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

Wordle 701 5/6

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PLANT
SCARE
BRAVO
BRASS
BRASH

This was poor. After 2 I saw bravo and gravy, with braid having already been an answer. Went with the first one I saw, and then a minute or two into looking for options after that I finally noticed that I had a yellow S I completely did not see. Doh! And then to add insult to injury I saw brass before brash.

Wordle 701 3/6

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HEART
CRASH
BRASH

I can sympathize - a similar bit of overlooking resulted in my loss with JOKER.

ETA: Unrelated thought - is the cake icon new? It’s possible that it’s been showing up on posters’ Dopiversaries and I just haven’t noticed.

It’s not new. Probably a discourse thing.

Definitely a Discourse thing, it sure wasn’t there on the old board.

Wordle 701 4/6

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CRANE
TRAIL
DRAMA
BRASH - this actually jumped into my head, but I went with “drama”

Went super quick today.

Wordle 701 3/6*

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IRATE
CRASH
BRASH

Wordle 701 6/6

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ARIEL
GROAN
FRAUD
WRATH
CRASH
BRASH

Probably should have stopped messing with vowels after I got the A. On top of that, luck was not on my side today. I haven’t taken a six in about a month and a half. Oh well.

Wordle 701 4/6*

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SLATE
GRASP
CRASH
BRASH

Should’ve gone with the double consonant and CRASS sooner…

Wordle 701 4/6

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TUNER
RADIO
ARRAY
BRASH

Summary

Got super lucky on this one! Took a big risk on Array with the double double, and then was left with a lot of choices from there. I deliberated over it all for a little bit, but just had to pick one, and I was happily surprised to see all greens!



Yep, there have been 6 one-vowel words, and 5 of them had the A in the middle spot. Makes me think I really should get back to playing my usual start words that have the A in the middle :wink:, but I like to mix things up.

Wordle 701 3/6*

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Oooh all those greens look pretty with no yellows!

LEAST
CRASH
BRASH
I wonder how many people guessed CRASH before BRASH if they hadn’t eliminated the C. CRASH made more sense to me, since C is a more common letter (I think?)

And @psychobunny, yes, just yesterday we had FLASK and 2 days before that, PLANK

Wordle 702 3/6

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RATIO
DINGO
IGLOO

This may have been the only option left after two guesses.

Wordle 702 3/6*

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SALET
BULGY
IGLOO

Got lucky with the early placement of the L, and an oddball guess on the second word giving me the G…

Wordle 702 5/6

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SALET
ROUND
CHIMP
FOGGY
IGLOO

Wordle 702 4/6*

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WEARY
PIOUS
FOLIC
IGLOO

Wordle 702 4/6*

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ALONE
TOILS
DILDO
IGLOO

Yeah, I guess it does.

Wordle 702 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[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt K} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt Y} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt F} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \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 I} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt G} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \\ \end{aligned}

Wordle 702 4/6*

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Summary

Nymph
Steal
Cloud
Igloo

Wordle poetry

Wordle 702 4/6

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SLANT
CHORE
GIMPY
IGLOO

Scoredle agrees.

Wordle 702 4/6

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HEART
LIONS
FOLIO
IGLOO