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

Back to a 3! Heee!!

Wordle 820 3/6*

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IRATE
CLIMB
MUSIC

Second word narrowed the field to 3 words. I found MIMIC and MUSIC. No idea what the third word was. I didn’t look too hard.

Wordle 820 3/6

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PIOUS
SUITE
MUSIC

A super quick birdie. I might have opted for MUSIC at two had I taken a little more time to ponder. But SUITE wasn’t necessarily a bad guess, just not the right one, so I don’t feel too bad about it.

Wordle 820 3/6

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STORE
CHAIN
MUSIC

Wordle 820 3/6*

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LEAST
NOISY
MUSIC

I really don’t understand the NYT stats and ratings.

Copied and pasted from WordleBot page:

Your Ratings for Wordle No. 820
Based on my analysis of 78,534 hard mode Wordles.
SKILL: YOU 88 Out of 99, NYT AVG. 89
LUCK: YOU 55 Out of 99, NYT AVG. 59
STEPS: YOU 3 NYT AVG. 3.5

So if I got the solution in 3 steps and the NYT average was 3.5, why are my skills and luck ratings lower than the NYT average? It doesn’t make sense to me. As I’ve said before, I should stop caring what WordleBot says!

Wordle 821 5/6

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RATIO
SHARE
CRAMP
DRAWN
FRANK

Wordle 821 4/6*

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ALONE
THANK
SPANK
FRANK

Uh, sure.

[spoiler]Wordle 821 4/6

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:green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square:[/spoiler]

Wordle 821 4/6

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SLANT
PRANK
DRANK
FRANK

Snap !
I win !!

Wordle 821 4/6*

\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[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 A} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt P} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt H} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt C} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt K} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt F} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt N} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt K} \\ \end{aligned}

Wordle 821 6/6

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Too many first letter options!
HEART
BRAIN
DRANK
PRANK
CRANK
FRANK

Wordle 821 3/6

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PLANT
BRAND
FRANK

A quality 3 here. Started immediately guessing for the win after 1, with my mind immediately going to “trust the B!” But then I remembered G before B, but grand has already been an answer. And then after 2 I had already eliminated P and D, leaving frank as the (I think) only answer.

EDIT: Forgot to mention that crank has already been an answer as well.

Wordle 821 3/6

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RAISE
BOARD
FRANK

Wordle 821 4/6

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SALET
ROUND
PRANK
FRANK

Wordle 821 4/6*

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DITCH
RANGE
URBAN
FRANK

Wordle 821 4/6

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CAUSE
TRAIN
PRANK
FRANK

A double-dose of luck helped me save par today. I missed seeing the -ND words (BRAND and GRAND), so I was lucky the K came up. Then I won the coin flip between FRANK and DRANK. I’ll take it!

Wordle 821 4/6

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SLATE
PRAWN
CRANK - Almost went with ‘frank’ here; also lucky not to fall into the “ND” ending
FRANK

See, I don’t always check already-used words. That cost me today. Hmmppfff.

Wordle 821 5/6*

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IRATE
PRANK
CRANK
DRANK
FRANK

Had I checked, I’d have learned CRANK was already used and I would have had a 4. That’ll learn me!

Oh Aspen You used my list but in the right order to win.
Wordle 821 X/6

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Man, that sucks! Better luck tomorrow!

Wordle 821 4/6* 9/18/2023

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MUSIC → Second day in a row I’ve whiffed on the opener. I swear sometimes this game is out to get me
TEARY → O is still out there, but that middle A looks like it could be all the vowels we have. I kept trying to get both L and N in there, but gave up and went with
GRAND → About all that goes after that N is a K, which gives two options, PRANK and
FRANK

Glad I grew up reading the Hardy Boys rather than The Compleat Practical Joker.