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

Wordle 750 3/6

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HEART
TREND
ENTER

Wordle 750 2/6

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I shocked myself . Actually have 23 2fers now.

Wordle 750 3/6

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LOUSE
INTER
ENTER

A very lucky second guess.

Wordle 750 5/6*

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SOLID
KRAUT
THERE
METER
ENTER

Another five. Sigh.

Wordle 750 3/6*

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LEAST
TONER
ENTER

Monday 10 July 2023

Wordle 751 4/6

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SALET
ROUND
CHIMP
FOLLY — a lucky guess!

Wordle 751 5/6

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RATIO
SHONE
MOLDY
FOGLE
FOLLY

So after three I was pretty sure it was an -LLY word, and I had it down to FOLLY, GOLLY, or JOLLY. I needed a sleuth word with at least two of those and ideally the L in fourth place to make sure I wasn’t missing another option. Hence FOGLE. I don’t know what it means but it saved a five.

ETA: just googled. It’s either a silk handkerchief or sex with an underage girl as in Subway spokesman, depending on whether your dictionary is urban or not,

Wordle 750 4/6

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SLATE
CHOIR
TUNER
ENTER

Wordle 751 4/6*

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PIOUS
ORATE
COLLY
FOLLY

Wordle 751 3/6

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TRANS
LOUIE
FOLLY

Lucky guess on this one. I was just trying to figure out where the L was supposed to go and accidentally solved the puzzle.

Wordle 751 5/6*

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ALONE
TOILS
MOULD
WOOLY
FOLLY

Wordle 751 6/6*

\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[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt W} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt Y} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt H} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt Y} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt J} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt Y} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt F} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt Y} \\ \end{aligned}

Wordle 751 4/6

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IDEAL
CLOUT
POLYP
FOLLY

Wordle 751 5/6

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HEART
SPOIL
CLOWN
MOLDY
FOLLY

Wordle 751 4/6

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PLANT
ROLES
JIHAD
FOLLY

Had to cheat by abandoning hard mode to narrow down the _OLLY trap. Interestingly, the valid solutions I could see were five consecutive consonants: DFGHJ. There is no word I could see that use four of them, but several choices using three. That meant I had to rank them on likelihood, leaving one high percentage and one low percentage uncovered to give me an obvious guess if nothing hit.

The order I decided, most common to least likely, was folly, jolly, dolly, holly, golly. Ideally I would then want to leave folly and golly uncovered, which I was able to do with jihad. Nothing hit, and then my top choice ended up being the answer. The other options I saw instead of jihad were judge and fudge.

It was almost refreshing that none of the five had previously been an answer.

Wordle 751 4/6* 7/10/2023

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ENTER → I expected a bit more. Need to guess vowels. Can get two…
HALOS → Waited a while here. Finally resolved to try a Y and a couple more consonants, with O in second…
GOLDY → And while the consonants didn’t hit, I think I’m about done with the vowels. I’m seeing ?OLLY, but with DGH already gone it’s not too traplike - M, J, or F (or a third L? Ouch)
FOLLY

Got lucky on the trap guess.

Wordle 751 4/6*

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CHEAT
FLOUR
FOLIO ← I thought this would be it!
FOLLY

Wordle 751 4/6

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MOUSE
POINT
CORAL
FOLLY

I was pretty sure of the terminal Y, but no guarantee of a double L - and even then I still had DOLLY, GOLLY, JOLLY, and HOLLY in play. Very fortunate to save a par here.

I was a lucky girl today.

Wordle 751 3/6*

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IRATE
CLOUD
FOLLY

This was a time when checking already-used words saved the day. I’d found all the -OGGY words. Every one was already used. Also LOWLY. Of the 3 -OLLY words I considered likely, I lucked into trying FOLLY first. I didn’t deserve a 3, but I’ll take it anyway!

Wordle 751 6/6

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SLANT
CHORE
DUMPY
JOLLY
GOLLY
FOLLY

Well, didn’t that just suck.

My last 10 games have been 5-5-3-4-4-4-4-4-3-6.

Blech.