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

The Game Room
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Wordle 929 3/6

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STERN — a pretty good start; it’s likely scant shunt slant; it also could be saint snout, but those have been used
SLANT
SCANT

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Wordle 929 2/6

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Slant
Scant
That was fun. :slight_smile:

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Wordle 929 2/6

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SLANT
SCANT

The only way that could have been quicker and easier would have been if my starting word had been the solution.

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Wordle 929 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[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt C} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt H} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt N} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt N} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt C} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt K} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt C} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt N} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \\ \end{aligned}

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Wordle 929 3/6*

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ALONE
STANK
SCANT

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Wordle 929 3/6

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RAISE
STACK
SCANT

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Once you’ve solved the day’s Wordle, you can always use Scoredle to see whether there were other potential answers you missed. (In this instance, there weren’t any after 3. Scoredle lists lytic, but that’s not gonna be a solution ever.)

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Wordle 929 3/6

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HEART
BLAST
SCANT

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Wordle 929 2/6

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CRANE
SCANT

Nice, after my fours and fives over the past week.

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Wordle 929 3/6*

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ANGRY
PANTS
SCANT

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Wordle 929 3/6* 1/4/2024

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TWIRL → At least there were three comcons there. Try two more with two vowels; hoped for A & E but this word was too good not to guess
STONE → And that was a very good guess, it turned out. S?TN? goes nowhere (TN? How would you even pronounce that?) so S??NT, must be A or U in there, no STUNT due to redundant T, I thnk just SHUNT or SCANT, I’ll try the A so
SCANT

Scoredle says SAUTE would have been the best second guess, and trying three vowels would be good - but it turns out the other comcon was key.

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Wordle 929 3/6

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PLANT
GRANT
SCANT

I’ve been struggling lately, though the struggle for this one was because I just didn’t like scant as an answer. I saw it almost immediately but kept looking. Did manage to come up with chant, but that’s already been used. So I figured screw it, maybe scant is the answer after all.

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Wordle 929 3/6

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SLATE
PINKY
SCANT

There were a lot of words after my start word, so up went PINKY to sleuth them out. I was really glad that just left one word. :grinning:

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Wordle 929 2/6*

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SLATE
SCANT
A lucky guess, but somehow I didn’t see many of the 14 other possibilities

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Friday, January 5th

Wordle 930 3/6

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PLANT
LONER
LUNGE

Again found this difficult, but at least this time I got past the struggles before going to sleep. I got very focused on lense, but google adamantly asserted that lense is not a word; there is no e on the end of it. After giving up, lunge came to me a half hour later. Progress! Maybe one of these days I’ll be able to solve a Wordle in a single sitting…

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Wordle 930 3/6

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RATIO
LUNES
LUNGE

Almost had a two. I was looking for a better second word with the common letters and unused consonants but decided I needed the S.

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Wordle 930 4/6*

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

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Wordle 930 3/6

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SLANT
CROME
LUNGE

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Wordle 930 3/6

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RAISE
OUNCE
LUNGE

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Wordle 930 3/6

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HEART
SPICE
LUNGE