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

Wordle 1,177 4/6

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RATIO
SHARE
CLANG
DRAWN

Forgot the R on the third guess.

Wordle 1,177 4/6*

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

Wordle 1,177 3/6

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:green_square::green_square::white_large_square::white_large_square::white_large_square:
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CLOUT
DRIVE
DRAWN

Wordle 1177 3/6

:white_large_square::white_large_square::green_square::yellow_square::white_large_square: 31
:white_large_square::green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square: 2
:green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square:

SLANT
BRAWN
DRAWN

I had that same green and yellow in my starting word just the other day, in #1168, so I still had my scribbles from that day. Same situation with one less possible solution, went with the same second word.

If PRAWN had been today’s solution, I’d have had to take a 4; otherwise, no worse than a 3. Sweet!

Wordle 1,177 3/6

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:black_large_square::orange_square::orange_square::black_large_square::orange_square:
:orange_square::orange_square::orange_square::orange_square::orange_square:

AMUSE
TRAIN
DRAWN

DRAWN, BRAWN, or PRAWN. I could have guaranteed a 4 with a sleuth word or just rolled the dice for either 3, 4, or 5. Made the right choice.

Wordle 1,177 4/6

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:orange_square::orange_square::orange_square::orange_square::orange_square:

PAEON
STAIN
BRAWN
DRAWN

Wordle 1,177 4/6

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:white_large_square::green_square::green_square::yellow_square::yellow_square:
:green_square::green_square::green_square::white_large_square::green_square:
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HEART
GRAND
DRAIN
DRAWN

Wordle 1,177 4/6

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:black_large_square::yellow_square::green_square::yellow_square::black_large_square:
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:green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square:

PLANT
SNARE
BRAIN
DRAWN

So much for trusting the B.

Fun fact: We are just past the halfway point through the original answer list, which had 2315 answers. If the original list were still being adhered to, we would have crossed the halfway point in Wordle #1158.

Wordle 1,177 3/6* 9/8/2024

:white_large_square::yellow_square::yellow_square::white_large_square::yellow_square:
:yellow_square::yellow_square::yellow_square::yellow_square::white_large_square:
:green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square:

OWNER → W! That’s useful. Let’s try and A and… and S.
WARNS → Knew it wouldn’t be this but I was hoping for a little more help. Not one green. Oh, well. W probably not in the middle, match it with the N, ??AWN, so ?RAWN, first thing I saw was
DRAWN
BRAWN or PRAWN, also possible. WRANG
was Scoredle’s second guess, which got more greens than mine but still settled down to the same three words. Then, Scoredle gets a 4 in both cases, so lucky me, I guess!?!

We know the NYT dropped a few words from Wardle’s list, but even if they also added a number of words, we still have to be either past the halfway mark or close enough to it to make no never mind. I keep thinking that at some point, they really need to start allowing the re-use of solutions in some manner, otherwise they’re going to have fewer and fewer possible solutions to choose from.

If it were up to me, I’d do something like exclude just the past six months’ worth of solutions from being selected, and I’d weight things so that an unused word on the solutions list would have a greater probability of selection (maybe double) than a solution that had already been used. Eventually they’ll have to do something, but I doubt they’ll take advantage of my brilliant ideas. :wink:

Wordle 1,177 3/6*

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LEAST
WHARF
DRAWN

Wordle 1,177 4/6*

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PLATE
SHARK
BRAND
DRAWN

Wordle 1,177 4/6

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READY (Nice start, but fraught)
FRAUD (Definitely a DRAxx word then. Not too many of those)
MELON (Useful sleuth word)
DRAWN (Par!)

Monday, September 9th

Wordle 1,178 4/6

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:green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square:

PLANT
ROSET
EVICT
DEBIT

After 2 I saw debut pretty quickly but that’s already been an answer. Turns out I would have been better off guessing it anyway.

Wordle 1,178 4/6

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RATIO
LIMIT
BEFIT
DEBIT

Definitely could have gotten this sooner if I wasn’t lazy. I wanted to try the E but didn’t immediately see any options.

Wordle 1,178 2/6*

\begin{aligned} &\bbox[yellow,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[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[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \\ \end{aligned}

:grin:

Wordle 1178 4/6

:white_large_square::white_large_square::white_large_square::white_large_square::green_square: 182
:white_large_square::white_large_square::white_large_square::white_large_square::yellow_square: 25
:green_square::white_large_square::white_large_square::white_large_square::white_large_square: 1
:green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square:

SLANT
CHORE
DUMPY
DEBIT

It isn’t often that I have to resort to DUMPY (or GIMPY) at 3 because I have so little to work with, but this was one of those times. It did the job though. :slight_smile:

Wordle 1,178 3/6

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TEACH
MERIT
DEBIT

Wordle 1,178 3/6

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READY
LIGHT
DEBIT

That didn’t take long!