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

Wordle 1,022 4/6*

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Rhino
Night
Winch
Finch

Beated the bot again

Trap day, I see.

Wordle 1,022 5/6

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CRANE
LINCH
PINCH
WINCH
FINCH

Wordle 1,022 4/6* 4/6/2024

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WRIST → Now that is a slow start. Need to try an E here, with comcons and… another vowel? Or another consonant? Let’s try
LINED → This is looking a little trappy. But, at least, I don’t see many more vowels that can go here though I should check one
PINKY → Starting to get a little nervous. Hey, that knocked out PINOT as well! Good guess, in retrospect. Looking around for consonant pairs that can go after that N, I see
FINCH
NINJA, MINIM and BINGO
were still out there, which means I was mighty lucky. Especially considering Scoredle takes five to solve from WRIST,

Wordle 1,022 4/6*

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LEAST
GOURD
PICKY <<–I knew this had been used, but I had no letters!
FINCH

I forgot to play yesterday! First thing, i checked the used words to see if LEAST was the word. Whew!

WB used corns on guess two.
Not my favorite🤭

Wordle 1,022 4/6

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OUNCE
PINCH
WINCH
FINCH

Bah. I guessed that it was either a _INCH word or FANCY. (I missed seeing RANCH.) First instinct was to put down FINCH to check for the F, but then thought, nah, if it isn’t _INCH then I’ll know it’s FANCY, so I don’t need to check for F.
Talked myself out of a two.

Another 4. So annoying! But it could have been worse, so I’ll take it.

Wordle 1,022 4/6*

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IRATE
SPINY
WINCH
FINCH

Wordle 1,022 4/6

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SLATE
CHOIR
PINCH
FINCH

Toss-up today…instead of a sleuth to guarantee a 4, I just went for it - good thing it wasn’t Winch.

Wordle 1,022 5/6*

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PLATE
SCION
RUNIC
WINCH
FINCH

Add me to the WINCH before FINCH club! And @chela I agree with you on not thinking highly of Wb’s 2nd guess.

Barely remembered to play in time.
Wordle 1,022 5/6

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HEART
SHINY
APHID
LINCH
FINCH

[spoiler]Wordle 1,023 5/6

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Bah!

Wordle 1,023 4/6

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PLANT
LASER
VOCAL
VOILA

I don’t love voila as a Wordle answer. I guess it qualifies as a borrowed word in English at this point, but it really feels French to me. Will voici also be an answer?

Wordle 1,023 3/6

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RATIO
AXIOM
VOILA

Wordle 1,023 5/6

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STERN
CLOUD
GIMPY
HAWKS
VOILA!

Wordle 1,023 4/6*

\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[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[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt N} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt C} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt V} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt V} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \\ \end{aligned}

Wordle 1023 5/6

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SLANT
LARCH
IMPEL
VILLA
VOILA

That’s not an English word. It’s certainly familiar to English speakers, but still.

Wordle 1,023 6/6*

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ALONE
POLAR
LOAMY
TOTAL
DOULA
VOILA

What the actual fuck?

Wordle 1,023 4/6* 4/7/2024

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FINCH → Fourth Wordle in a row with an I. It’s been a minute since I’ve struck out completely with the first guess. The second guess is a choice between a vowel hunt or three comcons - I’ll go for the former
RAISE → Got a vowel, now I’d really like to clean up a couple more comcons… but I’d need to double up to do so. Since it’s early (in the morning, and in the game) I’ll try it, which may be a fool’s errand
ATILT → Struck out on the T’s, but finding and placing the L is great - and the A must go on the end, so ??ILA - I guess it’s
VOILA

It’s common enough, I suppose, but it’s making loanwords do a lot of heavy lifting. Scoredle solved it just like I did from FINCH, execpt that it tried AXIAL with it’s third guess which gave it just enough info to place the L.

Wordle 1,023 3/6

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RAISE
ALIGN
VOILA

Wordle 1,023 4/6

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SLATE
RALLY
VIOLA - Yay, a three. . .wait, what?
VOILA - Je n’aime pas cette merde!