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

Not with this bunch of pedants! I’m sorry. I’ll have you know that I scoured my post for a long time looking for errors. Gaudere’s law is always out to get you! :upside_down_face:

Wordle 799 3/6

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ARISE
LANCE
PEACE

The second word was the key. I wanted common consonants, but there was nothing with L, N, T, and A with an E at the end. I figured C was a decent second-tier option, and it hit.
Finally got to my historically best starting word, ARISE, and managed to improve it even more, from 3.36 to 3.33.

Wordle 799 3/6

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PLANT
PRASE
PEACE

Just trying to check SER and PRASE got accepted. Best I can tell it’s a type of greenish quartz.

Wordle 799 3/6

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STORE
PLACE
PEACE

Well that was a fortuitous 2nd guess word. I wanted to keep that green E in place, and I was just checking more commons as usual, but I didn’t expect to end up with 4 greens - I’ll gladly take it!



Good advice!

Thanks @SeaSun and @RTFirefly! PRION and MINORare now on my list!

Wordle 799 3/6*

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STEAL
REACH
PEACE
A lucky 2nd guess with REACH, which eliminated everything but PEACE

And we’ve had BEGET, BELIE, BESET and AMISS, which makes me think that APACE is not unlikely

MON AUG 28th

Wordle 800 5/6*

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ALONE
SHIRE
DRIVE
TRIBE
WRITE

Whoops, almost forgot to post today (Sunday).

Wordle 799 4/6*

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IRATE
SCALE
APACE
PEACE

So I was the dummy who was willing to try APACE before PEACE. :wink:

Right there with you. :wink:

Wordle 800 3/6

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RATIO
TRICE
WRITE

Well that was easy.

Wordle 800 5/6

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SALET
ROUND
CHIMP
TRIBE
WRITE

Wordle 800 3/6*

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OPINE
WHITE
WRITE

[spoiler]Wordle 800 4/6

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Wordle 800 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[yellow,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[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt M} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt P} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt C} \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 R} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \\ \end{aligned}

Super easy two today.

Wordle 800 2/6*

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ORATE
WRITE

Brute was the other option but it didn’t immediately pop into my head. Trite was a previous answer.

Wordle 800 4/6

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HEART
STORE
TRUCE
WRITE

Wordle 800 3/6

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IDEAL
TRICE
WRITE

Wordle 800 2/6*

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PLATE
WRITE

A lucky first word, and a totally lucky second guess!

Wordle 800 4/6* 8/28/2023

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PEACE → Thought for a second I had struck out completely. OK, comcons and one vowel
STORE → Two hits, unplaced. They’d go well together at the front - but then what? TRITE? Don’t want a repeat just yet. Guess I’ll skip more comcons and try a second tier letter
TRIBE → Only thing left is
WRITE

Didn’t even see BRUTE on the third guess, but would have still preferred the vowel I did guess.

Heh.

Wordle 800 2/6*

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IRATE
WRITE

I’d have been peeved if the word had turned out to be TRITE. Especially since I didn’t even see it!

Quick game for me today.

Wordle 800 4/6

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SLANT
CHORE
TRIBE
WRITE

Had to choose between TRIBE, TRIPE, BRUTE, WRITE, and possibly RETIE and TRIKE on the 3rd guess. WRITE seemed somewhat more likely than the others, but if I’d been wrong, I’d have been unable to tell apart the TRI_E words. So I went with TRIBE where the worst case was a 4.