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

Wordle 709 3/6

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PLANT
SCORE
MOUSE

Saw mouse before house. I felt pretty strongly that the answer was house, so much so that I almost actually guessed it. But as always, my “go with what you saw first” logic remains consistent: If the first thing I see is wrong, oh well, it’s not like I could have known. But if the first thing I see is right and I don’t guess it, I get really annoyed / almost pissed because it feels like second guessing myself. Like on a test back in school.

Wordle 709 4/6

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CRANE
SPOIL
DOUSE
MOUSE

Wordle 709 6/6

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HEART
SLICE
WHOSE
OBESE
POSSE
MOUSE

I’m having good luck with second words. Sort of.

Wordle 709 3/6*

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IRATE
LOUSE
MOUSE

I’d actually thought of MOUSE as well as LOUSE and figured that of the 2, MOUSE was the more likely. But since ‘L’ is the more common letter and I didn’t really expect either to be the answer, I tried LOUSE first. Oh, well. WordleBot later said that DOUSE and HOUSE were also possibilities. They never occurred to me in the 2 minutes this game took to play.

Wordle 709 4/6* 5/29/2023

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SKIMP → Good start, but I need more vowels. MANES could be it, but I’ll try…
MESON → And, two good vowel pickups. Might be a proto-trap, but I’m stuck with it, so…
MORES → No R, but I’ve pretty much placed the S & E, so it must be…
MOUSE

At least placing the M early kept me out of the -OUSE trap.

Wordle 709 3/6

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SLANT
CHORE => could be OBESE, DOUSE, or…
MOUSE

Didn’t see POSSE until afterward, and POISE had already been used.

Wordle 709 2/6

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Slant
Mouse

I used “mouse” because it had three vowels in it. I never expected this result!

Wordle 709 4/6*

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LEAST
NOISE
HOUSE
MOUSE

Looks like we have a HOUSE-MOUSE trend

Wordle 709 4/6

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TRACE
LODGE
HOUSE
MOUSE

Wordle 709 3/6*

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PLAID
STORE
MOUSE

Wordlebot gave me a skill score of 99 on this one. I think I did pretty well considering my opening word was a total miss.

TUE MAY 30

Wordle 710 3/6*

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ALONE
KNELT
KNEEL

Wordle 710 4/6

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RATIO
DUNES
ELVEN
KNEEL

Wordle 710 6/6*

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RATIO
CLUES
XYLEM
BEVEL
WHEEL
KNEEL

Well that took a bit…

Wordle 710 4/6*

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QUIRE
ENJOY
SNEAK
KNEEL

Wordle 710 4/6

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SALET
ROUND
CHIMP
KNEEL

Wordle 710 6/6*

\begin{aligned} &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \bbox[yellow,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 S} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \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 G} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \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 X} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt C} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt W} \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 E} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt K} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt N} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \\ \end{aligned}

Yes.
Phew.

Wordle 710 4/6

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SLANT
LINER
NOVEL
KNEEL

Thought for sure I’d nailed it with my third guess, but even though I know there are lots of words that begin with KN, it just never registers with me that they’re there when I’m looking for letter combinations here. It’s a knotty problem, and I need a knife to cut through it! I should have had the knack by now, especially after past solutions should have taught me to KNOCK and KNOLL with this letter combination.

Wordle 710 4/6

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RAISE
DECOY
WHEEL
KNEEL

Wordle 710 5/6

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HEART
SLICE
MELON
UNCLE
KNEEL

Wordle 710 4/6*

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That was a challenge!

Scoredle 4/6*

14,855
:white_large_square::yellow_square::white_large_square::white_large_square::yellow_square: SLATE (283)
:yellow_square::yellow_square::white_large_square::green_square::white_large_square: LEVER (5)
:white_large_square::white_large_square::green_square::green_square::green_square: WHEEL (1)
:green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square: KNEEL

It turns out that the last word was the only one that would have fit, and it took forever for me to figure out those first two letters.
I even came to this thread to quickly gauge whether there were a bunch of complaints of some bogus word.

Then I finally saw it.