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

The Game Room
6101

Wordle 985 5/6*

\begin{aligned} &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \bbox[yellow,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 T} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt N} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt K} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt M} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt Z} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt M} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt G} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \\ \end{aligned}

6102

Wordle 985 4/6

:white_large_square::white_large_square::green_square::white_large_square::white_large_square: 256
:white_large_square::white_large_square::white_large_square::white_large_square::green_square: 19
:white_large_square::white_large_square::green_square::white_large_square::green_square: 7
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SLANT
CHORE
AWAKE → knew this had been used already, was using it as a sleuth word
IMAGE

6103

Wordle 985 2/6

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RAISE
IMAGE

6104

Wordle 985 5/6

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HEART
ERASE
PLACE
INANE
IMAGE

6105

Lucky to have gotten it in four.

Wordle 985 4/6

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SLATE
BRAVE
INANE
IMAGE

6106

Wordle 985 3/6

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POISE
TINGE
IMAGE

A very fast birdie. At first, an I and a terminal E felt a bit trappish, but then placing the I in the first position made it obvious.

6107

Wordle 985 4/6*

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LEAST
GRAPE
ADAGE
IMAGE

6108
Wordle 985 4/6* 2/29/2024

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DEVIL → Found two unplaced vowels. If we swap their places and add three comcons, what do we get?
RISEN → Nothing. (Well, at least some letters eliminated.) T is still out there, so a couple more consonants might help
WHITE → E placed, I placed by elimination - I think there’s another vowel in there, pretty much has to be in the middle. If we try I?A?E, what does that look like?
IMAGE
IMBUE was also out there. I was getting rather worried about my lack of progress, then all of a sudden there were just a couple words left - and I made the right guess to save par.

6109

Wordle 985 4/6*

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PLATE
BRACE
SHADE
IMAGE
Phew! Too many possibles in the trap.

6110

Friday, March 1st

Wordle 986 4/6

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PLANT
STORE
TORCH
FORTY

Big improvement over yesterday’s 6.

6111

[spoiler]Wordle 986 3/6

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:green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square:[/spoiler]

SHADE
FLIRT
FORTY

6112

Wordle 986 3/6

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RATIO
SHORT
FORTY

6113

Wordle 985 3/6

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SLATE
GRAPE
IMAGE

Sure got lucky with nailing that G. I then was seeing four words to choose from, three of which started with an A, so the safe play would be to check one of those, but I just liked Image the best and took a chance. Sometimes taking a risk pays off. :slight_smile:

6114

Wordle 986 4/6

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TRANS
LOUIE
ROTTY
FORTY

I, for one, object to spelling “fourty” that way.

6115

Wordle 986 4/6

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STERN
CLOUD
GIMPY
FORTY

6116

Wordle 986 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[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt C} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt M} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt P} \\ &\bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt W} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt H} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt F} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt Y} \\ \end{aligned}

6117

Wordle 986 4/6*

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ALONE
TORUS
PORTY
FORTY

6118

Wordle 986 4/6

:white_large_square::white_large_square::white_large_square::white_large_square::yellow_square: 524
:white_large_square::white_large_square::yellow_square::yellow_square::white_large_square: 17
:yellow_square::green_square::yellow_square::white_large_square::white_large_square: 6
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SLANT
CHORE
ROTOR
FORTY

6119

Wordle 986 3/6

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RAISE
COURT
FORTY

6120

Wordle 986 3/6

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CRANE
ROUST - And after tossing around “OI” combinations without success, I came up with. . .
FORTY