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

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Wordle 953 5/6

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RATIO
CRUEL
NEVER
SHEER
EMBER

I admire how systematic some of you are. My thought process is so much more chaotic. It goes something like this:

Just the R? Need vowels and at least one good consonant ( L, N or S).
OK, probably two E. There must be a bunch of options with xExER. Need the N or S. Try a random guess.
The two Es are probably together. Still want to try an S. There are probably a lot of options for xxEER. I’m seeing FREER, but would go for the S.
PANIC PANIC PANIC. Only two guesses left and I need ExxER. Too many letters left. Do I see any double letters that would work? EMBER at least gets me two new letters.
PHEW.

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Wordle 953 6/6* 1/28/2024

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SNAKE → OK, not quite as good a start as I hoped. However, I do have a solid follow-up
LITER → Now we’re in Han Solo territory. I’ve got a bad feeling about this.
COVER → Still bad.
RUDER → Even worse.
FEWER → At this point, it was time to call in SunWife. She saw something I completely was missing, probably due to my sense of dread…
EMBER

Even Scoredle took five on this one. It had 95 possibles after my start word, and as near I could tell the majority were non-bs. I was a little relieved to see that my fifth guess was Scoredle’s preferred one; in the event, it narrowed it down to the last non-bs word, and would have differentiated any of the remaining possibles. So, well-played, but still bad outcome? I give the assist to SunWife.

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Join the crowd.

Wordle 953 5/6

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CRANE
SPORT
LIVER
UMBER
EMBER

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Wordle 953 6/6

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Tough nut today.

HEART
BONER
CYBER
LIBER
UMBER
EMBER

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In with the Phew! crowd today. Tricksy word!

Wordle 953 6/6*

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IRATE
SUPER
OLDER
CHEER
NEVER
EMBER

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Wordle 953 5/6

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AGILE
TONER
SUPER
FEVER
EMBER

I was blind to a vowel opening until the very end. And I completely missed CHEER, which would have given me a six.

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Wordle 953 6/6*

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LEAST
HONEY
WIPER
QUEER
FEVER
EMBER

I was running out of letters!

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Wordle 953 3/6*

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TROPE
EARLY
EMBER
A lucky 2nd guess narrowed it down to 4 possible choices, according to WordleBot.

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Wordle 953 4/6

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PLANT
SCORE
FRIED
EMBER

I spent way too much time coming up with possible answers after 2, coming up with a little over 20 over the course of the day. Only a couple could be ruled out with the previous answers list. I was left with exactly 20. I would have kept looking but I was down to the final hour of the day.

The three most common letters in those 20 possibilities were d, i and f. Unfortunately, fried – which had not been used before, and is valid because the ED changes the Y to an I – left me with three possible ways to still have two answers on the board. And of course the answer was one of those: after fried I still had buyer and ember on the board. Couldn’t even trust the B, so just blindly guessed and got lucky.

It’s good that these kind of slogs are few and far between.

EDIT: Reading everybody else’s, I didn’t even see umber.

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Wordle 953 4/6

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SLATE
CHOIR
DUMPY
EMBER

This took a while to work out after my two start words. I decided I needed my trusty Dumpy, and that saved the day.

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Wordle 954 4/6

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RATIO
LUNES
LEECH
LEGGY

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Wordle 954 3/6

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TRANS
LOUIE
LEGGY

I legitimately didn’t think that would be the right answer - I was just trying to figure out where the E went and whether there was a Y. It’s pretty rare that TRANS doesn’t pop up a single correct letter.

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Wordle 954 4/6*

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ALONE
SHELF
LIMEY
LEGGY

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Wordle 954 4/6

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SLANT
CHORE
GIMPY
LEGGY

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Wordle 954 4/6

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STERN
CLOUD
GIMPY
LEGGY

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Wordle 954 4/6

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RAISE
MOTEL
JELLY
LEGGY

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Wordle 954 4/6*

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

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Wordle 954 3/6

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HEART
DEIGN
LEGGY

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Wordle 954 4/6

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SLATE
POINT - Pretty much eliminates all the other vowels, as ‘U’ doesn’t seem like it would work
BELLY
LEGGY

Wordlebot conceded that I beat it. Finally!

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Wordle 954 4/6* 1/29/2024

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EMBER → At least I know there’s only one E. And, I get to use everyone’s favorite first guess as a second guess! Bonus!
SLATE → Picked up an L. And that’s it. It’s time for a variant on another favorite second guess
LINED → At least I placed the L. I know it’s not LEECH. LOESS is out, and I can’t think of any other LOE- words. LUE goes nowhere. So LE- and out of comcons. I’d like to try a terminal Y, but I only see one word that gets me that, and it’s got a double letter - but fourth guess is often a good time to try that, so
LEGGY

Feels good to get back to par. Having M, B & D gone after 3 made me feel better about going after the word I did while keeping U & O on the sidelines.