# "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:** 43
**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:** [May 4, 2023, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/841 "2023-05-04T16:47:25Z")
Wordle 684 4/6\* β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¨β¬›β¬› β¬›πŸŸ©β¬›πŸŸ¨β¬› πŸŸ©πŸŸ©β¬›β¬›β¬› 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ---
**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:** [May 4, 2023, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/842 "2023-05-04T19:07:26Z")
Wordle 684 5/6\* ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¨β¬›β¬› πŸŸ¨β¬›β¬›β¬›πŸŸ© πŸŸ¨πŸŸ©β¬›β¬›πŸŸ© 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 CLEAN DOUBT USURY PUFFY GUPPY This should have been a 4, but I liked USURY so much as a guess that I failed to notice one of the Us was in a repeated spot. I wish hard mode would prevent that. Also, Wordlebot said my first two tries were incredibly unlucky. By the way, for those complaining about SULKY being an adjective (what’s wrong with adjectives?) it’s also a noun. Maybe it’s because I have kids, but I don’t find SULKY to be even slightly obscure. 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:** [May 4, 2023, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/843 "2023-05-04T20:31:22Z")
Yep, a noun too, when I hear the word sulky I think of Standardbred harness racing. ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2023, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/844 "2023-05-04T20:57:58Z")
> **Wordle 684 6/6\* Star Wars Day 2023** > > ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ > ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ > ⬜🟩⬜⬜🟩 > ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 > ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 > 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 > > HORDE β†’ Well, that’s quite a start. Let’s check A & I, and some common consonants too… > STAIN β†’ Ooooohkay. Need to try both U and Y, and three more consonants… > B **U** LK **Y** β†’ Nice to place the vowels. Eleven consonants guessed so far and no hits. We’re getting near the bottom of the barrel… > J **U** M **PY** β†’ That’s a relief. Two guesses left. Are they all Ps? > P **UPPY** β†’ Nope, but another immature animal… > **GUPPY** > > Scoredle said there were two more words left, which meant I was playing with fire that last 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:** [May 4, 2023, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/845 "2023-05-04T23:07:46Z")
**Wordle 684 4/6** 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜ ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 PATIO CREPE BUMPY GUPPY Nice relief it wasn’t the UMPY trap. πŸ™‚ ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2023, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/846 "2023-05-05T00:22:45Z")
Two lucky threes: Wordle 683 3/6 🟨⬜🟩⬜🟨 ⬜🟨🟩🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 EARTH SHREW HORDE Having three letters from guess 1 should have made this easy but it was still a slog. > Wordle 684 3/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟨⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 STERN POUCH GUPPY The relative rarity of words with both P and U (and not yet solutions, nor having any of the letters in guess 1) made this go faster than yesterday’s. ---
**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:** [May 5, 2023, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/847 "2023-05-05T02:36:39Z")
Wordle 684 5/6\* ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟨🟩⬜⬜🟩 ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 LEAST CHOIR PUNKY DUMPY GUPPY Wordlebot and Discourse spellcheck don’t like PUNKY, but it eliminated PUPPY ---
**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:** [May 5, 2023, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/848 "2023-05-05T03:56:22Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > Having three letters from guess 1 should have made this easy but it was still a slog. Maybe a slog, but a _pretty_ slog. Love the symmetry. ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2023, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/849 "2023-05-05T04:26:27Z")
Wordle 685 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜🟨🟨⬜🟨 ⬜🟩🟩🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 RATIO SLOPE MELON BELOW ---
**Author:** ![QMatic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/aeb1de/32.png) [@QMatic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QMatic)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2023, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/850 "2023-05-05T07:06:06Z")
Wordle 685 5/6\* ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 🟨⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜ 🟨🟨🟨🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 SPACE OVERT MONEY ELBOW BELOW ---
**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:** [May 5, 2023, 7:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/851 "2023-05-05T07:52:34Z")
Wordle 685 2/6\* ⬜⬜🟩🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 TALES BELOW Pretty much a complete fluke (was just the first word to test the EL combination and give me another vowel that came to mindβ€”could’ve just as easily been MELON or FELON or whatever), but I’ll take the two… ---
**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:** [May 5, 2023, 9:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/852 "2023-05-05T09:20:23Z")
Wordle 685 3/6\* \begin{aligned} &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \bbox[lime,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[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt G} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt N} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \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 W} \\ \end{aligned} ---
**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:** [May 5, 2023, 9:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/853 "2023-05-05T09:53:08Z")
Wordle 685 3/6\* β¬›πŸŸ¦πŸŸ¦β¬›πŸŸ¦ β¬›πŸŸ¦πŸŸ§πŸŸ¦β¬› 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧 ALONE TOLES BELOW Didn’t know TOLES was a word, but I guess it moved things along nicely. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2023, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/854 "2023-05-05T11:39:23Z")
Wordle 685 3/6 ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ 640 ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨 41 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 SLANT CHORE BELOW Got lucky on this one. Saw VOWEL and YODEL and chose the solution over them, but there were also MODEL, DOWEL, BOWEL, GOLEM, and YOKEL which I didn’t see. Some of them are iffy as solutions, but far from all of them. So it was a lucky 3. ---
**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:** [May 5, 2023, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/855 "2023-05-05T11:46:10Z")
Wordle 685 3/6 β¬›πŸŸ¨β¬›β¬›β¬› β¬›πŸŸ¨πŸŸ©πŸŸ¨β¬› 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 PLANT ROLES BELOW Nice and quick. I finally remembered β€œroles” instead of loser as my followup to a single yellow L. ---
**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:** [May 5, 2023, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/856 "2023-05-05T11:48:15Z")
Wordle 685 4/6 ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨 ⬜🟨🟨⬜🟨 ⬜🟩🟩⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 IDEAL CLOSE HELLO BELOW ---
**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:** [May 5, 2023, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/857 "2023-05-05T12:05:18Z")
Wordle 685 4/6 ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟨⬜⬜ 🟨🟩⬜🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 HEART PEONY LEMON (I knew there was no N, just fishing for letters BELOW ---
**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:** [May 5, 2023, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/858 "2023-05-05T15:33:09Z")
Wordle 685 5/6\* β¬›β¬›β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¨ πŸŸ¨β¬›β¬›β¬›β¬› πŸŸ¨πŸŸ¨β¬›πŸŸ¨β¬› 🟨🟨🟨🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ---
**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:** [May 5, 2023, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/859 "2023-05-05T15:35:10Z")
Wordle 685 5/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟦 ⬜⬜🟦⬜🟦 ⬜🟦🟧🟦⬜ ⬜🟧🟧⬜🟦 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧 CRANE SPOIL GOLEM HELLO - kept hearing the β€˜e’ in my mind as short instead of long πŸ™„ BELOW ---
**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:** [May 5, 2023, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/860 "2023-05-05T15:59:17Z")
Wordle 685 3/6 πŸŸ¦β¬›πŸŸ¦β¬›β¬› β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¦β¬›πŸŸ¦ 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧 OPERA STONE BELOW Finally broke my five streak with a lucky birdie. Scoredle says I had 121 possible words, though most are either very obscure or past tense -ED words. (I know some solutions have been past tense, but, like -S plurals, I don’t _think_ Wordle uses ones formed with -ED.) Still, other than those I counted a little over 20 good words, so yeah, I was lucky. For a change. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659.md?page=42) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659.md?page=44)