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

The Game Room
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Wordle 910 6/6*

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SCALD
LOWER
MELON
EXTOL <— DUMB DUMB DUMB!
GLOVE
GLOBE

As Wordle said, “Phew!”

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Wordle 910 5/6* 12/16/2023

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TOPIC → Kinda slow start. Try three comcons and an E to go with that O, and put the E on the end, so
SNORE → Good! A little trappish, but good. Need to try an L, then get some luck
WHOLE → Hit on the L, should place it second… GLOVE? or GLOBE? I’ll go with what I saw first
GLOVE → Should have trusted the B
GLOBE

I’m also in the “one found letter with each guess” club today.

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Bah. Reflects my mood today.

Wordle 910 5/6

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CRANE
SPOIL
WHOLE
BLOKE - Didn’t seem likely, but didn’t see “globe”
GLOBE

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Wordle 910 3/6

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SLATE
FUDGE
GLOBE

I saw a lot of words after my start word, and I decided to come up with a sleuth word that’d hit several of them…and wouldn’t ya know, it eliminated all but one. :slight_smile: I see now that Choir, my usual 2nd word, would have done the same, but I didn’t know that at the time of course.

Yeah, I was starting to think the editor forgot the B existed. :laughing:

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I had a good game today.

Wordle 910 3/6*

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IRATE
SCONE
GLOBE

I remembered that BLOKE and GLOVE had already been used, so GLOBE it was for the third try. I guess there were 5 other possibles, but I didn’t see 'em.

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Wordle 910 3/6

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SLANT
CRIME
GLOBE

After 2, had it down to FLUKE, GLOBE, and possibly PLEBE. Went with GLOBE rather than FLUKE because it would eliminate one of the other two.

Also, this is the second time I’ve used CRIME rather than CHORE as my second word because H didn’t look to be part of any solutions. It’s done worse than CHORE both times in narrowing things down, because I rather than O. But I just checked and it turns out CROME is a word. So I’ll use that the next time the H would be wasted.

ETA: In my last 100 games, I’ve used a total of 329 words, for an average of (duh) 3.29 words per game.

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Sunday, December 17th

Wordle 911 4/6

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PLANT
SANER
CABIN
BACON

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Wordle 911 4/6

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RATIO
SALON
WAGON
BACON

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Wordle 911 4/6

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STERN
ALOUD
CHIMP
BACON

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Wordle 911 3/6

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SLANT
CHORE
BACON

Mmmm…maybe later! :slight_smile:

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Wordle 911 3/6*

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

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Wordle 911 6/6*

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ALONE
NOMAD
WAGON
BATON
BARON
BACON

Closest I’ve come to losing in a while!

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Wordle 911 3/6

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RAISE
PATCH
BACON

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[spoiler]Wordle 911 4/6

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SLOPE
COMIC
HAVOC
BACON

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Wordle 911 3/6* 10/17/2023

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GLOBE → Always cool to get a rarer letter from the carryover. With two vowels down, I can try just one here - maybe an A? - and two comcons, so try
BOAST → If the O is on the end - BANCO? Or BAYOU, but I remember that one from before. Oh, but mix them together and that could be
BACON

Talk about a lucky word to see first for the birdie!

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Wordle 911 4/6

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HEART
CLOAK
COCOA
BACON

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Wordle 911 4/6*

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DAIRY
CASTE
MACHO
BACON

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(I played late yesterday and didn’t have a chance to post. I floundered in the __O_E trap and ended up with a five. :neutral_face:)

Wordle 911 4/6

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PIOUS
TONER
KNOWN
BACON

Despite being on my second cup of coffee, my brain was not fully engaged here.
I doubled up on the N to find where it went - not a terrible idea, but putting the O back where I knew it didn’t go was. :man_facepalming:t3:
Only then did I realize I hadn’t tried an A yet. Jeez. Somehow amid all this fumbling, I accidentally narrowed it down to only the correct solution and saved par. I take no credit for this.

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Wordle 911 3/6

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SLATE
PRONG
BACON - Total dumb luck

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Wordle 911 3/6

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SLATE
CHOIR
BACON