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

Wordle 741 4/6*

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DUNCE
WRATH
TRAWL <— WHAT A STUPID GUESS! I blame lack of sleep.
STRAW

Could have been worse, I suppose.

Wordle 741 4/6

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PLANE
SHOUT
STRAY
STRAW

Wordle 741 4/6* 6/30/2023

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DINER → Not a great start. Still, one of my favorite second words to the rescue
ROAST → That is a little more like it. START and STARE are both out, so I’ll try the STRA words, first being
STRAP → Let’s continue in alpha order
STRAW

Glad I didn’t have to go down to STRAY.

Flabby brain today. Oh, well.

Wordle 741 5/6*

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IRATE
ACTOR
TARDY
STRAP
STRAW

Derp. We just had STRAP two weeks ago, and I forgot! Obviously I don’t always check to see if a word has already been used…

Wordle 741 4/6

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AROSE
SHARP
SITAR
STRAW

Eh. Could have played it better, but at least I remembered to play today. I’ll happily take this after having a couple drinks in me. :grin:

Wordle 741 3/6

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PLANT
RATES
STRAW

Happily, stray never even occurred to me. And of course I remembered strap was just played.

Wordle 741 3/6*

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ARISE
SCARY
STRAW

Wordle Saturday 01 July 2023

I’ll be on the USA east coast for a few days, so I guess I’ll be trailblazing the new day’s Wordle…

Just a par 4 for today.

Wordle 742 4/6

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SALET
ROUND
CHIMP
BLEEP

Wordle 742 4/6

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RATIO
DUNES
CHEEP
BLEEP

Yesterday’s results in case anyone is interested:

Wordle 740 5/6

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SLATE
CHOIR
FIBER
DIVER
DINER

I know I don’t need to blur that now - feels weird leaving it unhidden - lol. There were a lot of words this could have been after my second guess, lucky to have chosen the correct letter, albeit the wrong word.

My beloved laptop went belly up…troubleshooted all day yesterday to no avail. So I had to play on a different device, which means I lost all of my stats. :cry: (mostly crying due to losing my laptop and lots of files I hadn’t saved in a while).



Wordle 741 4/6

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SLATE
CHOIR
STRAY
STRAW

Lost the coin toss, but fine with a 4. It was a good month overall…I think* I ended up with a few more 3’s this month than the 4’s, which hasn’t happened in a long while.

*I kept track of everything in an Excel sheet on my now deceased laptop, including previous answers…have to start over again with all of that.

Wordle 742 4/6*

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GIANT
DROVE
SHELF
BLEEP

Wordle 742 4/6*

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

Wordle 742 5/6*

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ALONE
FLESH
CLERK
BLEED
BLEEP

Wordle 742 4/6

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IDEAL
ELECT
BLEED
BLEEP

Sorry about your laptop @SeaSun

Wordle 742 3/6

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PLANT
SLOPE
BLEEP

I wanted to guess sleep at 2, but luckily forcing five different letters didn’t end up hurting me.

Wordle 742 4/6*

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BLADE
BLESS
BLECH
BLEEP

Seriously?

Wordle 742 5/6

:white_large_square::green_square::white_large_square::white_large_square::white_large_square: 167
:white_large_square::white_large_square::white_large_square::white_large_square::yellow_square: 22
:yellow_square::green_square::green_square::white_large_square::white_large_square: 4
:green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square::white_large_square: 1
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SLANT
CHORE
ELEGY => thought this was a great guess, disappointed it wasn’t the answer
BLEED => wasted guess, already used, didn’t check the list
BLEEP => what sort of bleepin’ solution is this??

Wordle 742 4/6

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HEART
POSEY
BIPED
BLEEP well son of a #^&$ing @&%!

Wordle 742 4/6* 7/1/2023

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STRAW → Whiff. Need more vowels - E & I
LINED → Got the E - and placed as well. Where to find the L? And maybe there’s an O?
MOLEY → Missed, and nope. If L is second, would that mean double E? Hmm…
BLEEP

I consider my third guess to be bogus, but it did rule out enough placements to point me to the solution. I was really surprised to not get the “not a word” message, though.

Wordle 742 3/6

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PLANE
SLEEP
BLEEP