June 29, 2024, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/8097 "2024-06-29T20:34:59Z")
Wordle 1,106 4/6\* ⬛🟨🟨⬛🟨 ⬛⬛🟨🟨🟨 ⬛🟨🟨🟨⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 IRATE SPEAR CARED ZEBRA ---
**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:** [June 30, 2024, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/8098 "2024-06-30T01:46:31Z")
Wordle 1,106 4/6\* ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨 ⬜🟨🟨🟨⬜ 🟨🟨⬜⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 PLATE CREAM EAGER ZEBRA ---
**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:** [June 30, 2024, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/8099 "2024-06-30T04:03:37Z")
[spoiler]Wordle 1,107 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩⬜⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩[/spoiler] CLOSE TRAIN BUGGY BUDDY Well! ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2024, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/8100 "2024-06-30T04:28:15Z")
Wordle 1,107 5/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜⬜🟩 ⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 RATIO LUNES MUCKY PUDGY BUDDY Just happy not to lose. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659.md?page=404) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659.md?page=406)