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

The Game Room
9241

Wordle 1,188 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[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 P} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt V} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt P} \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 S} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \\ \end{aligned}

9242

Wordle 1,188 4/6

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HEART
BONER
CURVE
PRESS

9243

Feel good about this one.

Wordle 1,188 3/6

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PAEON
PIECE - Only one word it can be.
PRESS

9244

Wordle 1,188 3/6*

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LEAST
DRESS
PRESS

9245
Wordle 1,188 5/6* 9/19/2024

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FULLY → That may be one of my worst starts ever. Two rare vowels, only one WoFcon (and that repeated), and a strikeout. On the plus side, time for a good first guess second!
STARE → Well, that’s something. N is the last WoFcon, I fits better than O, so…
RISEN → Nada. Feel like I really need to locate the S, so…
DRESS → P feels better than C, now, so
PRESS

There were over 7100 possibles left after my first word, which may be a record. Scoredle cites 50 possibles after my third guess, but most of them are plurals - so I had a better shot at it than how it looked at first glance. Scoredle itself goes the distance thanks to some bad guessing at the first letter.

9246

Wordle 1,188 5/6

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READY
OUGHT
SLICK
MAVEN
PRESS

Lotta flailing on this one. I’m happy to have escaped with a bogey.

9247

Wordle 1,188 3/6

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STALE
MISER
PRESS

Kind of backed into this one. I smelled an -ER ending, which of course was wrong, but that got me the R. And then doubling up to place the S scored me a birdie! I’ll take it!

9248

Wordle 1,188 3/6*

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PLATE
PENNY
PRESS
I commented last week on my blind spot when it comes to double letters, so I decided to go for it today. Yay!
The Bot sneered at the lack of skill in my choices, but it took me 3 guesses, while the Bot took 4.

9249

Looks like I haven’t posted here today, even though I knocked this one off in the early morning as usual.

Wordle 1188 4/6

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:white_large_square::white_large_square::white_large_square::yellow_square::yellow_square: 113
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SLANT
CHORE
DUMPS
PRESS

After 2, came up with DRESS, PRESS, MISER, RISER, WISER, and REBUS as possibilities, and the sleuth word at 3 narrowed it down to the solution.

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Friday, September 20th

Wordle 1,189 3/6

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PLANT
SCORE
SMOKE

Cool pattern.

9251

Wordle 1,189 4/6

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RATIO
SHONE
SPOKE
SMOKE

9252

Wordle 1,189 5/6*

\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 L} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt N} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt C} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt P} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt M} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt K} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \\ \end{aligned}

9253

Wordle 1,189 4/6

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FEAST
SPINE
SHOVE
SMOKE

9254

Wordle 1189 3/6

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SLANT
CHORE
SMOKE

SPOKE had already been used.

9255

Wordle 1,189 4/6

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HEART
SPIEL
SCONE
SMOKE

9256
Wordle 1,189 4/6* 9/20/2024

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PRESS → Not bad - and I know there’s only one S, so that’s a help. Time for another good first guess second.
STALE → Bookends. I thought about some possibilities for guessing two vowels here, like SO?IE or SU?IE, but resigned myself to guessing just one in the middle, along with my remaining WoFcon
SHONE → And that worked surprisingly well. What consonants can go in those last slots?
SMOKE
SAUTE was Scoredle’s second guess, and it also finished in four. That’s a creative guess when you’re looking for vowels, so I think it’s a little better than my typical pattern second guess here. Par is cool.

9257

Wordle 1,189 3/6

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PAEON
MOSEY
SMOKE - I thought of “smote”, but it didn’t seem likely that the answer would be a verb.

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Wordle 1,189 4/6

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SNAIL
STORE
SPOKE
SMOKE

S-O-E looked like a rather odious trap, but since I’d already killed N and L, there was only SMOKE, SPOKE, SCOPE, and SHOVE. And SPOKE was sure to narrow it down to one no matter what.
This was a fun little brain exercise today!

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Wordle 1,189 5/6

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READY (Vowel hunt!)
LOUIE (There’s no way there isn’t a trap here. Consonant hunt!)
FIGHT (Another consonant hunt)
SMOCK (Gets me the single bogey and keeps my streak alive)
SMOKE

9260

Wordle 1,189 3/6*

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LEAST
MISER ← getting an M was very lucky!
SMOKE