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

Wordle 1,160 4/6

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OPERA
INTER
BERTH
BRUTE

Tell me about it. This is my sixth consecutive four.

Wordle 1,160 4/6

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HEART
STREP
TROVE
BRUTE

Wordle 1,160 4/6* 8/22/2024

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MULCH → Bit of a low start. One of my “second words first” goes so well here I just had to try it, though in retrospect I could have tried ROUTE
ROUST → Not that this guess was bad, mind you. To cover the E, I did decide to repeat a letter, which gave me
TRUER → and even though the second R missed, I had enough info to make the par a gimme
BRUTE
SAUTE
is Scoredle’s second word, which I think is brilliant - better than either of mine - though it misses a coin toss with the second guess and ends up with the same par I eventually scored. All in all, a good fun puzzle today.

Wordle 1,160 5/6*

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LEAST
TIMER
ENTRY
TOWER <— completely stupid move!
BRUTE

Wordle 1,160 4/6

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READY (Let the vowel hunt begin!)
OURIE (Doesn’t seem to have the makings of a trap. Let’s try a sleuth word)
PUNCH (I kinda expect a T will be involved. And a B looks like it will be needed)
BRUTE (et voila!)

Got my winning streak to 366 today. It’s a leap year.

Wordle 1,161 4/6

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RATIO
LUNES
LEVEL
LEECH

I didn’t know where to go after two except to check for another e or a y. Should have tried LEERY.

Wordle 1,161 4/6

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PLANT
ROLES
GUILE
LEECH

We don’t need no stinkin’ greens!

Wordle 1,161 3/6*

\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[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 M} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \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 L} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt C} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt H} \\ \end{aligned}

!

Wordle 1,161 3/6*

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Unity
Serve
Leech

Wordle 1,161 4/6

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NORTH
FLASH
GULCH
LEECH

Wordle 1,161 2/6

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HEART
LEECH
got a small assist from the NYT acrostic I was working on- the clue was African Queen hazard which was RAPIDS, but then the voice of Katherine Hepburn shouting “Leeches!” stuck in my mind since then, inspiring my second guess.

Wordle 1161 3/6

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SLANT
CHORE
LEECH

I thought of BELCH right away, but it had already been used. And FELCH was right out. Took me a while to find the solution.

Wordle 1,161 4/6* 8/23/2024

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BRUTE → Thought for a second I would strike out completely. Ah, well, I can thrown in an A and the last three WoFcons and try
LEANS → That’s good… but now what? I hung up here for a while thinking and eventually tried
LEGGY → but, having broken the repeat letter taboo, that led me to see
LEECH
LEVEL, a double-repeater,
was also out there. Scoredle also makes its way to a four; it does its standard trick of repeating the first letter it can find and fairly quickly figures out the mystery I had to blunder into solving. Nice, though lucky, par.

Wordle 1,160 4/6

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CRANE
PROBE
BRIDE
BRUTE

Guess I forgot to hit ‘enter’ on this one.

And now for today’s!

Wordle 1,161 4/6

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SLATE
AUDIO - okay, double ‘e’, I guess
CREEL
LEECH

Wordle 1,161 3/6*

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LEAST
LEMUR
LEECH

Wordle 1,161 4/6

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READY (Not a great start, but at least the E is placed)
WEIGH (There don’t seem to be that many three-vowel words beginning xE)
TEETH (Getting that H was pretty nice. And TEETH left me with two possibilities)
LEECH (A-a-a-n-nd Nailed it!)

Saturday, August 24th

Wordle 1,162 3/6

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PLANT
GUILT
FILET

Hey, I broke my four streak, woohoo!

Wordle 1,162 4/6

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SWEAR
CLONE
LEGIT
FILET