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

Wordle 831 4/6

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PLANT
SCARE
QUACK
COACH

Quack wasn’t my finest guess.

It wasn’t a wise quack. :grin:

Wordle 831 4/6

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CRANE
CLAMP
COAST
COACH

Wordle 831 3/6*

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FINAL
CHASE
COACH

Wordle 831 4/6* 9/28/2023

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SMILE → Clean miss. Comcons, and I think I can afford just one vowel this time out
NORTH → Not bad. What can go before the H? G? C? HOOCH would be evil, but slangy. Try COUGH or
POUCH → So not POACH or ROACH, must be
COACH

Scoredle says HOOCH was still a possibility. I would still consider it to be an evil Wordle word.

Wordle 831 3/6

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ABOUT
POLAR
COACH

Scordle says there were 55 possibilities left, but only 4 or 5 were real words. I knew doubling up on the C was risky, but I had a strong feeling and went with my gut. It worked!

< sigh > My heart just wasn’t in it today. And the result shows.

Wordle 831 4/6*

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IRATE
SCALP
KNACK
COACH

Tomorrow will be better!

Wordle 831 2/6*

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SCORE
COACH

A lucky 2!

[spoiler]Wordle 832 3/6

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SHARE
ADORE
AZURE

Wordle 832 3/6

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RATIO
SHARE
AZURE

Wordle 831 3/6

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SLATE
CHOIR
COACH

Wordle 832 3/6

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SALET
ROUND
AZURE

Wordle 832 5/6*

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ALONE
ASIDE
AWAKE
ARGUE
AZURE

I thought I had it easy.

I was wrong.

Wordle 832 3/6*

\begin{aligned} &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt V} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt Z} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \\ \end{aligned}

Wordle 832 4/6

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RAISE
CRATE
AGREE
AZURE

Wordle 832 5/6

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HEART
ACERB
AMORE
AFIRE
AZURE

Wordle 832 3/6

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SLANT
CHORE
AZURE

The hard part today was finding any word that would work. ADORE? Nope, O is out. AWARE? Not with that yellow. I went through every last consonant in the second slot, checking them against the available vowels. Finally got to Z at the end of the list. While trying the A in the second slot, I rejected PADRE and FAIRE, though if I hadn’t found AZURE, I’d have gone with PADRE out of desperation.

Wordle 832 5/6

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PLANT
RACES
FREAK
ZEBRA
AZURE

Thought I was so clever with zebra. This is one of those cases where checking the previous answers list hurt me. After 2 I immediately thought adore, which would have led to an almost guaranteed 4. But adore has already been an answer, so I started looking elsewhere. And just like that, the benefit of one of my 2s evaporates.

Wordle 832 5/6* 9/29/2023

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COACH → OK. Comcons, I’ll try 3, which leaves one slot for a vowel, I’d prefer an E, but an I gives us
TRIAL - (Almost went for TRAIN but saw I needed to move the A) Feels like a slow start. Something with S & N and an E perhaps, now I see SANER but decided on
MARES → N is still out there, and I really need to place the A, so
ARENA → Placed indeed, though at the cost of retrying the R - ugh. Is this end of SunUp? Two guesses left and U untried - Past time to change that. But the only word I can see to try it uses a Z! Seems risky, but
AZURE

Scoredle said my third guess was good (352 to 9 cutdown, almost 40 to 1 ratio), though it would have tried it second.

I’ll join the “ah crap” crowd.

Wordle 832 6/6

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CRANE
BARGE
AWARE
AFIRE
ADORE
AZURE