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

Wordle 663 3/6

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PLANT
CARET
CARAT

Caret is my standard second word when plant returns a green T and yellow A.

Wordle 663 4/6

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SLART
TAROT => Don’t ask me how I saw
CARET => before
CARAT => but I did, dammit! :stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes:

I don’t feel so bad about my second guess now.

Wordle 663 4/6

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CRANE
SPOIL
CHART - dumb-ass!
CARAT

Not quick, but a fairly straightforward 3.

Wordle 663 3/6*

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IRATE
ACTOR
CARAT

Wordle 663 4/6

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AROSE
RAINY
LARCH
CARAT

Another unremarkable par. I thought this word might give people more trouble that it seems to have.
Incidentally, @psychobunny, CARET isn’t a misspelling; it’s this: ^

Wordle 663 5/6* 4/13/2023

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BORAX → Hey, good start! I hope. Two Rs, perhaps?
RURAL → Nope. If A’s the only vowel, it might be…
STRAP → Nope, but the T is a nice get. Start or end? I thought long here about several possibilities, and one I typed in was…
THRAW → And what the heck is THRAW? Anyway. Needed to go to the bathroom here, which cleared my mind to the point that I could get…
CARAT

I blame Sacha Baron Cohen for not my not getting this in 4 - the only thing I could see with an ending in T was BORAT, and I knew it wasn’t that for two reasons…

Wordle 663 4/6

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STERN
DRIFT
JURAT
CARAT

Once I knew this ended in T, I wanted to try words ending AT (and then would have tried OT and UT words if those vowels hadn’t been eliminated). I looked at a list of words ending in AT and found JURAT, which is the portion of an affidavit in which the 'when, where and before whom was this signed’ information is found.

So that was interesting.

Wordle 663 4/6

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PATIO
TACKY
CASTE
CARAT

I almost always check the R early (first two words), but dang it if I didn’t today. After Caste, I had eliminated all the words I had listed and didn’t have Carat on my radar at all…took me a bit to see it.

Same person I was talking about a couple days ago claiming all the “got it in one” Wordles just posted today that she got Quordle in 1,2,3,4. The words were in the order she claimed to get them:


DELVE
PIXEL
MINOR
CLOAK

StG

Wordle 663 3/6*

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ARISE
CORAL
CARAT

I started with the same word yesterday amd had the same 2 yellows. I chased them all over the board yesterday until finally getting it in 5. And WordleBot told me about my 2nd guess yesterday that CORAL would have been more efficient, so I tried it today, and it worked!

Wordle 664 4/6

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RATIO
TIPSY
TWICE
THIEF

Wordle 664 3/6*

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ALERT
THOSE
THIEF

Second guess to try the TH I always gravitate towards when I have an unplaced T, the O as another vowel, and the S—turns out it gave me all the info I needed.

Scoredle tells me it would’ve guessed ‘TETES’ second, and I really can’t figure out what that would’ve accomplished. What’s the strategy behind trying out repeat letters that early?

Well that’s some luck :rofl: You should tell her to buy a lottery ticket.

Wordle 664 3/6*

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VIOLA
INEPT
THIEF

Wordle 664 3/6

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SLART
NICHE
THIEF

My second word apparently narrowed things down to just one possible solution, I just had to find out what it was. Which reminded me of this:

I didn’t hear him enter, but my nostrils flared at the smell of his perfume… Pyramid Patchouli. There was only one joker in L.A. sensitive enough to wear that scent and I had to find out who he was.

-Firesign Theatre, “The Further Adventures of Nick Danger, Third Eye”

Wordle 664 4/6*

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

In the UK, it’s a small fish.

Wordle 664 4/6

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NOISE
WEIRD
CHIEF
THIEF

Wordle 664 5/6

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PLANT
STORE
JETTY
TWEED
THIEF

Took a gamble on jetty – Wordle hates Js – then bumbled by not seeing if tweed had already been an answer. It had. Ignoring vowels cost me on this one.

Wordle 664 3/6

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HEART
THEME
THIEF