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

Wordle 885 3/6

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FLAME
SHUNTokay I’ve got the A and the N, I’m going to try to get this in 3.
It could be these: BRAND crank drank GRAND prank meany PIANO… and I’m going to try piano.
PIANO

Gotcha!

Wordle 885 3/6*

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ALONE
ROANS
PIANO

Way to go, psycho!!

Wordle 885 4/6*

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

Wordle 885 3/6

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SLANT
PRANK
PIANO

Wow, we have some 2s already - congrats, Ellis and psychobunny!

Wordle 885 3/6

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Looks like everybody did well today
HEART
PLAID
PIANO

Wordle 885 3/6

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RAISE
ANTIC
PIANO

A nice rebound after yesterday’s six.

Wordle 885 3/6

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SLATE
PRANK - Really lucky guess
PIANO

Wordle 885 3/6* 11/21/2023

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CANDY → Nice start. I’ll go slow on the vowel hunt next guess, plus two comcons
STAIN → Bad luck on the consonants, good with that I though. Might be best to try it in 2nd, which would put the N 4th, so what would I have? Hmm, try
PIANO
LIANA
was the only non-bogus word that Scoredle suggested for my third guess, which seems to mean my second guess was really lucky.

Wordle 885 3/6*

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JAUNT
LIANA
PIANO

Happy to join the 3s today, and congrats to the 2s!!

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IRATE
PLAID
PIANO

WordleBot must be off its meds. My second try eliminated all but one word, yet it gave me a mere 87 for skill (below the NYT average of 89) and 84 for luck. Umm, whut? I thought about that pick!

Wordle 885 3/6

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Slant
Drank
Piano

Wordle 885 3/6

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OPIUM
PILOT
PIANO

A good day for many of us. A fortunate opener came up in the rotation, and I thought I had a two there for a moment.
But always happy with a three!

Wordle 885 3/6*

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SLATE
CHARM
PIANO

How symmetrical!

Wordle 885 3/6

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SLATE
CHOIR
PIANO

Wednesday, November 22nd

Wordle 886 3/6

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PLANT
POLES
PIXEL

I use X as placeholders, so after 2 I typed in PXXEL to see if anything jumped out at me. Needless to say, something jumped.

That is gorgeous. Love it.

Wordle 886 4/6

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RATIO
SLICE
LINEN
PIXEL

Some days you just want to ignore logic and go with your gut. That said, this went better than expected.

Wordle 886 4/6

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:white_large_square::white_large_square::white_large_square::white_large_square::yellow_square: 90
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SLANT
CHORE
GIMPY
PIXEL

In the past two weeks, we’ve had NINJA, GLAZE, QUEUE, and now PIXEL, hitting all of the least frequent four letters in Wordle solutions. Hopefully we won’t see any of them for a while! I’m happy to have escaped with 5,3,4,4, respectively.

Wordle 886 5/6*

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ALONE
SHELF
LITER
PILED
PIXEL