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

Wordle 1,220 4/6

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SPOON jumped out at me and I almost put it in at three, but then decided to slow down and look at all the options.
I had SPOON, SWOON, and SHOWN, making SWOON the logical choice. Sometimes going with your gut is better.

Wordle 1220 3/6

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SLANT
SNORE
SPOON

SHOWN and SWOON had already been used.

Actually, if those three are your only possibilities, going with either of the first two tells you which of the three it is. Only reason to go with SWOON is in case you think there’s other possibilities out there that you hadn’t identified, because unlike SPOON, it can eliminate all three known possibilities.

You are correct, of course.
I tend to overthink these things sometimes.

Wordle 1,220 3/6

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CRANE
POUND
SPOON

Wordle 1,220 4/6*

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LEAST
SWORD
SMOKY
SPOON

Wordle 1,220 4/6* 10/21/2024

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DICEY → Whiff. First guess second time - and which WoFcons to try? Gotta be A & O for the vowels.
SANTO → I just put this down, tried it and it worked. And worked very well, for that matter. Do I have a U, or a second O? If I try the second, what words can I make?
SNOOP → Well that made it easy
SPOON

Scoredle takes a bogey after falling into the fifth-letter trap - though it could have been worse. DICEY ain’t great for consonants, but it sure does wipe out some vowels in a hurry.

Wordle 1,220 5/6

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READY (Time for my vowel-hunting backup word!)
BIJOU (Just a placed O, eh? Time for a consonant hunt!)
CHALK (Whiff. It happens.)
STAMP (Now we’re getting somewhere!)
SPOON (Mission accomplished)

Wordle 1,220 2/6

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PLANT
SPOON

Woohoo!

Wordle 1,220 5/6*

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PLATE
SCOOP
SPOOK
SPOOR
SPOON

Sigh.
The Bot rated my 4th guess as 0 for skill, I’m not sure why. (It said “Unfortunately, this guess didn’t eliminate any of the remaining words”, but it looks like a perfectly valid word to me.)
Can anyone weigh in?

Wordle 1,221 3/6

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RATIO
STOLE
SHOUT

You could have had a three if you just

followed my lead and stuck to kitchen utensils.

Wordle 1,221 3/6

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STEAM
SOUTH
SHOUT

Wordle 1,221 4/6

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PLANT
ROSET
SHOOT
SHOUT

I had double O on the brain because of spoon from yesterday.

Wordle 1,221 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[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U} \bbox[silver,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 C} \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 T} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \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 U} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt H} \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 T} \\ \end{aligned}

Wordle 1,221 3/6*

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Trash
Shift
Shout

Wordle 1221 3/6

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SLANT
SHORT
SHOUT

Could’ve also been SHOOT; won the mental coin toss.

Wordle 1,221 3/6

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HEART
LIGHT
SHOUT

Wordle 1,221 3/6

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RENAL
HOIST
SHOUT

You know you make me wanna…

A whiff on the first word led to a good second word.
They surely wouldn’t use a double O two days in a row, would they? Well, yeah, they definitely would, but I chose correctly.

Wordle 1,221 5/6

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CRANE
MOIST
STOUT
SPOUT - Ah crap
SHOUT

Mini-trap. ::grumble::

My earworm was Shout, shout, let it all out, these are the things I can do without :smiley: