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

[spoiler]Wordle 1,050 6/6

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Wordle 1,050 6/6

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RATIO
LANCE
MAPLE
FALSE
VALVE
VALUE

Almost missed this one. Bit of a trap after guess three. After guess four I went through all of the options and concluded that VALVE was the only possible answer. I did look at xALUE but missed VALUE, probably because I was looking for the stress on the second syllable. At least I finally got it though.

Wordle 1050 4/6

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SLANT
LARCH
BALMY
VALUE

Could’ve been VALVE; VALID had been used. (So ‘valve’ was still a valid value. :smiley: )

Feeling pretty good about a 4 right now.

Wordle 1,050 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[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \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 K} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt G} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt V} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \\ \end{aligned}

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Wordle 1,050 3/6

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STERN
CLOUD
VALUEpretty much the only possible word left

Wordle 1,050 4/6

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STILE
LANCE
HALVE
VALUE

I didn’t know it at the time, but LANCE left only three possible words. Of course I saw the least common one.
Based on others’ experiences, I’ll happily take the four!

Aw shit the bed

Wordle 1,050 X/6*

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Wordle 1,050 4/6

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RAISE
LANCE
HALVE
VALUE

Wordle 1,050 4/6* 5/4/2024

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EBONY → Slow start, but I can go with a great second word
LEAST → I kept thinking ALERT here but since I’d already tried the T, didn’t go with it… so I tried really a non-word and it came through
ALURE → Two Ls, man, two Ls! But, I was lucky to pick up the U, because after that there was only one word left
VALUE
Scoredle goes for VALVE on its fourth guess, so I outlasted it, or lucked my way through it, or something like that.

Wordle 1,050 5/6

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HEART
CLEAN
GAVEL
VALVE
VALUE

Bleah.

Wordle 1,050 6/6

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I’ll just sneak in here with the bit of luck I had this morning.

Wordle 1,050 3/6*

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IRATE
FALSE
VALUE

Wordle 1,050 6/6*

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LEAST
IDEAL
LAGER <— D’oh!
FABLE
LANCE ← Dammit! Twice!
VALUE

I got lucky. VALVE was in play, too.

Wordle 1,050 4/6*

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ALONE
STALE
HALVE
VALUE

Wordle 1,050 5/6*

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PLATE
LANCE
FABLE
SALVE
VALUE

The Bot says that the average score for this one was 4.1, which seems low to me, looking at all the scores here.

[spoiler]Wordle 1,051 4/6

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CHORE
STEAM
PECAN
DECAL

Wordle 1,051 5/6

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RATIO
SHALE
LEGAL
PEDAL
DECAL

I didn’t do it systematically today. I just guessed wildly at the trap and was lucky to get the answer.

Wordle 1,050 3/6

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SLATE
GABLE
VALUE

I got lucky with this one. I wanted to check the trap-like words I was seeing, and they were all ruled out with Gable. I had also seen Value and Valve too - I decided to go with the U…and bingo! :slight_smile:

Wordle 1,051 3/6*

\begin{aligned} &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \bbox[lime,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[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt M} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt C} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \\ \end{aligned}

Wordle 1,051 3/6

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STERN
CLOUD
DECAL