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

Stupid Wordle day.

Wordle 878 5/6*

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IRATE
SHOAL
SANDY
SAVVY
SASSY

What was most irritating is that I saw SASSY immediately and had to look for SAVVY. Never even thought of SAGGY. Of course I clevered myself into a 5 instead of a 4. Bah!

Wordle 878 3/6*

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LEAST
AMISS
SASSY
Usually, I don’t think of double or triple letters, but for a change this one fell into place easily

Wordle 878 4/6

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SLATE
CHOIR
GASPY
SASSY

Gaspy to the rescue! Sleuthed that trap word right out of hiding. I wasn’t sure if it’d be accepted, but sure glad it was.

Wordle 879 4/6

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RATIO
STILE
SIXTY
SIGHT

Wordle 879 3/6

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PLANT
ROSET
SIGHT

Textbook application of this strategy, which was specifically designed with the longer traps in mind. In this case, light, night, right, sight and eight were all short-circuited.

Wordle 879 3/6*

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ALONE
SHIRT
SIGHT

Wordle 879 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[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 Q} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt W} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt H} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} <--silly \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt G} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt H} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \\ \end{aligned}

Wordle 879 6/6

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OVINE
TRAIL
PITCH
MIGHT
FIGHT
SIGHT

Bah. Shoulda had more coffee before starting. I figured WIGHT was unlikely, but I totally missed SIGHT until the end, or else I would probably have abandoned hard mode. A poor performance.

Wordle 879 3/6

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SLANT
CHORE
SIGHT

Love that narrowing it down to one possibility after my second word.

Wordle 879 5/6

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HEART
LIGHT
MIGHT
FIGHT
SIGHT

Wordle 879 3/6

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RAISE
STOIC
SIGHT

Wordle 879 4/6

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FLAME
SHUNT
BRICK
SIGHT

Wordle 879 4/6*

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WORST
ASSET
SHUNT
SIGHT

Not great, but much better than yesterday’s 6!

Wordle 879 4/6* 11/15/2023

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SASSY → Not a bad start, but a lot of comcons sitll out there. I’ll still try two vowels, so
STONE → Unplaced T, and still no vowels. L still out there, but seems not to be present. SHUNT is out, so let’s try
SHIRT → Which points directly to
SIGHT

Glad to get the trap out of the way early on. (There are ten words with those last four letters. Ten!)

Wordle 879 3/6

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CRANE - Uh-oh, but eliminates ‘E’ as a last letter
SPOIL - Vowel eliminator, and lucky with the ‘S’
SIGHT

Wordle 879 4/6*

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TREAD
STOIC
SPILT
SIGHT

I keep forgetting to post after I play on busy days.

Just another Wordle day with a 3. Could’ve gone much worse.

Wordle 879 3/6*

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IRATE
GLINT
SIGHT

Total luck on the answer today. There were several others, including WIGHT, MIGHT and FIGHT. I just picked the one I liked the best and WordleBot acted like I was some sort of prodigy. Stupid bot.

Wordle 879 3/6

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CHOIR
SLATE
SIGHT

THU NOV 16th

Wordle 880 4/6*

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ALONE
SHIRT
TRYST
TRUST

Wordle 880 4/6

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PLANT
ROSET
SHIRT
TRUST

Felt good about shirt. Then lucked out that crust had already been an answer, otherwise this would’ve been a 5.