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

Wordle 812 4/6

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HEART
SPOIL
GULLY
LUCKY

Wordle 812 4/6

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SLATE
GUILD
PULLY
LUCKY

Wordle 812 4/6*

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ENJOY
SATAY
MUCKY
LUCKY

I can’t believe I used MUCKY first.

Well, these 3s are getting just plain boring! :wink:

Wordle 812 3/6*

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IRATE
CLOUD
LUCKY

LUCKY immediately sprang to mind when I hit those 3 letters. Afterward, WordleBot advised that LUNCH, MULCH, GULCH and SCULL were also potentials. I never knew, since for once I was impulsive.

Funny thing. Me, too. :smiley:

Wordle 812 4/6

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ROUSE
TUNIC
MULCH
LUCKY

No, I wasn’t borrowing @SunUp’s strategy; ROUSE just happened to be next up in the rotation. I was one day away from an ace, dammit! Not so LUCKY after all.
As for today, a fairly mundane par. I was thinking about a terminal Y, but decided to try the CH first, costing me a possible birdie. Them’s the breaks.

Wordle 812 4/6* 9/9/2023

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ROUSE → Usually would be considered a good starter, right? OK, let’s try a few more commons
UNTIL → Slow developing… Try an A? Not much fits it, so perhaps a Y
LUMPY → Oh, I should have thought a little harder after seeing this guess, might have had a 3
LUCKY

Scoredle recommended GULLY for the third guess, but it turned out LUMPY only had one other option, so it really was LUCKY.

Wordle 812 3/6

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STORE
CHAIN
LUCKY

I’ll spare y’all from the cringy pun about this being a lucky guess. :laughing: I saw Lucky first and just went for it, but turns out that was my only choice (per Scoredle, and eliminating past answers), that is unless Yucky and Ducky would ever be used.

Wordle 812 4/6

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PLANT
ROLES
LUCID
LUCKY

Too focused on checking vowels after AOE came up blank.

Wordle 812 3/6*

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CHORE
SALIC
LUCKY

[spoiler]Wordle 813 3/6

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trace
stole
quote

Wordle 813 4/6

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RATIO
STOLE
EMOTE
QUOTE

This took way too long I really thought I had it in three.

Wordle 813 3/6

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SALET
ROUND
QUOTE

Wordle 813 3/6*

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PIOUS
QUOTA
QUOTE

Wordle 813 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[silver,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[silver,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 C} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt H} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt K} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt Q} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \\ \end{aligned}

Wordle 813 3/6

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SLANT
CHORE
QUOTE => only other possibility was EMOTE

Wordle 813 3/6

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RAISE
OUNCE
QUOTE

Wordle 813 3/6*

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ALONE
SHORE
QUOTE

Wordle 813 3/6

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Good job, everyone! Didn’t expect so many good scores.

HEART
STEIN
QUOTE

Wordle 813 5/6* 9/10/2023

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LUCKY → Got one vowel early, and that ain’t bad. I’ll flood with comcons and see what I get.
TURNS → One lousy T. Where should it go? Perhaps the end
OUGHT → No, but the O is a nice pickup. Perhaps we have a UTO middle?
FUTON → Nope, and I really didn’t need to try the N again. Augh! OK, must be ?U?T? with O not in first; doesn’t go well in last, so middle of ?UOT?, oh, darn
QUOTE

Memo to self: next time U is in second, try an initial Q earlier in the process…

Wordle 813 4/6

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SLATE
CHUTE
UNITE
QUOTE

Ah man, I also should have had this in three.