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

Wordle 673 3/6*

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SOLID
ANTIC
UNZIP

Wordle 673 4/6*

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SALET
PRION
NIPPY
UNZIP

Took me longer than I care to say.

Wordle 673 4/6*

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ALONE
UNITS
UNPIN
UNZIP

Got lucky with my second guess.

Wordle 673 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[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 Q} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt M} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt N} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt N} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt P} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt N} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt N} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt Z} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt P} \\ \end{aligned}

Wordle 673 4/6

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LEAST
ROUND
PICKY
UNZIP

Wordle 673 4/6

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IDEAL
MOIST
CUPID
UNZIP

Wordle 673 3/6

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PLANT
RONES
UNZIP

I don’t think I’ve ever seen yellow P and N before. It kind of threw me, to the point that I forgot the P with my second guess. Not to mention that I don’t know what rones are.

Wordle 673 5/6

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RATIO
MEDIC
VIGIL
UNFIX
UNZIP

This was tough. I couldn’t see anything after the first two guesses. I was trying everything starting with UN. I even thought about just trying five new letters.

Wordle 673 4/6

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:yellow_square::yellow_square::white_large_square::white_large_square::white_large_square: 53
:white_large_square::yellow_square::white_large_square::yellow_square::white_large_square: 2
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SLART
NICHE
DUMPY
UNZIP

Happy to get a 4, no way I was going to get this in 3.

Only other possibility on my last guess was UNPIN, which crops up nowadays in phrases like “unpin from taskbar” but still struck me as a bit less in common use than the solution.

Ugh.

Wordle 673 5/6

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CRANE
SPOIL
PUNIM - both wordlebot and I were surprised by this one
UNPIN
UNZIP

Wordle 673 4/6*

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SNARL
ONION
INPUT
UNZIP

This was a tricky one!

I don’t get how wordlebot got his 3. slate croNY unzip
I am miffed that he was kind of rude about my choices. He told me there was only one word after my second guess. I took all six and it was blind luck.
Wordle 673 6/6
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Wordle 673 5/6

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Tough nut today. Had to fish for vowels on my third guess, knowing there was no O.
HEART
LIONS
UNION
UNDID
UNZIP

Wordle 673 3/6*

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QUICK
FLUID
UNZIP

Bah! I struggled with this one. (Obviously!)

Wordle 673 5/6*

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IRATE
SPINY
PINCH
UNPIN
UNZIP

I think I heard WordleBot mutter, “Idiot,” under its breath.

Wordle 673 3/6

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AUDIT
EQUIP
UNZIP

One of my lower-tier starters came through for me today.

Wordle 673 5/6* 4/23/2023

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BROKE → OK then.
STAIN → Not a bad second. If I tried a UN-, what could I have?
UNDID → Not that, and probably a bad idea to try a repeat here. I’m rather a square, so I’ll try…
UNHIP → Which got the terminal P, and I should remember that even though H is more commonly used than Z, a word with H can be rarer than a word with Z…
UNZIP

Scoredle started best-guessing the right answer after my second guess. I can almost imagine it taunting me as I cast about for the right answer…

Wordle 673 3/6

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STAIN
GENIE
UNZIP

I was so sure it was Genie…wasn’t considering words that started with a vowel yet. I then had several UN words, and I almost went with Unpin, but I decided to take a chance with the rare Z. Good choice. :wink:

That’s some Wordle poetry that is.

Wordle 673 4/6*

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Summary

Tapir
Spoil
Pubic
Unzip

Wordle 673 4/6

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AROSE
FLUID
TUNIC
UNZIP

Kind of surprised TUNIC hasn’t yet been a solution.