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

Wordle 971 3/6

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RAISE
SOAPY
ASCOT

Wordle 971 4/6

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HEART
GLOAT
ABBOT
ASCOT

Been an easy week so far: two 2s and two 3s.

Wordle 971 3/6

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SLATE
MATCH
ASCOT

Wordle 971 2/6*

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LEAST
ASCOT

Two 2’s in a row - feeling lucky!

Wordle 971 3/6* 2/15/2024

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TALON → Good start! Now, where should that T go? If at the end, I’d like to try at least one remaining comcon - if it’s R, then I’ve got
ARGOT → Ah, not R. But at least A & T are placed. If it’s a double letter, ALLOT is gone, but ABBOT could be a possibility… but I think I can try an S in there
ASCOT

If I had looked at S rather than R for the second guess, I might have had it in two. It’s a fun start to the day either way.

Wordle 971 3/6

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RATIO
TOAST
ASCOT

TOAST was what Scoredle would have played at two too. So I feel like I iz smart. I really wanted to go with STOAT (nice one @psychobunny). The result would have been the same, but I had to take a shot at the deuce.

Ack, I didn’t post yesterday! It was a day. My score was a 4.

I’m getting a little tired of the 4s. Today’s was my own fault.

Wordle 971 4/6*

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IRATE
VAULT
AFOOT
ASCOT

As soon as I typed in AFOOT, I saw ASCOT and kicked myself. That was a much better choice than AFOOT! Oh, well. I didn’t even ask WordleBot’s opinion.

Wordle 971 3/6*

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TROPE
LOATH
ASCOT

WordleBot told me that its 2nd guess was more efficient than mine, MOUNT instead of LOATH, but I got it in 3 and WordleBot only got it in 5. So much for your “efficient” guess, smug Bot!

Wordle 971 3/6

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PLANT
CARET
ASCOT

Took me a hot minute to see ascot, but despite the timing of this post I didn’t spend all day on it. I just forgot to post.

Wordle 971 3/6

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SLATE
TORAH
ASCOT

Torah was a sleuth to check the 6 words I was seeing, and it ruled out all of them but for the answer, which didn’t happen to be on my radar. I’ll take it!

[spoiler]Wordle 972 6/6

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I can’t remember what they all were!

Wordle 972 4/6

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PLANT
STARE
STACK
STASH

One of these days it will be stack and I will have my 3!

Wordle 972 5/6

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RATIO
STALE
STACK
STAMP
STASH

Didn’t bother to go through it systematically. Just blindly guessed and got lucky. I know that STAFF and ? STAGY
were still options but there were probably a lot more I missed.

There go my 3s…

Wordle 972 5/6

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STERN
CLOUD
GIMPY
HAWKS
STASH

Wordle 972 3/6*

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ALONE
TRASH
STASH

Wordle 972 3/6*

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Urban
Least
Stash

Wordle 972 5/6

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RAISE
CLASH
QUASH
SMASH
STASH

Wordle 972 4/6

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SLANT
PERKY
SWATH
STASH

After my sleuth word on 2, I was down to SWATH and STASH; lost the metaphorical coin toss.

I came up with 16 possibles after my starting word, 4 of which had been used already, leaving 12 live ones. My sleuth word on 2 worked well, it was just that there simply wasn’t going to be a good sleuth word that differentiated between my last two guesses.

If you go back in (before the next word comes round), it should tell you.

Wordle 972 4/6*

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

Wordle 972 3/6

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HEART
THANK
STASH