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

Wordle 786 5/6

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IDEAL
BAYOU
SCARY
SHAKY
SNAKY
stupid word

I got yesterday’s in four; saw the answer at three but decided on a different word. I hate when that happens. As for today:

Wordle 786 4/6

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COATI
SNARL
SNAKE
SNAKY

Grrr.
After two it’s either SNAKE or SNAFU, and SNAFU is unlikely. A quick and easy three. Yay!
SNAKY??? F*** you, Wordle.

Wordle 786 4/6

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HEART
PLAIN
SNACK
SNAKY

Wordle 786 3/6

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SLANT
SNAKE
SNAKY

Sooooo close to a 2.

At this point, I’m familiar enough with the game to have figured that SNAKY probably would be a valid solution, so I’m not particularly bothered by it. Of the possibilities I thought of, SNARF might’ve been a bit much, but other than that, they were all fair game imho, even SNARK.

Wordle 786 3/6*

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ALONE
SNACK
SNAKY

Uh, okay.

Wordle 786 4/6

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PLANE
TRAIN
SNACK
SNAKY

Feel lucky to have gotten it in four.

Wordle 786 4/6 8/14/2023

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WRATH → Not a bad start. Lone vowel? Still need to try others. Thought about a -A?E ending for a bit, but didn’t like the possible consonants, so I went with
SLAIN → Which, while not hitting the I, was good. Try an E. N in second or fourth? Second could be S?ANE, but not much fits it, so try SNA?E, which has a reptilian solution
SNAKE → and I almost thought I had a 3.
SNAKY

Scoredle had 15 possibilities for the third guess, which means my first two cut it down by a factor of 1000.

Wordle 786 3/6

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TRICK
SHAKE
SNAKY

I lucked out. After the second guess, there was only one possible word left.

Wordle 786 5/6*

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AUDIO
FLASH
STACK
SNAKE ← This should have been it.
SNAKY ← Seriously??

Wordle 786 3/6

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PLANT
SNARE
SNAKY

Yay, a 3, I guess, but this was not satisfying. After 2 I immediately saw snack but that has already been an answer. So has snafu, for that matter, as well as snarl but I’d already eliminated L.

I saw snags, but I don’t think present tense verbs ending in s are in the answer list. So I kept looking, figuring it would probably end in Y. Snaky? I guess, if you squint, maybe that’s a common word? The only thing I ever found. Didn’t feel good about it, but it worked so yay.

A 4 today.

Wordle 786 4/6*

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IRATE
SCALP
SHADY
SNAKY

I found SNAKY pretty fast after my 3rd try, but my brain didn’t want to accept this was a Wordle word. Finally dawned on me it had to be that word, because there was no other. Dumb word!

Wordle 786 4/6

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SLATE
CHARM
SPANK
SNAKY

A bit of a slog…so many words it could be after my start word’s S and A in green, but happy with my strategy for my next two guesses to narrow things down. Feel lucky to escape with a 4 on this one.

Wordle 786 4/6*

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RATIO
LEASH
SPANK
SNAKY

Started with the wrong word.

[spoiler]Wordle 787 5/6

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Wordle 787 4/6

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RATIO
SHINE
WIDEN
INDEX

A lucky guess!

Wordle 787 3/6

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SALET
ROUND
INDEX

Wordle 787 3/6*

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IMBUE
INERT
INDEX

Wordle 787 4/6*

\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[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt W} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt N} \\ &\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 D} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt X} \\ \end{aligned}

Wordle 787 4/6*

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ALONE
STEIN
DINER
INDEX

Wordle 787 3/6

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RAISE
LINED
INDEX