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

The Game Room
9761

Wordle 1,230 2/6*

\begin{aligned} &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt W} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \\ \end{aligned}

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9762

Wordle 1230 4/6

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SLANT
CHORE
FIERY
WEIRD

9763

Wordle 1,230 3/6*

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Intro
Spire
Weird

9764

Wordle 1,230 2/6

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HEART
WEIRD

9765

Wordle 1,230 2/6*

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LEAST
WEIRD

Wow! Another lucky guess for two 2s in a row!

9766
Wordle 1,230 4/6* 10/31/2024

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EASEL → One and only one, with three possible placements. Other than that, a fruitless start. But only three more WoFcons to go, so
TRONE → Perhaps there’s an I. And that R can’t be an -ER ending which gives me some relief, given that I died on both PARER and CORER. Time to look through lower-level consonants
REBID → Hmm. I usually comes before E, but here it pretty much has to come after, so ?EIRD gives us
WEIRD

Wordle on politics, or on Halloween? Hard to say. Scoredle goes on a different trail than I do, but it still finishes in four. It turns out my third guess was quite lucky - the number of valid guesses was in the teens.

9767

Wordle 1,230 6/6

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Total clusterfuck.

9768

Wordle 1,230 3/6

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OPERA
SHIRE
WEIRD

Didn’t see the potential _ERRY trap, which comprised about a third of my legitimate choices after one. That turned out to be fortunate.

9769

Wordle 1,230 3/6

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PLANT
SCORE
WEIRD

Well geez, I was feeling good about this 3. Tip of the cap to all the 2s.

9770

Wordle 1,230 3/6

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READY (DEFER comes immediately to mind, so I’ll try it.)
DEFER (Nope. But now it can be xEDRx or xERxD or xExRD, And only one of THOSE seems plausible.)
WEIRD (Yep.)

9771

Wordle 1,230 3/6*

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PLATE
DINER
WEIRD
I really hesitated with this solution because it looked too Halloween-themed

9772

Wordle 1,231 4/6

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RATIO
STILE
SIGHT
SIXTH

9773

Wordle 1,231 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[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt C} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt X} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt Y} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt X} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt H} \\ \end{aligned}

9774

Wordle 1,231 4/6

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HEART
THINK
FIFTH
SIXTH

9775

Wordle 1231 4/6

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SLANT
STRAY (goofed by re-using A)
SOUTH
SIXTH

9776

Wordle 1,231 4/6

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PLANT
STORE
SIXTY
SIXTH

Lost the coin flip.

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Wordle 1,231 4/6* 11/1/2024

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WEIRD → Single I, unplaced, not in the middle, and no E. Well, that’s something. Could only see two WoFcons with an A, so I figured I’d try
PLAIT → Which… isn’t much. I tried a few O & I words, but ended up worried about a possible Y ending, so tried
TINNY → and despite the repeat letter, it felt good to get that out of the way. I’d like to try an S, and with T only in 3rd or 4th now, that would suggest a -TH ending, so it became easy to see
SIXTH

My third guess ended up being my best - both placing the known vowel and eliminating the newly-guessed was were key. On the plus side, I beat Scoredle, which takes five to solve from WEIRD.

9778

Wordle 1,231 3/6*

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LEAST
SOUTH
SIXTH

9779

Wordle 1,231 3/6

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SLATE
SOUTH
SIXTH

9780

Wordle 1,231 5/6

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AUDIT
LITER
PINTO
MISTY
SIXTH

I don’t think I made bad choices, just very slow progress. At least I didn’t need the SIXTH guess. :grin: