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

Wordle 647 4/6

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RAISE
PROUD
CURRY
HURRY

Wordle 647 3/6*

\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[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt C} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt H} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt N} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt H} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt Y} \\ \end{aligned}

That’s more like it.

Wordle 647 3/6

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HEART
HOURS
HURRY

Wordle 647 6/6*

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Boy was that one painful.
Blanked the first choice, and got a single letter in the second.

Scoredle 6/6*

14,855
:white_large_square::white_large_square::white_large_square::white_large_square::white_large_square: SLATE (1,059)
:white_large_square::white_large_square::yellow_square::white_large_square::white_large_square: POUND (69)
:yellow_square::green_square::white_large_square::white_large_square::green_square: RUMMY (7)
:white_large_square::green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square: FURRY (4)
:white_large_square::green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square: CURRY (3)
:green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square: HURRY

Wordle 647 5/6*

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READY
USURY
FURRY
CURRY
HURRY

Aaaauuuggh! I hate I when I’ve got four green boxes and I have to Whack-a-Mole my way to the finish!

Wordle 647 3/6

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:white_large_square::white_large_square::white_large_square::yellow_square::white_large_square: 6
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SLART
NICHE
HURRY => No, I think I’ll just take my time, thanks. :slight_smile:

First 3 in ten days, my longest such drought since I started keeping track of my results.

Scoredle says another possibility after my second guess was MYRRH, which I honestly didn’t see.

Wordle 647 5/6

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CRANE
SPOIL - okay, so it’s a ‘u’ and likely a ‘y’
MURKY
FURRY - I have chosen. . .poorly
HURRY

Wordle 647 3/6*

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SLATE
HORNY
HURRY

Just luck today, really… Scoredle only got 4/6 after my first guess.

Wordle 647 5/6* 3/28/2023

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GUANO → Can’t think of a good place for E or I… I’ll try high-frequency consonants and see what I get
RUSTY → Good one! I’ll try the R in both other places and guarantee myself another green with this guess…
CURRY → Make that two more greens! I can only think of one other word…
FURRY → Oh. Make that two more words. Sigh…
HURRY

Only a five, but kinda fun.

Wordle 647 3/6*

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TRAIN
SCREW
HURRY

Wordle Bot got a 5 today, and the average was 4.2, I think (probably just for hard mode)

Bit of luck for me today, but I still struggled with this one!

Wordle 647 3/6*

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IRATE
SPURN
HURRY

As usual, I resisted the double consonant and kept trying to work an ‘O’ in there. Nothing worked, so I finally had it down to FURRY, HURRY and CURRY. HURRY seemed most likely – lucky me.

Wordle 647 4/6*

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CRANE
PORTS
FURRY
HURRY

Went with the double consonant there on a lark, but just missed the guess.

Wordle 647 3/6

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REACH
WHIRL
HURRY

Wordle 647 5/6

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AMUSE
CLOUT
FUNKY
GRAPH
HURRY

_U__Y conjured up bad memories of MUCKY, which was my first-ever fail. Still had a lot of possibilities left so I did what I should have done back then and found a good test word. I’ll take a five over a loss any day.

MAR 29

Wordle 648 4/6*

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ALONE
SHERD
TUBES
BESET

sherd?

Wordle 648 3/6

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PLANT
CREST
BESET

Tough to find any word after 2. Eventually I saw a beset. Kept looking but never found anything else so I just went with it.

This is now the third time plant has returned a single green T in last position within the past week or so. Starting to annoy me, though I have done well on them. (4, 3, 3)

Wordle 648 3/6

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RATIO
SPENT
BESET

Wordle 648 5/6*

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SALET
ONSET
UPSET
RESET
BESET

I was all SET for a quick win, but got bogged down in the mud there…

Wordle 648 5/6*

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PIOUS
STEAL
TESTY
RESET
BESET

Wordle 648 4/6*

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OCEAN
SHIRE
TESTY
BESET