Wordle 1,104 2/6*
My starting word made this one fairly easy because there was only one possible word left after guess one:
ORATE
ORDER
But wait: According to Wordlebot, there were two options with the other being “orbed”. WTF? Are they running out of 5 letter words and they are going to start using obscure past tense verbs? Is there a list of potential 5 letter answers?
I just checked and 2% of the people that started with ORATE tried ORBED. Who are these people?
They’re idiots, that’s who.
I use ➜
, and according to them there are some other possibles, but all are very obscure: oread, orfus, orgue, oriel, orgus, and ormer. Very obscure.
I assume Wordlebot knows which words are actually possible and I never have to try to guess “orfus”. Wasn’t that a He-Man character?
Wordle 1,104 3/6
CRANE
POISE - After a bit of thought, it was clear that the answer had to start with a vowel, so. . .
ORDER
Wordle 1104 4/6
1,713
77
3
SLANT
CHORE
MOWER
ORDER
Could’ve also been
OFFER, so happy with a 4.
I was seeing a lot of ⸐O⸐ER possibilities after 2, so I wanted to narrow them down, hence MOWER at 3.
Wordle 1,104 4/6*
LEAST
MINCE
FREED
ORDER
I didn’t look at the used word list, and re-used MINCE. Oh, well.
KNEAD → Well, that’s something. Better check for a terminal E, and with four WoFcons left, I’ll have many words to chose from. Let’s try
SLIDE → No help there. T & R left among WoFcons; I’ll try an -ER ending with a second E, which seems more likely than an O, so try
DETER → Good on the ending, but I really should have tried an O. Only two places left to put the D, so
CODER → and there’s the O. Two words left, and they’re both repeats. I think I’m safe. Try
ORDER
This was definitely a slow five-that-coutd-have-gone-six. I feel a little less bad seeing Scoredle flail its way to five; but it lost a 50/50 for four, whereas I won mine to avoid six, so I still feel a bit bad.
Wordle 1,104 3/6
READY
BORED
ORDER
Another strong start. Decided to try ending with RED. No good, but getting that O made me want to try ODDER. Until I noticed that ORDER could also be in play, and decided to roll the dice on that.
Wordle 1,104 3/6*
PLATE
DINER
ORDER
Do I see a theme?
And I saw UDDER first and almost went with it. Thank goodness for second thoughts.
That’s cute. 
This was another one I did not enjoy!
Wordle 1,104 3/6*
IRATE
WRECK
ORDER
A bit of luck was involved in getting today’s. Took long enough, though.
Wordle 1,105 5/6
RATIO
SNORE
PROVE
GROVE
DROVE
After two I saw PROVE, PROBE, GROVE, GROPE and DROVE. PROVE was clearly the best guess but after that I just was unlucky.
Wordle 1,104 4/6
SLATE
CHOIR
OWNER
ORDER
Wordle 1,105 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[lime,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[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 D} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \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} \\ \end{aligned}
Weird. Exactly the same first 2 words as yesterday.
Wordle 1105 3/6
1,713
13
SLANT
CHORE
DROVE
I found seven possibles after 2, and 5 of them had already been used. The only other possibility was GROPE, which I figured the NYT would avoid due to some of its less pleasant connotations.
[spoiler]Wordle 1,105 4/6
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ATONE
PROBE
GROVE
DROVE
Wordle 1,105 3/6
STERN
CLOUD
DROVE
Meh.
Wordle 1,105 5/6
Wordle 1,105 5/6*
LEAST
BONER
CHORE
GROPE
DROVE
This one was a toughie for me!
ORDER → Oh, my. Do I have a shot at a two? Let’s see, ?RODE gives
ERODE → No. So that D must be at the start; DRO?E gives DROVE or
DRONE → Ah, it was
DROVE
CREDO was also a possible after the first guess, which I’d have gotten in three after my second guess. Kind of a bummer to wind up with a par after thinking two was possible.
Wordle 1,105 4/6
READY
WIDER
DRONE
DROVE
It was probably a mistake to expect a second day ending in DER. But it did force me to consider possibilities with xxxxD (none viable) and xDxxx (none viable). That left Dxxxx, which gave me only DRONE and DROVE. I just chose the wrong one first.