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

Wordle 1,010 5/6

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HEART
SHOAL
SAPPY
SAVVY
SALLY WTF

Wordle 1010 3/6

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SLANT → After a brief
DELAY, we
SALLY forth!

I found eleven possibilities after my starting word. Other than SHOAL, SISAL, and SKOAL, my sleuth word at 2 uniquely identified each of the others. If it had come to that, I’d have done those last three in that order. I think the first was way more likely a solution than the other two combined, so I wasn’t worried.

Wordle 1,010 3/6

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RAISE
SALTY
SALLY

Wordle 1,010 5/6

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STERN
CLOUD
GIMPY
SHYLY
SALLY

Wordle 1,010 4/6

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SLATE
SALAD
SALON
SALLY

The Bot loved my word choices, but I really had to force myself on the last attempt, as it seemed like an unlikely word given past answers.

Wordle 1,010 4/6

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ADIEU
MORAL
LATCH
SALLY

Kind of surprised to save par here. I wanted to get the L in place and check for terminal Y. If I’d seen SALSA, I probably would’ve gone with that, so good thing I didn’t.

SALAD and SALSA were the first two words that occurred to me as possibilities after my starting word. Both of them have been solutions already, though.

Wordle 1,010 4/6* 3/25/2024

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TOWEL → Two more comcons, and a vowel hunt. Shake 'em all together and get
SLAIN → well, no, I didn’t really “get slain” 'cause I’m still here but it’s nice to place that S. SALAD or SALSA would both require doubling up. Could place the L with SALLY but that’s a little obscure as a verb rather than a proper noun. Change an L for a D and get
SADLY → which, appropriately, wasn’t the right guess.
SALLY

And Scoredle guesses the answer right off the bat from yesterday’s answer, and guesses the answer for all of my subsequent guesses as well. Maybe I should have gone with my instincts on the third guess…

Wordle 1,010 3/6*

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LEAST
SADLY, I thought I had a two!
SALLY

Wordle 1,010 4/6*

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PLATE
SHOAL
SADLY
SALLY

Another member of the SADLY before SALLY club. I did see the answer fairly early, but didn’t think it likely.
The bot says that 11% of hard mode players didn’t guess it, which is a lot of broken streaks, so in that context a 4 isn’t bad.

I was nearly one of them. It was a coin flip, and the wrong choice would have ended my 555 (now 556, barely) streak.

I’m ashamed to even post this one!

Wordle 1,010 6/6*

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IRATE
SAUCY
SANDY
SAVVY
SAGGY
SALLY

The other possibility, of course, was SAPPY. I just couldn’t go out on SAPPY, so I picked SALLY instead. And I really didn’t believe it was the answer. Phew indeed.

Wordle 1,010 4/6*

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ALONE
SHALT
SADLY
SALLY

TUE MAR 26th

Wordle 1,011 3/6*

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ALONE
TODAY
MAYOR

Wordle 1,011 4/6

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PLANT
RACES
RADAR
MAYOR

Screwed the pooch on this one. Took a big swing with radar as my guess for the win without even realizing I was replaying R in a known bad spot. This was a bad 4.

Wordle 1,011 5/6

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RATIO
SAVOR
LABOR
MANOR
MAYOR

And this is why blindly guessing is not the best strategy.

[spoiler]Wordle 1,011 4/6

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MOUSE
MINOR
MAJOR
MAYOR

Wordle 1,010 4/6

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SLATE
CHOIR
SPLAY
SALLY

Wordle 1,011 4/6

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Wordle 1,011 5/6*

\begin{aligned} &\bbox[silver,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 T} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt M} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt C} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt H} \\ &\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 J} \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 M} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt Y} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \\ \end{aligned}

Wordle 1011 4/6

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SLANT
CHORE
DUMPY
MAYOR

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