# "Wordle," a strangely compelling word game (Part 3) **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [November 19, 2024, 10:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451 "2024-11-19T10:57:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 25
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2024, 10:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/481 "2024-12-26T10:04:04Z")
**Wordle 1,286 4/6 β€” 2024-12-26** β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¨β¬›β¬› β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¨β¬›β¬› ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 **STARE** **DOILY** **PUNCH** **AFFIX** ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2024, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/482 "2024-12-26T13:07:31Z")
Wordle 1,286 5/6\* \begin{aligned} &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \bbox[silver,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[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt V} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt P} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt N} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt W} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt M} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt F} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt F} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt X} \\ \end{aligned} ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2024, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/483 "2024-12-26T15:43:07Z")
> **Wordle 1,286 4/6\* Boxing Day 2024** > > ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ > ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ > 🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ > 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 > > SH_A_RE β†’ Not much there. Last three WoFcons plus an O give us > T_A_LON β†’ Even less. I or U, or a second A, in there? But I also need consonants. I’ll try a variant spelling and see if it works > **A** MUCK β†’ Yep, but now I’m in even worse trouble. I stared at this for ten minutes and then **SunWife** came over. We both stared at it for five more minutes and then she went into the kitchen, and came out one minute later with > **AFFIX** > An assist for the par. And thanks to my better half’s better guess, I beat Scoredle (which gets a bogey for its trouble). ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2024, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/484 "2024-12-26T15:54:31Z")
Wordle 1,286 4/6 ⬜⬜🟦⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟦⬜⬜ ⬜🟦⬜🟧⬜ 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧 CRANE HOIST VALID AFFIX ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2024, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/485 "2024-12-26T16:01:33Z")
Wordle 1,286 4/6 ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 🟩⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 YEAST (A single unplaced A. AUDIO and MIAOU aren’t viable.) QUOTA (No help. Going for an I and a couple of WoFcons.) ALIGN (Placed the A and gained an I, which I’m choosing to believe is penultimate.) AFFIX (Not bad.) ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2024, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/486 "2024-12-26T16:14:41Z")
Wordle 1,286 5/6 ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 HEART APPLY AMONG ABIDE knowing the E wasn’t correct, just fishing for letters AFFIX ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2024, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/487 "2024-12-26T18:08:06Z")
Wordle 1,286 3/6\* ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟩⬜⬜🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 LEAST APHID AFFIX ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2024, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/488 "2024-12-26T23:13:33Z")
Wordle 1,286 4/6 β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¦β¬›β¬› β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¦πŸŸ§β¬› β¬›πŸŸ¦β¬›πŸŸ§β¬› 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧 OLIVE TRAIN MAGIC AFFIX A very tough word; I’m happy to come away with a par today. Took me a _lot_ of staring though. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2024, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/489 "2024-12-27T00:37:52Z")
Wordle 1286 5/6 ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ 1,191 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 173 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 17 ⬜🟨🟩🟨⬜ 1 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 SLANT CHORE DUMPY JAFFA AFFIX This one, at least for me, was damnably hard. After 3, well, just look at all those blanks! I don’t think I’ve ever gone that far knowing that little before. Not only that, but with the handful of possible letters I had left after 3, I couldn’t come up with a possible solution at all. I knew the solution wasn’t Jaffa, it’s a proper noun. But I couldn’t think of anything else to try at 4, and it had taken me hours to come up with that! But at least it gave me a couple of consonants and enough info to limit the combinations I had to try to find a solution. ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2024, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/490 "2024-12-27T04:56:31Z")
Wordle 1,286 4/6 β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¨β¬›β¬› β¬›πŸŸ¨β¬›β¬›β¬› πŸŸ©β¬›β¬›πŸŸ©β¬› 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 PLANT RACES AVOID AFFIX Wow, affix is a word I haven’t thought of in a while. Back in my DDO days I remember a lot of discussion about weapon enchantments, which were always referred to generically as affixes since they can be either a prefix or suffix. (eg: Holy sword of Pure Good.) It wasn’t until googling right now to make sure that is the real definition (β€œprefixes and suffixes”) that I was reminded of the verb form, to affix something to something else, which had me doing a figurative headslap. That verb form of the word is boringly common. (Still not as common as β€œavoid”, though!) ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2024, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/491 "2024-12-27T05:02:52Z")
Wordle 1,287 5/6 ⬜🟨🟩🟩⬜ ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2024, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/492 "2024-12-27T05:33:40Z")
Wordle 1,287 5/6 🟨🟨⬜🟩⬜ ⬜⬜🟩🟩🟨 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 RATIO FLAIR BRAIN DRAIN GRAIN ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2024, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/493 "2024-12-27T06:48:05Z")
Wordle 1,287 3/6 β¬›β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ¨β¬› β¬›πŸŸ¨πŸŸ©πŸŸ¨β¬› 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 PLANT SNARE GRAIN ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2024, 8:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/494 "2024-12-27T08:03:43Z")
**Wordle 1,287 4/6 β€” 2024-12-27** β¬›β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ¨β¬› β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¨β¬›β¬› β¬›β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŸ¨ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 **STARE** **DOILY** **CHAIR** **GRAIN** ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2024, 11:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/495 "2024-12-27T11:15:58Z")
Wordle 1,287 2/6 ⬜🟩🟩🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 TRANS GRAIN ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2024, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/496 "2024-12-27T11:51:25Z")
Wordle 1,287 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[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 C} \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[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt P} \\ &\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[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 G} \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 I} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt N} \\ \end{aligned} ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2024, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/497 "2024-12-27T11:53:46Z")
Wordle 1287 2/6 ⬜⬜🟩🟨⬜ 31 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 SLANT GRAIN See my comment from #1282: there aren’t many words that result in this green-and-yellow combo with my starting word, and most of them have been used - even more so after this past week! I was down to GRAIN, KNACK, PRAWN, and possibly UNARM. And I wasn’t feeling like going against the GRAIN. 😁 Maybe next time it comes up, I’ll finally get the KNACK of this game. πŸ™ƒ Regarding yesterday’s solution, I’ve generally encountered it as a highfalutin synonym of β€˜attach,’ as in β€˜please affix your resume to your application.’ Perfectly legit solution, just one that gave me fits. Its other definition, as a term that encompasses both prefixes and suffixes, was new to me, but it makes sense that there should be such a word. (Spoilered in case it’s still yesterday somewhere out near the International Date Line.) ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2024, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/498 "2024-12-27T15:00:48Z")
Wordle 1,287 2/6\* πŸŸ¨β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¨β¬› 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Ideal Grain ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2024, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/499 "2024-12-27T15:28:40Z")
Wordle 1,287 5/6 ⬜🟧🟧🟦⬜ ⬜🟧🟧🟧🟧 ⬜🟧🟧🟧🟧 ⬜🟧🟧🟧🟧 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧 Grrrrrrrr. CRANE BRAIN TRAIN DRAIN GRAIN ---
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Wordle 1,287 4/6 ⬜⬜🟩🟨⬜ ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 HEART BRAIN DRAIN GRAIN [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451.md?page=24) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451.md?page=26)