"Wordle," a strangely compelling word game (Part 2)

The Game Room
2041

Wordle 749 X/6*

\begin{aligned} &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \bbox[yellow,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 T} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt P} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt M} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt J} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt K} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt G} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt N} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt C} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt V} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \\ \end{aligned}

Bolleaux. :frowning:

2042

Wordle 749 4/6

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RAISE
LONER
CHUMP
COWER

2043

Wordle 749 4/6

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PLANT
SCORE
COVER
COWER

I ignore my rules at my own peril. Saw cower first, then cover, and I really felt like cover was going to be the answer. But I always go with what I see first. Except that yesterday, doing exactly that cost me a guess in quordle. So I figured I might try it out just this once, going with my gut instead of the first thing I saw. Stupid. First time doing that in well over a hundred games and it cost me. Even worse, my 4s have now caught back up to my 3s with 205 of both.

2044

Wordle 749 5/6

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:green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square:I was sure this was wrong when I clicked

2045

Wordle 749 6/6*

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YOUTH
DONOR
MOWER
LOWER
POWER
COWER

Its a trap!! Whew.

2046

Wordle 749 5/6

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HEART
BIKER
LOVER
POWER
COWER

2047
Wordle 749 5/6* 7/8/2023

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DONUT → Try an A, and some common consonants.
SOLAR → R was a nice pickup. Slide an E in before it. Some ?OVERs, ?OWERs, and ?OKERs that I can see. Hopefully the next word will be definitive…
MOWER → Trap. But I think I have it. Three more words I can see…
POWER → Not that one.
COWER

I though I had it covered with BOWER left to go, but I forgot about ROWER and (possibly B.S.) VOWER, so this was an exceptionally tricky trap.

2048

Well, this was an unpleasant game!

Wordle 749 5/6*

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IRATE
OWNER
MOWER
LOWER
COWER

Stupid trap words.

2049

Wordle 749 4/6

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SLANT
CHORE => CODER/CORER/COVER/COWER trap
VOWED => Untrapping
COWER

Happy with a 4.

2050

Wordle 749 4/6

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OVINE
LOSER
COMPT
COWER

Seems like we had this same _O_ER trap not long ago. And I think I used the same sleuth word.
Getting out of this one with a four is a win in my book.

2051

Wordle 749 5/6

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SLATE
CHOIR
DUMPY
COVER
COWER

Stupid trap word :roll_eyes: I had to use a sleuth word (Dumpy), which ruled out 4 words at least (Coder, Comer, Coper, Coyer). I wasn’t sure if any of those 4 words would be used ever, and it seemed Cover and Cower were more likely, but I wasn’t taking any chances. In hindsight, I should have just gone with those two and I’d have gotten it in 4. Oh well.

2052

Wordle, Sunday 09 June 2023

Wordle 750 3/6

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SALET
ROUND
ENTER

2053

Wordle 750 3/6

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RATIO
ENTRY
ENTER

2054

Wordle 750 4/6*

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PIOUS
AVERT
ETHER
ENTER

2055
Wordle 750 5/6* 7/9/2023

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COWER → This will be either a cinch or a slog. Let’s try some vowels…
AIDER → It’s looking like slog. Try a repeated E instead of a U, and common consonants…
STEER → Good one! Swap T & E and get…
METER → Well, one of em. E?TER, got that N so…
ENTER

Another 5 after such a promising beginning.

2056

Wordle 750 5/6*

\begin{aligned} &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \bbox[yellow,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[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt P} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt V} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt C} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \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 E} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \\ \end{aligned}

2057

Wordle 750 3/6

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PLANT
TONES
ENTER

Nice and quick.

2058

Wordle 750 3/6

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RAISE
OUTER
ENTER

2059

Wordle 750 3/6

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:yellow_square::white_large_square::white_large_square::yellow_square::yellow_square: 7
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SLANT
THORN
ENTER

Other than INTER, which had already been used, the only other possibility at 3 was RUNTY, which I thought wasn’t a likely solution. My usual second word, CHORE, would have also left TUNER as an option.

Happy to get a 3 after five straight 4s.

2060

Heh.

Wordle 750 5/6*

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ALONE
STERN
TUNER
INTER
ENTER