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

Wednesday, April 10th

Wordle 1,026 3/6

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PLANT
STORE
BROTH

Spent a few minutes staring at TRO__ to no avail before switching gears to _ROT_, which very quickly led to broth. And hey, it never hurts to trust the B!

Wordle 1,026 4/6

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RATIO
TROPE
FROST
BROTH

Wordle 1,026 4/6

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TRANS
LOUIE
WROTH
BROTH

Logically, I should’ve thought of ‘broth’ LONG before ‘wroth’, but I figured the middle three had to be ROT and when I was trying to find a word that fit that I got Invictus in my head somehow.

Wordle 1,026 4/6*

\begin{aligned} &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \bbox[silver,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[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt N} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt K} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \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 H} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt H} \\ \end{aligned}

Wordle 1026 3/6

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SLANT
CHORE
BROTH

After 2, the solution had to be a -ROTH word, and FROTH had been used, leaving BROTH, TROTH, and WROTH. The latter two are more obscure than they used to be, so I went with BROTH.

Wordle 1,026 6/6

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STERN
CLOUD
GIMPY
HAWKShas to be broth or froth
BEFITfinding the B or F, just in case it’s something else
BROTH

Wordle 1,026 4/6

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HEART
THROW
ORTHO
BROTH

Wordle 1,026 4/6

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RAISE
COURT
THROW
BROTH

Meh.

Wordle 1,026 4/6

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SLATE
POINT
TROLL
BROTH

Wordle 1,026 3/6*

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LEAST
TRUMP
BROTH

Wordle 1,026 3/6* 4/10/2024

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MERGE → Slow start. Need to hunt for some vowels, so two more comcons means my second guess word of
ROAST → Really should try something with L or N, but I also like to try a TH- word. For a second I thought about THROB, but saw I’d already checked the R in the middle, so rearranged it to spell
BROTH

I feel really lucky on this one. Scoredle takes all six guesses to solve from my start, and I had at least eight valid possibles with the third guess (including TROCK, go figure).

Wordle 1,026 3/6

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RAISE
TURBO
BROTH

I made a good (i.e. lucky) choice on the second word. I wanted O, U, and at least one more comcon. I came up with GROUT, MOURN, and TURBO.
GROUT would have left me with 15 possible words, and MOURN with 53. But hitting that B in TURBO narrowed my choices to just one. I was due for a little luck!

Wordle 1,026 3/6

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SLATE
CHOIR
BROTH

Wordle 1,026 4/6*

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Video
Ghost
Froth
Broth

Wordle 1,026 3/6*

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ALONE
SHORT
BROTH

w00t!! And I earned this one, too!

Wordle 1,026 2/6*

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IRATE
BROTH

After IRATE, I narrowed it down to FROTH, BROTH and TRUTH. There was also PROTO, but I didn’t find that one. FROTH and TRUTH had already been used, so…

Wordle 1,026 3/6*

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PLATE
SOUTH
BROTH

Wordle 1,027 5/6

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RATIO
SHONE
COPSE
MOUSE
LOUSE

Got stuck listing all the xOOSE and xOUSE possibilities until I realized that the O couldn’t be in the third place. Decided to guess on the first letter to try for a four.

[spoiler]Wordle 1,027 3/6

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CHAIR
STOLE
LOUSE

Wordle 1,027 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[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 S} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \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[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt P} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \\ \end{aligned}