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

Wordle 1,034 2/6*

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Fjord
Facet

That was unexpected

Wordle 1,034 3/6

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CANOE
RACER
FACET

Nice start; all it really left was RACER, PACER, and FACET.
I didn’t see FACET, but if I had, I still probably would have gone with RACER, as it would be more informative. A three was in the cards all along, and I’ll take it.

Wordle 1,034 5/6

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STERN
CLOUD
GIMPY
HAWKS
FACET

Wordle 1,034 3/6

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HEART
PLEAT
FACET

Wordle 1,034 2/6

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RAISE
FACET

Wordle 1,034 3/6

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CRANE - nice
ELECT - anchored the T and only leaves. . .
FACET

Wordle 1034 4/6

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SLANT
PERCH
CADET
FACET

Lost the metaphorical coin toss. C’est la vie.

Wordle 1,034 4/6*

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LEAST
EXPAT
CADET
FACET

Wordle 1,034 5/6* 4/18/2024

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TITHE → That’s not a bad start. Try an A, two comcons, and see if I can place that one (and only one) T
LEANT → Barely a proper word, I know, but it got me the letters I wanted. Move the vowels over one and try again
GREAT → So, in essence, ?A?ET. Scanning the remaining consonants, I notice a couple that I should try
CADET → Should have kept looking.
FACET

If you had CADET/FACET as your entry in the “most frequent last two Wordle guesses today” pool, you can count your winnings now. Scoredle, seemling taunting me, would have guessed my last two tries one guess before each one (i.e. guesses 3 & 4 rather than 4 & 5) so I guess I’ve earned the bogey.

Wordle 1,034 4/6*

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PLATE
TAMER
GATED
FACET
I thought of CADET for my 3rd guess, not sure why I went with GATED

Lots of back-of-the envelope solving for this one.

Wordle 1,034 2/6

:green_square::green_square::white_large_square::white_large_square::yellow_square:wanted vowels a,i,e Faire
:green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square:random guess to get the T
Seldom ever get a 2. only 12 times.

[spoiler]Wordle 1,035 2/6

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Yah!

SCONE
RAISE

Wordle 1,035 3/6

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RATIO
RAINY
RAISE

I predict a lot of twos and threes.

Another meh 4.

Wordle 1,034 4/6*

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IRATE
WHEAT
CADET
FACET

Wordle 1,034 3/6

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SLATE
CARET
FACET

Wordle 1,035 5/6

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STERN
CLOUD
GIMPY
HAWKS
RAISE

Wordle 1035 3/6

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SLANT
CARSE - my new 2nd word for when I get yellow S and A on 1
RAISE

Wordle 1,035 4/6*

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

Wordle 1,035 3/6

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PLANT
RACES
RAISE

Whenever I start with just a single yellow a, my thought process is always the same: "My follow-up is races. Wait, why isn’t it cares? C is the second most common starting letter for Wordle answers after S. I forget my original reasoning; I only remember that it is races, not cares. *plays races* Well that went much better than cares would have.

Wordle 1,035 5/6*

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ALONE
TRADE
SACRE
PARSE
RAISE

Hey, why not SACRE? :wink: