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

Wordle 1,044 3/6

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RATIO
LURED
PRUNE

Wordle 1,044 3/6

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STERN
CLOUD
PRUNE

Wordle 1,044 3/6*

\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[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 P} \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 M} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt P} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt N} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \\ \end{aligned}

Wordle 1,044 3/6*

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ALONE
SHINE
PRUNE

Wordle 1,044 3/6

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RAISE
CRONE
PRUNE

Wordle 1044 4/6

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:white_large_square::green_square::white_large_square::green_square::white_large_square: 13
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SLANT
GRIND
PRONE
PRUNE

Out-clevered myself this morning. My usual second word, CHORE, would have narrowed it down to just the solution. But I noticed that there were a limited number of possible last letters, given what I had after my starting word, so I decided to attack that. Wound up with two possibilities for my third guess, and lost the coin toss that it shouldn’t have come down to in the first place.

I’m in with the in crowd this morning.

Wordle 1,044 3/6

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SLATE
POINT
PRUNE

Wordle 1,044 3/6

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HEART
BONER
PRUNE

Wordle 1,044 3/6*

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LEAST
DRONE
PRUNE

Yikes, a good day to get a 3!

Wordle 1,044 3/6*

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IRATE
PRONE
PRUNE

Wordle 1,044 4/6

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STERN
DRONE
BRINE
PRUNE

Another day, another trap.

Wordle 1,044 4/6* 4/28/2024

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GLEAM → Slow start. Should try three comcons and another vowel. Double up on the E to try to place it? Seems early. OK, here’s a word
TINES → Thought of RINSE right after trying this. Not much progress, but I’ll move the NE over and try again. If I try O as my vowel, and an R, I can see (‘C’?)
CRONE → There’s gotta be a vowel between the R & N, and it pretty much must be a U, so that leaves
PRUNE
An old woman eating dried plums with a polished fork?
I guess it has some potential as a Wordle story. Scoredle actually tries the “repeat an unplaced letter” trick and ends up worse than how I finished.

Wordle 1,044 3/6*

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PLATE
PRONE
PRUNE
I was looking for prunes in a small store just hours ago, and didn’t find them. I never thought they’d turn up in Wordle!

And what a symmetrical pattern!

Wordle 1,044 3/6

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SLATE
CHOIR
PRUNE

Well that was rather lucky! I was seeing about 6-7 possible words.

[spoiler]Wordle 1,045 2/6

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CRATE
CRAFT

WOOT!

Wordle 1,045 4/6*

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

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Wordle 1,045 4/6*

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ALONE
TRASH
GRAFT
CRAFT

Wordle 1045 3/6

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SLANT
CHIRP
CRAFT

Wordle 1,045 3/6

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STERN
CLOUD
CRAFT

Wordle 1,045 3/6

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RATIO
CHART
CRAFT