Wordle 1,141 3/6
HEART
PLACE
SCALE
Wordle 1,141 2/6
Woot!
CRANE
SCALE - There were other possibilities, but I decided to combine this starting word with my other starting word (slate).
Wordle 1,141 3/6
READY
CHASE
SCALE
My first thought was “Oh boy! Another xxAxE trap!” But then I picked CHASE, and it suddenly became an easy choice between SCALE and SCAPE.
Wordle 1,141 2/6* 8/3/2024
FLAKE → Hmmm. That L pretty much has to go between A & E. And I know of no words that are ?xALE where x is a vowel. In fact, the only words I’m seeing are S?ALE - STALE, SHALE, SCALE, SWALE, which is a nice little trap. But I think we’ve had STALE before, and SWALE is a bit uncommon, so I’ll flip a coin and try
SCALE
Lucky guess on my part - I didn’t see WHALE, LEASE or LEAVE. Scoredle does, though, and ends up with a better-played four.
Wordle 1,141 4/6*
LEAST
SLAVE
SHALE
SCALE
Man, I thought this one was gonna be easy after the first word with all the revealed letters.
I shouldn’t have tried SLAVE. Wordle wouldnt have used that one.
Wordle 1,141 3/6
NOISE
STALE
SCALE
After a fortunate second word, I won the coin toss between SHALE and SCALE. Fun one today!
Wordle 1,141 2/6
SLATE
SCALE
Wordle 1,141 2/6*
PLATE
SCALE
So relieved that I didn’t get trapped, unlike yesterday!
Wordle 1,141 3/6*
ALONE
STALE
SCALE
Wordle 1,142 5/6
RATIO
SHORE
LONER
LOVER
LOWER
Blechhh
Wordle 1,142 3/6
PLANT
ROLES
LOWER
Wordle 1,142 6/6*
\begin{aligned} &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \bbox[yellow,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[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt G} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt M} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \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 R} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \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 R} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt N} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt W} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \\ \end{aligned}
phew.
Wordle 1142 3/6
640
16
SLANT
CHORE
LOWER
Saw LOVER and LOWER right away, but LOVER had already been used. When looking for other words that could fit the letters I had after 2, I came up with a few proper nouns (LEROY, ROLEX, BOREL (Borel sets, Heine-Borel theorem, strictly math-geek territory)) but no common nouns, so LOWER it was. Scoredle also had OILER as in a former Houston NFL team; kinda borderline IMHO.
Wordle 1,142 3/6
HEART
LONER
LOWER
Wordle 1,142 6/6
SLATE
CRIMP
RULER
LONER
LOVER
LOWER
Wordle 1,142 5/6
READY
OURIE
MOWER
BLAST
LOWER
I saw I could be in a trap right away, so I eliminated superfluous vowels first. Things still looked dicey, but MOWER would also eliminate the W. Once I hit that pay dirt, it was time for a sleuth word, and I was happy to take the L FTW!
(Didja see what I did there?)
We usually use “oll tanker” these days, but OILER as a ship which carries crude or fuel oil from place to place is valid usage, particularly in the naval context of a ship equipped to do underway replenishment (UNREP).
Wordle 1,142 4/6* 8/4/2024
SCALE → OK, not bad. I’d like to try an O and two more WoFcons. Swap known letters for an -EL ending? Not seeing too many possibilities. Or even if we break them up, or move them elsewhere. Finally ended analysis paralysis by going with
FELON → which worked out pretty well - I got that O, anyway. Couldn’t find a way to try both R and T, but settled on the first with
LOVER → LORER? LOPER? LONER & LOSER are out. LOXER would be cool (someone who enjoys their bagel with smoked salmon) but probably not Wordle approved. Eventually settled on
LOWER
Scoredle takes a side trip through LEVEL to place E & L, and ends up with a five. It could have been a tough trap but I had fortunately guessed two of the possible fills already.
Wordle 1,142 2/6*
LEAST
LOWER
Much better than yesterday!
Wordle 1,142 3/6
ROUSE
WELCH
LOWER
I could see the _O_ER trap immediately, and came up with what turned out to be a very good sleuth word. This birdie took me quite a while!
Wordle 1,142 6/6*
ALONE
HOLEY
MOTEL
LOSER
LOVER
LOWER