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

Wordle 1193 3/6

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SLANT
CHORE
HANDY

HUMAN had already been used; didn’t think it would be HANKY.

Wordle 1,193 2/6

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HEART
HANDY nearly went with HANKY

Wordle 1,193 3/6*

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LEAST
NOMAD
HANDY

Wordle 1,193 2/6

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PAEON
HANDY

With 45 words to choose from, this was totally unexpected.

Wordle 1,193 5/6* 9/24/2024

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STEAM → Smal scale start. Would like to try R, N & L along with an O, but I’m not seeing it. I’ll keep the O and try another consonants
ADORN → Good guess on that try. If I put all thee known letters together at the end, i can try an L and another consonant, so
GLAND → That wasn’t it. DAN??, might need a Y here.
DANCY → Why didn’t I see CANDY? On the plus side, I eliminated DANDY, which makes the rest of this a lot less risky than otherwise.
HANDY
BANDY
was still out there along with some bogus words. Scoredle makes a great play with a vowel hunt on 2, hits the trap at 3 and then gets a 1 in 3 guess to make par.

Wordle 1,193 4/6

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PLANT
SANER
FANCY
DANDY

Started getting nervous there after 3.

Wordle 1,193 2/6

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READY. (Ooh, good shot at an eagle! Most likely are xANDY AND xADDY, with a slight edge to xANDY)
HANDY (And the crowd goes wil–oops, I forgot we were doing golf metaphors. And the gallery politely applauds softly!)

Wordle 1,193 5/6*

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PLATE
RADIO
SANDY
BANDY
HANDY
I saw HANDY but thought “Don’t fear the B” and went with BANDY. Oh well.

Wednesday, September 25th

Wordle 1,194 3/6

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PLANT
STORE
TORCH

That went well.

Wordle 1194 3/6

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SLANT
CHORE
TORCH

Wordle 1,194 4/6

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RATIO
SHORT
NORTH
TORCH

My first two in a while…

Wordle 1,194 2/6

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COURT
TORCH

Wordle 1,194 5/6*

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

Well that was a bloody stupid 4th choice.
My excuse is that i was distracted by something on the radio…

Wordle 1,194 5/6

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PAEON
HOIST
TOUGH - I was genuinely surprised that this wasn’t the answer
TOOTH
TORCH

Wordle 1,194 3/6

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HEART
THROW
TORCH

Wordle 1,194 4/6* 9/25/2024

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HANDY → Slow start, but a WoFcon and two vowels gone isn’t bad. Two more of each coming up!
THEIR → Not bad, but still vowel-deficient. I’ll try an O… and I see one that requires repeating the T, which isn’t too bad here, so
TROTH → Gotta swap O & R, TOR?H gives me
TORCH

Beat Scoredle today, which despite getting the O with guess #2 finds the T rather late and scores a 5. My second guess was rather lucky, but fully justified IMHO, so I’ll take the par.

Wordle 1,194 3/6*

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LEAST
MIRTH
TORCH

Wordle 1,194 3/6

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READY (I have just the word for a vowel hunt!)
HOURI (That was productive)
TORCH (And a little bit of luck for the birdie!)

Wordle 1,194 3/6*

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PLATE
STOIC
TORCH

Wordle 1,195 4/6

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RATIO
SLATE
CHANT
THANK