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

Wordle 1028 3/6

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SLANT
CHORE
WHINY

Wordle 1,028 3/6

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HEART
SHINY
WHINY

Wordle 1,028 3/6

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RAISE
CLING
WHINY

Wordle 1,028 4/6

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CRANE
SPENT - head smack
LOONY
WHINY

Wordle 1,028 4/6*

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LEAST
COUGH
WHIRR ← I wasn’t even sure that was the correct spelling. Should have gone with
WHINY ← first.

Wordle 1,028 4/6* 4/12/2024

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LOUSE → Wow, strikeout - but three vowels gone, and two comcons, so that’s something. I can get the last two common vowels and three comcons with
TRAIN → So I think I should check the Y next, right on the end of the word, and I saw
WINDY → which didn’t leave much left but
WHINY

Scoredle had a similar strategy but checked Y instead of T with its second guess (RAINY) which allowed it to birdie. So in this case, covering the vowels early paid off.

Wordle 1,028 5/6

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CAUSE
MINOR
FLING
THINK
WHINY

I was aware that my starter shares three letters with yesterday’s answer, but I decided to keep the list in order come what may. I wasn’t mad at the clean miss, but then my second word dint give me much. Could be a slog ahead!
I was sure I’d at least saved par with THINK, and when I figured out the answer it made me, well, WHINY.

Lucky second word choice. One of my favorites!

Wordle 1,028 3/6*

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IRATE
SPINY
WHINY

Wordle 1,028 3/6

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SLATE
CHOIR
WHINY

Wordle 1,028 4/6*

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PLATE
SCION
BRINY
WHINY

Annoyed at second-guessing myself out of a 3. First I thought of WHINY and then decided that BRINY was more likely

SAT APR 13th

Wordle 1,029 3/6*

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ALONE
SHELF
STEEL

Wordle 1,029 3/6

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RATIO
TUNES
STEEL

Wordle 1,029 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[lime,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[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt H} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt F} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \\ \end{aligned}

Wordle 1029 2/6

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SLANT
STEEL

When your starting word nets you a green and two yellows, and they’re all consonants, that’s one hell of a good start!

STOLE, STOOL, and STYLE had been used, leaving STEEL, STELE, STILE, and SILTY. STEEL not only was the most obvious choice, but if wrong, would tell me which of the others was right. So no-brainer at 2. :slight_smile:

Wordle 1,029 2/6

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STERNcould be steak steal steam steel steep
STEELa lucky guess!

The last two letters could be among…

A E K L M P. The 4th letter is clearly either A or E.
If 4 is an A, then 5 must be K, L, or M.
If 4 is an E, then 5 must be L or P.
I could have guessed MAPLE, to eliminate and isolate letters.
Guessing either STEAL or STEEL is the better play.

Sometimes it’s better to be lucky than good!

Wordle 1,029 3/6

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PLANT
STOLE
STEEL

Guess I’ll be the one to rain on the 2 parade with my pedestrian 3.

Been awhile since the last two!

Wordle 1,029 2/6

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SLATE
STEEL - I considered ‘spelt’ and ‘smelt’, but they didn’t seem likely somehow.

Wordle 1,029 3/6

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RAISE
SLEPT
STEEL

Wordle 1,029 2/6*

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LEAST
STEEL

Easy peasy!

Wordle 1,029 3/6* 4/13/2024

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WHINY → That’s the kind of start that could make me, well, you know. At least, I have a great word for my second guess - three comcons and two very common vowels, and I’m awake and
ALERT → which turns out to be a very good thing, as I would normally be loath to double up a letter at this stage, but having S still unguessed made it easy to try
STEEL
STELE
was also possible, but seems like less of a Worldle word than the answer. Scoredle tries PARES as its second guess and ends up with a four.