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

Glad to see I’m not the only one having problems this morning.

Wordle 915 5/6

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CRANE
POINT
QUILT
GUILT
BUILT

Wordle 915 3/6* December 21, 2023

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SMALL → So, one and only one L. Nice to know. I feel like I need to focus on vowels here, with only one guessed so far (and not present). A couple minutes thought gives me a word that I can try three with
DOILY → I feel like I need to focus back on consonants. Perhaps GUILT, or - oh, I should trust the B, right?
BUILT

Scoredle gives five valid guesses left after 2, so I’m chalking this one up to mostly luck. Still probably my best week in, er, a long time.

Wordle 915 5/6

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OVINE
SHAFT
QUILT
GUILT
BUILT

Gah. I deviated from Hard Mode to avoid a potential trap, then fell in head first.
At least I wasn’t the only one.

Wordle 915 4/6

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SLATE
CHOIR
BUGGY
BUILT

Buggy to check the _UILT trap, plus I had Twill too. Of course it’s another B…should have just put up Built.

Friday, December 22nd

Wordle 916 3/6

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PLANT
STORE
TOUCH

This 3 is thanks to tough already having been an answer.

Wordle 916 3/6

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RATIO
STOLE
TOUCH

Pure luck. I get no credit for this one.

My first 2 in about a month. It’s easy when four letters show up in your first guess word.

Wordle 916 2/6

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COURT
TOUCH

Wordle 916 4/6

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STERN
ALOUD
TOUGH
TOUCH

Wordle 916 3/6

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RAISE
COUNT
TOUCH

Wordle 916 2/6

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:green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square: touch
It is 5 am I have been up since 4 am because there is an emergency workcrew from the water company digging outside my front door. No notices-no idea how bad the situation is.

Wordle 916 4/6*

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ALONE
SOUTH
TOUGH
TOUCH

I’d forgotten that TOUGH had already been used.

Wordle 916 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[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U} \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 T} \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 C} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt H} \\ \end{aligned}

[spoiler]Wordle 916 3/6

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MEANT
DOUBT
TOUCH

Without knowing what has or hasn’t been used:

Wordle 916 3/6

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SLATE
MOIST
TOUCH - Dumb luck and nothing else

Wordle 916 3/6* 12/22/2023

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'BUILT → Good start, on the whole. I think I’ll focus on the vowels here; I can knock out two others with one word (and try a comcon as well)
ROUTE → Must be TOU??, seems like TOU?H, C or G? I avoided the G yesterday and it worked; I’ll try that again
TOUCH

It worked again.

Wordle 916 3/6

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SLANT
CHORE
TOUCH - managed not to BOTCH it :wink:

Wordle 916 4/6

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HEART
THINK
TOOTH
TOUCH

Wordle 916 3/6

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OPINE
TORUS
TOUCH

TORUS is one of Scordle’s favorite words, so I thought I’d give it a try (and sure enough, that was confirmed as my “best guess”). That narrowed it to TOUGH and TOUCH, and yes, I checked the used words list. I really wanted a three; it’s been too long.

Yesterday was crazy-busy, so I forgot to post. Here’s yesterday’s:

Wordle 915 4/6*

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IRATE
THING
QUILT
BUILT

I’m another who fell into the QUILT/BUILT trap. But I can see it could have been worse!

Today’s: A 2!! My first in a very long time!

Wordle 916 2/6*

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IRATE
TOUCH

Obviously pure luck. Still counts!