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

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Wordle 767 2/6*

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THEIR
HEART

Wow! two 2s in a row!

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Congratulations!

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Wordle 767 4/6

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PLANT
CRAFT
ROAST
HEART

Struggled with this one.

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I smiled today when I solved it for just that reason. :slight_smile: I’ll add my congrats!

Me, I shoulda had it in 2, but no. I picked one of the two remaining wrong answers.

Wordle 767 3/6*

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IRATE
TEARY
HEART

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Wordle 767 2/6* 7/26/2023

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WHEEL → No L, so LATHE is out. TITHE? Easier ways to guess one T. Could try HEIST, but I’d prefer an A for the second vowel try, so
HEART

A Shirley Muldowney special.

Really lucky on this one; Scoredle says I had 179 possibilities, probably 60 of them qualify as common.

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Wordle 767 5/6

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OPERA
WEARY
LEARN
HEARD
HEART

Ugh. I knew there’d be lots of twos and threes today (even a one!), but alas, not for me. I actually had TEARY at two but changed it; would have given me a three. Instead, I bumbled my way to a five. Can’t believe I waited that long to use a T.
OPERA jumps from 4.09 to 4.17, but that’s not really OPERA’s fault.

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Wordle 767 3/6

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STAIN
CHORE
HEART

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Wordle 767 2/6*

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CHORE
HEART
I wonder if I would have solved it in 2 if I’d started with my frequent starter, LEAST? I would have had 3 greens with that start,

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Wordle 768 4/6

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RATIO
LINGO
HIMBO
DISCO

I am aware this should have been a three but I couldn’t come up with anything so I just tried a word I knew was wrong to check some possible letters. I don’t have the patience to keep looking for possibilities.

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Wordle 768 3/6*

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PIOUS
VISOR
DISCO

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Wordle 768 4/6*

\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[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt G} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt H} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt V} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt C} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \\ \end{aligned}

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Wordle 768 4/6*

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ALONE
ROUST
SICKO
DISCO

You and me both.

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Wordle 768 4/6

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HEART -all green one day, all gray the next
SPOIL
VISOR - knowing the R isn’t there, looking to place the others
DISCO

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Wordle 768 3/6

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RAISE
BISON
DISCO

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Wordle 768 5/6*

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DRINK
DINGY
DIODE
DIVOT
DISCO

Alrighty then…

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Wordle 768 3/6

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SLANT
CHORE
DISCO (now I’ve got “Do Ya Think I’m Sexy?” going through my head)

The hard part, as others have said already, was to find a word, any word, that would work. Found FOCUS fairly quickly, but that had already been used. Other than that, the solution seems to be the only legit word that fit the constraints given by the first two guesses.

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Wordle 768 4/6* 7/27/2023

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HEART → Alrighty then. Don’t think I’m going to get a 2 today
LIONS → Nope. But that’s progress. Where to put the S? Try the start. Took me a while to think of a good word here
SICKO → Which pointed me to the solution
DISCO

Might have had a 3 if I had considered the middle for the S.

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Wordle 768 3/6

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OLIVE
SONIC
DISCO

My first instinct was to form a diphthong with the O and I. But with I not in the middle and L eliminated, I didn’t see any. So it then made sense to slot the vowels into the second and fourth positions. There were many possibilities, and it was my good fortune to choose one with both S and C.
OLIVE improves from 4.09 to an even 4.

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Wordle 768 3/6

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PLANT
SCORE
DISCO

Is it focus? It looks like focus. *takes a break* I’m seeing focus. Surely it’s focus, right? *longer break* This looks like focus to me. etc…

This was one of those deals where it started to feel like it could have run out the 24-hour clock.

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Congrats to all the 3s! Wish I’d been among you. :slight_smile:

Wordle 768 4/6*

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IRATE
SLINK
WISPY
DISCO

I found DISCO quite quick after WISPY, but I couldn’t convince myself it was the only available choice because it struck me as a dumb Wordle word. Had to try everything else before I finally put it in as my official 4th try. Dumb word!