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

Yikes, nearly forgot to post today’s!

Wordle 792 4/6*

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IRATE
CLEFT
SPENT
QUEST

Wordle 793 4/6*

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GUISE
VALET
HEARD
BEACH

[spoiler]Wordle 793 4/6

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Wordle 793 2/6*

\begin{aligned} &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \bbox[lime,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[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt C} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt H} \\ \end{aligned}

Damn !
Got excited when those greens started appearing …
I’ll settle for a 2, could’ve been worse !

Wordle 793 4/6

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SALET
ROUND
CHIMP
BEACH

Wordle 793 3/6

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SLANT
CHORE => PEACH has already been used, so…
BEACH

Wordle 793 3/6

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IDEAL
TEACH
BEACH

Wordle 793 5/6* 8/21/2023

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QUEST → In many ways, a better starting word than one might expect. Not that it got much here, but…
LEARN → WoF letters are gone, and no consonants to show for it. Still, that EA is good to see and only so many words w/o the common consonants can go around them
HEADY → KOed one last vowel. Time to break out the C since S and T are gone. BEACH or PEACH? I’ll try a tribute to my time in Georgia
PEACH → Darn. Should have tried a tribute to my vacations.
BEACH

I’m just glad it wasn’t LEAVE. We’re heading home after dropping our daughter off for college and Wordle might have made me start crying.

Wordle 793 2/6

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HEART
BEACH

Wordle 793 3/6

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PLANT
SCARE
BEACH

Hey, I just found Wordlebot. I thought you needed a NYT account for it, but nope. It says there was only one possibility left after scare, but obnoxiously it considered scare more lucky than skill. Luck my ass.

Yabbut they’re things I already know, even if I don’t have total recall of them. If I know things already that can be used to solve a puzzle, I’m going to use them.

Well, whaddaya know! The NYT had been demanding an account from me to get to WordleBot, but now it just let me right in.

Right and nothing wrong with that. I just meant that if it was getting to be less challenging at this point, you could always forgo the answer list to up the difficulty again.

I think you can use Wordlebot until your maximum number of articles is reached

Wordle 793 3/6

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PIANO
STARE
BEACH

My third three in a row!
BEACH was the only (reasonable) word left that didn’t end in Y, so I suppose I’m lucky it wasn’t one of those.
I’m working my way backwards though my starter list this time, and I’m into the top ten. Somehow I feel more pressure when using a historically strong starting word. PIANO improves from 3.64 to 3.58.

Wordle 793 4/6

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SLATE
WEARY
PEACH - I have chosen. . .poorly
BEACH

Yeah, but it’s the season.

Wordle 793 3/6*

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IRATE
PEACH
BEACH

For me, it was a lucky second try – probably because I was eating one!

Wordle 793 3/6*

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BLEND
BRAVE
BEACH

I wish I was at the beach, instead of at work!

Wordle 793 3/6

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STORE
CHAIN
BEACH

Wordle 793 4/6*

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ADORE
LEAST
HEAVY
PEACH
I usually start with LEAST but thought I’d mix it up. So, a 4 instead of a 3. Oh well.