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

Wordle 665 5/6

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SLART
PINCH
MUDGE
WAGON
AGONY

Thought for sure my fourth guess was the solution.

And what @Rebo said!

Wordle 665 4/6

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HEART
BANJO
ORGAN - I knew R wasn’t there, just fishing for letters
AGONY

Wordle 665 4/6* 4/15/2023

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THIEF → OK, second round…
SONAR → Three letters, but unplaced. Swap the vowels and try and find a word to put the N first or last?
CAPON → Ooh, bad guess. This is starting to feel painful… oh, wait…
AGONY

And if I had been sorting between several different possibilities, I might have seen AMONG

Worked hard enough for this one. I earned this 3!

Wordle 665 3/6*

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IRATE
LAUGH
AGONY

WordleBot advises there were 5 words to pick from after my second try: AMONG, AGONY, GONAD, BOGAN and DOGMA. I found GONAD but didn’t think it was a likely word. I found BOGAN but didn’t realize it was a word at all. My late NZ/Aussie husband never used it. I didn’t find AMONG or DOGMA before AGONY, so AGONY it was. Bit of luck, that.

Wordle 665 5/6

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HOUSE
LABOR
PIANO
AMONG
AGONY

Yep, a very apt word for today. A total slog every step of the way.

Wordle 665 3/6

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PASTY
WEARY
AGONY

Got lucky on this one…had a good number of words to choose from. I’m glad it wasn’t a _EA_Y word!

Yesterday:
Wordle 664 3/6

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STARE
TEMPO
THIEF

Wordle 665 3/6

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OUTER
VIOLA
AGONY

On both days, lucky first and second guesses sped this up.

Wordle 665 3/6*

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AROSE
AMONG
AGONY
Another art house film title

Wordle 666 4/6*

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PIOUS
CREAM
BLEND
DWELT

Wordle 666 5/6*

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RATES
THIEF
MONTE
DEBUT
DWELT

Ugh, that was a hell of a slog today…

Wordle 666 5/6

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RATIO
UPSET
CLEFT
KNELT
DWELT

This took awhile after guess four. Maybe should have gone with common letters sooner.

Wordle 666 4/6*

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Wordle 666 4/6*

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ALONE
DEVIL
DUELS
DWELT

When I saw the E and the L, I thought, heh, I bet they’re getting cute for 666. When that didn’t pan out, I thought, I have no idea what’s going on.

Wordle 666 3/6

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IDEAL
BLEND
DWELT

Wordle 666 4/6

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PLANT
RELIT
SWELT
DWELT

A brutal slog. After 2 I looked and looked until I finally saw smelt, but that’s been an answer. So I kept looking and looking, and finally saw exult. But that’s also been an answer. Unfortunately I started this in the morning so I couldn’t sleep on it, but I put it aside and came back and then saw evolt and swelt, neither of which I liked. I don’t even know if evolt is a word; figured maybe it was a type of electric car, and email was an answer. Swelt isn’t usually used as a word on its own but Wordle loves those kind of answers so figured what the hell. Still took a minute to see the answer after swelt despite four greens.

Wordle 666 5/6

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HEART
SLEET
SMELT
KNELT
DWELT Great, now we’re dipping into archiac KJV Bible lingo

Wordle 666 4/6

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SNAIL — I’m now trying different starters: SNAIL OTHER PUDGY and CLIMB (the only repeated letters are I and L))
OTHER
PUDGY — after this result, dwelt is the only remaining possibility
DWELT

DWELT? Really? This is not a common word. Not to me it isn’t.

@BobLibDem wrote, “Great, now we’re dipping into archiac KJV Bible lingo”.

I agreeth with thee, sir.

@chiliwillybing — nicely played with your 3!

@The_Other_Waldo_Pepper wrote, “ I have no idea what’s going on.

Heh. You ain’t the only one.

“Uncross those beautiful stems of yours, baby, here’s the case I call [Wordle] 666.” - Nick Danger

Wordle 666 4/6

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SLART
LINED
VELDT
DWELT

Summary

After an inspired choice for my second word, I had things narrowed down pretty well, I thought. The only problem was, I could identify all the possibilities, and they were all words that I would have regarded as unlikely solutions. VELDT, DWELT, and even DELFT, which my ancient dead-trees dictionary has in lower case when referring to the pottery from the town of Delft, but I figured that was even less likely than the other two.

So for my third guess, I had to decide which was the least unlikely of VELDT (the grasslands of South Africa) or DWELT (the past tense of ‘to dwell’ which one almost never encounters anymore).

I lost that coin toss, but put me in with all the others who are griping about this solution. ‘Dwelt’ wasn’t even in common usage fifty years ago, let alone now.

Thanks!
But the only reason I got a quick solve was because it was the only word left to play. :laughing:

Fugly mess.

Wordle 666 5/6

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CRANE
SPOIL
QUELL - Wordlebot says there is only one word left; LIAR!
WHELM
DWELT