"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 β†’ Not a bad start, but a lot of comcons sitll out there. I’ll still try two vowels, so
STONE β†’ Unplaced T, and still no vowels. L still out there, but seems not to be present. SHUNT is out, so let’s try
SHIRT β†’ 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 β€˜E’ as a last letter
SPOIL - Vowel eliminator, and lucky with the β€˜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.