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

Wordle 1,183 3/6*

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

Stupid stupid stupid.

Wordle 1,183 4/6

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PLANT
RACES
ARROW
BROAD

I kept focusing on aroma, which eventually led to arrow.

Wordle 1,183 4/6*

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LEAST
ADIEU
HANDY
BROAD

Wordle 1,183 3/6

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HEART
ARBOR
BROAD

Hate it when I do that.

Wordle 1,183 3/6

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SLATE
POUND
BROAD

Nice ego booster after two days of abject failure.

Wordle 1,183 4/6* 9/14/2024

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HARSH → Got the R & A again. I can try an E and two of the rest of the WoFcons with
LEARN → Moved them over one, got no result. I thnk it’s time for the Scoredle trick of finding where the A goes with
AROMA → Got two other letters placed to boot, and the A by elimination. Time to trust the B… and the D
BROAD
CROAK
was still a possibility, Scoredle hastens to remind me. Scoredle, by the way, also gets there in four, and IMHO should have gotten there in three, where it repeats a letter already found and placed.

Wordle 1,183 3/6

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READY
RADAR (that was dumb. But at least it gave me good clues for the placement of the D)
BROAD

An eagle would have been nice. But so is the birdie.

Wordle 1,183 5/6

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OILER
ROAST
APRON
CROAK
BROAD

Yeesh. All over the place today.
Wordlebot called ROAST, APRON, and CROAK “Wonderful,” “Wonderful,” and “Terrific,” respectively. Fat lot of of good it did me.

Wordle 1,183 4/6*

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PLATE
RADIO
ADORN
BROAD

Rats, lost the coin toss on this one.

Wordle 1,184 4/6

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RATIO
RULES
REVUE
RECUR

Actually remembered that RERUN was a recent answer.

Wordle 1,184 6/6*

\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[lime,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[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt C} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt C} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt H} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt C} \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 R} \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 U} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \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 U} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \\ \end{aligned}

Silly game. :angry:

Wordle 1184 4/6

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SLANT
CHORE
WRECK
RECUR

After 2, I saw WRECK right away, and wasn’t coming up with anything else real quick, so I went with it. After it failed, it took me awhile to see any other possibilities. ICIER, DICER, and RICER were still out there as well as the solution, so there was the possibility of a 5 or 6.

Wordle 1,184 4/6

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ATONE
SCARY
CIDER
RECUR

Wordle 1,184 3/6

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HEART
VERSE
RECUR

Wordle 1,184 4/6

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CRANE
SCREW
RETCH
RECUR - Had a long “e” in my brain or may have gone with “relic”. I’ll take the four.

Wordle 1,184 5/6* 9/15/2024

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BROAD → Hmm. Little enough. I’ll focus on WoFcons.
STREP → Should have been STERN, in retrospect. Where does the E go? I kinda like an RE- start here… but what after that? Something with I, and N, given my regrets. For some reason, I typed
REWIN → At least RE- are placed. Perhaps a second E? First word that came to mind used a double C, so
RECCE → And I hit the C, not the E. RECUE would have been better. Either way, only one word left…
RECUR
REIGN
, in the event, would have probably been a better choice for my second guess. Given the uncommon vowel and repeated R, this was almost engineered to give me fits - and a bogey. Scoredle, BTW, gets a birdie by doing its usual strategy.

Wordle 1,184 4/6

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READY (AAAGGGHHH! there are too many RExxx words! Consonant hunt!)
LIGHT (No help. More Consonant hunt!)
SMOCK (Oh, okay. That C solves it for me)
RECUR (See? I told you!)

Wordle 1,184 3/6

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LOUSE
TUNER
RECUR

I don’t like doubling up an already-placed letter, but it made sense here… and I was right!

Wordle 1,184 4/6

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PLANT
SCORE
CRIED
RECUR

Tough to see.

Wordle 1,184 4/6*

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PLATE
DINER
FEMUR
RECUR

Note to self: remember thatdouble letters are common!