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

The Game Room
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Wordle 764 4/6*

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GUISE
TABLE
ANKLE
WHALE

There are surprisingly few 5 letter words ending ALE

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Wordle 764 4/6*

\begin{aligned} &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[lime,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 G} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt Z} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt H} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt W} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt H} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \\ \end{aligned}

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Wordle 764 3/6

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PLANT
SCALE
WHALE

Right? I couldn’t believe it took me minutes to come up with anything after 2.

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Wordle 764 3/6

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SALET — 3 yellows, no greens: over 30 or 40 possibilities. I took a stab with APPLE.
APPLE — as QMatic said, very few words ending in ALE
WHALE

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Wordle 764 3/6

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HEART
SHAVE
WHALE

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I wish, I never win anything! :laughing:

Wordle 764 3/6

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IDEAL
PLATE
WHALE

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Wordle 764 3/6*

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AVOID
FLARE
WHALE

Lucky three!

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Wordle 764 4/6* 7/23/2023

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FROZE → Thought I was gonna strike out there for a second. Too many possibilities with a terminal E, but I was hoping for one with 3 common consonants. Couldn’t find one; almost went with CHIDE but settled on a repeat
TITHE → The repeat was no good, but the H is nice. Put it in second and see what goes around it
SHAPE → Not much can go in front of that H. W is about all I can see left
WHALE

Scoredle says I should have tried CHAVE or CHACE. Scoredle has a different idea of what a “common English word” is than I.

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And it doubles as a PSA about cetacean safety!

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Wordle 764 4/6

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SLANT
GRAIL
LEAKY
WHALE

Would’ve had an easy 3 if I’d gone with my usual second word. But what the hey, I had a good time with the L bouncing all over the place. Sometimes you just gotta have fun even if it costs you an extra guess. :slight_smile:

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Wordle 764 3/6

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AUDIT
SALON
WHALE

Scordle says FLARE was a better third guess. Maybe it was, but I got focused on an -ALE ending, and WHALE just fell right in.
AUDIT’s average improves from 4.18 to 4.08.

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I see I’m in good company today with the 3s!

Wordle 764 3/6*

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IRATE
SCALE
WHALE

WordleBot surprised me by saying that WHALE was the only available word after my second try. There really are very few 5-letter words that end in --ALE, I guess!

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I feel clever. I guess the first word is important! Got lucky.

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Three is the name of the game; the name of today’s game is “three”.

Wordle 764 3/6

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PLANE
SCALE
WHALE

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Wordle 764 3/6*

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LEAST
ELAND
WHALE
And yet another WordleBot complaint, it rated ELAND as low on skill, even though it eliminated every other solution.
A number of these guesses have me thinking of the days when WHALE was more common as a food, like IDEAL PLATE WHALE or STALE WHALE. Not that I remember those days, but I’ve read about them.

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Not so lucky this time.

[spoiler]Wordle 765 5/6

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Wordle 765 6/6

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RATIO
SHONE
POUCH
HOWDY
HOLLY
HOBBY

Maybe should have gone with L before N. Otherwise just bad luck.

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Wordle 765 4/6*

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GUISE
MOLAR
BOOTH
HOBBY

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Wordle 764 2/6

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SLATE
WHALE

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Wordle 765 3/6*

\begin{aligned} &\bbox[yellow,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 C} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt M} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt H} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt Y} \\ \end{aligned}