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

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Wordle 1,138 3/6* 7/31/2024

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FERAL → A placed E is not a bad start, and I have two WoFcons gone. I wanted to try the other three, but couldn’t find a word that did that along with another vowel. Fortunately, there were a couple that did so while repeating the E, and before I saw TENSE, I saw
TEENS → So I had a repeating E. And an N in 4th. The second E pretty much had to go at the end. I played around with some words until I came to the Ps, and saw a double double
PENNE

Not sure it really qualifies as a common English word, but I’ll take it - I’m not about to look a gift birdie in the mouth. Scoredle takes 4, but I’m surprised it picks DENSE over TENSE for its second guess.

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Wordle 1,138 5/6

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SLATE
CHOIR
FUDGE
PEEVE
PENNE

I forgot the check the N early, and go figure there were two of them. I just was not seeing any words. I’m not a fan of Penne being an answer…it’s the plural form of the Italian word Penna. Sure, it’s common enough of a word, but still. :roll_eyes:

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Wordle 1,138 4/6

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This was a tough one. Took me a while to come up with any word that would fit after my first three guesses, and it turned out to be the answer! Usually I’m averse to trying words with two double letters, but it worked.

STAIN
HORNY
BLEND
PENNE

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Wordle 1,138 X/6*

\begin{aligned} &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \bbox[lime,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 L} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt M} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt N} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt N} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt C} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt H} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt V} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt N} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt N} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt G} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt N} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \\ \end{aligned}

Bastard.

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Wordle 1,138 3/6*

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PLATE
PRONE
PENNE

I see I’m not the only one to question the validity of this word.

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Wordle 1,139 3/6

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RATIO
SCALE
CHALK

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[spoiler]Wordle 1,139 3/6

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SHAPE
CHAIR
CHALK

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Wordle 1139 3/6

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SLANT
CHORE
CHALK

A pleasant change from yesterday.

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Wordle 1,139 3/6*

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ALONE
SHALT
CHALK

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Wordle 1,139 3/6

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PLANT
SCALE
CHALK

Nice and quick.

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Wordle 1,139 4/6

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HEART
SHANK
WHACK
CHALK

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Wordle 1,139 4/6*

\begin{aligned} &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[lime,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 S} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt M} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt P} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt C} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt H} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt N} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt C} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt H} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt K} \\ \end{aligned}

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Wordle 1,139 3/6

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CRANE
CLAIM
CHALK

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Wordle 1,139 3/6*

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LEAST
BLANK
CHALK

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Wordle 1,139 3/6

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RENAL
CLAIM
CHALK

Fun birdie. A well-chosen second word, if I do say so myself!

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Wordle 1,139 4/6

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READY
MIAOU
CHANT
CHALK

I swear CHANT wasn’t on The List when I first checked. Must be time for me to hit the hay.

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Wordle 1,139 3/6

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SLATE
CHOIR
CHALK

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Wordle 1,139 4/6* 8/1/2024

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PENNE → A not-unexpected whiff. Though I should have thought about what my next word should be. Spitballing it, I came up with
ROTAS → instead of ROAST, which might have made a difference as it turned out. Tried L & U, and two more consonants for
LAUGH → Since SH and TH are out, I figured I’d try CH, then A fit well in the middle slot, if the N hadn’t been eliminated I woud have tried CHAIN but as it is:
CHALK
Scoredle is less lucky than I, missing the (eventual) second letter with its third guess and taking a bogey. I might have been lucky with my second guess, as it turned out, because I would have had a tough time spotting the solution with my fourth guess had I not gone on to try my third guess. (Did that make sense?)

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It does make sense, and you very well might be right. With that green vowel at 2 and wanting to check the last WoF consonant you would have had a decent chance to guess the answer, but no more likely than black, clack, flack, flail, flaky, quail, qualm or probably any number of other options. Unless those have already been answers, of course. (Checking now, three of those seven have been used before.)

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Wordle 1,139 3/6*

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Shoal
Whale
Chalk