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

Wordle 1,015 3/6

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PLANT
SCORE
FORCE

Always love a 3 after blanking the opener.

Wordle 1,015 5/6

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RATIO
SHORE
BORNE
FORGE
FORCE

I really thought I had it on four. I was getting tired of going through the possibilities and I almost guessed GORGE so when I saw the first letter turn I thought it was good.

Wordle 1015 3/6

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SLANT
CHORE
FORCE → May it be with you.

Wordle 1,015 3/6

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STERN
CLOUD
FORCE

Wordle 1,015 4/6*

\begin{aligned} &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \bbox[yellow,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 G} \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[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \\ &\bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \\ &\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 C} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \\ \end{aligned}

Four 3s in a row now. Can disaster be far behind?

Wordle 1,015 3/6

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CRANE
POINT
FORCE

My first two in a while…

Wordle 1,015 2/6

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COURT
FORCE

Wordle 1,015 4/6*

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LEAST
POWER
HORDE
FORCE

Wordle 1,015 3/6

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HEART
BONER
FORCE

Wordle 1,015 3/6

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RAISE
PRONE
FORCE

Wordle 1,015 3/6

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I have not been doing the puzzle every day anymore, and I stopped my subscription to NYT

Wordle 1,015 5/6* 3/30/2024

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REALM → OK, good start. Try two more comcons, add an O for a vowel hunt, shake jumble-style and try
SNORE → Good luck on the O, and a placed E is nice. T is still out there, and I can see one word that tries it
TORTE → In retrospect, should have tried FORTE, covering yet another consonant. For a second here, I was thinking GORGE, but an aversion to another repeat-letter debacle caused me to look around and try
FORGE → which pretty much… well… forced me into the answer
FORCE

So, I really screwed up that third guess, but if I had gone with my retrospective instinct, I probably still would have ended up with a bogey. Scoredle, OTOH, lucks into the first letter on the second guess by going on a search to place the E, and ends up with a good coin flip for a par.

Still nestling with the 3s today.

Wordle 1,015 3/6*

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IRATE
SPORE
FORCE

Wordle 1,015 5/6

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ABOUT
OILER
HERON
WORSE
FORCE

Not my best-played game. Should have put the E at the end sooner, and WORSE didn’t eliminate anything but itself. Still, it was a mini-trap, so who knows how it might have gone.
The good news is that I wasn’t in danger of a fail, and at least five is better than six.

Wordle 1,015 3/6

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SLATE
CHOIR
FORCE

Wordle 1,015 3/6*

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PLATE
ROUSE
FORCE

Yellows? Who needs them?

SUN MAR 31st

Wordle 1,016 4/6*

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ALONE
TOGAS
TAROK
TABOO

Wordle 1,016 4/6

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PLANT
RATES
TACKY
TABOO

After 2 I saw tabby and then taffy and thought “ugh” for both. Got so happy when I saw tacky but no joy. Then, completely stumped, I sincerely thought “well, I could try trusting the B” and typed in TAB and just stared at it for a minute until taboo finally appeared.

My Platoon number in boot camp was Platoon 1016.

Wordle 1016 5/6

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STERN
CLOUD
GIMPY
HAWKS
TABOO

Wordle 1,016 3/6*

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