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

Wordle 694 2/6*

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CRANE
SCARF

It was that or SCARY, made a lucky guess…

Wordle 694 3/6*

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LEAST
SCARY
SCARF

Wordle 695 3/6

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RATIO
SALON
CANOE

The 2’s and 3’s contune…

Wordle 695 3/6

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ASIDE
COURT
CANOE

It had to be COA_E, CO_AE, or CA_OE. How many words end with OE or AE? Plural of COMA, CODA, or COLA?

Wordle 694 5/6

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PLATE
OVARY
QUARK
WHARF
SCARF

When I saw Ovary, I actually thought it could be that word due to it being Mother’s Day. :laughing: I decided to play a little differently and went for words with lower use letters, but it didn’t pay off, except for finally getting the F.

Wordle 695 3/6*

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VOUCH
SCONE
CANOE

Wordle 695 3/6

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SALET
ROUND
CANOE

Wordle 695 3/6

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SLANT
CHORE
CANOE

Wordle 695 2/6*

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ALONE
CANOE

My default starting word narrowed this way the heck down…

Wordle 695 3/6

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PLANT
SANER
CANOE

Pretty straightforward.

Wordle 695 3/6*

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Boy, I was all happy about a 3 on this one, but it seems that is par…I’m still happy with it.

Scoredle 3/6*

14,855
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:white_large_square::white_large_square::yellow_square::white_large_square::green_square: PLATE (55)
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Such a beautiful Wordle-like word: super common with an uncommon vowel combination.

Of the 55 words that would have fit the third choice, only 11 were real proper words, with the remainder useless words like MAJOE, FAYNE, and ZAYDE. (Of course someone will come along and mention how they happened to use two of those in a sentence last Tuesday).

Wordle 695 5/6

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Tough one for me.

HEART
PLEAD
SAVES
GAUGE
CANOE

Wordle 695 4/6

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RAISE
BATHE
DANCE
CANOE

with the remainder useless words like MAJOE, FAYNE, and ZAYDE

Agree on the first two. The third is a variant spelling of zaide, the Yiddish word for grandfather.

Wordle 695 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 M} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt F} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt K} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt C} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt C} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt H} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt C} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt N} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \\ \end{aligned}

Wordle 695 6/6*

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SALET
EAGER
FAERY
MAUVE
DANCE
CANOE

Somehow I just couldn’t think of any words fitting a -A–E-pattern…

Wordle 695 3/6*

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LEAST
DREAM
CANOE

Another 3.

I’ve been really good/lucky at picking a word out when there are 5-15 remaining.

Wordle 695 2/6

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Wow, another two this past week, along with two 3s.

CRANE - leaves only one choice, which is. . .
CANOE

Wordle 695 3/6* 5/15/2023

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SCARF → C is a nice pickup. Need to try at least one other vowel, and a couple common consonants. I tried to shoehorn a T in here, but gave up and tried…
LANCE → which was way luckier than I could have expected, leaving only
CANOE

Scoredle said my second guess narrowed 284 possibilities down to 1, which means that both my first and second tries were really lucky…

Wordle 695 6/6*

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PARTY
BADGE
CACHE
CAUSE
CALVE
CANOE

Whew! I just knew i would blow my streak…