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

A quick lucky 3 today. Definitely better than yesterday!

Wordle 692 3/6*

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IRATE
SMACK
SNACK

Wordle 692 3/6*

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LIGHT
ADORE
SNACK

Woo-hoo!

Wordle 692 5/6

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MOUSE
SITAR
SALAD
SHACK
SNACK

Shouldn’t have let the N go for so long.

Wordle 692 4/6*

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LEAST
SOARS
SPANK
SNACK

Wordlebot didn’t like my 2nd guess, and I agree, for once. I was too eager to find another vowel, which wasn’t needed anyway. I should have given it a bit more time and not just rushed at it.

Wordle 693 3/6

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RATIO
FLAIR
ACRID

Sometime without noticing I surpassed my last streak and today hit 200 in a row.

My first 2 in a while! A lucky gurss among the half dozen or so available words.

Wordle 693 2/6

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ASIDE
ACRID

Wordle 693 3/6*

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RATIO
BRAID
ACRID

Good return on the starting word, though I had to stare a little at A-RID before I came up with ACRID.

Wordle 692 3/6

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SLATE
SPARK
SNACK

Wordle 693 4/6*

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ALONE
ARISH
ADRIP
ACRID

I’m pretty much just putting letters together at random at this point. And it’s working!

Wordle 693 3/6

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SLANT
CHORE
ACRID

The only other word I could think of was VICAR, and none of Scoredle’s other choices were going to be a solution anytime.

Wordle 693 4/6*

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VOUCH
CLEAR
SCARF
ACRID

Wordle 693 3/6

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PLANT
RACES
ACRID

I saw cloak first, but that’s already been an answer. Acrid was the only other option I could see.

Wordle 693 3/6*

\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[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \\ &\bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt P} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt C} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \\ \end{aligned}

Nice!

Wordle 693 3/6

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IDEAL
DAIRY
ACRID

Wordle 693 4/6

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SALET
ROUND
CHIMP
ACRID

Wordle 692 4/6

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Looks like I’m worse than most of you today.

HEART
RADIO
ADRIP
ACRID

Wordle 693 3/6

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CRANE
SCRAP
ACRID

Happy with the 3 today, but it took an embarrassingly long time to work out the answer – even though it was the only choice left after my second try.

Wordle 693 3/6*

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IRATE
DAIRY
ACRID

Tomorrow, the good fates willing, I will tie my longest (only other) streak of 240. On Monday, I hope to break it – at long last!

Wordle 693 4/6* 5/13/2023

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SNACK → Not a bad start. Put those at the start and try some common letters…
CATER → A new R, otherwise no help. Shuffle around letters and try again…
RECAP → But not with an E again. Duh! OK, running out of places to put the A & the C, what if they go at the start but AC rather than CA, then I can try…
ACRID

Feel like I should have done better on this one, though I don’t think I would have found the answer in 3 without being forced to try the initial AC- by process of elimination.

Wordle 693 3/6*

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DEATH
ADORN
ACRID

I’m happy with a three!