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

Wordle 1,132 3/6

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RATIO
SHORE
PORCH

Wordle 1,132 3/6

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PLANT
PROSE
PORCH

[spoiler]Wordle 1,132 3/6

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CLONE
FROCK
PORCH

Wordle 1132 3/6

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SLANT
CHORE
PORCH

Glad it wasn’t ICHOR.

Wordle 1,132 4/6*

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

Wordle 1,132 4/6

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LATER
ROSIN
WORRY
PORCH

A fairly unremarkable par. FORUM was still available, which would have been quite frustrating. So it coulda been worse.

Wordle 1,132 4/6

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HEART
SHRUG
MORPH
PORCH

Wordle 1,132 3/6*

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Pearl
Prong
Porch

Wordle 1,132 3/6*

Wordle 1,132 3/6*

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LEAST
CHINK
PORCH

I forgot to play yesterday!

Wordle 1,132 3/6

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SLATE
CHOIR
PORCH

Quick-n-easy one today…don’t think it could have been anything else.

Wordle 1,132 4/6* 7/25/2024

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FORTE → That’s a nice start. But a bit trappish. At least T & E are gone. I see one word with an A and it also uses L, so I’ll try that
CORAL → And I end up hitting on the C. I would be the next vowel to try, which means I’ll have to trust the B
BORIC → The B didn’t work and I didn’t place the C. It seems to be a one vowel word, which means ?ORCH, which means
PORCH

Oddly, Scoredle takes five from my start, largely because it doesn’t ID the 4th letter on its second guess. So my second guess was pretty lucky on the whole.

Wordle 1,131 4/6

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CRANE
SPIRE
ROUTE
FORTE - Was really leaning to ‘torte’

Forgot to hit ‘enter’ yesterday!

Now today’s!

Wordle 1,132 3/6

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CRANE
SCRUB
PORCH

Wordle 1,132 3/6

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READY
CURIO
PORCH

That went as well as could be expected.

Doesn’t that suck? I don’t know how someone made the decision that a reset of a streak could come after anything but a straight-up loss.

For that matter even two losses in a row is a streak. And if someone doesn’t play for a week, that’s a streak, too.

Yes it does. But this streak was only 14 days or so. I gave up being pissed off about it. I’m an airhead and I WILL forget. I even have a reminder set on my phone and I still forget!

You could just leave the hard ones unfinished, and your streak would never end, so it does make a sort of sense.

Definitely depends on the length of your streak. I’ve played 910 games, and my current streak is 457 (since #675, JOKER - the joke was on me!), so since Monday, more than half the times I’ve played have been in the current streak. I’d hate to lose that streak.

I’m not too worried that I might blow my streak by forgetting to play: the last time I missed a game was Wordle #390 (the solution was LIVER). So I’ve played the last 742 days in a row, or since July 15, 2022. I think my Wordle habit’s pretty well established at this point.

Wordle 1,132 3/6*

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PLATE
PRION
PORCH

Wordle 1,132 3/6*

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ALONE
SOUTH
PORCH

Friday, July 26th

Wordle 1,133 3/6

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PLANT
SCARE
AWASH

I didn’t really love awash as an answer but I spent like 10 whole seconds looking and didn’t see anything else.