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

Wordle 1099 3/6

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SLANT
CHORE
EDICT

Could’ve also been EVICT; EJECT had already been used.

Wordle 1,099 3/6

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HEART
SLEPT
EDICT

Wordle 1,099 4/6

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SLATE
POISE
EVICT - I knew this was unlikely, but didn’t see the other option, which is. . .
EDICT

Wordle 1,099 4/6* 6/22/2024

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PAINT → Oh, boy. I thought of about eight words that would fit off the top of my head, which means there are a lot more. My first impulse was vowels, but I decided that I should concentrate on consonants early since that middle I might work with no other vowels, and so tried
FLIRT → So this time I decided to try to focus on vowels. I wanted an E in there, which mostly meant ??IET (though I didn’t see HEIST) and looking at that I figured out how to get a U in there too
QUIET → The U was fruitless, and I still didn’t see HEIST, but after I thought about an initial E what came to me was
EDICT

Scoredle lists 53(!) possibles after my first guess, at least half of which, by my lights, are non-bogus, possibly the best non-bogus fraction I’ve ever seen Scoredle make after a first guess. Scoredle finishes in 4 guesses from my first, and does it much more systematically than my guesses - I still had five non-bogus possibles when I made my last guess, so a loss was not out of the question today.

Wordle 1,099 4/6

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READY
LIKED
OLDIE
EDICT

Don’t know why I picked that third one, since a letter had already been eliminated. It made the final answer kinda obvious though.

Wordle 1,099 3/6*

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LEAST
EVENT
EDICT

Wordle 1,099 4/6

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MOUSE
LEANT
CREPT
EDICT

My final choices were EDICT and EVICT, but it took a lot of staring at the screen to realize that. EDICT was the one I saw first, so yay.

Wordle 1,099 4/6*

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PLATE
TENOR
SHEET
EDICT

A big sigh of relief to see that I didn’t lose the coin toss with the answer! It was either EDICT or EVICT

Wordle 1,099 3/6*

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IRATE
DEBIT
EDICT

Got very lucky with my second try. It eliminated all words but the answer.

Wordle 1,099 4/6

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SLATE
CHOIR
EVICT
EDICT

Sunday, June 23rd

Wordle 1,100 4/6

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PLANT
ROLES
GUILE
BUGLE

After 2 I saw and rejected bible and then quell. Then I saw guile and figured at least it would check another two vowels.

Wordle 1,100 4/6

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RATIO
LUNES
BULGE
BUGLE

Wordle 1,100 4/6

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STERN
CLOUD
GIMPYit’s either bugle or bulge; flip a coin
BUGLEI guessed right

Wordle 1,100 4/6*

\begin{aligned} &\bbox[lime,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[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt G} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \\ \end{aligned}

Wordle 1100 4/6

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SLANT
CHORE
BILGE
BUGLE

We’re being really consistent so far. :grinning:

Wordle 1,100 3/6*

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ALONE
STILE
BUGLE

Wordle 1,100 4/6

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HEART
PLIER
SPELL
BUGLE

Well, that got ugly.

Wordle 1,100 5/6

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CRANE
POISE
QUEUE
JUDGE
BUGLE

Wordle 1,100 4/6* 6/23/2024

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EDICT → Slow start, not that I expected much more. Try an A and two WoFcons.
LEANS → I went to L, and look what it got me! Perhaps I should have tried LEARN. OK, what can I make with L, E, R and at least one more vowel? Thought about an O for a while here, but decided on a U because
GRUEL → was just such a good word, and it did work out, but it was a long time before I could trust the B and try
BUGLE
BULGE
was also possible, so I sank a 50/50 putt for that par. Scoredle is much more methodical; it still finishes in 4 but gets the par putt down to a tip-in (only word left from its list).

Wordle 1,100 4/6

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READY
OUTIE
PULSE
BUGLE

There really wasn’t a lot of choice here.

Rant time. Here’s what wordlebot had to say about guess three:
Your guess eliminated four words. This is pretty good, but there were some better options. Guessing BULGE, for example, would have guaranteed eliminating every word but one.

Dammit, I’m not going to guess a word that’s already been used! And don’t try to pretend you don’t have them all in your memory banks, ya fuckin’ robot!