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

Wordle 813 4/6*

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READY
WHOLE
SPOKE
QUOTE

Wordle 813 3/6

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UNITE
SCARF
QUOTE

Thought I might have a chance at a two, but I very quickly had a long list of possible words, with very little overlap of letters, so a sleuth word was prudent. I’ve never been happier to see all blanks!

Again, very surprised with this result.

Wordle 813 2/6*

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IRATE
QUOTE

Just letter-testing and saw a quick way to test both U and O in the same word. Surprise!

Same here!
Wordle 813 4/6*

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STEAL
TRIPE
EMOTE
QUOTE

Wordle 813 4/6

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STARE
TITHE
EMOTE
QUOTE



Me three…along with @psychobunny, I was sure that was the answer, or at least hoped it was.

Wordle 814 4/6

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RATIO
SHORE
LONER
OLDER

Wordle 814 4/6*

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IMBUE
WEARY
CREEP
OLDER

Wordle 814 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[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \\ &\bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt V} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \\ \end{aligned}

Don’t know why i didn’t chose 4th guess before 3rd :roll_eyes:

Wordle 814 4/6*

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ALONE
ELBOW
FLEXO
OLDER

My time spent watching Futurama pays off!

Wordle 814 4/6

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HEART
BOXER
ORDER
OLDER

Wordle 814 3/6

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RAISE
OUTER
OLDER

Wordle 814 3/6

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SALET
ROUND
OLDER

Wordle 814 4/6

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POISE - I usually start with ‘slate’, but it seemed overused of late
OVERT
ORDER
OLDER

Wordle 814 3/6* 9/11/2023

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QUOTE → Starting off with two vowels - not bad! Fill in around them with comcons
LONER → Got a shot at a 3 here. O?LER or OL?ER, I see OILER or OLDER, try the latter
OLDER

OWLER was another possibility, Scoredle reminds me, which means my pick plus a bit of bad luck could have meant a 5.

Wordle 814 4/6*

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TOPIC
FLOOD
OLDEN
OLDER

I thought Wordle didn’t words like this. Hence, OLDEN.

Looks like I’m the goat today with a 5! Dagnabit.

Wordle 814 5/6*

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IRATE
SUPER
COVER
OWNER
OLDER

Still could’ve been much worse. There were more trap words to choose from. I’ll just leave this at < whew >.

Wordle 814 4/6

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ASIDE
DEPOT
BRAWL
OLDER

After two, I got stuck on wanting an -ED ending and wasn’t even thinking of -ER. Luckily, R was one of the consonants I wanted to try anyway, and I ended up with all five letters for a tap-in par. Not bad.

Wordle 814 4/6

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STORE
COVER
ORDER
OLDER

Wordle 814 3/6*

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STALE
LINER
OLDER

Lucky 2nd guess saved me from some of the traps

Wordle 815 3/6

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RATIO
SHINE
WHISK