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

The Game Room
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Wordle 1,152 4/6* 8/14/2024

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NEIGH → H is nice. Goes well as a second letter with that E - and C, S, T or maybe even P before it. Think I’ll try one with an S since its a WoFcon, plus an A to boot
SHEAR → A went nowhere, but everything else - excellent. Maybe it’s a hangover from Olympic skateboard, but I’ll try
SHRED → SH?RE, not SHIRE or SHARE, must be
SHORE
SHEER is Scoredle’s second guess, but then it loses a 50/50 shot at a birdie. My guess turned out to be almost as good, so I’m not sure how much I would ascribe to luck. Either way, par is fine.

8802

Wordle 1,152 5/6

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READY
OURIE
SNORE
WINCH
SHORE

With an RE right off the bat, I chose to rule out other vowels. Getting the O was nice, but I began to fear an xxORE trap. SNORE was an efficient word for confirming that, and I lucked out getting the S. From there it was simply a matter of finding the sleuth word that would narrow it down from SWORE, SPORE, SHORE, and SCORE.

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Heh. No, a horse-calling contest. :grin:

8804

Wordle 1,152 4/6*

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LEAST
NOSEY
SCORE
SHORE

8805

Wordle 1,152 4/6

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TONER
ERODE
CHORE
SHORE

Should have been a three. Not only did I see SHORE first, it would have been the smarter play.
I guess I’ve just had C’s on the brain lately.

8806

Wordle 1,152 2/6

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Who da man? I da man! (twerks uncontrollably)

STAIN
SHORE

8807

Wordle 1,152 2/6*

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PLATE
SHORE

A lucky guess got me into the 2 club today. According to the Bot, there were 147 words left.

8808

Thursday, August 15th

Wordle 1,153 4/6

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PLANT
SANER
GROAN
ACORN

Thought I had it with groan, but oof, this could easily have been a 5. I didn’t see adorn until after I had already typed in acorn and hit enter.

8809

Wordle 1,152 2/6

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Entertaining, but not especially fun.

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Wordle 1,153 4/6

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RATIO
SONAR
ADORN
ACORN

8811

Wordle 1,153 3/6*

\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[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \\ &\bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt C} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \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 N} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt C} \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 N} \\ \end{aligned}

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Wordle 1,153 2/6

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SONAR
ACORN

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Wordle 1153 3/6

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SLANT
CHORE
ACORN

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Wordle 1,153 4/6

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HEART
FAIRY
ADORN
ACORN

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Wordle 1,153 3/6

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SLATE
CRIMP - Lucky guess, as it only leaves two possibilities
ACORN - I have chosen. . .wisely. And beat the bot.

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Wordle 1,153 3/6* 8/15/2024

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SHORE → Hmm. Well. I think this cut things down a great deal, because I stared at this for a couple minutes before I started seeing words that would fit. I even saw (and tried) FNORD, no such luck. I didn’t see any that had more than one WoFcon, so I tried
GLORY → and then saw one with an N
ACORN
FJORD was also in there, and I’m kinda surprised I didn’t see it, given my first try at the second guess. There were about 8 non-bogus possibles after the first guess, per Scoredle, but they were pretty widely spread and a couple bad guesses could have meant bogie territory. Scoredle, btw, finishes in 3 as well.

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Wordle 1,153 2/6

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SNORT
ACORN

Well, there goes twenty seconds of my morning.

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Wordle 1,153 2/6*

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ALONE
ACORN

Took me two tries two days in a row!

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Wordle 1,153 4/6*

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LEAST
ARMOR
ADORN
ACORN

I lost the coin toss.

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Wordle 1,153 3/6

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READY
AMOUR
ACORN

Decided to look for a second vowel, and it paid off. It was bound to be ABORT or ACORN, so I went with the more likely of the two.