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

Wordle 649 X/6

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LEMON
PACER
ARISE
FREAK
DREAD
TREAD

FFS is all I have to say about this. It’s not so much failing, but the ridiculous letter imbalances. In hindsight, I should have played a sleuth word when I realized it was a trap, but I really wanted to play “legit” words today, for whatever reason. :roll_eyes:

Wordle 649 4/6

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:white_large_square::white_large_square::white_large_square::white_large_square::yellow_square: 122
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SLART
NICHE => hated to use my next word: wanted to position A,E,R,
RAPED => and eliminate 2 of D,M,P. Best I could think of.
BREAD => Could’ve also been DREAD. Won the coin toss today.

pared

Too late now! Just didn’t see it at the time.

Maybe I blanked it out on account of PARER :smiley:

Wordle 647 4/6

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SLANT
POUCH
HUFFY
HURRY

Time-consuming.

Wordle 648 4/6

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EARTH
TEMPO
GEIST
BESET

Even more time-consuming!

Wordle 649 3/6

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STERN
CHEER
BREAD

Faster; I wanted to test A (while using the E and R I already had), and started going through the alphabet. Lucky.

MAR 31

Wordle 650 5/6*

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ALONE
HEIST
CUBER
EVERT
EVERY

A nice three for my 300th in a row.

Wordle 650 3/6

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ASIDE
COURT
EVERY

Afraid of being caught in a BERRY, MERRY, FERRY etc quandry, i decided to make a wild guess at EVERY.

Wordle 650 4/6

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RATIO
NURSE
DRECK
EVERY

I don’t think I narrowed it down much. Just lucky.

Wordle 650 5/6*

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LAUGH
SPITE
MONEY
REEDY
EVERY

Wordle 650 4/6*

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CRANE
WEIRD
LEERY
EVERY

Wordle 650 5/6*

\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[lime,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[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt C} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt N} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt Q} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt Y} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt V} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt Y} \\ \end{aligned}

Damn. Back to 5. :frowning:
And i thought of EVERY before QUERY.
Note to self: go with first thought.

Wordle 650 4/6

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NOISE
LEACH
EGRET
EVERY

Wordle 650 4/6

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SLART
NICHE
DUMPY
EVERY => FERRY had been used, didn’t see BERRY so was lucky there

Wordle 650 5/6

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PLANT
SCORE
MERRY
FIERY
EVERY

This was a tough one for me. The first thing I saw after 2 was query, but after getting burned guessing a repeat yesterday (break), this time I checked and query has already been an answer.

Wordle 650 5/6

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HEART
SPERM (channeling my inner 12 year old again)
QUERY
FIERY
EVERY+

Wordle 650 5/6

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Letter frequency EAROTLISNCUHPYDGMBFKWVXZJ
◆ CLUES — AROTINHPYDGMBFKWVXZJQ remain
◆ RATIO — NHPYDGMBFKWVXZJQ remain
◆ NYMPH — DGBFKWVXZJQ remain ➜ might be — berry derby every ferry or jerky
Consonants B D F J K V
➜ try fable (B F), joked (J K D), or baked (B K D),
◆ BAKED — GFWVXZJQ remain ➜ might be every or ferry
◆ EVERY

Wordle 650 5/6

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CRANE
SPOIL
BERRY
QUERY
EVERY

Not bad, considering I don’t use word lists.

Wordle 650 3/6

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OUNCE
HEART
EVERY

I figured E had to be in the middle, and my first two words had eliminated most common digraphs, so - another E at the beginning? Yes!
(I did see SPERM, but decided it was unlikely.)

Wordle 650 3/6*

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READY
BERRY
EVERY

Ha! Even with my boneheaded move on guess 2, I still beat WordleBot! And isn’t that the whole reason we play this meshuggenah game?

Wordle 650 4/6* 3/31/2023

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BREAD → Good start. Scoredle would usually say try a repeated letter here, I’ll give that a shot…
STEER → Hey, wow, it worked! Where should the R go, though… plurals and THERE are out… should I try three of one letter?
REEVE → Nope. But the V was a good pickup, and R is in 4th… If I go through every letter… hmm…
EVERY

This is an answer that is tougher than it looks at first glance.