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

Denied a 3 by checking out the wrong one.

Wordle 744 4/6

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COURT
ASIDE
MOTEL
HOTEL

Wordle 743 4/6

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CHOIR
STALE
MOUSY
MOSSY

Wordle 744 2/6

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RATIO
HOTEL

And once again can only credit luck for a two.

Wordle 744 3/6*

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PIOUS
OTHER
HOTEL

Wordle 744 6/6*

\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[silver,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[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt M} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt Q} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt X} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt P} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \\ &\bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt W} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt H} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \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 L} \\ \end{aligned}

Bum. Not enough covfefe obvs.

Wordle 744 3/6*

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ALONE
LOSER
HOTEL

Just like Elvis said!

Wordle 744 2/6

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HEART (break)
HOTEL

Wordle 744 3/6

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RAISE
MONEY
HOTEL

Have you tried crowdfunding?

Wordle 744 2/6

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Sure beats yesterday’s epic fail.

FOYER - No idea why I picked this as a starting word.
HOTEL - First impulse was to go with “women”. A very lucky guess.

Wordle 744 3/6

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SLANT
TILER => another ‘not as good as CHORE’ guess, gotta stop doing this
HOTEL => Coulda been MOTEL or (less likely) BETEL

I think that wins the thread for today, though @BobLibDem came close!

Wordle 744 4/6

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RAISE
MELON
TOWEL
HOTEL

Danced all around this one before getting there.
I’m on a streak of 8 straight fours. I’m nothing if not consistent!

Wordle 744 3/6*

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WHEAT
LITHE
HOTEL

Wordle 744 3/6* 7/3/2023

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MOSSY → I’m thinking T, I’m thinking H, and for some reason all I can see is the (invalid) MOUTH, but to shake up my psyche I’m going to go with something close…
COU*TH** → and ?OTH? doesn’t appear useful, TOH?? goes nowhere, so let’s try HOT??, try a different vowel and a common consonant…
HOTEL

I wish I could say my wit led me unerringly to the answer, but my second guess involved a whole lot of luck.

Was I the only one who guessed MOTEL before guessing the correct HOTEL ?

Nice to see all the 2s today! Unfortunately, I wasn’t among 'em. Maybe tomorrow. :slight_smile:

Wordle 744 4/6*

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IRATE
SPENT
DETOX
HOTEL

And for those who care (I kid!), here’s my game from yesterday, which I didn’t get a chance to post:

Wordle 743 4/6*

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IRATE
SCOWL
MOUSY
MOSSY

Wordle 744 3/6*

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LEAST
INTEL
HOTEL

And @Aspenglow for yesterday’s game it looks like a number of us preferred MOUSY to MOSSY

LOL, I did see that. I guess our minds work in predictable ways. You can almost see those Wordle people: “Ha! Watch them all go down this rabbit hole! Fours for everyone!”

Wordle 744 4/6

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PLANT
STOLE
MOTEL
HOTEL

@Mark_Finn, you weren’t the only one who tried motel first, but apparently there were only three of us. I would’ve bet a dollar there’d be more.

Tue 04 Jul 2023

Wordle 745 6/6

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SALET
ROUND
TEARY
GRATE
CRATE
IRATE