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

Wordle 1,145 4/6

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SLATE
CRAMP
MOCHA
MACAW

Wordle 1,145 5/6*

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ALONE
TRASH
DAMPY
MAGIC
MACAW

Wordle 1,145 4/6*

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Ivory
Speak
Human
Macaw

I really miss my wordlebot review since I cancelled the NYT🥵

Wordle 1,145 4/6

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RADIO
LATEN
CAMPY
MACAW

Wordle 1,145 4/6* 8/7/2024

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ANVIL → E and three more WoFcons, stat!
STARE → Maybe not so stat. Let’s try an O, and three other consonants
MACHO → That was a stroke of luck. I & U go nowhere, so perhaps a second A? That would mean
MACAW

I was in big trouble after 2, but matching three letters with my third guess was key. Scoredle’s second word is an anagram of mine, and it also finishes in four with what I thought was a really gutsy third guess.

Wordle 1,145 4/6

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READY
QUOTA
ALIAS
MACAW

Just like yesterday, guess #2 told me to check for my fifth vowel and a double of the A. And guess #3 showed me exactly where both As belonged. And with most os ETOIANSHRDLU eliminated, MACAW wasn’t that hard to suss out.

(actually, it was a lucky guess)

Spoiler for 1,146

Seemingly everyday it’s “Surely not another word with a C in it?!”, and seemingly everyday there bloody well is

Wordle 1,145 4/6

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PLANT
RACES
MACHO
MACAW

I struggled mightily with this one.

Wordle 1,145 5/6*

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PLATE
RADIO
SAUCY
CANNA
MACAW

Sigh…

THU AUG 8th

Wordle 1,146 6/6*

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ALONE
TRASH
WASPY
SAGGY
SAVVY
SAUCY

Wordle 1,146 3/6

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RATIO
LANCE
SAUCY

Wordle 1,146 3/6

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PLANT
RACES
SAUCY

Much easier than yesterday, at least.

Wordle 1,146 3/6

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CHASE
ASCOT
SAUCY

Wordle 1146 3/6

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SLANT
CHORE
SAUCY

I found SUMAC first, then SCUBA, before seeing the solution. Sometimes the first word that comes to my mind is the solution, but far more often it’s not.

Wordle 1,146 4/6

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HEART
SANDY
SAPPY
SAUCY

This took me forever.

Wordle 1,146 4/6

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CRANE
TACIT
BASIC - I knew this wasn’t it because of the ‘i’, but was desperate for another letter
SAUCY

Wordle 1,146 3/6

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READY
SPLAY
SAUCY

Had to find out if it ended in AY. My attempt gave me SAxxY. I knew it wasn’t an adverb, but there was a chance of a double letter. First I decided to see if there was another vowel, and it paid off.

And fuck you, wordlebot, you only called it a lucky guess because I beat you. And you have no excuse, because WACKY had already been used!

Wordle 1,146 5/6*

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

Wordle 1,146 4/6* 8/8/2024

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MACAW → Good start - A, placed, only one, and a mystery-location C to boot. No WoFcons guessed yet, though, so I’ll try a pair along with an E
CASTE → S is a good pickup. I’m pretty sure there’s another vowel in there, though, and I don’t see many with an O, so I’ll try an I word
SALIC → SA?C?, looks like I need two vowels
SAUCY

Scoredle starts slow but ends up finishing in four. The matching carryover letter from yesterday’s solution turns out to be vital for avoiding a trap

Wordle 1,146 3/6

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ARIEL
BOAST
SAUCY

I didn’t expect that birdie. My thought process was nothing more than “Let’s try a terminal Y; oh, and I guess I’ll see if there’s a U in there too.”
Scordle says there were 249 possibilities, but when you strip away the plurals and BS words, it was really about half a dozen. Which surprised me, given all I had was an unplaced A and S.