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

Wordle 1,215 4/6

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CRANE
PRANK
BRAND
GRANT

That’s the second trap in a week for me.

Wordle 1,215 3/6*

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LEAST
DRAFT
GRANT

Wordle 1,215 5/6* 10/16/2024

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CORER → Ironically, the one letter that I got was the one that got me yesterday. And I should have gone TRAIN here, which would have been a better choice than placing the R where I already knew it wasn’t
STAIR → So now I finally get a clue about where to put the R, but I’ve forgotten about the N! Ugh. So I tried
TRAMP → which led me to the traplike
CRAFT → and finally I realized what I had been missing all along
GRANT

A bad choice early on turned a potential three into a five. Scoredle made that birdie, but with a very lucky guess - I count at least 20 possibles from its word list after its second guess.

Wordle 1,215 4/6

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Oh, fuck, did I forget to do it yesterday? SHIT!

READY
SHARK
TRAMP
GRANT

I’m not the greatest wordier ever, but this missing a day thing really feels like it threw mw off my game.

If you have to accidentally miss a day of wordle, yesterday was a good day to pick.

Wordle 1,215 4/6*

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Guile
Ghost
Craft
Grant

I did the best i could to honestly reconstruct how I would have done, and I think I could have gotten it.

Wordle 1,215 3/6*

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PLATE
STAND
GRANT

@EllisDee , yes, a mercifully straightforward one!

Wordle 1,216 5/6

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Wordle 1,216 4/6

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RATIO
LANES
CABLE
HALVE

I know it’s a word but it seems like it shouldn’t be.

Wordle 1216 3/6

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SLANT
CHORE
HALVE

Wordle 1,216 5/6*

\begin{aligned} &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \bbox[yellow,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[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt W} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt K} \\ &\bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt N} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt G} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt F} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt H} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt V} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \\ \end{aligned}

Wordle 1,216 5/6

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PLANT
LASER
FABLE
VALUE
HALVE

Tough one.

Wordle 1,216 3/6

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HEART
HAVEN
HALVE

Wordle 1,216 5/6

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ACUTE
PARSE
GABLE
VALVE
HALVE

I forgot to play yesterday! I guess Tuesday’s trauma was still too fresh. Nothing lost because my streak was over anyway. Just a little bummed that I missed out on a relatively easy word.

Today was a bit of a mess, but I have a one-day streak. Yay!

Hopefully your big score over in the Death Pool helps make up for it. 69 points in one fell swoop plunge!

Wordle 1,216 4/6*

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LEAST
ANGLE
VALUE ← I lost the coin toss…
HALVE

Wordle 1,216 5/6

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CRANE
ALIVE
SALVE
VALVE
HALVE - A verb? Really?

Given today’s trend, I guess I don’t feel to badly about this. But a third trap in a week is annoying.

Wordle 1,216 4/6* 10/17/2024

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GRANT → Slow start. Need to check S & L. Might usually try an E here, but I think I’ll try the Scoredle trick and try to place the A, so
SALAD → My usual pattern would have been GALES or FALSE here. But now with S, R & D gone, it’s hard to try an E in 4th. I do see one possiblility that leads to a 3-trap, but I’ll go for it
CALVE → So, H or V? Flip a mental coin and get
HALVE
Once I saw VALVE,
I figured I had to try one of the other trap words in case I got it badly wrong. There were about three other words it could have been per Scoredle (which finishes in four as well) so I was probably safe after my third guess. Crossing my fingers for DELVE tomorrow!

Wordle 1,216 6/6

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I’d just like to say at the outset that I’m content with this double bogey, wordlebot can fuck right off with its “Phew!,'” and a single data point is NOT eligible to be characterized as a “streak” (i.e., there’s no such thing as a “one-day” streak.

READY (looks kinda trappy. Better try to place those vowels)
PASTE (Well I succeeded in that much, at least. Now to fling some letters around and see if anything sticks)
FLING (found an L. Let’s burn a move to try placing it. LADLE would be smart, but I never claimed to be.)
LAPEL (Well, it’s likely xALxE. CALVE, HALVE VALUE or VALVE. Sleuth word!)
VOUCH (That works)
HALVE