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

Wordle 1212 and through and through… 3/6

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SLANT
DRONE
PRONE

My vorpal blade wasn’t as sharp as some others today, but still managed a 3. :slight_smile:

Wordle 1,212 3/6

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AGILE
STONE
PRONE

I saw PRONE, PHONE, and DRONE, so PRONE was the logical play. Of the words I missed, CRONE would have gotten me a bogie and OZONE, after likely several minutes of confusion, a par.
So I had a one-in-five shot at the birdie and hit it!

Wordle 1,212 5/6

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HEART
LOSER
PROVE
PROBE
PRONE
As Ted Striker put it: what a pisser

Wordle 1,212 3/6

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CRANE
DRONE - Got lucky with choosing an ‘o’ word.
PRONE

Wordle 1,212 4/6* 10/13/2024

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STAIN → Try O & E and two remaining WoFcons, with the N. Ergo,
LONER → That’s a good guess. Unfortunately, I soon made a bad one
RECON → Already knew the N wasn’t there, bruh. Well, the N pretty much has to go in 4th, put O & E surrounding it, move R over and try
PRONE
CRONE
was eliminated by my third guess, but I still could have easily bogeyed. Scoredle hits a birdie, with a fairly lucky third guess (I cound 8 or 9 non-bogus possibles in the list).

Wordle 1,212 3/6*

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LEAST
DIRGE
PRONE

Wordle 1,212 4/6

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READY (Looks like a trap)
INURE (Yep. PRONE, DRONE, or BORNE)
BIPED (So, PRONE)
PRONE

Wordle 1,212 2/6*

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Summary

PLATE
PRONE

Wordle 1,213 5/6

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RATIO
NASTY
TAUPE
CAPUT
GAMUT

Took me forever to come up with anything after three. I went through all the possibilities multiple times without seeing any options.

Wordle 1,213 4/6

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PLANT
RESAT
HABIT
GAMUT

Got stuck after habit and had to come back to it.

Wordle 1,213 4/6*

\begin{aligned} &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[yellow,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[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt P} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt Z} \\ &\bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt M} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt C} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt H} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt G} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt M} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \\ \end{aligned}

Wordle 1,213 3/6

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HEART
SPLAT
GAMUT

Wordle 1,213 3/6

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SLATE
PAINT
GAMUT

A very lucky guess.

Wordle 1,213 5/6*

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LEAST
HABIT
TAROT
DAUNT
GAMUT

Wordle 1,213 4/6* 10/14/2024

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PRONE → Two WoFcons down. Nedd to check A & I in vowels. What do we have?
TRAIL → A repeat letter. This might be two days in a row. What was I thinking? Oh, well, we have the A & T to work with. Tried SATCH for a second, but decided the S was optional and went for
MATCH → Which was a good thing to decide! It took me a while to put the consonants in the right places, but once I did I had
GAMUT

Scoredle also finishes in four, though in five when it starts from its own start word. Getting the middle letter was crucial.

Wordle 1213 4/6

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SLANT
HABIT
CARET
GAMUT

Had to get there eventually, I was running out of words.

Wordle 1,213 4/6

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READY (Vowel hunt!)
PATIO (Found a consonant. Come on, U!)
HAUNT (Found it. and placed the T. Very few words left.)
GAMUT (That went well.)

Wordle 1,213 5/6*

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PLATE
RATIO
TACKY
DAUNT
GAMUT
Quite DAUNTed by this one, I had trouble chasing the T all over the place and finding the GAMUT of possible answers.

Wordle 1,213 3/6

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ADIEU
LUNAR
GAMUT

I almost lost my streak today!
Took a break after two because I couldn’t come up with anything. Then as I was getting ready for bed, I thought, “Did I play wordle today?”
Not sure why that thought came to me just then, but I’m glad it did.
It still took me 15 minutes to come up with GAMUT. I probably should have seen SAUCY (the only other non-BS word left), but fortunately I didn’t.

Wordle 1,214 X/6

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RATIO
SHORE
LONER
COVER
MOPED
COWER

720 day streak over. I counted at least 15 words in the trap after guess three and I went for the most common word at four and a sleuth word at five. I guess if I had seen CORER I would have thought it more likely than COMER and could have used PORED as my sleuth word. Also, it does not escape my notice that my last loss was PARER. Apparently I do not eat enough fruit