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

Wordle 1,024 5/6

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PLANT
SCORE
DEIFY
GREED
BREED

One of the rare occasions where I had to break hard mode rules, which I am loath to do. That left me with a coin toss between greed and breed, and whenever I have a coin toss between B and G my rule is to go for G first. That rule didn’t work out so well this time.

Wordle 1,024 4/6

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SLATE
CHOIR
DUMPY
BREED

Not much to go on after 3 guesses. :thinking: I was then seeing Breed, Greed, and Nerdy, and I chose well. :grinning:

I’ve been busy, so didn’t post yesterday. Here’s yesterday’s results:

Wordle 1,023 3/6*

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IRATE
ASPIC
VOILA

Pure luck. I was letter testing and was frankly surprised that the word was even accepted. But that’s ok, because today made up for yesterday’s bit of luck!

Wordle 1,024 5/6*

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IRATE
WRECK
FREED
GREED
BREED

This one was annoying, because I saw the trap with my third try and of the 3 words I found, even though it was the first one I found, I thought BREED was the least Wordle-ey of the bunch. Wrong.

Wordle 1,024 4/6*

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PLATE
SHEER
CREEK
BREED
And I have to say I was not pleased with 1023, VOILA

TUE APR 9th

Wordle 1,025 5/6*

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ALONE
SHIRE
TRUCE
MERDE
MERGE

That’s right: I’ll see your VOILA and raise you a MERDE.

Wordle 1,025 3/6

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PLANT
SCORE
MERGE

Fortunately merge is my standard third word after getting nothing but a yellow R and green E. There are over 20 other possible answers, IIRC.

Wordle 1,025 4/6

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RATIO
NURSE
VERGE
MERGE

Same start as yesterday. Kept seeing VERVE but wasn’t going to guess a double V. Probably should have gotten it in three.

Wordle 1025 4/6

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SLANT
CHORE
GRUMP
MERGE

Wordle 1,025 4/6

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STERN
CLOUD
GIMPY
MERGE

Wordle 1,025 5/6*

\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[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \\ &\bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \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 I} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt C} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt N} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt V} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt V} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt M} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt G} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \\ \end{aligned}

Wordle 1,025 5/6

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HEART
RESIN
LEERY
VERVE
MERGE

Wordle 1,025 4/6* 4/9/2024

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BREED → Oh, my. I just gotta try this one. May be my only chance to do so on the second guess
EERIE → Well, at least I was gonna place those Es. Turns out I placed everything (50% chance) so now it’s a bit trappish, but since V and S can go in either remaining letter slot I’ll try
VERSE → Got a long drive today, so
MERGE

Turns out my long drive is irrelevant, it was the only non-BS word left. Scoredle resists my templation on 2, btw, and finishes it in 3. No, you calculating computer. I am a man! I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered! My Wordle is own!

Wordle 1,025 3/6

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RAISE
CRONE
MERGE

Ugh.
Wordle 1,025 6/6

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SLATE
POINT
QUEUE
FENCE
HEDGE
MERGE

Wordle 1,025 4/6*

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LEAST
REFER
NERVE
MERGE

Wordle 1,025 4/6

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AROSE
DIRGE
PURGE
MERGE

I was totally not looking for more E’s.
And VERGE was still on the table. That would have made me very cranky.

Wordle 1,025 5/6*

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Always a new start word

Cling
Grade
Purge
Forge

Summary

Merge

Wordle 1,025 4/6*

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PLATE
SHORE
EYRIE
MERGE
The Bot really didn’t like my 3rd guess, but it narrowed it down to just 4 words. Luckily I did not see the other 3, VERGE, NERVE or VERVE

4s are becoming my norm. Bleah.

Wordle 1,025 4/6*

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IRATE
SPORE
NERVE
MERGE

Wordle 1,025 3/6

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SLATE
CHOIR
MERGE

Lucky 3 today! I was seeing about 4-5 words, and was just feeling Merge the most.