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

Wordle 721 3/6

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RATIO
SLAIN
AGAIN

Finally got a 3! :slight_smile: It’s been a few weeks.



Regarding game #720

I remember those airplanes! Balsa wood is common in the craft industry too…I have worked with it for various craft projects, and therefore the word came easily to me. But of course for those that don’t use it, or didn’t have balsa toys, then it wouldn’t be as common of a word to them I suppose.

Wordle 721 4/6*

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LEAST
CRANK
PIANO
AGAIN
And, dumb mistake, I should have seen that PIANO wasn’t a possible solution because of the yellow N in CRANK

Wordle 722 4/6*

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SMEAR
RAPID
FRAUD
GUARD

Wordle 722 4/6

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SLATE
ROUND
FRAUD
GUARD

Wordle 722 4/6*

\begin{aligned} &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt H} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt W} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt G} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \\ \end{aligned}

Wordle 722 5/6

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RATIO
SHARE
ALARM
QUARK
GUARD

Just another example of what happens when you have no system and just try to eliminate common letters.

Wordle 722 4/6*

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ALONE
TRASH
DIARY
GUARD

Wordle 722 4/6

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RAISE
CORAL
GRAPH
GUARD

Wordle 722 4/6

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PLANT
SCARE
BOARD
GUARD

After 2 I saw board, then guard. Also hoard, but that’s already been an answer. (Pretty sure award was just recently an answer, but that I did not see or check.)

In quordle I have learned to trust the B, but lately I’ve been toying with an addendum rule of going G over B if both are available as trap answers. Wish I had applied that here.

Wordle 722 4/6

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HEART
SCARY
BOARD
GUARD

Wordle 722 4/6

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CRANE
SPOIL
QUART
GUARD

Guess I’m a lucky one today. :slight_smile:

Wordle 722 3/6*

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IRATE
SPARK
GUARD

Wordle 722 2/6

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AUDIT
GUARD

Two twos in a row! Woo-hoo!!
I almost went with DUCAT, then wisely decided to think about it some more. Glad I did.

Wordle 722 3/6

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SLANT
CHORE
GUARD

Another lucky 3. Was choosing between the solution and DIARY. Overlooked AWARD and (don’t crush that) DWARF; saw QUARK, but thought it was unlikely.

Wordle 722 3/6

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STORE
CHAIN
GUARD

Wordle 722 3/6*

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RATIO
LUNAR
GUARD
I kept thinking after RATIO that I needed a word with an E, but luckily I didn’t need one after all.

And why can’t I stop reading WordleBot’s comments and ratings? Even though I got it in 3, it rated me as below average in skill.

Wordle 723 5/6

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RATIO
SHORE
FLOUR
CROOK
WRONG

Spent too much time looking for vowels.

Wordle 723 4/6*

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PIOUS
CLOVE
GROAN
WRONG

Wordle 723 4/6*

\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[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \\ &\bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt G} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt N} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt P} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt N} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt G} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt W} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt N} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt G} \\ \end{aligned}

Wordle 723 5/6* 6/13/2023

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GUARD → Huh. Vowel hunt time.
OGRES → One out of two. And no S. Second R?
RIGOR → No, and no I. Only one place left for R to go, G probably on the end, and haven’t tried N or M yet, so
PRONG → Close but I was
WRONG

Scoredle said “The best guess to make next would be WRONG.” Kinda cool to see that. Also I missed a solid shot at a 2 by not playing
yesterday, AGAIN to GUARD on the first guess would have been possible…