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

Wordle 899 4/6

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RATIO
SHONE
MOUND
YOUNG

Wordle 899 4/6

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STERN
ALOUD
CHIMP
YOUNG

Wordle 899 4/6*

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ALONE
JOINT
HORNY
YOUNG

…yup, I’m going on a watchlist.

Wordle 899 4/6

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SLANT
CHORE
BOUND
YOUNG

We’re being consistent here this morning. :slight_smile:

Wordle 899 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[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt V} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U} \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 Y} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt N} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt G} \\ \end{aligned}

indeed.

Wordle 899 4/6

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Hey I made a Christmas tree!
HEART
SPOIL
BOUND
YOUNG

Wordle 899 4/6

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RAISE
CLOUT
POUND
YOUNG

I’ll break the trend:

Wordle 899 5/6

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CRANE
SPOIL
MOUNT
WOUND
YOUNG

Wordle 899 4/6* 12/5/2023

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WORST → Not a bad start - picked up a vowel and eliminated three comcons. I wanted to try two more vowels here, ideally with N & L, and found a compromise word that had three letters I wanted
LOUPE → and N is still out there, so that can slot in after OU and…trap territory. Oh well, in we go…
HOUND → What more can go after the N? K, C don’t really work, but -OUNG goes well with
YOUNG

Back on the trend!

Wordle 899 4/6*

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SHIRT
PLEAD
BUXOM
YOUNG

This was hard! Two empty words to start. Sheesh!

I see I’m with the In Crowd today.

Wordle 899 4/6*

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IRATE
CLOUD
MOUSY
YOUNG

WordleBot didn’t think much of my efforts, and I just have to share what it said to me today: “Although MOUSY left only one possible solution, some of this was luck: If the solution had been FUNGO, there still would have been two words to choose from. But you’ve narrowed it down to one possible solution. You should solve the puzzle on your next turn.” Um. Wut? I didn’t even know FUNGO was a word! Most useless bot ever.

Wordle 899 4/6

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POISE
ROUND
FOUNT
YOUNG

I’ll go along with the crowd.
I was very surprised when the T didn’t hit. Still took ages to see the G at the end. A good brain workout.

Ha wow, that was a lucky guess!

Wordle 899 2/6

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PARTY
YOUNG

Wordle 899 3/6

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PLANT
DRONE
YOUNG

This was an unfun slog. I saw a flood of possible answers after 1: bring/brink/drink/drunk, grind, swine/swing/swung, whine/whiny, wring/wrung, and I’m sure there are many more but at that point I also saw wound, which opened up the entire _ound trap. My head was spinning so I slept on it. In the morning I was at a bit of a loss.

Normally I would guess scone at 2 because that uses my letters, but the only C words I could come up with were scone and crone, and there weren’t too many S’s either. Meanwhile, Ds were all over the place. Also a fair amount of Gs, so my first inclination was to check grind with my second guess. But that just didn’t have enough vowels for my liking so I kept looking until I saw drone.

After 2 I was stumped. I was pretty sure the D would come up yellow or green, but if not then at very least the R would come up green. When neither hit, it was an “uh oh” moment. Took several “I’ll come back to this later” sessions to finally see young – I was only thinking of Y as a vowel at the end – and the sun is now setting so the clock was starting to tick pretty loudly.

This one took entirely too much time out of my day.

Wordle 899 4/6*

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CRATE
SOLID
BOUGH
YOUNG

Sigh, at least it was a par. I see I’m in good company in the 4 club.

WED DEC 6th

Wordle 900 3/6*

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ALONE
BARON
WOMAN

Wordle 900 3/6

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PLANT
SANER
WOMAN

Nice and quick. A pleasant departure from yesterday. And a fun tetris-y board to boot.

Wordle 900 4/6

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RATIO
POACH
MODAL
WOMAN

Wordle 900 4/6*

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

Wordle 900 3/6

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STERN
BACON
WOMAN