Wordle 658 6/6
TRAIN
PODGE
BUDGE
HEDGE
SEDGE
LEDGE
Give me a break…three L words in a row? Plus another stinkin’ trap word. I tossed out an unlikely word at guess 2 just to check letters. I was thinking a secondary common may appear, and I got two of them, so that was good, but then I saw the trap. I couldn’t come up with a good sleuth word, and so I just started guessing in order of what I was feeling the most.
Catching up (have been under the weather a bit, with consequently less internet time logged):
Wordle 655 4/6
EARTH
CLAST
BWANA
SMASH
BWANA was a test word to eliminate possibilities such as ABASH and AWASH.
Wordle 656 4/6
STERN
PLIED
LEAKY
LEAFY
Unremarkable.
Wordle 657 4/6
STARE
MOUSY
BONUS
LOCUS
Tough and time-consuming.
Wordle 658 3/6
OUTER
LEACH
LEDGE
Fairly easy and enjoyable today thanks to a lucky second guess.
Wordle 659 5/6
RATIO
SHALE
SMACK
SWANG
SNAFU
This one was really hard. I was testing out words and entered SWANG by accident.
Wordle 659 5/6*
RATES
SHANK
SNAIL
SNAPS
SNAFU
Lots of trap potential on the SNA, one could hit several SNAGS
Wordle 659 3/6
TRANS
LOUIE
SNAFU
Huh.
Didn’t expect that to be the right answer. Using an acronym feels like cheating to me, but I guess we’re not playing by Scrabble rules.
Wordle 659 4/6
RATIO
CLUES
QUASH
SNAFU
Wordle 659 2/6*
SUAVE
SNAFU
I never would have guessed that as a Wordle word except nothing more likely would fit.
Wordle 659 3/6*
TRAIN
SNACK
SNAFU
I wasn’t sure SNAFU would be accepted, but I think it may have evolved into a regular word at this point, with most people unaware that it began as an acronym.
Wordle 659 6/6*
\begin{aligned} &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \bbox[silver,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 S} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt M} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt P} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt H} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt C} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt K} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt W} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt N} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt N} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt G} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt N} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt F} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U} \\ \end{aligned}
Huh. I couldn’t see anything else it could be…
I do NOT approve of that word.
Wordle 659 3/6*
ALONE
SNARF
SNAFU
Wordle 659 4/6
PLANT
SNARE
SNACK
SNAFU
*cough* bullshit *cough*
Wordle 659 4/6
RAISE
SCALD
SPAWN
SNAFU
Wordle 659 4/6
108
13
3
SLART
KENCH => down to SPAWN, SNAFU, and possibly SWAIN
SPAWN => lost the coin toss
SNAFU
It started off in life as an acronym, but it’s been a word of its own since WWII or shortly after. I remember it being in the newspapers in lower case when I was a kid, and I’m pushing 70.
Wordle 659 4/6
CRANE
SPOIL
SNAKY
SNAFU - Like Sherlock Holmes said: when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth
Same here. I wonder what Josh Wardle thinks of it? And of LOCUS? IIRC he created the game in part for his girlfriend and used commonly used words. My words not his. As much as it’s one of my favorite words, locus ain’t a common word.
Oh well, so be it. He did well with the sale and now it’s NYT’s to do with as they please.
With today being Easter, the Wordle should have been
RISEN
Yeah… my disapproval is completely irrational !
I’d happily accept RADAR, SONAR, SCUBA etc.
Wordle 659 4/6*
IRATE
CHAMP
FLAKY
SNAFU
Count me as another who was surprised to not get the Judgment of the Shaking Letters on this one.
I put it in the same category as fubar. As in, shouldn’t be on the answer list. I agree it was in popular usage 60 years ago, but unlike sonar, radar and scuba, it then fell out of common usage decades ago.