Wordle 1,196 4/6
PLANT
RATES
TACKY
FAITH
Wordle 1,196 3/6
READY (Can’t vowel hunt with all the vowels, so I’ll compromise and hunt two vowels and three consonants)
EIGHT (THAT went much better than I anticipated!)
FAITH (I almost used HABIT, but noticed just in time that the word couldn’t end with T)
Wordle 1,196 3/6
ARISE
PAINT
FAITH
ARISE remains my best-performing start word, and it just got better. An easy birdie.
Wordle 1,196 3/6*
PLATE
HASTY
FAITH
Wordle 1,197 3/6
LEASE
DRANK
BRAIN
Wordle 1,197 4/6
RATIO
FLAIR
GRAIN
BRAIN
Wordle 1,197 4/6*
\begin{aligned} &\bbox[lime,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[silver,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 A} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt H} \\ &\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 A} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt C} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \\ &\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 A} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt N} \\ \end{aligned}
Wordle 1197 2/6
31
SLANT
BRAIN
This is the third time in the past month that I’ve had that particular green-and-yellow combo on my starting word, #1168 and #1177 being the others. So not only have I become familiar with it, but two possible solutions (out of a dozen) had gotten used up lately. If my guess on 2 hadn’t been the solution, I’d have had no worse than a 3.
So the next time this combo comes up, AGAIN, BRAIN, CHAIN, DRAIN, DRAWN, KNAVE, and YEARN will have already been used, leaving only GRAIN, BRAWN, PRAWN, KNACK, and (iffy) UNARM.
I’m kinda surprised they haven’t already started re-using previous solutions.
Wordle 1,197 3/6
STORE
RAINY
BRAIN
That was an unexpected twist at two.
DRAIN and GRAIN were also possible. I trusted the B and it worked!
Wordle 1,197 4/6
PLANT
SNARE
GRAIN
BRAIN
Wordle 1,197 2/6
CRANE
BRAIN - Very lucky, as there were about five other possibilities.
Wordle 1,197 4/6
HEART
CRACK
BRAID
BRAIN
Wordle 1,197 3/6
READY (Can’t eliminate all the vowels. How about a vowel and two consonants?)
GRAIN (I swear, it was a shot ih the dark!)
BRAIN (Because DRAIN and TRAIN had been used)
Nothing stopping them from using ABAFT (other than Wordlebot’s prejudices).
With an editor, any word could be added to the list at any time. For example, after BEAUT was an answer recently I checked the original wordle list and it was not there. So that was added by the editor.
Now I’m curious to find all the editor words, and it feels like it would only take 10 minutes. (…20 minutes later…)
Here’s the list of words that have been answers but were not on Wardle’s original answers list:
Editor Additions
balsa beaut guano kazoo laser manga pious snafu
I agree with and would have also added balsa, kazoo, laser and pious. Beaut and manga, definitely not. Unsure how I feel about guano and snafu.
GUANO is (if you’ll forgive the Simpsons-generated neologism) a perfectly cromulent word. I understand Millard Filmore (or maybe Grover Cleveland) referenced its value as a natural resource in an Inaugural address (unless it was a SotU speech. So I’m not good with details. Sue me).
ETA: And what’s the problem with MANGA? It’s as least as valid a word as SUSHI. I might (MIGHT) balk at POCKY, though.
Wordle 1,197 3/6*
LEAST
GRAIN
BRAIN
Should have trusted the B!
A twofer today as I was able to play but not post yesterday.
Wordle 1,196 4/6* 9/27/2024
THANK → TH must go together - but where? And should I look for another vowel? Let’s do
OATHS → I wish I had thought of my next guess before this one
EARTH → That doesn’t leave much
FAITH
Scoredle birdies this one; from its own start, from my start, and even from my second guess. So yeah, kinda hurts.
Wordle 1,197 4/6* 9/28/2024
FAITH → All-vowel start. I’ll try three remaining WoFcons and see where that gets me
SNAIL → There’s one WoFcon left, and it puts me into a minor-league trap. I’ll try GRAIN in case of AGAIN…
GRAIN → Should have trusted the B, or at least the zombies
BRAIN
Oddly enough Scoredle does worse than I do when presented with the trap, though it gets a par from my first guess (and from its own).
Wordle 1,197 3/6*
PLATE
SHADY
BRAIN
Wordle 1,198 3/6
RATIO
RINSE
RIDER
Lucky guess.