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

Wordle 1,156 3/6*

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LEAST
LAYUP
LANKY

Wordle 1,157 4/6

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RATIO
ENTRY
UTTER
METER

Wordle 1,157 4/6

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CLEAR
MOWER
MIXER
METER

Wordle 1,157 4/6*

\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[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \\ &\bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt C} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt H} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt N} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt M} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \\ \end{aligned}

Wordle 1,157 4/6

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LEANT
TEPID
FETCH
METER

I struggled hard today. Tried to make FETCH happen, but it wouldn’t. A Hail Mary, re-using an already-placed letter, saved the par. But I can’t pretend there was much strategy here.

Wordle 1,157 4/6

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READY
SERVO (looking for more vowels)
LEMUR (JACKPOT! in that I placed the R and scored the M)
METER (only possibility left)

Wordle 1157 4/6

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SLANT
CHORE
TIMER
METER

Joining the crowd of 4’s today.

Wordle 1,157 2/6

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Four days, three deuces!

HEART
METER

Wordle 1,157 6/6

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CRANE
POISE
QUERY - Okay, so a double ‘e’ or something
BERTH
DETER
METER

Ugh. An inauspicious start to the week.

Wordle 1,157 4/6* 8/19/2024

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LANKY → Second straight whiff. Almost tried STORM here, for the symmetry, but decided it was more important to try an E
STORE → I considered TRITE here, but with only one or two slots for trying consonants left, decided it was more important to guess a lot of them, hence
MERIT → which instantly suggested
METER

Scoredle finishes in 3 from my start, so I did not beat the bot. Oddly enough, it used an anagram of my second guess which turned out way better than mine.

Wordle 1,157 3/6*

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LEAST
FETCH ← “Stop trying to make fetch a thing!”
METER

Wordle 1,157 4/6

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PLANT
STORE
TIMER
METER

Oof. Kind of spaced this, then I looked up on the clock and there were only minutes left until midnight.

Tuesday, August 20th

Wordle 1,158 4/6

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PLANT
LASER
IDEAL
DELAY

Not forgetting it today!

Wordle 1,158 4/6

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RATIO
SHALE
CLEAN
DELAY

Wordle 1,158 3/6*

\begin{aligned} &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \bbox[lime,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[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt C} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt Y} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt Y} \\ \end{aligned}

Wordle 1,158 4/6

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IRATE
CLEAN
LEGAL
DELAY

My fifth consecutive four. I’m in a rut!

Wordle 1,158 4/6

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HEART
PLACE (yes I know, I move the vowel that was in the right place and kept the vowel in the worng place. It’s early)
LEGAL
DELAY

Wordle 1,158 5/6

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CRANE
POISE
TWEAK - at a total loss here
MEDAL - A swag that pays off
DELAY

Better than yesterday’s 6/6 anyway.

Wordle 1,158 3/6* 8/20/2024

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METER → Well, that’s something to build on. Mix it together with an A and the last three WoFcons to get
LEANS → Try the known letters in the middle: ?ELA?, not SELAH for you psalm readers, or RELAY, but that last looks a lot like
DELAY

Wordle is looking at me very smugly right now, as it ended with a two, picking the answer right after my start word. I almost trusted the B and finished with par, but I figured that word wasn’t common enough.

Wordle 1,158 2/6

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READY
DELAY

DECAY just wasn’t available.