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

Wordle 1,105 3/6

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PLANT
SCORE
DROVE

Almost forgot to play today. After 2 I could see broke, drove, grove and froze. I did not see erode, but even if I did it wouldn’t have mattered. Of those five choices, four have already been answers.

Wordle 1,105 3/6*

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PLATE
DRONE
DROVE

Lucky 2nd guess.
And @Aspenglow I see a theme similar to mine in your guess from yesterday.

Wordle 1,105 4/6

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SLATE
CHOIR
PRONE
DROVE

[spoiler]Wordle 1,106 6/6

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Today wasn’t bad.

Wordle 1,105 3/6*

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IRATE
CRUDE
DROVE

WordleBot said it was down to two words, DROVE and DRONE. I chose the right one for a change!

Yours was funnier!

Wordle 1,106 3/6

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RATIO
SNARE
ZEBRA

That took forever. I could not come up with a word. I even went to my cheat and tried an anagram finder but it only listed words starting with A or B and I didn’t think ACERB would be the answer. So back to staring and trying out all the words ending in RA until it finally clicked.

Wordle 1,106 2/6*

\begin{aligned} &\bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[yellow,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[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt Z} \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 R} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \\ \end{aligned}

Wordle 1106 3/6

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SLANT
CHORE
ZEBRA

Could’ve also been FAERY, I suppose, but that seemed a bit too off the beaten track.

Wordle 1,106 5/6

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STERN
CLOUD
GIMPY
HAWKSat this point it’s looking bleak; I don’t have much but am very grateful to have the R in position 4; there are MANY words with A, E, R…; fortunately there’s only one word that fits
ZEBRAbingo

Wordle 1,106 3/6

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READY
CREAM
ZEBRA

In my defense, I was really run ragged at work last night, else I would not likely have misplaced my only correct first turn placement. It did make it clear where the other vowel needed to be, and that made all the difference.

ETA: And I beat the bot!

Another ‘meh’.

Wordle 1,106 5/6

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CRANE
SHEAR
EARLY - Okay, fine, so the ‘e’ and the ‘a’ don’t go together
APART - Exasperation sets in and I made a dumb mistake
ZEBRA

Wordle 1,106 2/6

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HEART
ZEBRA

Wordle 1,106 4/6

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PLANT
RACES
FREAK
ZEBRA

Holy tough one, Batman! I didn’t love freak as an answer but I kept seeing possibility after possibility but they’ve all been used before. So I went with it and still no greens. Yikes. A lotta staring was involved before coming up with zebra.

Funny storyline too!

Wordle 1,106 5/6* 6/29/2024

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DROVE → Ok, about what I expected, maybe a little better. I’d like to try an A here, but I’ve only tried one WoFcon so far, and I can only see words with one more… except for, perhaps, EARLS. Which leads me to another possibility…
EARTH → EARLS probably wouldn’t have made much difference. I"ll keep those letters together and try them in another place…
SPEAR → This is getting frustrating, but at least I’m narrowing things down via the process of elimination. OK, I see one word that will definitely place that R…
REARM → and the E too. And that A pretty much has to go at the end. ?E?RA, both unknowns must be new letters. I sat on this for a while, trying letters, until I thought about the B in the middle and it came right to me
ZEBRA

Scoredle does better from my start than from its own SLATE; it places the R with RARER on the second guess, then picks up the unplaced A next which gets it to where I was after four in three guesses. On the plus side, it picks REARM in the same place I did so at least I had a good play in the endgame.

Wordle 1,106 3/6*

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LEAST
RERAN
ZEBRA

Wordle 1,106 4/6*

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IRATE
SPEAR
CARED
ZEBRA

Wordle 1,106 4/6*

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PLATE
CREAM
EAGER
ZEBRA

[spoiler]Wordle 1,107 4/6

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CLOSE
TRAIN
BUGGY
BUDDY

Well!

Wordle 1,107 5/6

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RATIO
LUNES
MUCKY
PUDGY
BUDDY

Just happy not to lose.