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

Wordle 1,151 3/6

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HEART
WENCH
NEIGH

Wordle 1,151 3/6

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CRANE
POINT
NEIGH

Wordle 1,151 3/6* 8/13/2024

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SKIFF → A placed I is OK, but everything else? Fuggedaboutit. I can’t see a word with two vowels to try, but three WoFcons and an A? I like it
TRIAL → Strikeout! One WoFcon left, so let’s put that into the mix. Add an E and stir well. Thought about ??INE words for a bit, then tried the N at the start and one word just fell into place, so I tried it
NEIGH

I’m going to chalk this one up to luck; the sheer number of non-bogus words I still had left after my second guess boggles the mind. Scoredle finishes in 4 from my start, or 5 from its own.

Wordle 1,151 4/6

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ACUTE
LOSER
NEEDY
NEIGH

Animal sounds now? Okay.
I guess I’m just happy to save par after that start.

CLUCK was Wordle #46.

Wordle 1,151 4/6*

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LEAST
DEBUR
WENCH
NEIGH

Wordle 1,151 3/6

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READY
SETUP
NEIGH

It would have felt nice to find a word that could eliminate two vowels, but SETUP had the advantage of eliminating practically the second half of the whole alphabet.

Wordle 1,151 4/6*

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ALONE
TENDS
BEGIN
NEIGH

Wordle 1,151 4/6

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PLANT
SNORE
BEGUN
NEIGH

I saw neigh very early on but rejected it. Then everything else I saw turned out to have already been used. Words like bench and begin. And then I started seeing a bunch of words that felt inappropriate for what I feel is a fairly chaste editor: wench, vixen, hymen. Finally I realized that begin has a past tense. Actually that’s began. I don’t know what tense begun is. Past perfect? Is that a tense?

Finally with N ruled out of fifth position I was forced to try the word I had rejected 20 hours ago, and of course that was the answer.

Were you calling the start of a horse race?

Wordle 1,151 3/6*

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PLATE
DINER
NEIGH

Wordle 1,152 2/6

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RATIO
SHORE

Been awhile since I had a two. Just pure luck though.

I often copy RTFirefly’s first two words of slant and chore. I decided to
try something similar in this case. It worked! :slight_smile:

Wordle 1,152 2/6

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Slant
Shore

Wordle 1,152 3/6*

\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[lime,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[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt H} \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 E} \\ \end{aligned}

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Must be SDMB’s lucky day.

Wordle 1152 3/6

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SLANT
CHORE
SHORE

Handed to me on a silver platter. Good on newtosite for starting with my method and doing one better!

Wordle 1,152 2/6*

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ALONE
SHORE

Wordle 1,152 6/6

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Wordle 1,152 3/6

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PLANT
SCORE
SHORE

Score hasn’t been an answer yet so I will eventually get that 2.

Wordle 1,152 3/6

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HEART
WHERE
SHORE

I thought I was doing well to get it in four, what with the trap.

Wordle 1,152 4/6

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CRANE
STORE
SPORE
SHORE