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

Wordle 1,134 4/6

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HEART
PLIED
SPICE
JUICE

Wordle 1,134 4/6

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SLATE
CHOIR
PIECE
JUICE

Wordle 1,134 6/6

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Couldn’t get the long “i” sound out of my head.

Doh! I should have thought of that!

Wordle 1,134 4/6

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READY
LOUIE
SUITE
JUICE

Pretty pleased with this outcome LOUIE and SUITE eliminated every word except the solution.

Wordle 1,134 5/6* 7/27/2024

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AWASH → Strikeout. Thinking I & E and three WoFcons next. Most of my good first guesses second use S or A but I can’t do that here, so
INTER → Two vowels, nothing else. One WoFcon left, I’ll add to it a pair of other consonants, on the assumption I’m done with vowels
GLIDE → That may have been a bad assumption, as there aren’t many consonant pairs left that can go before the I. I’ll try with
VOICE → That cuts things down considerably. Still need that vowel, though…
JUICE

Scoredle finishes in 6 from my starter; it doesn’t find the middle letter until its third guess, and doesn’t place it till the fifth, mostly because its second guess tries a different second vowel. I’m glad I evaded my usual pattern from here or I might have ended up similarly.

Wordle 1,134 3/6

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TRAIN
SLICE
JUICE

Lucky second word. It looked like a trap at first, but I soon realized only JUICE and VOICE remained. (Well, also DEICE, according to Scordle, but…)
I didn’t consult the used word list, but I thought I’d remembered VOICE as a previous answer, and I was right.

Wordle 1,134 4/6*

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LEAST
HONEY
MIDGE
JUICE

This one was tough for me!

Wordle 1,134 4/6*

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ALONE
SHIRE
TWICE
JUICE

Wordle 1,134 3/6*

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PLATE
CHOKE
JUICE

Lucky 3rd guess; according ro the Bot there were 10 other possibles. Fortunately, none of them occurred to me.

Sunday, July 28th

Wordle 1,135 4/6

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PLANT
SCORE
SHOCK
SMOCK

I had a pretty strong feeling it was going to be smock but I saw a shock first.

[spoiler]Wordle 1,135 4/6

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SNARE
SLUMP
SMOKY
SMOCK

Wordle 1,135 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[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt Q} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt H} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt C} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt K} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt M} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt C} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt K} \\ \end{aligned}

Wordle 1,135 5/6* 7/28/2024

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JUICE → Not what I would have expected, but welcome. I figured I’d try a -CK ending, and went back and forth between -ACK and -OCK, finally trying the latter, but using a duplicate consonant…
KNOCK → (I really got hung up on the N!) But when I started looking for more WoFcons, I naturally saw
STOCK → (It was all I could do to not try TROCK). So now I was solidly in a trap, but it appeared to be a small one, because I figured it had to be
SHOCK → (Looked around for more consonants here) It’s not SPOCK, so it really must be
SMOCK

Scoredle also finishes in 5. I think we’ll have a pretty big SHOCK-SMOCK club today.

Wordle 1,135 4/6

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RATIO
SHONE
SCOWL
SMOCK

Wordle 1135 4/6

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SLANT
CHORE
SCOOP
SMOCK

Was in exactly this situation after 2 in Wordle 1113, with SCOFF, SCOOP, and SMOCK being the possibilities. I guessed SCOFF correctly then, but this time I lost the coin toss between the remaining two possibilities.

Wordle 1,135 4/6

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SLATE
CHOIR
SCOOP
SMOCK

Looks like the word of the day is 4/6. At least the Bot loved all of my choices for a change.

Wordle 1,135 4/6

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CRANE
TOUCH
BLOCK
SMOCK

Wordle 1,135 5/6

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READY
BIJOU
STOCK
SHOCK
SMOCK

Not great. Coulda managed a three if I’d checked The List. Guaranteed a four.

Wordle 1,135 4/6*

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LEAST
PUSHY
SCION
SMOCK

Wordle 1,135 4/6

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TRAIL
SCONE
SHOCK
SMOCK

Count me in!