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

The Game Room
9361

Wordle 1,198 4/6*

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

9362

Wordle 1,198 5/6

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STAIR
BIKER
FLOWN
DIVER
RIDER

Nasty trap.
I correctly guessed on _I_ER right away, but I made a poor choice in BIKER to test it, not eliminating very much.
Did the best I could from there. I suppose I should be happy just to have survived this one.

9363

Wordle 1,198 4/6

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PLANT
SCORE
FRIED
RIDER

Lucky to get this 4.

9364

Wordle 1,198 5/6

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I was due for a tough nut.
HEART
SOBER
LINER
WIPER
RIDER

9365

Wordle 1,198 4/6

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CRANE
REPLY
RODEO
RIDER

9366
Wordle 1,198 3/6* 9/29/2024

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BRAIN → OK, not a lot to go on, but I’ll try an E and a couple more WoFcons
RITES → Seems trappish. L is still out there, and D, but RILED is probably not it. Oh, there could be another R.
RIDER

If I had seen RIVER first, I probably would have gone with it, so I’m toting this one up in the “luck” column. Scoredle ends up in the RI?ER trap and finishes with a five after some very unlucky guessing given it had RISER on the second guess.

9367

Wordle 1,198 4/6*

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LEAST
DIVER
WIDER
RIDER

9368

Wordle 1,198 2/6

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READY I think it might be trying to get me to go for an RxxED word. Not gonna (immediately).
RIDER Nice try, Worldle!

Oh, and I didn’t just beat the bot, I kicked its ass (it solved it in five guesses)!

9369

Wordle 1198 4/6

:white_large_square::white_large_square::white_large_square::white_large_square::white_large_square: 1,713
:white_large_square::white_large_square::white_large_square::yellow_square::yellow_square: 176
:white_large_square::yellow_square::white_large_square::green_square::yellow_square: 10
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SLANT
CHORE
GREED
RIDER

Could’ve also been DIVER; didn’t see that one. Other than that, GREED was a good stab at the 3 and narrowed down the possibilities well to get the 4.

9370

Woohoo for your 2! And interesting, in hard mode the bot solved in 4, exactly the same guesses as mine below:
Wordle 1,198 4/6*

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PLATE
DINER
WIDER
RIDER

I see that only 88.4% of hard mode players solved it today, so a lot of streaks were broken.

9371

Monday, September 30th

Wordle 1,199 3/6

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PLANT
CLOSE
CLOUD

I was annoyed that I had to play a C instead of R but then that turned out to be key.

9372

Wordle 1,199 2/6

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REACH
CLOUD

9373

Wordle 1,199 3/6*

\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[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt W} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U} \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 C} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \\ \end{aligned}

9374

Wordle 1,199 4/6

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RATIO
SHONE
BLOCK
CLOUD

9375

Wordle 1,199 3/6

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SLANT
PLIER
CLOUD

Pulled a birdie out of my butt. There were at least 9 legit words available. I wanted to check the remaining vowels, and only one word had them both!

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Wordle 1,199 3/6

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HEART
SPOIL
CLOUD

9377

Wordle 1,199 3/6

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CRANE
CLOUT
CLOUD

Took some time to think about my second word choice and it paid off.

9378

I’ve gotten a few 2’s lately. Maybe I’m getting better at this!

9379

Wordle 1199 3/6

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:white_large_square::green_square::yellow_square::white_large_square::white_large_square: 3
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SLANT
PLUME
CLOUD

Could’ve also been FLOUR, so a bit of luck there.

I did something a bit different today: after my starting word turned up what it did, I realized there were a limited number of possible first letters, so I took advantage of that and went through the dictionary to find all the possibilities. I was going to get a fairly large number of possibilities, but the search was doable in a fairly short amount of time, maybe 15-20 minutes.

The point was that I’d get a not-quite-random largish sample of possibilities to see how many had already been used. The upshot was that out of the 49 possibilities that I considered viable, 30 were previous solutions. Needless to say, that helped me narrow things down a bit in solving today’s Wordle, but it’s an interesting benchmark of where we are.

Just for the fun of it, here’s the dictionary words I found but guessed that they probably weren’t possible solutions: BLOWY, FLYBY (needs a hyphen), GLEBE*, GLOGG, ILEUM, PLIER (singular of PLIERS).

*If you ever spent much time in Alexandria or Arlington, VA, this is a familiar word. :grinning:

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Wordle 1,199 4/6* 9/30/2024

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RIDER → The D? On the other hand, cool, the D! Now what can I add to it? A & WoFcons, or two vowels and two WoFcons? Try the latter
SANDY → And… nada. Better get both O & U into the next one; and an L, too?
WOULD → COULD? No, wait…
CLOUD

Would have been embarrassing to miss par by mentally transposing the three middle letters. Scordle tries a repeat of the known letter on its second guess; it also ends up with a four.