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

The Game Room
9461

Wordle 1,206 4/6

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PLANT
CLOSE
BLOOM
FLOUR

I zigged when I should have zagged.

9462

Wordle 1,206 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[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt G} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt F} \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 R} \\ \end{aligned}

9463

Wordle 1,206 3/6

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TOUCH
PROUD
FLOUR

9464

Wordle 1206 3/6

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SLANT
PLUME
FLOUR

Same pattern, with the same first two guesses, as #1199, which narrowed it down to two possibilities. I correctly guessed CLOUD on 3 then; this time it had to be FLOUR.

9465

Wordle 1,206 4/6

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HEART
BROIL
GLORY doh! I should have realized that R wasn’t in 4th position
FLOUR

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Wordle 1,206 3/6

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SLATE
CLOUD
FLOUR

Redemption after yesterday’s fiasco.

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Wordle 1,206 3/6

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PATIO
LOSER
FLOUR

Nice birdie to get after a shaky start.

I stand corrected, then. I didn’t recall ever seeing an -ER adjective as an answer, and just assumed they were not valid.

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Wordle 1,206 4/6

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READY (I get to use my favorite vowel-hunting word!)
HOURI (found my vowels! Now to place that R…)
CROUP (placed it!)
FLOUR (only word possible. Unless you think STOUR is a word. I would challenge it in Scrabble)

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Wordle 1,206 2/6* 10/7/2024

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LAGER → L must be 2nd or 3rd. Should try an O and one of us (i.e. either U or I). Sorted through combinations with I and got nowhere. ?ULOR/?OLUR go nowhere. With L in second, though…
FLOUR
COLOR and of couse FLOOR were the other major possibles. My fixation on not repeating letters helped me this time around. Scoredle does the repeat but still birdies.

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And I think it’s just the suffix rather than the part of speech anyway. Like with the -S endings, it’s not just plural nouns but also third person singular verbs obtained by adding an S that have never been solutions.

9471

Wordle 1,206 3/6*

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LEAST
WHORL
FLOUR

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Wordle 1,206 3/6*

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PLATE
SLINK
FLOUR

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Tuesday, October 8th

Wordle 1,207 3/6

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PLANT
FEINT
JOINT

Holy crap, a J!

9474

Wordle 1,207 4/6

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RATIO
HOIST
POINT
JOINT

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Wordle 1207 3/6

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SLANT
FOUNT
JOINT

A pair of greens on the starting word narrows things down wonderfully.

9476

Wordle 1,207 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[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 Q} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt W} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt H} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt P} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt N} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt J} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt N} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \\ \end{aligned}

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Wordle 1,207 5/6

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Wordle 1,207 4/6

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HEART
CLOUT
POSIT
JOINT

9479

Wordle 1,207 2/6

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PAEON - So possibly an i or a u to go with the o. Can’t be ‘point’. Could be an ‘-ound’ word, but let’s try. . .
JOINT - A rare two for me!

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Wordle 1,207 3/6* 10/8/2024

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FLOUR → OK. Try an E, and the three remaining WoFcons
TONES → I would guess ?OUNT here if the U hadn’t already been ruled out. ?OANT goes nowhere. ?OINT, though
JOINT
Not sure why I went with J rather than the more obvious P here, but I’m glad I did. Scoredle gets a 4 and always makes the opposite play when it gets down to just those two options, so an odd lower-percantage (i.e. lucky) play works out for me here.