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

No 2 for me today. < sniffle >

Wordle 1,042 4/6*

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IRATE
BASIL
MANIC
VAPID

Wordle 1,042 3/6*

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PLATE
RAPID
VAPID

A lucky 2nd guess!

Saturday, April 27th

Wordle 1,043 3/6

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PLANT
CLEAR
GLEAM

The only other word I could see was bleak, which I saw first, but that’s already been an answer.

Wordle 1,043 3/6

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RATIO
SHALE
GLEAM

Wordle 1,043 5/6*

\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[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 L} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt H} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt P} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt G} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt N} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt G} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt M} \\ \end{aligned}

Wordle 1,043 4/6*

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ALONE
CLEAT
PLEAD
GLEAM

Wordle 1043 3/6

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SLANT
ALGAE
GLEAM

Wordle 1,043 4/6

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STERN
CLOUD
GIMPY
GLEAM

Wordle 1,043 5/6

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CRANE
EASEL
PLEAD
BLEAT
GLEAM

Wordle 1,043 4/6* 4/27/2024

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VAPID β†’ Slow start, one vowel found and no comcons down. On the plus side: Time for a good second word!
ROAST β†’ And…not so good. Maybe I should have gone for LEAST. or LEARN. If I try ?LEAN, what can fill in the blank? Ah,
GLEAN β†’ Oh my, thought I chipped in for birdie there, but it bounced off the rim of the cup.
GLEAM

I think I’d get a pretty hefty luck score on that one - in retrospect, I’m kinda surprised I didn’t try CLEAN third. And Scoredle tries BLEAT with its penultimate guess rather than CLEAT - is there a reason why we both didnt trust the C?

Wordle 1,043 4/6

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HEART
CLEAN
PLEAD
GLEAM

Wordle 1,043 4/6*

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LEAST
PLEAD
CLEAR
GLEAM

Wordle 1,043 3/6

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RAISE
CLEAN
GLEAM

Wordle 1,043 3/6*

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Adopt
Glean hesitated here M or N?
Gleam

Wordle 1,043 5/6

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LINER
STOLE
PLEAD
BLEAK
GLEAM

I have a list of 45 start words containing three vowels each. I’ve gotten a little bored of those, and decided to switch things up a little. I started a new list of words with three or four comcons instead.
Day one didn’t go great.

Wordle 1,043 3/6

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SLATE
PLEAD
GLEAM

I almost went with Gleam at 2, but I was seeing 4 words that haven’t been used (Alder, Alley, Gleam, and Plead), and Plead would tell me which one it was. Always good with a 3 regardless (2’s are more fun though :wink:)

Back to a 3. Shew!!

Wordle 1,043 3/6*

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IRATE
CHEAP
GLEAM

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PLATE
BLEAR
GLEAM

[spoiler]Wordle 1,044 6/6

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:green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square:[/spoiler]

Another stoopid

Wordle 1,044 3/6

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PLANT
PRONE
PRUNE

This went well.