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

Wordle 680 4/6

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PLANT
PLACE
PLAID
PLAZA

Ouchie.

Wordle 680 4/6*

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ALONE
SLART
PLAID
PLAZA

Wordle 680 5/6*

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COACH
TEARY
FLASK
GLAND
PLAZA

Looks like a tough one for many. My third “three” in a row; go me.

Wordle 680 3/6

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CRANE
SPOIL
PLAZA - Apparently “glamp” would have been the other choice. It crossed my mind, but I rejected it. As it is, I puzzled over the answer for some time.

Wordle 680 4/6*

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PLANT
PLACE
PLAID
PLAZA

Well, crap.

Omg! We have the exact same word choices! Ouchie, indeed.

Wordle 680 4/6*

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READY
STACK
LLAMA
PLAZA

Not improving on my second guess worried me a little. LLAMA was a bit of a Hail Mary for me.

Wordle 680 5/6

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Fell victim to the old double vowel + uncommon consonant trick
HEART
FLAKY
PLAID
PLANS
PLAZA

Wordle 680 5/6

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ANISE
TOLAR
LAUGH
BLACK
PLAZA

I kept throwing letters at the wall and nothing was sticking. Very frustrating.
(TOLAR is the pre-Euro monetary unit of Slovenia, by the way. Yes, of course I knew that! :grin:)

Catching up - it’s been a busy few days. Had time to solve these, but not much time to post.

Wordle 678 3/6

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SLANT
CHORE
CIRCA => CIGAR, the only other real possibility, had already been smoked.

Wordle 679 3/6

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SLANT
CHORE
CEDAR

Had to decide between CEDAR and the CAPER/CAGER/CAVER/CARER trap (whichever I did, if the R was yellow, I’d get CREAM in 4, so I didn’t consider that for my 3rd guess). Won that coin toss.

Wordle 680 4/6

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SLANT
DRECK
LLAMA
PLAZA

After my first guess, I came up with 18 plausible solutions. I chose my second word to narrow down that list as much as possible, and it did a great job - I only had two possibilities remaining after that guess.

This time I lost the coin toss, obviously - it happens. :slight_smile: But LLAMA had kept on coming up as a possible solution over the past couple months, and I thought this might be its time. Nope. :smiley:

I’ve been away… you may have noticed. Or not. :wink: I’m still away, but I’ll take a moment to post my recent scores.

Wordle 675 5/6*

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IRATE
SUPER
FOYER
POWER
JOKER

Wordle 676 3/6*

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IRATE
OVERT
METRO

Wordle 677 3/6*

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IRATE
CHILD
LOGIC

Other word was FOLIC, and I didn’t recognize that one as an available choice.

Wordle 678 3/6*

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IRATE
NADIR
CIRCA

Wordle 679 3/6*

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IRATE
CLEAR
CEDAR

Wordle 680 4/6*

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IRATE
SCALY
PLANK
PLAZA

One rather momentous (to me) thing happened yesterday. For the first time ever since I started playing this game, my scored 3s were equal to my scored 4s. It only took 466 games!!

Nice, well done! My 3s are still 10 behind my 4s as of this morning.

You guys are good!
I have 65 more fours than threes.

Yeah, that’s me (or close), too.
Wordle 680 3/6

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AROSE
DAILY
PLAZA

Today’s three owes something to some reading I’ve been doing about Chicago-area movie locations–for example, scenes in the 1993 The Fugitive were filmed in Daley Plaza.

The brain is an odd organ.

Thanks. :slight_smile: That’s where mine sat for most of the time I’ve been playing. I’ve drawn within 2 or 3 a couple of times, but I just couldn’t get to the tie until yesterday. It’s kind of a dumb thing to feel “accomplished” about, but it made me smile.

Wordle 680 5/6

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ANISE
HOAGY
DRAFT
QUACK
PLAZA

Wasn’t a fun one. Too many annoying words this month. Think I may be taking a break (or quitting entirely)…we’ll see. That said, my 3’s surpassed my 4’s this month, so there’s that at least.

Nice work!

Thanks! It’s been a while since that has happened. Still a fair bit behind overall, but I’ve got something to aim for, and I can try to at least close the gap a bit more, if luck is on my side. :wink:

Wordle 681 4/6

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RATIO
RANCH
RANDY
RANGE

Should have checked vowels earlier.

Wordle 681 3/6

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SALETI recently read an article from MIT that said this is the best starting word. I had been using LEAST which uses the same letters but obviously in a different order. SALET paid big dividends, this time.
ROUND
RANGE