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

The Game Room
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Wordle 903 3/6

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PLANT
ROSET
SHIFT

I feel like there were many more possible answers, but after a solid three minutes of not seeing anything I finally saw shift and went with it. (And now typing this I also see swift.)

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Wordle 903 4/6

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RATIO
STILE
SMITH
SHIFT

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Wordle 903 4/6

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STERN
ALOUD
CHIMP
SHIFT

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Wordle 903 2/6

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Slant
Shift
I literally made a list of several possibilities (sweet, spurt, shift, swept, scout, skirt) and picked one of them at random. I was prepared to try them all.

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Wordle 903 3/6*

\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[lime,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[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt H} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt F} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \\ \end{aligned}

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Wordle 903 3/6

:green_square::white_large_square::white_large_square::white_large_square::green_square: 39
:white_large_square::green_square::white_large_square::white_large_square::white_large_square: 2
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SLANT
CHORE
SHIFT

That’s one of the things Scoredle is good for - seeing afterwards what you might have overlooked.

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Wordle 903 3/6

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RAISE
SWIFT
SHIFT

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Wordle 903 3/6

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HEART
SIGHT
SHIFT

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Wordle 903 5/6* 12/9/2023

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SHARP → Not sure if I should be happy or sad with that. It eliminates a lot, but looks like a trap in the making.
SHUNT → Yeah, it’s a trap - but I think not a fatal one. EE, OO, IF can go in there, not sure what else. Time to start trying what I see
SHEET → Nope
SHOOT → Not that either. Hope I thought of them all
SHIFT

In retrospect, SHEOL on the second guess would have been a good way to KO two vowels, which could have helped to save par. Scoredle said I had just 73 words left after my first guess, which I think is my largest cut-down to date.

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Wordle 903 3/6

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SLATE
SPORT
SHIFT

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Wordle 903 3/6

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ASIDE
SHIRT
SHIFT

A fortunate second word for the birdie.

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Wordle 903 4/6*

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PLANT
TRYST
SWIFT
SHIFT

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Wordle 903 3/6*

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IRATE
POSIT
SHIFT

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Wordle 903 4/6*

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ARISE
TOILS
STIFF
SHIFT

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Sunday, December 10th

Wordle 904 3/6

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PLANT
SNARE
CHAIN

Saw chain almost immediately and just went for it. I feel like there were many, many other possible answers.

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There sure were.

[spoiler]Wordle 904 5/6

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:green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square:[/spoiler]

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Wordle 904 4/6

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STERN
ALOUD
CHIMP
CHAIN

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Wordle 904 3/6

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RATIO
PLAIN
CHAIN

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Wordle 904 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 S} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt M} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt P} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt C} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt H} \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 K} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt C} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt H} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt N} \\ \end{aligned}

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Wordle 904 3/6

:white_large_square::white_large_square::green_square::yellow_square::white_large_square: 31
:white_large_square::white_large_square::yellow_square::yellow_square::white_large_square: 7
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Summary

SLANT
BRINK
CHAIN

This was an interesting one. After my first word, there were the KNACK/KNAVE pair, there was CHAIN, there was the BRAIN/DRAIN/GRAIN/BRAWN/DRAWN/PRAWN complex, and of those words, only DRAIN had been a solution. (Also past solutions: AGAIN and YEARN, which I overlooked entirely.)

So I needed a sleuth word at 2 that would tell me which group I was in, and narrow down the big group. I hated to waste the N of BRINK, but it did everything I wanted it to do: the R and K eliminated (or would have confirmed) the two groups, and the B and I would have narrowed down the big group to probably one word, possibly two at most. And the color of the K would have distinguished between the two KN words. So it was a damned good sleuth word! And I was left with CHAIN as the solution.