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

Do you ALWAYS begin with the previous day’s solution? Just curious to understand your thought processes.

Yes, I do. It’s my way of keeping the game fresh for myself.

It also makes it really hard to get a one, but that’s a price I’m willing to pay.

I thought for a while about going with a consistent start word, but decided if I did I would eventually sit down with Python and a word list and hammer out a Wordle solver some afternoon - which would be fun also of course, but just fun once. So this way, I exercise my brain a little differently each day (even for the frustrating start words like DADDY) at a cost of a few more misses.

I never say this, but LOL! :rofl:

Wordle 1,100 3/6

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LOUPE
ARGUE
BUGLE

I bungled my way to a birdie. Stupidly forgot the L in my second word, but lucking into that middle G left nothing but the solution!

Wordle 1,100 5/6*

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LEAST
NOVEL
JELLY
GUILE
BUGLE

Tough one for me.

Wordle 1,100 4/6*

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PLATE
WHOLE
GUILE
BUGLE

Yeah, not my favorite.

Wordle 1,100 5/6*

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IRATE
SCONE
PLUME
BULGE
BUGLE

Wordle 1,101 5/6

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RATIO
CLOSE
LOWLY
DOUGH
DOLLY

I think this was played well despite the five. After three the trap left me with DOLLY, FOLLY, GOLLY, HOLLY, and JOLLY and my test word prevented a loss.

Wordle 1,100 3/6

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SLATE
CHOIR
BUGLE

Wordle 1,101 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[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt Y} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt Y} \\ \end{aligned}

Wordle 1,101 6/6

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STERN
CLOUD
**GIMPY ** — could be oddly dolly doyly
ODDLY
DOYLY
DOLLY

Wordle 1,101 2/6

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Slant
Dolly
I did my usual thing of trying to place the “L” first…and got lucky.

Wordle 1101 4/6

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SLANT
CHORE
LIMBO
DOLLY

Happy to escape with a 4.

Wordle 1,101 4/6*

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ALONE
SOLID
MOLDY
DOLLY

Happy with a four after a poor start.

Wordle 1,101 4/6

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SLATE
COULD
DOILY
DOLLY

Wordle 1,101 4/6

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PLANT
ROLES
MIDGE
DOLLY

Immediately saw the _olly trap, but I don’t really like it. So I kept looking, managing to find moldy and folio. (That last one a throwback to my early ad&d days in the '80s when I owned the Fiend Folio.) Midge would positively identify the answer once you eliminate the _olly words that have already been answers.

Wordle 1,101 4/6*

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LEAST
HOLLY
GOLLY
DOLLY

Wordle 1,101 6/6* 6/24/2024

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BUGLE → Hey, I’m 1/5th of the way there!
TAILS → Still 1/5th, not feeling quite as optimistic. No vowels yet, and O & Y are still out there, so I’d better check 'em both this time out. Terminal Y is a definite; I thought of ODDLY for a bit but decided if I’m doubling up I’d rather try it on a more common letter, hence
WOOLY → which wasn’t bad, but gets one of the mothers of all traps. Oddly (heh) enought, I might have a second Y, so
COYLY → wasn’t it. So there’s a killer trap on the way, and I only have two guesses left. Even if I throw out P for a name, M & L for possible slang, there’s still four guesses left, so here goes nothing…
HOLLY → Nope.
DOLLY

Phew is right. I always like how, once you get into that trap, Scoredle says “The best guess to make next would be FOLLY” - it seems a very apt thing to say.

Wordle 1,101 3/6

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READY
DOILY
DOLLY

Had rather an easy time with this one.

[spoiler]Wordle 1,102 3/6

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:green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square:[/spoiler]

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