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

Friday, July 5th

Wordle 1,112 3/6

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PLANT
SCORE
CRUSH

Finally an easy one. I’ve been struggling lately, but crushed this one in seconds.

Wordle 1,111 5/6

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SLATE
CHOIR
EVENT
TEMPT
DEBUT

This was a frustrating one. I was going to go with Dumpy at guess #3…I’d have had this in 4 guesses. I didn’t see Debut, Tempt, or Kempt until after I went with Event (thinking it could be a theme word for 4th of July). It wasn’t a bad choice given there were four other double E words, and it ruled all of them out, but just wish I stuck with my trusty Dumpy. Oh well.

Wordle 1112 3/6

:yellow_square::white_large_square::white_large_square::white_large_square::white_large_square: 1,376
:green_square::yellow_square::white_large_square::yellow_square::white_large_square: 1
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SLANT
CHORE
CRUSH

When even Scoredle can only come up with one word for your third guess, you know you’ve CRUSHed it.

[spoiler]Wordle 1,112 4/6

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

LEAST
GROSS
BRUSH
CRUSH

Wordle 1,112 3/6* 7/5/2024

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DEBUT → Hmmm. For the moment, I’m going to focus on WoFcons rather than try YOUNG (I’m glad that D is gone, or the ?OUND trap would be vicious). Here’s a word that uses three of them
SLUNG → With one WoFcon left, I can cover it with
CRUSH

Scoredle has 47 (!) words left after my second guess, but so many of them have a terminal S, I’d give only three of them the status of non-bogus. The other two both started with USU, odly enough.

Wordle 1,112 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[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \\ &\bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt C} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt H} \\ \end{aligned}

Wordle 1,112 3/6

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STERN
CLOUD
CRUSH

Wordle 1,112 2/6

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HEART well the vowel must be I,O, or U and all I could get to work was:
CRUSH

Wordle 1,112 3/6

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RATIO
NURSE
CRUSH

Wordle 1,112 4/6

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CRANE
CROSS
CRUST
CRUSH

Wordle 1,112 3/6

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READY
HOURI
CRUSH

Since TRUTH was already. taken…
I’m a little nervous that the bot will have it in two, because the first guess it makes these days is CRANE. I’m off to check.

Wordle 1,112 3/6*

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Shalt
House
Crush

Wordle 1,112 3/6

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UNITE
FLOUR
CRUSH

There were at least a dozen non-plural non-bogus possibilities, so I’ll take a little luck; I’m due.

Scoot over, @BobLibDem. We went the same way today.

Wordle 1,112 2/6*

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IRATE
CRUSH

Mine was out of 47 possibles, so crazy lucky today. I’ll still take it!

Wordle 1,112 4/6*

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ALONE
SHIRT
RUSHY
CRUSH

Wordle 1,113 4/6*

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ALONE
SHORT
SMOCK
SCOFF

[spoiler]Wordle 1,113 4/6

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

SPATE
SHORN
SCOWL
SCOFF

Wordle 1,112 3/6

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SLATE
CHOIR
CRUSH

Wordle 1,113 5/6

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RATIO
SHONE
SLOOP
SMOCK
SCOFF

Wordle 1,113 3/6

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PLANT
SCORE
SCOFF

It felt like a trap but I don’t think it actually was. Saw scoff immediately but kept looking and never found anything else.