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

The Game Room
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Wordle 828 4/6*

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ALONE
SOUTH
ROMPY
ROCKY

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Wordle 828 3/6*

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STEAL
CHOIR
ROCKY

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[spoiler]Wordle 829 4/6

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CRATE
LABEL
LOWLY
LOYAL

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Wordle 829 3/6

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RATIO
CLOAK
LOYAL

I figured at least I’d place the L.

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Wordle 829 4/6*

\begin{aligned} &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[yellow,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 C} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt K} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt N} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt Y} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \\ \end{aligned}

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Wordle 829 5/6*

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ALONE
COALS
POLAR
TOTAL
LOYAL

Ugh.

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Wordle 829 4/6

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SALET
ROUND — leaving voila vocal loyal local koala focal
VOCAL
LOYAL

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Wordle 829 4/6

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PLANT
LASER
LOCAL
LOYAL

Denied! After 2 the first thing I saw was ligma, but figured that couldn’t be it. Was so happy when I found local, and then so dejected when that wasn’t it.

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Wordle 829 3/6

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HEART
CLOAK suprised that a few of this guessed this word
LOYAL

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Wordle 829 4/6

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RAISE
ABOUT
VOCAL
LOYAL

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Wordle 829 4/6

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CRANE
SPOUT
MODAL - C’mon, I get points for this one.
LOYAL

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Wordle 829 3/6* 9/26/2023

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ROCKY → I kinda like this start. Looks like Y may be used as a consonant here. If it goes first, and I try another vowel and some comcons, I can make a My Cousin Vinny reference
YOUTH → ROYAL and BOYAR are out, but the latter leads to one with a repeat. A little early, but I’ll give it a try
LOYAL

The early Y was key. Scoredle gives 28 possibilities for my third guess, but most of them were high in bogosity (POLYP followed by GOYIM and WOMYN were about the closest to words I’ve ever seen used, and I think the first of those had been used before).

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Wordle 829 4/6

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OPIUM
TONAL
ROYAL
LOYAL

After TONAL, I only saw ROYAL, LOYAL, and CORAL. I figured CORAL was unlikely since we just had CAROL, and anyway, ROYAL would give me the answer in four no matter what.
But I somehow missed trying a C in the middle. Had the answer been FOCAL, LOCAL, or VOCAL, I’d have been screwed. A sleuth word at three was the proper move, but I got lucky. Disaster averted.

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Another 3. :slight_smile: I’m learning to go with my gut, at last.

Wordle 829 3/6*

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IRATE
SANDY (This amused me because yesterday was ROCKY.)
LOYAL

I don’t know why I didn’t think to go with CLOAK for my second try. It’s one of my favorites when all I’ve uncovered with my opening word is an ‘A’ but it’s not in the 3rd position. Maybe lucky today.

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Wordle 829 3/6

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SLANT
CHORE
LOYAL

A lucky 3, but I’ll take it! :smiley: The only other possible solution I thought of was MODAL which I thought wasn’t too likely. But I completely missed POLKA, AGLOW, and OFFAL, and the good luck part was that they’d all been solutions already.

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Wordle 829 5/6*

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BINGE
WATCH
FRAUD
POLKA
LOYAL

I was getting worried!

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Wordle 829 4/6

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SLATE
CHOIR
ZONAL
LOYAL

Took a chance on the low-use Z, but nope…didn’t get lucky there. At least the word knocked out all but two words (Modal and Loyal). Seemed Loyal was the more likely of the two, and yep.

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Wordle 829 3/6*

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STEAL
MORAL
LOYAL

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Wordle 830 4/6

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RATIO
SHINE
SLICE
SMILE

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Wordle 830 3/6*

\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[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt M} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt M} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \\ \end{aligned}