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

Wordle 1,103 4/6

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PLANT
SANER
BEGAN
KNEAD

Tough one.

Wordle 1,103 5/6*

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Wordle 1,103 5/6

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STERN
CLOUD
GIMPY
HAWKS
KNEAD

Wordle 1103 4/6

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SLANT
CHORE
BEGAN
KNEAD

That one took some work. As it turned out, most of the words I thought of after 2 in addition to my 3rd guess - amend, naked, vegan, but not apnea - would have narrowed it down to the solution. But it was hard to find that word, even then.

[spoiler]Wordle 1,103 3/6

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SLATE
NAMED
KNEAD

Wordle 1,103 3/6*

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LEAST
CREAM
KNEAD

Wordle 1,103 3/6*

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Tidal
Nomad
Knead

Wordle 1,103 3/6

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READY
PLANK
KNEAD

I knew just where I wanted to put that EAD, and only two words fit the bill. It could easily have been ADDLE or WAGED or something that didn’t end with EAD, so PLANK was a bit of a dice roll. But it paid off handsomely! I would have been terribly embarrassed if the answer had been NAKED, though.

Wordle 1,103 4/6* 6/26/2024

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SAVOR → Can’t think of a word with A, E, L, N, T, so I’ll have to throw in a nonWoFcon to try it. Perhaps
PLANE → Which is not bad. Played around to try to guess a T here as well, but saw one word I thought I should give a go
ENEMA → Thought of nothing with ANE??, so looked at ?NEA? and quickly saw
KNEAD

There were about four non-bogus words left after my second guess, which is why this felt rather like a slog. Still happy with a par, on the whole.

My scorecard shows that I have a 1 to my credit, but damned if I know what the word was (it might have been WEARY). If my current starter word ever hits, I’ll be up to two, then I’ll need a new starter word.

Good grief.

Wordle 1,103 6/6

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POISE
CRANE
NAVEL
YENTA - A total swag
GLEAN - Just plain stupid
KNEAD

Well, it was a 3. But not an easy one.

Wordle 1,103 3/6*

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IRATE
PLEAD
KNEAD

According to WordleBot, my second try fortuitously eliminated all other words except AHEAD and KNEAD. I found AHEAD very fast but also saw it had already been used. It took f-o-r-e-v-e-r to figure out KNEAD.

Wordle 1,103 4/6

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Slant
Candy
Amend
Knead

Wordle 1,103 3/6*

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PLATE
CREAM
KNEAD

Thursday, June 27th

Wordle 1,104 3/6

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PLANT
SCORE
ORDER

Super quick.

Wordle 1,103 4/6

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SLATE
CHOIR
BEGAN
KNEAD

Looks like I’m in good company with a few of you who did the same with Began. Not much to go on with my two start words - I saw about 7 choices…not sure if I had them all, but I’ll gladly take the 4 on this one.

Wordle 1,104 5/6

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RATIO
LOSER
OFFER
ODDER
ORDER

Mini trap. Three was my usual random guess. After that I made myself sit down and go through all of the possibilities. I came up with OCHER ( not likely), ODDER and ORDER. Couldn’t come up with any xxOER. This whole week has been 4-6. I don’t know how people keep getting 3. I only do when I’m lucky.

Wordle 1,104 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[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \\ &\bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt V} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \\ \end{aligned}

Wordle 1,104 6/6*

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ALONE
HEROS
MOPER
OTTER
ODDER
ORDER

Wordle 1,104 3/6

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STERN
CLOUDcan be doper dover dozer horde odder order; order is the most common word and the others are a bit strange, so…
ORDERbingo!