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

The Game Room
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Wordle 986 4/6*

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LEAST
INTRO
WORTH
FORTY

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Wordle 986 4/6

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OPIUM
TRONE
WORTH
FORTY

I tried ASTRO at three, given Wordle’s history of using prefixes as words. It was not a valid guess. Fortunately.

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Wordle 986 3/6* 3/1/2024

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IMAGE → Whiff. Time for a good first word second, which in this case is easy as one of my old reliables has that OU combo
ROUST → TOR?? goes nowhere, so I’m looking elsewhere. When I thought about ?ORT?, I thought of Rick & MORTY, and I thought the Y would be a good play which then brought me to
FORTY

Start off the day - and the month - with a quick birdie. Nice!

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I seem to be back in my 3 mode over the past couple of days.

Yesterday:

Wordle 985 3/6*

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IRATE
INANE
IMAGE

Shoulda been a 2. If I’d seen IMAGE before INANE, it would have been!

Wordle 986 3/6*

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IRATE
WORTH
FORTY

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Wordle 986 3/6*

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PLATE
MIRTH
FORTY
The Bot told me that my 2nd guess was very lucky, eliminating all but the solution.

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Wordle 986 3/6

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SLATE
CHOIR
FORTY

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SAT MAR 2nd

Wordle 987 5/6*

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ALONE
SNAKY
PANIC
HUMAN
URBAN

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Wordle 987 4/6

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RATIO
CHARM
ABUSE
URBAN

Stupid mistake on 3 but it let me get the B.

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[spoiler]Wordle 987 4/6

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STAIN
COACH
DRAIN
URBAN

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Wordle 987 3/6

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STERN
CLOUD — is most likely bruin or urban
URBAN

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Wordle 987 4/6*

\begin{aligned} &\bbox[yellow,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[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 A} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt F} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt N} \\ \end{aligned}

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How come you didn’t get a green in the last square on your first line ?!
Ah… i see you put all the squares in manually !
Why not just click the “Share” button in wordle and paste it back here ?

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Thats odd. I click share and then copy. I hadn’t noticed that.

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Wordle 987 4/6

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PLANT
RANES
ACORN
URBAN

Just could not see urban at all last night. Then it took me another fair few minutes this morning.

Don’t know what ranes are or why I played it. My standard second guess in that situation is saner, but I forgot it. I think I conflated ranes with rales, but in any case I just typed in ranes on a whim and it worked.

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Wordle 987 4/6

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SLANT
CHORE
UNBAR
URBAN

After 2, how the $#@! did I see UNBAR but not URBAN?? (Also saw RANGY but not NADIR. If RANCH hadn’t already been used, I’d have guessed it on 2.)

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Wordle 987 4/6

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RAISE
ARROW
GRANT
URBAN

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Wordle 987 5/6

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HEART
SPRAY
CROAK
BRIAR
URBAN

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Took forever to see the answer.

Wordle 987 5/6

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SLATE
POINT
CANDY
UNMAN
URBAN

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Wordle 987 6/6* 3/2/2024

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FORTY → OK, well, it’s a start, I can mix together A & E and a couple more comcons to get
SNARE → and that’s cool, three unplaced. I really would like to try both an I and an L here, but I can only get one, so
NADIR → and I’m really feeling low now, gotta move the R again (only two spaces left) and I saw
RANCH → but that didn’t move the A (dumb), and for my fifth guess I finally know where the R should go, and I was casting around for possible letters and didn’t vet this one before I hit enter so another A-placement repeat and
WRANG → was my fifth guess, I finally know where the N goes, and played around with repeating the A a few times before I realized I hadn’t tried the U, which made things pretty easy once I put it at the start of the word
URBAN

Took me even longer than Chefguy to see the answer. Definitely a low-skill score for me today.

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I had a really easy time of it today, I’m almost embarrassed to admit. (Almost.)

Wordle 987 3/6*

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IRATE
GROAN
URBAN

My second try was fortuitous and left no other answer but URBAN. It didn’t take long to find it, fortunately!