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

The Game Room
8961

Wordle 1,165 3/6*

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Erupt
Crank
Crown

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Wordle 1,165 X/6*

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

Bolleaux.

8963

Wordle 1,165 5/6

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Had a decent run lately until this stinker today

HEART
BROIL
PROUD
CROOK
CROWN

8964

Wordle 1,165 1/6

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Whoa! That has NEVER happened to me before.

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Congrats!
Now you cannot play anymore.

8966

Wordle 1,165 3/6

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CRANE
CROON - dang
CROWN

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Wordle 1,165 4/6* 8/27/2024

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STAKE → What a difference a day makes. So I got hung up here on what my second word should be - RONIL was one of the nonexistent candidates - and eventually decided to try just two of my remaining WoFcons, and thus
WRONG → which was closer to right than I expected. However, there was a trap involved, which I decided to try in alphabetical order
BROWN → Nope.
CROWN
CORNY is Scoredle’s second word, which is just about perfect for the purpose (and a little lucky) - so it birdies the puzzle. I think I should look more for Y-words in general.

8968

Wordle 1,165 6/6*

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LEAST
ROUGH
DROWN
BROWN
FROWN
CROWN

Ugh!

8969

Wordle 1,165 5/6

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READY (Vowel hunt!)
HOURI (every little bit helps, I guess)
GROWN (I’ll concede, that was quite lucky)
DECAF (the sleuth word)
CROWN

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Holy crap, I did not see today’s massive trap at all. I just happened to see crown and immediately guessed it. Brown/crown/drown/frown/grown…yikes. if I had taken half a second to look for possibilities I would have noticed the trap, listed them all, and then by my rules guessed frown first. I might have even had to burn a guess on a sleuth word. (I haven’t checked whether any of those have been previous answers.)

8971

Wordle 1,166 4/6

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RATIO
WITCH
PITHY
LITHE

Maybe I should have checked common letters first?

8972

Wordle 1,166 4/6

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PLANT
STOLE
FLUTE
LITHE

Foolish unforced error there at 3 replaying the yellow L in second position. Immediately went with the first thing I saw like yesterday. Unfortunately I went so quickly I didn’t make sure it was a valid guess.

8973

Wordle 1,166 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[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 S} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt M} \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 I} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt H} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \\ \end{aligned}

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Wordle 1,166 3/6

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SHONE
HALVE
LITHE

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Wordle 1,166 3/6

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HEART
THEME
LITHE

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Wordle 1,166 4/6

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MOUSE
IRATE
TINGE
LITHE

At three, I went back and forth between TINGE and LITHE. :angry:

8977

Wordle 1166 3/6

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SLANT
CHORE
LITHE

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Wordle 1,166 2/6

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Wow, that was a bit unexpected.

SLATE
LITHE

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Wordle 1,166 3/6* 8/28/2024

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CROWN → Second leadoff strikeout in a row. Time for a good first guess second…
STALE → OK, that’s a little better. Still need another vowel. U, I or a second E? I thought about I words first, otherwise I would have tried FLUTE. Instead, it was
LITHE

Two major options left for the third guess. Scoredle, oddly enough, tries to double up on a letter that hasn’t even been used before, and takes a par because of it. I’m often amazed at how well Scoredle does with its “repeated letter” strategy, but applying it to a letter that you don’t even know is present at all? Seems like madness to me.

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Wordle 1,166 4/6

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READY (vowel hunt)
OUTIE (Bonus! got a placed T!)
TITLE (At least this clinches my par)
LITHE