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

The Game Room
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Wordle 646 3/6*

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SLANT
GRAND
GUANO


GIANT was out, and i couldnt think of a word ending in E, so i thought to try GUANO

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About today’s Wordle, GUANO:

When I toured Carlsbad Caverns I learned that they

hauled a lot of the bat shit out from New Mexico over to California to fertilize our rich Central Valley which grows a lot of crops to feed the nation.

That’s a lot of bat shit!

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Wordle 646 5/6

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ASIDE
COURT
BAYOU
AFOUL
GUANO

I was so sure that BAYOU was correct. Word dot tips only gave me BAYOU and AFOUL. I decided to try AFOUL just to reorder some vowels. No greens yet. Then GUANO came to mind, but it’s not in word dot tips dictionary.

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It pains me to see you miss that first green letter.

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Just fishing for letters.

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Wordle 646 5/6

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CRANE - cool!
PLANT - d’oh!
VIAND - d’oh! (wordlebot didn’t recognize this word)
SHANK - d’oh!
GUANO

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Wordle 646 6/6

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:black_large_square::black_large_square::green_square::green_square::yellow_square: wrang wth?
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Wordle 646 4/6*

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LEARN
SCANT
PIANO
GUANO

I really thought it would be PIANO.

Wordle Bot tells me that the average score today was 4.0, so this seems to have been a relatively hard one. I also got a 99 for skill, which I’ll take. I now have access to Wordle Not because there was a crazy good offer for an “all-access” NYT subscription. I’ll enjoy it for a year, I guess.

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Wordle 646 3/6

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RATIO
ALAMO
GUANO

Really surprised ALAMO was a valid guess, but I thought I’d give it a try since Scordle always wants to double up on misplaced letters. (And sure enough, Scordle told me ALAMO was my best second guess.)
It did in fact place the A for me, and then I took about a half hour trying to think of a __A_O word with none of the letters I’d eliminated. GUANO was the only real possibility left, but still a tough one.

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A caving ditty I learned many years ago, to the tune of “I Feel Pretty”:

I smell bat shit, oh yes bat shit,
it’s not rat shit, it’s bat shit for sure,
It’s not cat shit, and it certainly isn’t horse manure.

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I’ll take a par today. I struggled with this one a bit.

Wordle 646 4/6*

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IRATE
SCALP
FOAMY
GUANO

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Wordle 646 5/6

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REACH
FLAME
BOAST
PIANO
GUANO

A certain person who used to post regularly in here would have loved today’s word. :wink: I however, did not.

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Wordle 646 3/6

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ROAST
OKAPI
GUANO

Doesn’t sound very appetizing.

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MAR 28

Wordle 647 3/6*

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ALONE
SHIRT
HURRY

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Wordle 647 3/6

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ASIDE
COURT
HURRY

Fairly easy. It eas either FURRY or HURRY. I guessed right.

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Wordle 647 4/6

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RATIO
PRUDE
CURVY
HURRY

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Wordle 646 3/6* 3/27/2023

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UNTIE → Not the expected letters, but I’ll take them. Try something with an R?
RUING → Kinda am ruing my choice, here - retrying the I was an error. But, I picked up the G, along with placing the other two, so it turned out well, though SLUNG would have been a more ideal guess. OK, two vowels remain, and if I put the G first I can use both of them…
GUANO

It’s a nice (Keenan) win!

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Wordle 647 4/6

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CLUES
RATIO
NYMPH
HURRY

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Wordle 647 4/6*

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FOIST
LAPEL
HUNKY
HURRY

Happy with a 4 after a rather barren start.

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Wordle 647 5/6

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PLANT
SCORE
KUKRI
FURRY
HURRY

This went poorly. I’m pretty confident kukri is not in the answer list, but once seen it made it very difficult to see anything else. After kukri I immediately saw furry, and then hurry, and of course I always go with the first one I saw, so 5 is me.