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

Wordle 964 3/6*

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ALONE
SLATE
PLACE

Wordle 964 2/6

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RAISE
PLACE

Wordle 964 2/6

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HEART is in the right
PLACE

Raining twos today.

Wordle 964 2/6

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SLATE
PLACE - This could have been any one of 14 words, according to the Bot, but “place” was the first one to pop into my head.

Wordle 964 6/6*

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LEAST
REALM
BLAZE
FLAKE
PLANE
PLACE

:musical_note: I fell in to a blazing flame of trap… :musical_note:

ETA: So many two’s! Y’all are smarter than me!

Wordle 964 4/6

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ADIEU
SLATE
FRUMP
PLACE

Glad to save par after hitting into the trap. I won the coin toss between PLACE and PLANE.
@Rebo, this is why I don’t play in Hard Mode. :grin:

Wordle 964 3/6* 2/8/2024

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AFTER → OK, good start vowelwise. Can I knock out three more comcons?
SLANE → I didn’t expect that guess to work, but it did. Amazingly well, too, though I’m feeling like I’m in a trap. I see one word off the bat - I’ll burn it, see what info it gets me, and then try to analyze
PLACE

Really lucked out here. Scoredle has six solid and two rarer but non-bs words to distinguish between after two, and my guess - though, in the event, correct - could have landed me high and dry.

Scoot over, @Rebo! Not my finest showing, either.

Wordle 964 5/6*

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IRATE
SLAKE
FLAME
BLAZE
PLACE

What’s especially galling is that PLACE was the very first word I came up with after SLAKE, so I could have had it in three. But nooOOOOooo, I had to psych myself into making it more complicated. Must have had burning it all down on my mind. Or I was distracted by the SCOTUS hearing this morning. Yeah. That’s it!

Wordle 964 3/6

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SLANT
DRECK
PLACE

Had 18 legit, unused possibilities after 1. Came up with a good second word to narrow it down.

ETA: We had THING a few weeks ago, and now PLACE. Too bad PERSON is 6 letters.

Wordle 964 3/6*

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TROPE
PLANE
PLACE

A straightforward one for a change.

Wordle 964 3/6

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SLANT
PLAID
PLACE

FRI 2/9

Wordle 965 4/6*

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ALONE
SHIRT
STICK
STIFF

Wordle 965 4/6

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PLANT
STORE
STUCK
STIFF

It’s not often I go through all five vowels.

Wordle 965 4/6

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RATIO
TILDE
STICK
STIFF

Wordle 964 3/6

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STERN
CLOUD
PLACE

I played #964 very early this morning, but we were in Death Valley with poor connectivity. Fortunately I could play the game, but oddly, SDMB took eons to load and it never did load.

We are home now. A looong night’s drive. We just got home and I am beat.

Here is #965.

Wordle 965 4/6

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STERN — a great start! But not enough to try guessing.
CLOUD
GIMPY — finally got that 3rd letter, and it pretty much has got to be stiff
STIFF — and there it is!

Good night, all.

[spoiler]Wordle 965 5/6

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CHART
MISTY
STING
STILL
STIFF

Wordle 965 5/6*

\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[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U} \bbox[lime,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[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt H} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[silver,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 T} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt N} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt G} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt F} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt F} \\ \end{aligned}

Wordle 965 4/6

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:white_large_square::white_large_square::white_large_square::white_large_square::white_large_square: 24
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SLANT
CHORE
STUMP
STIFF

If SIXTY had been the solution, I’d have gone through all six!
(In Wordle, Y is almost always a vowel.)

Wordle 965 3/6

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RAISE
STINK
STIFF