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

My only loss was hunky, which searching the previous thread was in Wordle 420. That puts my current streak at 652.

I did have to change phones last year when the battery on my old phone started swelling. I logged my stats in excel before the switch and now my new phone shows almost exactly 300 games played.

Ya blew #420, huh? You must’ve been smoking something good. :wink:

Wordle 1,072 3/6*

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PLATE
LOVER
BEVEL

[spoiler]Wordle 1,073 3/6

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CABLE
TIMER
SKIER

Wordle 1,073 4/6

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PLANT
SCORE
SHEER
SKIER

No chance I was ever going to see or guess skier at 3 so I’ll happily take this 4.

Wordle 1,072 4/6

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SLATE
CHOIR
LEVEL
BEVEL

Wordle 1,073 4/6

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RATIO
WHIRL
CRIME
SKIER

Wordle 1,073 5/6*

\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[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt G} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt M} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \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 S} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt H} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \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 S} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt K} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \\ \end{aligned}

Bum.
My longest streak was 223.

Just to add, my current streak is at 580. I missed PARER and I think I forgot to play one day shortly after.

Wordle 1,073 2/6

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RAISE
SKIER

Wordle 1073 4/6

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SLANT
CHORE
SEWER
SKIER

After 2, I was able to narrow it down to 5 unused words (the other 3 were seder, serif, super) but none of them would narrow the choices down to one if it was a miss. So at 3, I had a coin toss with skier and super, and it went my way today.

Wordle 1,073 5/6

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HEART
MINER
CRIER
PLIER
SKIER
My longest streak was 196

Wordle 1,073 3/6

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SLATE
SCORN
SKIER - Total SWAG

I think my longest run has been a paltry 85. Missed days, etc.

Wordle 1,073 5/6

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ROUSE
STEER
SABER
SHIER
SKIER

Gah.
After STEER, I figured A was the more likely vowel. SABER was the only A-word that was its own word without a suffix, so that’s what I went with.
Then, when looking for I-words, I skipped over SKIER because I pronounced it “sky-er” in my head.
Pretty much a train wreck after what I thought was a good start.

Since my streak ended yesterday, I tried chasing after this one. What the hell?

And I lost again.

In the process, I realized that there are so many words still unused, and this game can go for a long long time.

Wordle 1,073 X/6

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STERNmy standard starting word. Lately, anyway.
Can I get this in 2? I’ll try.
Possibles are — saber sabre safer sarge saver sawer sayer scree screw seder serac serge serif serra serum servo sewer share shoer shore shred shrew shyer sider sired skier skyer smore snore sober sorer spare spore spred spree sprew sucre super surge
Previously used are — scare serve sever shire snare sower spire surer
SUPERpossibles now are saver sawer sayer seder sewer shyer skier skyer sober sorer
SOBERpossibles now are saver sawer sayer seder sewer shyer skier skyer
SAVERpossibles now are seder sewer shyer skier skyer
SEWERpossibles now are shyer skier skyer
SHYERI’m somewhat surprised that I didn’t try skier!

Oh well (sigh).

Wordle 1,073 4/6*

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LEAST
GUISE <— D’oh! Doubled up on the wrong S.
FRIES
SKIER

Wordle 1,073 5/6*

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ALONE
THEIR
CIDER
SPIER
SKIER

Wordle 1,073 4/6*

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PLATE
DINER
BRIER
SKIER

I don’t know why I didn’t guess it, since I saw the answer and I’m happy to be a SKIER myself

Wordle 1,073 4/6

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SLATE
SHREW
BUNKS
SKIER

In hindsight, I should have just gone with my usual Choir at guess #2…I’d have had this in 3 guesses. I took my chances on Shrew, and it ruled out a lot of words, but I still was left with five of them, so I came up with BUNKS to sort it out.

Wordle 1,074 3/6

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RATIO
SHINE
MINUS

This took me a ridiculously long time trying to come up with any word for guess three.