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

Wordle 1,075 5/6*

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ALONE
SHALT
LARDY
CAULK
PAPAL

Wordle 1,075 5/6

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RAISE
TALON
LAUGH
MADLY
PAPAL

Wordle 1075 4/6

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SLANT
LARCH
MOPED
PAPAL

Scoredle says there was only one possible solution after 3, but it took me the longest time to see what it was.

My 400th in a row.

Cripes.

Wordle 1,075 5/6

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SLATE
ROUGH - vowel eliminator
FINAL
CABAL
PAPAL - this took me for fucking ever

Wordle 1,075 5/6

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ASIDE
MURAL
FATAL
CANAL
PAPAL

Not a fan of double doubles, unless I’m at In N Out.

[spoiler]Wordle 1,075 4/6

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CLEAR
VITAL
NASAL
PAPAL

Awesome!

Wordle 1,075 5/6* 5/29/2024

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MINUS → So I put A & E in a box with three comcons, shook up a few times and got
ALERT → and if there’s one thing I need, it’s another lert. Don’t see many places to put an O, but I should try a terminal Y
BALDY → And here was I stuck. Would like to try an O word but couldn’t see one to save my life. But with the A there, there pretty much must be another vowel. Until I remembered something from anatomy…
VAGAL → and with that it was a short step to
PAPAL

So that was a bit of a slog. Having only three letters out of the alphabet made it hard to get a quick win, as I think we’ve demonstrated - as of this writing no one here has gotten below par.

Wordle 1,075 4/6*

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LEAST
CLOAK
ANNAL
PAPAL

Wordle 1,075 5/6

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SLATE
CHOIR
BUMPY
APPAL
PAPAL

This was a bit of a slog…there were a lot of words to sort through. BUMPY would check a lot of them, and it left just two words that I could see. Something didn’t look right with Appal, but I went with it in any case…should have looked up the spelling. :upside_down_face:

Wordle 1,075 3/6*

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PLATE
PALLY
PAPAL
The double double meant that I took ages to get it

Wordle 1,076 4/6*

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ALONE
SHIRT
DUMPY
GUMMY

Wordle 1,076 6/6

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PLANT
SCORE
BUDDY
FUZZY
YUMMY
GUMMY

Papal then gummy, huh? Wordle editor bringing out the big guns. What’s tomorrow going to be, queue?

Wordle 1,076 5/6

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RATIO
LUNES
DUCHY
MUGGY
GUMMY

After three, I was worried about PUPPY or MUMMY, but couldn’t rule out BUGGY. I chose MUGGY to get as much information as possible.

Wordle 1,076 4/6

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STERN
CLOUD
GIMPY
GUMMY

Wordle 1,076 6/6* 5/30/2024

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PAPAL → Whiff. TIme for a good first guess second…
TONER → Another whiff. I’d better at least find a vowel…
MUSIC → There’s one! I’ll need to at least double up on that M, and try a Y
DUMMY → OK, do I need to triple up on it?
MUMMY → Oh, I’m an idiot - excluded by my third guess. Well, at least there’s just one word left
GUMMY

And Scoredle reminds me of YUMMY, which I probably would have picked had I seen it. So, close to my second miss of the week.

Wordle 1,076 5/6*

\begin{aligned} &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \bbox[silver,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[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt Q} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt N} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt N} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt Y} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt G} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt P} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt P} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt Y} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt G} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt M} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt M} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt Y} \\ \end{aligned}

Wordle 1076 4/6

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SLANT
CHORE
DUMPY
GUMMY

Fortunately overlooked YUMMY; MUMMY had already been used.

Nah, it was #883. QUAFF is still available, though. (I have a tab of Q-words in my spreadsheet.)

Wordle 1,076 6/6

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HEART
SPOIL
FUNNY
DUMMY
MUMMY
GUMMY

Wordle 1,076 5/6

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RAISE
COUNT
BUMPY
DUMMY
GUMMY