"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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STERNa great start! But not enough to try guessing.
CLOUD
GIMPYfinally got that 3rd letter, and it pretty much has got to be stiff
STIFFand 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