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

MAR 30

Wordle 649 4/6*

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ALONE
LEASH
GREAT
BREAD

Yeah, I slipped up a little, there.

Wordle 649 4/6

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RATIO
SNARE
CLEAR
BREAD

Wordle 649 4/6

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PLANT
RACES
BREAK
BREAD

An honest 4. As I was getting ready to post this I was going to say that I was focused on EA as the long E sound which is why I didn’t see bread, but then while typing my answers above I realized that break isn’t the long E sound either. Just happened to see break before bread.

Wordle 649 3/6*

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CRUMB
BRIEF
BREAD

I suppose you could argue that a CRUMB is a BRIEF form of BREAD

A 6 today, but after 3 guesses I was able to find it definitively. After 4 guesses only 2 possibilities remained.

Wordle 649 6/6

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β—† CLUES β€” AROTINHPYDGMBFKWVXZJQ remain
β—† RATIO β€” NHPYDGMBFKWVXZJQ remain
β—† NYMPH β€” DGBFKWVXZJQ remain ➜ might be β€” aware beard brake brave bread break drake dread freak grade grave graze weak zebra
B D G K V W consonants remain ➜ try wedge
β—† WEDGE β€” DGBFKWVXZJQ remain ➜ might be β€” beard dread
B D G K V W consonants remain ➜ try dread
β—† DREAD β€” DGBFKWVXZJQ remain
β—† BREAD β€” success!

Wordle 649 2/6*

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

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@The_Other_Waldo_Pepper, how was your progression of guesses a slip up?

@pjd β€” nice one!

Heh. Well, neither of us seeing it at first makes me feel a little less bad about it: I played LEASH after ALONE had already eliminated the β€œL” β€” which was a waste of a letter, giving me less information than BEACH or SHEAR or whatever would have.

Wordle 649 4/6

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RAISE
GREAT
BREAK
BREAD

Wordle 649 3/6

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HEART
CARES
BREAD

Okay, I got you. Yeah the reuse of that letter wasn’t a smart move. But we’ve all done that.

Thanks WE, sorry about the miscoding.

Wordle 649 4/6

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CRANE
GREAT
DREAM
BREAD - wordlebot said this was the only possible word, but what about β€˜dread’?

Your third guess determined that it did not start with D.

Wordle 649 4/6

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CANOE
STEAL
BREAK
BREAD

BREAD would have been a stronger third guess than BREAK (Scordle agrees), as there were more possible words with D than with K. Not a bad par though.

Quite happy with a 3 today, considering it could easily have been a 4. Or even a 5!

Wordle 649 3/6*

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IRATE
CREAM
BREAD

There were 5 potentials after CREAM. I found 'em all. One of them (BREAK) had already been used, so I had WREAK, FREAK, DREAD and BREAD left. Resisting the double consonant as always, I decided to try BREAD first. It just seemed the most innocuous. Happy result!

Wordle 649 3/6* 3/30/2023

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BESET β†’ S & T gone, one and only one E, and the starting B. Good one! I’ll try to focus on the consonants next…
BLEND β†’ Still have R to check, and there might be another vowel in there as it turns out…
BREAD

Feels good to get back on the right side of par.

Again, we go down the exact same path since we start with the same word. I had the exact same progression as you and also got it in three. First third word that popped into my head was dread, but I decided to go with bread and avoid the double D

Wordle 649 2/6*

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ROUTE
BREAD

Well, that was a lucky two… According to Scoredle, there were 703 possibilities for the second guess.