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

Another 3. Will take. It could have been much worse.

Wordle 995 3/6*

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IRATE
CRASH
GRASP

That’s what I thought that the bot was saying, but still, I didn’t really feel that it was that important to harp on what could have happened vs. what actually did happen.

Wordle 995 3/6*

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PLATE
SPARK
GRASP

Wordle 996 4/6

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RATIO
LUNES
SPECK
PESKY

Lucky guess on three just trying as many letters as possible.

Wordle 996 4/6

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SLANT
CHORE
GIMPY
PESKY

No way I was going to get this in 3, so I’m happy with the 4.

Wordle 996 4/6*

\begin{aligned} &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \bbox[lime,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 M} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt N} \\ &\bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt G} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt P} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt K} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt Y} \\ \end{aligned}

Wordle 996 4/6

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STERN
CLOUD — one of these days, STERN or CLOUD will be the Wordle!
GIMPY
PESKY

Wordle 996 4/6

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HEART
PEONY
PECKY
PESKY

Wordle 996 3/6

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PLANT
PROSE
PESKY

There were remarkably few possible answers left after two.

Wordle 996 4/6* 3/11/2024

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GRASP → Not bad, I like that letter pair at the start, so
SPELT → Hit on the E… and I’d like to try an N. But that goes to one word that probably won’t ever be an answer… oh, what the heck
PENIS → So, PES??, PESTO is out there is one with a Y…
PESKY

Yeah, I went there. Hey, Scoredle points out that PUBES was out there on that guess as well…

Wordle 996 3/6

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SLATE
POUND - vowel search, but the “P” was a lucky find
PESKY

Wordle 996 3/6

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RAISE
SPECK
PESKY

Wordle 996 2/6

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POISE
PESKY

Well, whatta ya know?
An extremely fortunate opener today; along with 70 ‘S’ plurals and an handful of nonsense words, all that was left were PESKY and PESTY. I didn’t know that was the case, but after a couple minutes I just went for it. Woot!

Wordle 996 3/6*

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LEAST
SEIZE
PESKY

Wow! That was very lucky!

Bah!

Wordle 996 5/6*

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IRATE
DECOY
JELLY
PENNY
PESKY

Wordle 996 4/6

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SLATE
CHOIR
MUSKY
PESKY

Kind of messed this one up and forgot about the E on my 3rd guess. I also had seen Messy and Pesky, and I wasn’t sure what else but decided to guess one of those three words, and I go and choose the invalid one. At least I got the K and Y and could solve from there.

Wordle 996 3/6*

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ALONE
TERMS
PESKY

Wordle 996 5/6*

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Wordle bot was certain I’d solve by the third guess.:roll_eyes:

Summary

Anvil
Terse
Sedum :cowboy_hat_face:
Pesos :rofl:
Pesky

Wordle 996 2/6*

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PLATE
PESKY
The 1st word I could think of that started with a P, contained an E and wasn’t on the used list (like PERCH)
I also thought of PENIS, but WordleBot was very unenthusiastic about it when I used it a few weeks ago)

TUE MAR 12

Wordle 997 4/6*

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ALONE
SCARE
EVADE
HEAVE

[spoiler]Wordle 997 5/6

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