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

Wordle 832 3/6

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AUDIT
ALBUM
AZURE

It was a good day to have a U in my opener!
Like SunUp said, the Z seemed risky, but I couldn’t see anything else. Turns out there wasn’t anything else.

A good day for 3s!

Wordle 832 3/6*

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IRATE
CARVE
AZURE

For me, the key today was finding the ‘E’ in last position. Once I had tested ‘A’ and ‘R’ in the 2 positions, it seemed the most likely answer had to begin with the ‘A’. That left ADORE, AFORE and AZURE. I knew ADORE had already been used and AFORE seemed unlikely… to AZURE was worth the try. Cool!

Wordle 832 5/6*

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SINCE
LATHE
BRAKE
ADORE
AZURE

Wordle 832 3/6

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STORE
ALURE
AZURE

Well that was a lucky 2nd word…albeit misspelled (I was thinking Allure - lol, and realized my mistake after I entered it in). I looked it up afterwards, and it’s an archaic word apparently, so I’m glad it was allowed. :slight_smile:

Wordle 832 4/6*

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TRAIN
CLEAR
ADORE
AZURE

SAT SEPT 30th

Wordle 833 5/6*

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ALONE
TRASH
DAMPY
DAFFY
DADDY

Wordle 833 4/6

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RATIO
LADEN
CADDY
DADDY

Happy with a four on this one.

Wordle 833 4/6

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SALET
ROUND
CHINO
DADDYwho’s yours?

Wordle 833 6/6*

\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[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \\ &\bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt M} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \\ &\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 N} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt Y} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt G} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt Y} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt C} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt Y} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt Y} \\ \end{aligned}

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Wordle 833 5/6

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PLANT
RACES
BAGGY
DAFFY
DADDY

One of these days it will be baggy and I will get my 3. In the meantime, this is now two 5s in a row. *sobs*

Wordle 833 4/6

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RAISE
BADLY
CADDY
DADDY

Wordle 833 5/6* 9/30/2023

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AZURE → Seems I’m starting a little slow. No luck with the Z, darn it. Three vowels gone, so only need to try one here
TAILS → At least I placed the A. Need to try O and N, and… then I’m sifting through lower-frequency consonants.
CAPON → And came up completely empty. Getting nervous here. Try Y or a second A? I think the former, though it will also mean a double letter try
BADDY → Turns out I needed to try a triple letter.
DADDY

I watched a lot of Mitchell and Webb on Youtube yesterday, hence the fourth guess.

Tough one today.

Wordle 833 5/6

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CRANE
SPOUT
DAILY
DAFFY
DADDY

Wordle 833 5/6

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HEART
CLOAK
DAISY
DAFFY
DADDY

At least I’ve got a lot of company in the daffy club.

Wordle 833 5/6*

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SNAIL
CREAM
HAPPY
BAWDY
DADDY

No fair with the triple D! At least I’m not DAFFY! :upside_down_face:

Wordle 833 6/6

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ACUTE
LORAN
SHAKY
BAWDY
PADDY
DADDY

Ugh. I had to resort to checking the used word list. Fortunately, JAZZY was off the table; otherwise I would have had to go to a sleuth word at four, and probably headed for a fail. So at least there’s that.

Ugh is right. I had a seriously hard time with this one. The correct word took forever to occur to me.

Wordle 833 5/6*

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IRATE
CLOAK
SANDY
BAWDY
DADDY

WordleBot proclaimed my fourth try not its “favorite,” but screw you, WordleBot. If you weren’t so intent on using trick words, it would have been a perfectly acceptable try.

Wordle 833 5/6

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SLANT
CHORE
DUMPY
DAFFY
DADDY

Looks like I had plenty of company in that penultimate guess.

Wordle 833 5/6

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STAIN
CHORE
DUMPY
DAFFY
DADDY

Dumpy to the rescue! And looks like I’ve joined the Daffy > Daddy club.