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

Wordle 803 5/6

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RATIO
SHIRE
COPED
DRIVE
BRiDE

I had nine options after guess two and eliminated seven with my test word. Unfortunately I then guessed wrong.

[spoiler]Wordle 803 3/6

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tread
drove
bride

Wordle 802 3/6

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SLATE
CHOIR
AUDIO

Wordle 803 5/6*

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VIOLA
SPINE
GRIME
TRITE
BRIDE

Wordle 803 2/6*

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

:slight_smile:

Wordle 803 3/6

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RAISE
PRIDE
BRIDE

Wordle 803 4/6

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HEART
BONER
BREED
BRIDE

Wordle 803 5/6*

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NIGHT
ADIEU
FRIED
PRIDE
BRIDE

I’ll take it.

Wordle 803 4/6

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PLANE
SCOUT -bust
GRIME
BRIDE - first thought was ‘drive’, but verbs don’t usually play

Sounds like an interesting plot for a show

:slight_smile:

Maybe!

Wordle 803 5/6* 8/31/2023

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AUDIO → A great opener for vowels, but when I get a chance to try it I only get one. At least D was a good pickup. Better try that E.
DIETS → Found it. Try R, or L, or N? (Actually, RILED would have been good here, not that it would have helped necessarily)
CRIED → Switch D & E, crank a little U2 and get
PRIDE → the wrong guess. Pretty sure it’s not GRIDE, so
BRIDE

Scoredle also tried the last two guesses in the sequence I did, so I feel somewhat vindicated.

Wordle 803 3/6

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NOISE
CLART
BRIDE

Well, that was quite a ride! First of all, again with the —I-E! I was in this exact same situation three days ago with WRITE, when I started with OPINE. Deja vu! So again, I wrote out a long list of words and counted up the letters. In this case, C,L,R, and T were the most frequent. And I wanted A in case of ALIVE or ALIKE. Hmmm… is CLART a word? Apparently, if you’re a Scotsman describing a clump of dirt on your shoe, it is. And it wiped away a lot of words for me. So then B and D were the most common of the the remaining words, and a little luck came my way as well. A very fun three!

Wordle 803 3/6

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PLANT
SCORE
BRIDE

Not much to go on except to just trust the B.

Wordle 803 4/6*

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ALONE
SHIRE
TRIPE
BRIDE

Another lucky 3 today.

Wordle 803 3/6*

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IRATE
PRICE
BRIDE

Wordle 803 5/6

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:white_large_square::white_large_square::white_large_square::yellow_square::green_square: 68
:white_large_square::white_large_square::yellow_square::white_large_square::green_square: 11
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SLANT
CHORE
MERGE
PRUDE
BRIDE

Managed to dance all around this one before getting it.

Wordle 803 4/6

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SLATE
CHOIR
NUDGE
BRIDE

Sleuth word at 3 (Nudge) to narrow things down, and that it did.



:laughing: And it “cleaned up the dirt” (long list of words) rather well! It’s always great when random words are in fact words, and allowed too, in order to narrow things down.



@chiliwillybing should have trusted the B like @EllisDee did! :laughing: (I didn’t either though…I saw the word, but I went for a sleuth word instead).

Wordle 804 3/6

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RATIO
SHALE
SPACE

Wordle 804 2/6*

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PIOUS
SPACE