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

Yesterday:
Scoredle 4/6*

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AMUSE
TONAL
VAPOR
KAZOO

Happy to get this one in four. Took longer than I like to spend on Wordle, however.

Today:
Wordle 731 3/6

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OLIVE
ROAST
FROST

And, in contrast, a nice quick and easy three, with a lucky/smart second guess.

Wordle 731 4/6* 6/20/2023

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KAZOO → All right then. Think I’ll go for some vowels with two common consonants (I hope they’ll hit…)
ROUTE → Got 'em both, and eliminated the vowels. Perhaps a single O in the center… and I haven’t tried S yet…
STORY → TROS? goes nowhere, as does R?OST, but that leaves
FROST

Scoredle says there were eight words left for my fourth guess. I say seven of them were B.S.

Happy 3 today.

Wordle 731 3/6*

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IRATE
BRUNT
FROST

Wordle 731 3/6

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TRACE
DRIFT
FROST

Wordle 731 3/6*

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STEAL
HOIST
FROST

Wordle 731 4/6

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PLANT
ROSET
SHORT
FROST

My normal follow-up for plant returning just a green T was crest, but I really would rather check O than C. Came up with roset, and was excited to use it, but in hindsight looks like crest would have done better here. (Then again, I may have guessed grist at 3.)

WEDNESDAY

JUNE 21st

Wordle 732 2/6*

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ALONE
CRANE

Yep.

Wordle 732 5/6

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RATIO
SHARE
CRAVE
CRAZE
CRANE

With the prior words this month I went for the less likely.

Wordle 732 3/6*

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ROUTE
CRAVE
CRANE

Wordle 732 1/6*

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CRANE

Picked the right day to return to Wordle…

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Wordle 732 5/6*

\begin{aligned} &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[lime,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[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt G} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt P} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt F} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt M} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt C} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt C} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt N} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \\ \end{aligned}

Yay, good for you!! If that’s your favorite starting word, it would have been a shame to miss the day it was the solution. Good timing indeed!

Wordle 732 2/6

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SLANT
CRANE

This 2 balances out my 5 from a couple days ago. :slight_smile:

Was looking for something that gave me a shot at the 2 that hit most of the letters of my usual second word, CHORE. This popped into my mind, and I didn’t think I’d lose much by giving up the H and the O. And it worked out. :slight_smile:

Wordle 732 5/6

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I’m Fred Astaire dancing around the solution again
HEART
ERASE
BRACE
CRAVE
CRANE

Wordle 732 2/6

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Haven’t had a two in a bit.

IRATE
CRANE
I did “cheat a bit” and look at a previous answer list since I knew this could be a slog without it. What I found interesting is Wordlebot needed 5 guesses to answer. In it’s guess list, it used at least two previous answers. I always assumed it knew what was previously used…guess not.

Look at all the twos and a one! Nice!

Wordle 732 3/6

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RAISE
TRACE
CRANE

Wordle 732 4/6*

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TRADE
GRACE
CRAVE
CRANE
Good thing I didn’t see CRAZE.

Wordle 732 3/6

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ANISE
DANCE
CRANE

Had I given it more thought, I might have wanted to try the R instead of D and lucked into a two. Nevertheless, another quick and easy three is always welcome.

Wordle 732 3/6* Summer solstice (northern hemisphere) 2023

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FROST → OK, common letters and two vowels. N or L? Two of A, E & I? This has trap written all over it. N or L will have to be 4th or 5th, if 4th should use an E. Could start with B,C,D,G,P… I’ll try to defuse one possible trap early
DRAIN → Oh, my. N’s in 4th, tack on an E, and unless you’re a string theorist there’s one letter for the start
CRANE

I didn’t see the spoilerRANK[/spoiler] words, so I’m cool with a 3 here.

I dont know how to blur, yet, but got it in 2. The first word choice is important.