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

Wordle 1,090 3/6

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ROAST
WAIST
ANGST

Dammit! I saw ANGST almost immediately, but felt compelled to keep looking, then waffled back and forth a bit before settling on WAIST.
Shoulda just gone with my gut.

Wordle 1,090 3/6*

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LEAST
WAIST
ANGST

Wordle 1,090 4/6* 6/13/2024

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DETER → Slow start. Hoped for one and only one E. Well, let’s try something with an A, two WoFcons, and another vowel. Hmmm…
STAIN → So now I’m basically playing Jumble. Let’s keep that ST pair together. ASTON? Proper noun. Or, with a Y, could be
NASTY → But not. Nothing placed yet! Frustrating. The permutations here got pretty hard to keep track of, so I started with putting the letters I know into alphabetical order, which let to AN?ST, which I saw as
ANGST

Scoredle goes five from DETER, and takes as long to place the T as I do. The frustrating thing is that out of 22 possibles Scoredle shows after my second guess, only two were non-bogus - and I tried them in the wrong order. Alas.

Wordle 1,090 4/6*

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PLATE
BATCH
AFOOT
ANGST

Finally a 3. Hard won, it was!
Wordle 1,090 3/6*

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IRATE
HAUNT
ANGST

According to the Bot, my second try left only ANGST. But it took a really, really long time for me to work it out.

Friday, June 14th

Wordle 1,091 2/6

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PLANT
VAULT

Two in a row!

Wordle 1,090 3/6

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SLATE
ANTSY
ANGST

Nice to finally get a 3…they’ve been a bit of a rarity these days. I was seeing several A words, so I thought it best to go with one of them…good choice!

Wordle 1,091 4/6

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RATIO
PASTE
FAULT
VAULT

Wordle 1,091 5/6

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STERN
CLOUD
GIMPY
HAWKS
VAULT

Wordle 1,091 3/6*

\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 F} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt V} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \\ \end{aligned}

Wordle 1,091 4/6*

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ALONE
SHALT
FAULT
VAULT

Wordle 1091 2/6

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SLANT
VAULT

Had a lot of help from the used words list for this one, as ADULT, FAULT, and VALET had already been used. AGLET was a possibility, but it didn’t seem likely.

[spoiler]Wordle 1,091 4/6

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ROAST
HABIT
TAUNT
VAULT

Wordle 1,091 4/6

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RAISE
TALON
FAULT
VAULT

Wordle 1,091 3/6

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HEART
SPLAT
VAULT

Wordle 1,091 3/6

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SLATE
PROUD
VAULT - Lucky I didn’t see ‘fault’ first

Wordle 1,091 5/6* 6/14/2024

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ANGST → An early placed T is nice. Where should the A go? And, I have three WoFcons out of the way, so don’t need to get too obsessive about checking them. Hence,
CHART → Nothin’ doin’. I really need to try some vowels - not doing so with this last guess was a mistake, in retrospect - but I’m only seeing words that can get one for the moment
FLOAT → Missed on the vowel, hit on the L. One place left for the A, and I’ll get thie E as well - oh, this must be it
VALET → This wasn’t it. So it’s a U…
VAULT

Scoredle looks at me smugly, as it finishes in 3 from a start of ANGST. That T at the end from the start really threw me off - couldn’t see good guesses early.

Wordle 1,091 4/6*

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IRATE
PATCH
GAMUT
VAULT

Wordle 1,091 2/6*

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LEAST
VAULT

ADULT and FAULT were already used. Yayfor a two! It’s been a while.

Wordle 1,091 5/6

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RENAL
ALLOT
SHALT
FAULT
VAULT

Not my best showing. I don’t regret ALLOT to help place the L, but after that, one of the U words would have led me to a par at most. SHALT gave me no information. Played it too fast.