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

Wordle 690 4/6

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MAUVE
HERON
CHEST
ETHIC

Guess I’ll take a four-streak over a five-streak. Threes seem like a distant memory to me.

Wordle 690 4/6

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CRANE
SPOIL
EDICT - dumb-ass
ETHIC

Wordle 690 3/6* 5/10/2023

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COCOA → That C is actually kinda valuable, with only three places left it could go. I should be able to do something with this. So - try something with I & E?
TRICE → Oooh, that was a good one. If the C is in second, I come up with exactly nothing, so I figure this must have an -IC ending. Noodling around with keyboard, I type in THEIC, which leads me directly to
ETHIC

Long gap to find the final word. Scoredle says METIC was another possibility, a word I don’t think I’ve encountered before.

Ugh. This one took an embarrassingly long time to work out. But I’ll take the 3!

Wordle 690 3/6*

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IRATE
FILET
ETHIC

WordleBot advised there were 3 words remaining after my second try. I’d found them both (TEPID and STEIN) but kept looking for more after learning each was a previous answer. For some reason, I really resisted a word starting with ‘E.’ When I finally found it, it was a E-ureka moment!

Believe me, I’m with you on this!

Wordle 690 3/6*

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Wordle 690 2/6

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I tried a lot of misspelled non words to unscramble an answer and find that missing link.

Wordle 690 4/6*

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LEAST
THINE
EIGHT
ETHIC
I didn’t think THINE was likely but it was one word that had an E, a T and other common letters

Wordle 690 2/6

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STAIN
ETHIC

It’s been a while since I’ve gotten a 2. :grinning:

Wordle 691 5/6

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RATIO
LOSER
CROUP
GROOM
BROOM

Wordle 691 5/6*

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CRANE
PROUD
WROTH
BROOK
BROOM

Wordle 691 5/6*

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FLOUT
PROBE
BROWN
BROAD
BROOM

Wordle 691 4/6

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SALET
ROUND
CHIMP — at this point it’s either BROOM or GROOM
BROOM — a lucky guess

Wordle 691 3/6*

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SPOIL
GROAN
BROOM

Wordlebot tells me there were 17 words to choose from after GROAN.

Wordle 691 4/6*

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ALONE
SHORT
PROUD
BROOM

Wordle 691 5/6*

\begin{aligned} &\bbox[lime,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[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt C} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt K} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt H} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt W} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt N} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt M} \\ \end{aligned}

Bolleaux.

Broom was the first word i thought of at guess 3 …
Not to self : go with first thought.
i’m sure i’ve said that before.

Wordle 691 2/6

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Ha, another 2!

BLAME
BROOM

Wordle 691 3/6

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CHORE
SLANT
BROOM

A lucky 3. I had a half-dozen possibilities, and my third guess was the one that would have eliminated the most of the others, had it been wrong.

ETA: I’ve been alternating 3’s and 4’s for nearly two weeks now. Really expected this to break that streak.

Wordle 691 4/6

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HEART
ROSIN
DROOP
BROOM

Nice!

Wordle 691 5/6

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RAISE
COURT
WRONG
BROOK
BROOM

Wordle 691 3/6

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PLANT
SCORE
BROOM

I saw groom before broom, but have been conditioned by quordal to trust in the B.