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

Wordle 1094 3/6

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SLANT
CHORE
PRIOR

No two ways about it, I was lucky as hell this morning. I was having the devil of a time even coming up with possibilities - the only other one I could think of was RIGOR, but there were several that I completely overlooked, per Scoredle.

Yeah, when I saw that afterwards in Scoredle, I remembered that it had been a solution already. (Back in early 2022. According to my spreadsheet, I got a 5 on that one, and I’m sure I was disgusted at the time that it was a solution.)

ETA: I went back to the original thread and looked, and yeah, we were ALL pretty disgusted that it was a solution. As one regular in this thread said, “Screw you, Wordle!” :wink:

Wordle 1,094 3/6

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HEART
BROIL
PRIOR

Woo-hoo! It’s been awhile for a two. And I don’t check prior words. I also beat the Bot.

Wordle 1,094 2/6

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POISE
PRIOR

Wordle 1,094 3/6

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RAISE
PRINT
PRIOR

Wordle 1,094 3/6

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HOUSE
BROIL
PRIOR

Same second word two days in a row. Today it was more useful.
I got stuck on PRION for the longest time, and resisted it for being too obscure. (In fact, I thought it was a physics term. It’s not; it’s a biology term. But that’s neither here nor there.) Finally, it occurred to me to double the R and there it was.

Wordle 1,094 4/6*

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LEAST
ROUGH
MINOR
PRIOR

Wordle 1,094 4/6* 6/17/2024

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GRIND → Wow. Would not have expected that start. Two more WoFcons and an… E, please?
TRIES → Nada. Eliminates GRILL/TRILL too. FRILL is still around… but still feels too early for a double letter guess. One word is coming to mind, though I think we may have had it before… what the heck, I’ll try it
PRIMO → Oh, it was time for a repeat letter…
PRIOR

Scoredle falls into a trap and takes all six guesses, so I guess I got that going for me.

I always start with the same word, READY. In case I miss all the letters, I’ve got a backup word that covers the rest of the vowels. It used to be PIOUS; but since that was the answer a few months ago, I switched to BIJOU. I’m not locked into Hard mode any longer, although I tend to follow its strictures unless I get desperate.

I get annoyed by Wordlebot at times. I feel that if I do lock into Hard Mode, the bot should also have to. It also bugs me when the bot tells me that a guess was “lucky.”

Anyway, enough complaining. Here’s my result for the day:
Wordle 1,094 4/6

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BTW, anybody tempted by the World archive (not me, btw. My NYT puzzles are enough of a time-suck as it is)?

Wordle 1,094 4/6*

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PLATE
POUCH
PRION
PRIOR

Rats! Coulda had a 3 instead of a 4. My 2nd guess in this situation is usually PRION, but I changed it up today.

Wordle 1,094 4/6*

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IRATE
CRISP
PRIVY
PRIOR

[spoiler]Wordle 1,095 4/6

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ATONE
POWER
MOVER
COVER

Wordle 1,095 3/6

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RATIO
CLOSE
COVER

I did it again! I forgot the R in the second guess but got it in three anyway.

Wordle 1,094 3/6

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SLATE
CHOIR
PRIOR

I thought I’d try my luck on Prior (over Minor or Rigor) since I was feeling it the most. Felt good to nail it in 3…got some catching up to do with my 4’s taking the lead so far this month.



I am, but I don’t have a NYT account yet…not sure if you have to pay for a subscription to play the archives, but if not, I wouldn’t mind playing the games I missed.

Wordle 1,095 3/6

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PLANT
SCORE
COVER

Nice recovery.

Wordle 1,095 3/6

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STERN
CLOUD
COVER

Wordle 1,095 3/6*

\begin{aligned} &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt C} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt M} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt C} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt V} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \\ \end{aligned}

Wordle 1095 3/6

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SLANT
CHORE
COVER

Could’ve also been CODER (seems dubious) or CORER (first thing I thought of; if PARER, then why not CORER? At least people actually call it a corer!); COWER and CREDO have been used.

This is the third game in the past four days where I’ve gotten a 3 after my starting word came up with zilch. (Could ‘zilch’ be a solution? Can’t see why not!)

I should mention that J is the least common letter in Wordle solutions to date, appearing only 12 times so far, even fewer times than Q, X, or Z (15, 18, and 22 times, respectively).

Wordle 1,095 6/6*

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ALONE
ROSET
BORED
POKER
MOWER
COVER

Then I’ll probably be able to use BIJOU indefinitely!

Wordle 1,095 4/6

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HEART
BONER
POWER
COVER