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

Wordle 1,048 3/6

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SLATE
SLIME
SLICE

Wordle 1,048 4/6*

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PLATE
SLIME
SLIDE
SLICE
Lost the coin toss

Wordle 1,049 3/6

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RATIO
SHONE
EBONY

Wordle 1,049 4/6

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STERN
CLOUD
GIMPY
EBONY

Wordle 1049 3/6

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SLANT
CHORE
EBONY → could’ve also been PEONY I suppose.

Wordle 1,049 3/6*

\begin{aligned} &\bbox[yellow,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 N} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt N} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt Y} \\ \end{aligned}

[spoiler]Wordle 1,049 3/6

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TEACH
PRONE
EBONY

Wordle 1,049 2/6*

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ALONE
EBONY

Wordle 1,049 3/6

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PLANT
SCONE
EBONY

Thought I did pretty well with this but looks like it was a relatively easy answer in general.

Wordle 1,049 4/6

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RAISE
OFTEN
PEONY
EBONY

Wordle 1,049 5/6

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HEART
QUEEN bold if not bright move
NOVEL
OPINE well 4 spots for the E failed
EBONY

Just had to mention that IVORY was the solution to Wordle #59. So now EBONY and IVORY live together in perfect harmony on the list of past Wordle solutions.

Wordle 1,049 3/6*

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LEAST
DROVE
EBONY

Wordle 1,049 4/6

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SLATE
POISE
ENDOW
EBONY

The bot says “No one in our sample of 1,776,369 completed Wordles faced this scenario!” I guess that’s. . .something.

Wordle 1,049 4/6* 5/3/2024

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SLICE → Slow start. What’s more, I can’t see a word of three comcons and two vowels, one of which is E. So I’ll try the E smack dab in the middle and fill in com- and less-than-com-cons around it
TREND → Good job with the N! And it eliminated another possible place for the E. I still feel vowel-light here, so I’ll try two of them with the next guess
MEANY → Good luck on the Y (though I should have doped out that it had to be that)! E placed by process of elimination. E??NY, time to trust the B
EBONY
When I finished, I thought “Maybe IVORY tomorrow?” But thanks to RTFirefly I know my best case is probably MOODY.
I considered what Scoredle picked for my third guess, but I think my third guess made my final guess easier in the end. Fun par.

Wordle 1,049 3/6

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LATER
SCONE
EBONY

As is often the case, the second word was make-or-break. I chose well.

Took the longer road on solving this one, for sure.

Wordle 1,049 4/6*

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IRATE
DEMON
HONEY
EBONY

Wordle 1,049 4/6*

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PLATE
SERIF
ENEMY
EBONY

Saturday, May the 4th be with you.

Wordle 1,050 5/6

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PLANT
LASER
FABLE
VALVE
VALUE

Ouch.

Wordle 1,049 4/6

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SLATE
CHOIR
PEONY
EBONY

I saw Ebony first, and then Peony…and since I just planted a peony plant today that I’m really excited about (never had one before), I just had to go with that one first. :laughing: Ah well…a 4 it is for today.



@chiliwillybing Great minds…looks like we both liked peony. :grinning: