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

[pjd]

Wordle 853 4/6*

\begin{aligned} &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \bbox[silver,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[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \\ &\bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \\ &\bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt C} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt N} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt C} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt C} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \\ \end{aligned}

[chiliwillybing]

Wordle 853 3/6

RAISE
COURT
OCCUR

[BobLibDem]

Wordle 853 5/6

HEART
SPOIL
GROOM
ROUND
OCCUR

[Rebo]

Wordle 853 3/6*

COUNT
FOCUS
OCCUR

I got lucky with my first word. I’ll take the birdie!

[Chefguy]

Wordle 853 4/6

CRANE
PORCH
SCOUR
OCCUR

[SunUp]

Wordle 853 6/6* 10/20/2023

SPLAT → Hmm, not what I expected. Need to try two vowels here, and fill in some comcons
RHINO → Not a bad second guess. Still have E & U to check. Where should that O go?
PROVE → OK, try the U. And whatever consonants come to mind
GOURD → Got the U, at least. Still need to place letters. Where does that O go? Let’s try fourth. And two possibilities for the R
FUROR → Finally placed a letter, and the process of elimination places the other two known. Don’t see why it didn’t occur to me earlier
OCCUR

Every so often, Wordle is exasperatingly fun, like today.

[Aspenglow]

Getting back into my 3 thing!

Wordle 853 3/6*

IRATE
FLOUR
OCCUR

I was lucky with my second try, as it eliminated all but the correct word for an answer. Fortunately, that occurred to me rather quickly today.

[wguy123]

@Aspenglow

I was lucky with my second try, as it eliminated all but the correct word for an answer.

I was even luckier since my initial word eliminated all but the solution. It took me several minutes to figure it out.
Wordle 853 2/6*

ORATE
OCCUR

[RTFirefly]

@wguy123

I was even luckier since my initial word eliminated all but the solution.

The really lucky parts were (1) that your starting word did that with just one green and one yellow, and (2) that you realized that you had things narrowed down that much.

In that situation, I’d have probably fished for more letters on 2, wasting a guess and only realizing it afterwards.

[wguy123]

@RTFirefly

In that situation, I’d have probably fished for more letters on 2, wasting a guess and only realizing it afterwards.

I was playing on hard mode so I was stuck finding any word that had those two letters with one of them in the first spot. My luck was that was the only word available. No fishing available for me.

[RTFirefly]

@wguy123

I was playing on hard mode so I was stuck finding any word that had those two letters with one of them in the first spot. My luck was that was the only word available. No fishing available for me.

Ah, I overlooked the hard mode asterisk! Yeah, no fishing possible. Anyway, it was still lucky in the first way. That certainly hasn’t happened to me, where one green and one yellow (and three blacks, they help too) eliminated all but one word. Maybe it’s happened to others, but this is the first time I’ve seen it. Impressive!

[Aspenglow]

@wguy123

I was even luckier since my initial word eliminated all but the solution.

Definitely worked out well! I know I should change, too, but dammit, IRATE, I just can’t quit you!

[wguy123]

I want to see my 1 guess correct tally tick up to 2!

[SeaSun]

Wordle 853 3/6

SLATE
CHOIR
OCCUR

[gkster]

Wordle 853 3/6*

STALE
MINOR
OCCUR
WordleBot said that the 2nd guess meant that there was only one solution left, but it took me a while to figure it out.

[Wheelz]

Wordle 853 5/6

PATIO
ROUSE
HUMOR
FLOUR
OCCUR

One of those days. I got the right word only by using up all the wrong ones.

[EllisDee]

Saturday, October 21st

Wordle 854 3/6

PLANT
SCORE
SMIRK

I saw shirk, and then smirk right after. Fortunately shirk has already been an answer. I’ve been getting away with blanking on my opener for a few days now.

[SuntanLotion]

[spoiler]Wordle 854 3/6

[/spoiler]

SHADE
SNORT
SMIRK

[psychobunny]

Wordle 854 5/6

RATIO
PRIDE
SWIRL
SHIRK
SMIRK

[Newtosite]

Wordle 854 3/6

Slant
Spore
Smirk