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

The Game Room
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Wordle 896 5/6

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HEART
MERRY
WEIRD
LEERS
GENRE

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Still on a 3 roll. . .and I don’t check word lists at all.

Wordle 896 3/6

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CRANE
SNORE
GENRE

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Wordle 896 3/6*

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DANCE
BINGE
GENRE

This took me quite a while! XGNUE, GXNOE, GXNSE… I was all over the place!

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Wordle 896 4/6* 12/2/2023

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TAKEN → Good start. Having to place the E somewhere else takes away some of my good second guesses, though, so I tried
NURSE → which placed the E and gave me an R to boot, so I moved the R & N around and tried
PRONE → and got stuck here for a while. R?N?E was what I puzzled over for a long time, since I couldn’t see anything with ?N?RE, and RN???E and ??NRE certainly weren’t it. Until I saw
GENRE

Oddly enough, I could have switched the vowels used on my second and third guesses and both would have been valid words, and put me into the exact same ending position.

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Wordle 896 4/6*

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CRANE
SNORE
NITRE
GENRE

??NRE looked so obviously wrong and I was apparently so tired that I ended up using a British spelling for my third guess. Wordlebot’s response: “There was only one possible solution left — and this wasn’t it.” (I’ll blame it on the root canal about 36 hours prior, although I’ve had no pain since the procedure.)

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Wordle 896 4/6

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ALIEN
STONE
NERVE
GENRE

There were some U words available at three, but I guessed right on a second E, and managed to narrow it down to just one word.
Not a bad par; I’ll take it!

As for spoilering our grids, I’d say it’s not necessary; most of us don’t come to the thread until after we solve anyway.

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Forgot to post to this thread yesterday, but it was a 3. I kept trying to force WAKEN into the third try, but I’d already discovered the ‘T’ in IRATE, so Wordle kept shaking letters at me and wouldn’t accept it. Derp. As soon as my compromised brain realized the mistake, TAKEN jumped right out. It should be mentioned I am recovering from my COVID jab and those are always hard on me.

So today!

Another 3.

Wordle 896 3/6*

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IRATE
CHORE
GENRE

It took me forever to figure out the ‘NRE’ answer. Not my favorite.

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Wordle 896 4/6*

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ALONE
SNIPE
NUDGE
GENRE

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Wordle 896 4/6*

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SLATE
PRONE
NERVE
GENRE
A par. It took me a while too. On the other hand, WordleBot rated me at 98 for skill, even though I didn’t feel skillful

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Sunday, December 3rd

Wordle 897 3/6

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PLANT
WRAPT
ADAPT

Tried for a 2 but it wasn’t my finest effort.

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Wordle 897 4/6

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RATIO
STALE
CHANT
ADAPT

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Wordle 897 3/6*

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Wordle 897 3/6

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SLANT
CHORE
ADAPT

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Wordle 897 4/6*

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ALONE
ASTIR
AMAUT
ADAPT

No, I didn’t know what AMAUT was.

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I should probably buy a lottery ticket today:

Wordle 897 2/6

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ADIEU
ADAPT

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Wordle 897 3/6

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RAISE
PLANT
ADAPT

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Wordle 897 4/6*

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PRICE
SLOOP
NYMPH
ADAPT

I wish I had tried to use the A earlier, instead of looking for consonants. I’ll take the par, though!

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Wordle 897 3/6

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STERN
ALOUD
ADAPT

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Hoped to make it a 3-sweep, but alas. . .

Wordle 897 4/6

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SLATE
CHART
ABAFT
ADAPT

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Wordle 897 4/6* 12/3/2023

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GENRE → Clean miss. At least it KOed E and two comcons. Time for a good second guess, but I can’t get R, S & L along with two vowels, so I’ll step down to H for
HOIST → For a second I thought I was going to whiff again. Two vowels left, and I can combine them with the L to guess
FAULT → I think there’s gotta be two As in there. Played around with what consonants are left and ended up with
ADAPT

After my second guess, per Scoredle there were maybe five non-bogus words left (plus ZAKAT and FLUYT, two loanwords that would be killers if they were Wordle solutions).