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

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Wordle 937 4/6* 1/12/2024

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BRIEF → R & E unplaced. Not a bad start, but lots of possibles. Try a 2/1 comcons/vowels breakdown for the followup, since I is already gone
TEARS → So I grumbled a bit at this, and then thought I might have a repeat E, so I tested that quickly with
ENTRE → But didn’t see repeating the R in 4th. Augh! Since I had done everything up til now a little after midnight, I resolved to close the laptop and try again in the morning with fresh eyes. I took one look at it after some sleep and instantly saw
ROUTE

Scoredle helpfully pointed out I should have seen the answer for my third guess. Thanks, Scoredle! Maybe I should resolve not to take more than two guesses on a tired brain.

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Wordle 937 5/6

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HEART
TREND
STREP
OTTER brain cramp here, the T in position 2 was already eliminated. Now we know letters 1,4, and 5.
ROUTE

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Well, this is 30 seconds I’ll never get back.

Wordle 937 2/6*

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IRATE
ROUTE

I mean, really, what other word was I going to try after that lay-up? FORTE or TORTE were the only other possibles. Legal background notwithstanding, TORTE didn’t exactly spring to mind. Not complaining about a 2, though!

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Trying to figure out if that was a joke! A torte is a kind of dessert. A tort (without the final e) is the legal thingummy.

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LOL, no you’re right – brain not quite engaged this morning! Either way, as a cook and someone with a legal background, the word didn’t occur to me!

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Once I saw FORTE, I mentally ran through all the other consonants as a potential first letter, otherwise I’d have missed it.

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Wordle 937 3/6

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PLANT
STORE
ROUTE

Even with all those yellows I just couldn’t see anything all day. Yet another struggle for me. Then when I came here to post I saw it could also have been forte, which I never saw. Doh! (I suspect torte is not a valid answer, but I’m too lazy to go check the original list.)

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Wordle 937 4/6

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SLATE
EMOTE
TORTE
ROUTE

I thought we were seeing our first repeated word! I saw ROUTE after Slate, but I had it on my previous answer word list for game #800, so after Emote, all I had to choose from was Forte and Torte. When those two words were ruled out, I was so confused…all I could see was Route. I googled what the answer was for game #800, and turns out it was WRITE.

I had to redo my previous answer list when my laptop died and I lost my Wordle files (which I stupidly never backed up). I can’t recall where I got the list from, but I copied it directly to my Excel sheet, so now I’m questioning all of the words I have on that list. Ugh.

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SAT 1/13

Wordle 938 3/6*

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ALONE
STEAK
HEARD

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Wordle 938 3/6

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RATIO
SHARE
HEARD

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I guessed wrong again.

Wordle 938 4/6

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STERN
ALOUD
BEARD — I guessed wrong again.
HEARD

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[spoiler]Wordle 938 2/6

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RATED
HEARD

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Wordle 938 3/6

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SLANT
CHORE
HEARD

That was quick.

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Wordle 938 2/6*

\begin{aligned} &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt H} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \\ \end{aligned}

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Wordle 938 4/6

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RAISE
CREAM
AFTER
HEARD

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Wordle 938 2/6

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CRANE
HEARD

Been awhile.

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Wordle 938 4/6* 1/13/2024

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ROUTE → OK, not bad, I like an -ER ending here with an A and two comcons…
LASER → Good luck with the A, didn’t place the other two. N is still out there, but I.m seeing fewer places to put it. If I try my three known letters in the middle, ?REA?, I see BREAM/BREAD/BREAK/CREAM/DREAM - lots of possibles. Best trapbreaker out of those is
BREAD → and, it looks like I needed to try ?EAR? instead, but picking up the D and eliminating the B means all I have left is
HEARD

I kinda feel like I played rather well on that one, though there was defintely some luck involved.

@Chefguy congratulations!

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Wordle 938 2/6

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easiest deuce ever!
HEART
HEARD

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I done outsmarted myself today.

Wordle 938 4/6*

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IRATE
PEARL
BEARD
HEARD

HEARD was the first word I thought of after my initial try, and it occurred to me instantly. But then I thought, No-o-o-o, it can’t be that easy! So I wrenched away and came up with PEARL and BEARD. Derp. WordleBot was patronizing.

Congrats to all the 2s and 3s!

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The New York Times had an article the other day saying that an analysis of past games suggested trace as a better first word than slate, crate, carte, crane, slant or adieu (the most common first word among players). So I tried trace today and got to the solution in one go.