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

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Wordle 940 5/6* 1/15/2024

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DOING → N, no vowels. At least D & G are gone, too. A, E and two comcons on the way
SNARE → And… strikeout. I feel like I’d better try both U and Y here. The only reason I don’t try FUNNY is because I’ve already got checked the N in 4th, so let’s go with another consonant
FUNKY → Good placements… but now I see a trap on the way. End in -CH, but BHLM all still unguessed. Don’t see any other traps, so I should try at least one of these. I have a hunch it’s not HUNCH, so I’ll try
BUNCH → and while recapping this later, I just realized I did a Marky Mark callout. Fortunately, it was time for
LUNCH

40% chance of a loss with that one (Scoredle reminded me I forgot about PUNCH) so I’m happy with my five.

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Silly day, silly word.

Wordle 940 4/6*

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IRATE
CLOUD
GULCH
LUNCH

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Wordle 940 3/6

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SLATE
CHOIR
LUNCH

Well, that was a quick solve for me…saw Lunch right away and just went for it - good thing I didn’t think of Gulch or Mulch.

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Wordle 940 3/6*

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TROPE
SLAIN
LUNCH
My guesses were identical to WordleBot’s, so no Bot rudeness today. And thankfully I stopped to reconsider before entering my original 3rd guess, which was LUNKY

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TUE JAN 16

Wordle 941 3/6*

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ALONE
PLONK
BLOND

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Wordle 941 3/6

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RATIO
SHONE
BLOND

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Wordle 941 4/6

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PLANT
SLING
CLONE
BLOND

This is what happens when I abandon my strategy and try for the win at 2. What’s extra frustrating about this one is that my third guess would have been a perfect second word for my normal strategy, and very likely would have gotten me a 3.

It’s after midnight and the word I was checking all day from yesterday is still not in the previous answers list. So it looks like the answers get added to the list at 3am Eastern the following day.

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Wordle 941 3/6

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STERN
ALOUD
BLOND

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Wordle 941 3/6*

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

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Wordle 941 4/6

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SLANT
BLINK
BLEND
BLOND

After 2, it was down to my 3rd and 4th guesses, and this time I lost the coin toss. It happens. :slight_smile:

However, I really should have come up with a better sleuth word at 2:

Summary

after SLANT, I’d narrowed things down to six very plausible solutions (BLEND, BLIND, BLOND, BLINK, CLONE, FLUNK) and four more iffy ones (PLINK, CLINK, CLUNG, FLUNG) but I’m not sure how iffy those were - Wordle 724 was PLUNK. If I’d thought of BIKED on 2, it would have ID’d any of the good six, and if the solution was one of the others, it would have narrowed things down to a coin toss between CLINK and PLINK, or between CLUNG and FLUNG.

You live, you learn. :slight_smile:

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Wordle 941 3/6

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RAISE
COUNT
BLOND

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Wordle 941 4/6

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HEART
SPOIL
BLOOD
BLOND

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Wordle 941 3/6

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LOUSE
NODAL
BLOND

Whoops, put the O back where it didn’t belong. Amazingly, that worked out great for me anyway. Go figure.

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Wordle 941 3/6

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CRANE
MOIST
BLOND - Briefly considered “plonk”, but it didn’t seem likely.

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Wordle 941 4/6*

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LEAST
GULCH
BROIL
BLOND

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Wordle 941 4/6

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SLATE
CLIMB
BLOOD
BLOND

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Another weird word, but at least I found it with 3.

Wordle 941 3/6*

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IRATE
CLOUD
BLOND

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Wordle 941 4/6*

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TROPE
SHOAL
CLOUD
BLOND

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I don’t believe it - a 1! It’s been my first guess word for months (you can look at my previous posts for verification). Has anyone else ever got a 1?

Wordle 942 1/6

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COURT

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[spoiler]Wordle 942 2/6

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CRATE
COURT