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

Wordle 1,089 3/6

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RAISE
OUTER
DETER

Not a good wordle week for me.

Wordle 1,089 5/6

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CRANE
SLATE
ETHER
METER
DETER

Wordle 1,089 5/6

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HEART
TERSE
REWET
METER
DETER

Wordle 1,089 6/6* 6/12/2024

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SWUNG → OK, time for a first guess second. Three WoFcons to go, and a pair of vowels, to get
LITER → Oh, dear. Looks trappish. Don’t see a place for Y, and two vowels to go. Seems a bit tight right now… is it an A?
CATER → Nope. Is it an O?
VOTER → Nope. Did I say two vowels to go? Could be another E. Ugh. Well,
METER → I think there’s just one word left…
DETER
METER-DETER
club, always open for more members! I really felt like a character in a Greek tragedy with today’s puzzle; like every move I made was simply a logical extension of my solution process, but destined to lead to a six.

Was it Demeter?

Wordle 1,089 4/6

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SLATE
TENOR
METER
DETER

Sign me up!
At least it wasn’t PETER.

Wordle 1,089 5/6*

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LEAST
PETTY
FETCH ← “Stop trying to make FETCH happen!”
METER
DETER

ETA: “METER-DETER club, always open for more members!”

Sign me up, too!

< sigh >

Also in the club.

Wordle 1,089 5/6*

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IRATE
TOWER
STEER
METER
DETER

Wordle 1,089 4/6*

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PLATE
TENOR
METER
DETER
Another member of the METER-DETER club
!

Thursday, June 13th

Wordle 1,090 2/6

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PLANT
ANGST

Oh hell yeah!

Wordle 1,089 4/6

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SLATE
CHOIR
PONDS
DETER

Not sure if Peter would be on the answer list, but just in case, I wanted to check the D, M, P, and N - so instead of my trusty “Dumpy”, I went with PONDS, but realized later it didn’t matter - would have gotten there regardless if it was Tuner and not one of the trap words.

Wordle 1,090 3/6

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RATIO
SLATE
ANGST

Surprisingly few options left after two.

Wordle 1,090 4/6

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STERN
CLOUD
GIMPY
ANGST

[spoiler]Wordle 1,090 3/6

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MAPLE
GRAIN
ANGST

Wordle 1,090 4/6*

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

Wordle 1,090 4/6*

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ALONE
ACTIN
AUNTY
ANGST

Wordle 1,090 4/6

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HEART
SPLAT
ASCOT
ANGST

Wordle 1,090 4/6

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RAISE
CLASH
ABYSS
ANGST

Wordle 1090 2/6

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SLANT
ANGST

My first deuce in a month, and with a green and three yellows from my starting word, I’d have been kicking myself for anything less. The solution was a challenge to find anyway, because you just don’t look for 4 consonants in a row in a 5-letter word.

For quite a while, the only possibility that I could come up with was CANST, which is way too archaic to be a solution: “canst thou hie thee hence?” It turned out that that was the only other possibility Scoredle could come up with as well.

Another mediocre win for the week.

Wordle 1,090 5/6

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POISE
CRASH
ABYSS
AVAST - dumb choice
ANGST