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

The Game Room
5841

Wordle 969 3/6

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SLATE
CHOIR
SCRAM

5842

Wordle 970 2/6

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RATIO
TALON

5843
Wordle 970 3/6* Valentine's Day & Ash Wednesday 2024

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SCRAM → That was little less than I expected. Three comcons and an E can maybe pick up something
LEANT → Quite a bit, actually. Move A up again to second, T to start and N to end, then add in an O and get
TALON

That was over considerably faster than I thought it would be. My second guess was apparently a very bad one, except that it left exactly one possible word remaining so… high luck rating?

5844

Wordle 970 4/6*

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

Stupid 3rd guess … :roll_eyes:

5845

Wordle 970 2/6

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RAISE
TALON

5846

Wordle 970 3/6*

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ALONE
SALON
TALON

5847

Wordle 970 2/6

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SLANT
TALON → Could’ve also been TONAL; NATAL had already been used.

Happy to join the 2s club this morning.

5848

Wordle 970 4/6

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HEART
TACKY
TANGO
TALON

5849

Wordle 970 3/6

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STERN
CLOUD — there’s only 1 possible word, talon
TALON

5850

On a roll this week with two twos and a three.

Wordle 970 2/6

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SLATE
TALON - very lucky guess using the letter ‘n’ from my alternate start word and the ‘o’ for a second vowel

5851

Wordle 970 3/6

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ROUTE
STOIC
TALON

Always happy with a birdie, but this should have been a deuce. My eye landed on the unused I when I looked at the keyboard. If I’d looked down to the second row, I would have realized A was a better vowel, And TALON, with the T plus two more commons, would almost certainly have been my word of choice.
I gotta start slowing it down.

5852

Wordle 970 2/6*

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LEAST
TALON

Woo-hoo! I started to go with TALLY, but thought better of the double L to test more letters.

5853

Wordle 970 3/6*

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HEART
TACKY
TALON
I started to go with TALLY for the 2nd guess but thought I’d try for more letters. When TALON came up, I realized that it should have been my 2nd guess.

5854

Wordle 970 2/6

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SLATE
TALON

I was not expecting that…had a long list of words and was just checking letters and placements. Nice! :slight_smile:

5855

Wordle 971 4/6

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RATIO
LOATH
STOAT
ASCOT

5856

[spoiler]Wordle 971 4/6

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SLANT
WAIST
ASSET
ASCOT

5857

Wordle 971 3/6

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STERN
CLOUD
ASCOT

5858

Wordle 971 3/6*

\begin{aligned} &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[yellow,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 F} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt C} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \\ \end{aligned}

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5859

Wordle 971 3/6*

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ALONE
ACTOR
ASCOT

5860

Wordle 971 3/6

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SLANT
WAIST
ASCOT

Had a shot at the 2, but had to settle for the 3. After my opening word, there were only four possible solutions I could find - KARST, ASCOT, WAIST, and ASSET - and ASSET had already been used. I think KARST is on the obscure side if you’re not a caver (as I used to be) or a geologist, and I liked WAIST a lot better of the remaining two, but turned out it was ASCOT after all. Bet that was a Wardle original, ascots are definitely more of a Brit than a U.S. thing.