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

The Game Room
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Wordle 733 3/6

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TRANS
TASTY
TASTE

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Wordle 733 3/6*

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PRIDE
STALE
TASTE

1743

You seem to have described bud lite.

1744

Wordle 733 6/6*

\begin{aligned} &\bbox[silver,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[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \\ &\bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt P} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt K} \\ &\bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt H} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt N} \\ &\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 S} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt C} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \\ \end{aligned}

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You win the thread, at least for today!

1746

Wordle 733 3/6

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:green_square::green_square::green_square::yellow_square::white_large_square: 2
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SLANT
TASER
TASTE

As Scoredle (which fell into the _ASTE trap today) notes, the other possible solution at 3 was TASSE, as in ‘demi-tasse,’ which I’d have had a problem with: ‘tasse’ by itself is not an English word. (It’s French, that’s why you say it with this outrageous accent, you silly King. :wink: )

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Wordle 733 3/6

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HEART
STEAM
TASTE

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Wordle 733 4/6*

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COUGH
TREAD
TEASE
TASTE

A bad first guess gets me a four. Oh well.

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Wordle 733 3/6

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PLANE
SHOUT
TASTE

After yesterday’s first ever 1/6, I’ve changed my opening words. Today, it paid off.

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It’s officially turned on now and it will be interesting to see Wordlebot’s results now that I assume it has to play in hard mode too. And just like I never noticed the gear setting icon, I never noticed the asterisk after the score. I’m not on top of my game before coffee (not sure that it really helps that much).

Wordle 733 4/6*

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IRATE
PASTE
HASTE
TASTE

Got lucky since there were still a couple to go.

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A 2! Woo-hoo!

Wordle 733 2/6

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SLATE
TASTE — I went for it, instead of trying to eliminate letters for possible BASTE, CASTE, HASTE, PASTE, or WASTE

Woo-hoo!

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Wordle 733 5/6

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RAISE
CASTE
HASTE
WASTE
TASTE
I could do without these guessing game puzzles :face_with_diagonal_mouth:

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I got a little lucky this morning, too.

Wordle 733 3/6*

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IRATE
PASTE
TASTE

I, too, had found all the variables. But the double consonant seemed like such a Wordle thing to do. So once I’d established the -ASTE trap with PASTE, I decided to try it first and just get it out of the way.

@wguy123, glad you got the Hard Mode sorted!

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Wordle 733 6/6* 6/22/2023

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CRANE → Let’s see if I can get it in one, like so many yesterday. No? Darn. Still, a good start
AMPLE → Almost tried APPLE here, as the first thing I saw. No pickups, but that A must be in second. If I guess S & T between…
WASTE → Could have done better than W. This is a familiar trap…
HASTE → Not H, either. Must be B…
BASTE → DANG it! What have I overlooked, and brought myself so close to crashing and burning? Oh, a repeat…
TASTE

Glad my first two answers eliminated C and P. Maybe I should memorize what answers using this trap have already been used…

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Dude, what’s your haste? So many guesses — what a waste.

LOL, sorry, couldn’t resist.

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:laughing: At least I didn’t baste with paste too!

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Wordle 733 4/6

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HOUSE
STARE
TWERP
TASTE

I shot for par rather than flail in the _ASTE trap. This is why I don’t play in hard mode.

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Wordle 733 4/6*

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RATIO
TABLE
TAUPE
TASTE
Somehow, I didn’t see TASTE until TAUPE came up wrong. For some reason I have a blind spot when it comes to repeated letters.

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Wordle 733 4/6*

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ALONE
SHARE
TAWSE
TASTE

When nothing turns up on Round 1, my lazy go-to is SHIRT; I had to swap in the “A” and the “E” on Round 2, and so my — heh — first thought on Round 3 was the abandoned T; if not for that, I probably would’ve backed into the trap.

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Wordle 733 3/6

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PLANT
RATES
TASTE

Amazingly, I didn’t see the trap at all. I saw taste and guessed it without even checking if they were other possibilities. My only thought was “Guess 3 is for the win, this is the time to try a double letter.”