# "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:** 474
**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:** [October 7, 2024, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/9461 "2024-10-07T05:01:20Z")
Wordle 1,206 4/6 β¬›πŸŸ©β¬›β¬›β¬› β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ©β¬›β¬› β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ©β¬›β¬› 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 PLANT CLOSE BLOOM FLOUR I zigged when I should have zagged. ---
**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:** [October 7, 2024, 8:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/9462 "2024-10-07T08:06:37Z")
Wordle 1,206 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[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt G} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt F} \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 U} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \\ \end{aligned} ---
**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:** [October 7, 2024, 8:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/9463 "2024-10-07T08:57:12Z")
Wordle 1,206 3/6 ⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟨🟩🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 TOUCH PROUD FLOUR ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2024, 10:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/9464 "2024-10-07T10:44:53Z")
Wordle 1206 3/6 ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ 167 ⬜🟩🟨⬜⬜ 3 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 SLANT PLUME FLOUR Same pattern, with the same first two guesses, as #1199, which narrowed it down to two possibilities. I correctly guessed CLOUD on 3 then; this time it had to be FLOUR. ---
**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:** [October 7, 2024, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/9465 "2024-10-07T11:41:51Z")
Wordle 1,206 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜🟨🟩⬜🟨 ⬜🟩🟩🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 HEART BROIL GLORY doh! I should have realized that R wasn’t in 4th position FLOUR ---
**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:** [October 7, 2024, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/9466 "2024-10-07T14:22:53Z")
Wordle 1,206 3/6 ⬜🟧⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟧🟧🟧⬜ 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧 SLATE CLOUD FLOUR Redemption after yesterday’s fiasco. ---
**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:** [October 7, 2024, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/9467 "2024-10-07T15:10:45Z")
Wordle 1,206 3/6 β¬›β¬›β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¦ πŸŸ¦πŸŸ¦β¬›β¬›πŸŸ§ 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧 PATIO LOSER FLOUR Nice birdie to get after a shaky start. > [@EllisDee](#): > > Going through the previous answers list I’m seeing fewer, finer, older, riper and ruder. I stand corrected, then. I didn’t recall ever seeing an -ER adjective as an answer, and just assumed they were not valid. ---
**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:** [October 7, 2024, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/9468 "2024-10-07T16:25:09Z")
Wordle 1,206 4/6 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨🟨🟨⬜ ⬜🟨🟩🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 READY (I get to use my favorite vowel-hunting word!) HOURI (found my vowels! Now to place that R…) CROUP (placed it!) FLOUR (only word possible. Unless you think STOUR is a word. I would challenge it in Scrabble) ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2024, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/9469 "2024-10-07T16:44:21Z")
> **Wordle 1,206 2/6\* 10/7/2024** > > 🟨⬜⬜⬜🟩 > 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 > > _L_AGE **R** β†’ L must be 2nd or 3rd. Should try an O and one of us (i.e. either U or I). Sorted through combinations with I and got nowhere. ?ULOR/?OLUR go nowhere. With L in second, though… > **FLOUR** > COLOR and of couse FLOOR were the other major possibles. My fixation on not repeating letters helped me this time around. Scoredle does the repeat but still birdies. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2024, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/9470 "2024-10-07T19:37:18Z")
> [@EllisDee](#): > > I don’t think this is a thing. Going through the previous answers list I’m seeing fewer, finer, older, riper and ruder. Also lower, but that could sneak by such a rule as a verb. And I think it’s just the suffix rather than the part of speech anyway. Like with the -S endings, it’s not just plural nouns but also third person singular verbs obtained by adding an S that have never been solutions. ---
**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:** [October 7, 2024, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/9471 "2024-10-07T19:49:06Z")
Wordle 1,206 3/6\* 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 LEAST WHORL FLOUR ---
**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:** [October 8, 2024, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/9472 "2024-10-08T03:49:26Z")
Wordle 1,206 3/6\* ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 PLATE SLINK FLOUR ---
**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:** [October 8, 2024, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/9473 "2024-10-08T04:12:35Z")
**Tuesday, October 8th** Wordle 1,207 3/6 β¬›β¬›β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ© β¬›β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŸ© 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 PLANT FEINT JOINT Holy crap, a J! ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2024, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/9474 "2024-10-08T04:26:26Z")
Wordle 1,207 4/6 ⬜⬜🟨🟨🟨 ⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 RATIO HOIST POINT JOINT ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2024, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/9475 "2024-10-08T07:09:59Z")
Wordle 1207 3/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟩🟩 28 ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 4 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 SLANT FOUNT JOINT A pair of greens on the starting word narrows things down wonderfully. ---
**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:** [October 8, 2024, 8:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/9476 "2024-10-08T08:17:52Z")
Wordle 1,207 5/6\* \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[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt Q} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt W} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt H} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt P} \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 T} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt J} \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 T} \\ \end{aligned} ---
**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:** [October 8, 2024, 8:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/9477 "2024-10-08T08:37:41Z")
Wordle 1,207 5/6 ⬜🟨🟩⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩🟩⬜ ⬜⬜🟩🟩⬜ ⬜⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ---
**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:** [October 8, 2024, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/9478 "2024-10-08T11:45:59Z")
Wordle 1,207 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟩 ⬜🟩⬜🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 HEART CLOUT POSIT JOINT ---
**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:** [October 8, 2024, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/9479 "2024-10-08T14:09:12Z")
Wordle 1,207 2/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟦🟦 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧 PAEON - So possibly an i or a u to go with the o. Can’t be β€˜point’. Could be an β€˜-ound’ word, but let’s try. . . JOINT - A rare two for me! ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2024, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/9480 "2024-10-08T15:28:43Z")
> **Wordle 1,207 3/6\* 10/8/2024** > > ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ > 🟨🟩🟨⬜⬜ > 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 > > FL_O_UR β†’ OK. Try an E, and the three remaining WoFcons > _T_ **O** _N_ES β†’ I would guess ?OUNT here if the U hadn’t already been ruled out. ?OANT goes nowhere. ?OINT, though > **JOINT** > Not sure why I went with J rather than the more obvious P here, but I’m glad I did. Scoredle gets a 4 and always makes the opposite play when it gets down to just those two options, so an odd lower-percantage (i.e. lucky) play works out for me here. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659.md?page=473) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659.md?page=475)