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

Wordle 911 4/6*

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SLATE
RADIO
CAPON
BACON

Wordle 912 5/6

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RATIO
LUNES
PUNCH
FUNKY
FUNNY

I thought of FUNKY first for guess three but didn’t think it was as good a guess. I could have had a four. But at least no yellow.

Wordle 912 5/6

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STERN
ALOUD
CHIMP
BUNNY
FUNNY

Wordle 912 6/6

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PLANT
SCONE
WHINY
RUNNY
BUNNY
FUNNY

Phew indeed.

Wordle 912 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[lime,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[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt F} \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 N} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt Y} \\ \end{aligned}

Lucky third guess !

Wordle 912 4/6

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SLANT
CHORE
NINNY
FUNNY

Did myself out of a 3 here. There were a limited number of possibilities for the 5th letter, and I went through all the combinations I could think of for the first three letters before my third guess came to mind. And if I’d done the sort of thought process for the double N that I’d done for everything else I could think of, I’d have found the solution and gone with that first. But I just jumped on ‘ninny’ when I saw it because nothing else had turned up.

Wordle 912 3/6

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RAISE
COUNT
FUNNY

[spoiler]Wordle 912 3/6

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CATER
SONIC
FUNNY

Wordle 912 4/6*

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ALONE
STINK
BRUNG
FUNNY

Wordle 912 5/6

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HEART
SPOIL
FUDGY
FUNKY
FUNNY

Wordle 912 4/6

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OPERA
UNTIL
SUNNY
FUNNY

With all other vowels off the table, _UNNY was a pretty good bet. Could have been SUNNY, FUNNY, or BUNNY, so I guess I was neither lucky nor unlucky.

At least others also had trouble with this one.

Wordle 912 5/6

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SLATE - ah, crap
POUCH - not much progress
FUNKY
FUNDY - Wordlebot didn’t like this one
FUNNY - for some reason a double letter didn’t occur to me until now

Wordle 912 3/6* 10/18/2023

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BACON → OK, not much there… try two vowels and two other comcons
NITES → Well. U & Y still out as vowels, I should try to check them both. Gotta place the N, I think it’s time for the Scoredle trick of doubling up on the letter. NNUY invokes BUNNY but the B is goine, so
FUNNY

Yep, knocking out that B in the first guess was key. I must say, after perusing Scoredle’s list of words remaining, that KNURL would have thrown me for a lloop.

I forgot to post yesterday. It was a 3 with my guesses being:

IRATE
CLOAK
BACON

I picked BACON out of 7 other possibles, so a lot of luck involved in this one.

Then there was today.

Wordle 912 4/6*

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IRATE
SOUND
BUNNY
FUNNY

After my second try, I pretty immediately figured out the double N, had it down to BUNNY and FUNNY. Lost the coin toss. WordleBot advised that there were actually 3 words to choose from, as it considers PUNNY a legitimate choice, too. Stupid bot.

Wordle 912 4/6

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SLATE
CHOIR
DUMPY
FUNNY

Strike two with my start words. After Dumpy, I had Bunny, Funny, Funky, and Fuzzy (Buggy has been used), and thankfully I chose well. :slight_smile:

Wordle 912 4/6*

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OSCAR
TENTH
WINDY
FUNNY

I’ll take the par!

TUE DEC 19th

Wordle 913 3/6*

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ALONE
STALE
TABLE

Wordle 912 3/6*

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SLATE
MINOR
FUNNY
Lucky 3rd guess!

And once again I don’t understand WordleBot’s ratings. The NYT average score was 3.9, mine was 3, but the NYT average skill score is 88 and mine is 89?

Wordle 913 4/6

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RATIO
NASTY
TAMED
TABLE

I wanted to try the E on two but could only think of TAKEN. I would have had the three.

Wordle 913 3/6

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PLANT
LATER
TABLE

Much better than yesterday’s 6.