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

Wordle 1,076 4/6

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SLATE - crap
GROIN - vowel eliminator, so it has to be a ‘u’, has a double consonant and probably ends in ‘y’
GUPPY - right idea, wrong choice
GUMMY

Wordle 1,076 5/6

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ARIEL
SNOUT
CHUMP
DUMMY
GUMMY

All five vowels and all five WoF consonants on the board, and all I had was a single unplaced U. Not great. I smelled the terminal Y, but decided to throw as many consonants as possible at the wall to try to stay out of the _U__Y trap. And that worked. Lost the coin toss, but still not mad to escape with a bogey here; early on, it felt like I was on the road to a fail.

When I’m guessing, I stay away from words with multiples of the same letter but lately it seems that’s been the case in recent days.

Wordle 1,076 3/6*

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LEAST
MINOR
GUMMY

It was the only vowel left, but I still got lucky.

Wordle 1,076 3/6*

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PLATE
MINOR
GUMMY

@Rebo Yes lucky here too! DUMMY and YUMMY were possible, but I didn’t see them.
And 6% of hard mode players didn’t guess it, meaning broken streaks.

[spoiler]Wordle 1,077 3/6

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:green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square:[/spoiler]

CLOSE
COATS
CHAOS

Wordle 1,077 4/6

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PLANT
SCARE
CHASM
CHAOS

Another terminal S.

Wordle 1,076 4/6

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SLATE
CHOIR
DUMPY
GUMMY

Wordle 1,077 4/6

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RATIO
NODAL
AWOKE
CHAOS

Another one where I couldn’t find an answer. I was so sure that xxAOX could not be possible.

Wordle 1,077 4/6*

\begin{aligned} &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \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 R} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \\ &\bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt N} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt F} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt H} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt C} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt H} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \\ \end{aligned}

Wordle 1077 3/6

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SLANT
CHASE - so close!
CHAOS - tap-in for the birdie

First 3 in nearly a week.

Wordle 1,077 3/6*

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ALONE
SOAPY
CHAOS

Wordle 1,077 5/6

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HEART
SLASH
CHADS should be obvious but I stupidly move a correct placement for the next guess
CHASM
CHAOS

Wordle 1,077 5/6

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STERN
CLOUD
GIMPY
HAWKS
CHAOS

Wordle 1,077 3/6

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RAISE
STACK
CHAOS

Wordle 1,077 4/6* 5/31/2024

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GUMMY → Not unexpected. I had a first guess played second ready for just this eventuality
SLATE → Would be nice to try both N & R, but I don’t see how. I’ll load up on consonants and trust the B
BRASH → If the S is second, I pretty much have to have a vowel in first, but then ?SAH? goes nowhere. So it’s a terminal S, which is odd. HOA?S goes nowhere, ?HA?S with no leading S or T pretty much forces a C which looks like
CHAOS

I resisted putting that final letter in that spot for as long as I could. Scoredle figures it out really quickly; I think it likes getting that fourth letter out there as soon as possible.

Wordle 1,077 4/6

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CRANE
CLAIM
COAST
CHAOS

Wordle 1,077 3/6

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ACUTE
BASIC
CHAOS

I came up with CHAOS rather quickly and was feeling proud of myself.
There were more words left than I thought, so it’s a good thing I didn’t think harder about it. I’ll take a little luck these days.

Wordle 1,077 4/6*

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LEAST
SHARK
CHAIS
CHAOS

CHAIS was a dumb guess. I didn’t see CHAOS, though!

Wordle 1,077 3/6

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SLATE
CHOIR
CHAOS