# "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:** 28
**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 30, 2024, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/541 "2024-12-30T16:08:41Z")
Well, don’t I just look like an idiot. Wordle 1,290 5/6 ⬜🟦🟧⬜🟧 🟧⬜🟧🟧🟧 🟧⬜🟧🟧🟧 🟧⬜🟧🟧🟧 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧 ---
**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 30, 2024, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/542 "2024-12-30T17:42:49Z")
Wordle 1,290 5/6 πŸŸ¦β¬›β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¦ β¬›πŸŸ¦πŸŸ¦πŸŸ¦πŸŸ¦ πŸŸ¦πŸŸ¦πŸŸ§β¬›πŸŸ¦ β¬›πŸŸ¦πŸŸ§πŸŸ¦πŸŸ§ 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧 AUDIT LATER REACT GRATE STARE I’m here to take the pressure off @Chefguy, turning a relatively easy word into a mess of a bogey… including a dumb mistake at three, putting the T back where it didn’t belong. Congrats on all the ones and twos today! ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2024, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/543 "2024-12-30T21:53:42Z")
Got my third 1/6 today. Now have to think of a new starting word. Just bragging πŸ™‚ ---
**Author:** ![gkster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gkster/32/14107_2.png) [@gkster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gkster)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2024, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/544 "2024-12-31T05:02:54Z")
Wordle 1,290 2/6\* ⬜⬜🟩🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 PLATE STARE ---
**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 31, 2024, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/545 "2024-12-31T05:04:17Z")
Wordle 1,291 3/6 ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ 🟨🟩🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 PEACH MELON LEMUR ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2024, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/546 "2024-12-31T05:32:02Z")
Wordle 1,291 3/6 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 RATIO CRUEL LEMUR ---
**Author:** ![Cugel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cugel/32/1199_2.png) [@Cugel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cugel)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2024, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/547 "2024-12-31T05:59:22Z")
Wordle 1,291 2/6\* 🟩🟩⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Least Lemur After getting my one, changed my opening word. For a split second, I had visions of consecutive ones. ---
**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 31, 2024, 11:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/548 "2024-12-31T11:06:45Z")
Wordle 1,291 5/6 ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜🟩⬜ ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 YEAST GEOID VENUE FEMUR LEMUR I don’t have the energy for a blow-by-blow description right now. But I should have chosen REVUE over VENUE on guess three. ---
**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 31, 2024, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/549 "2024-12-31T11:52:51Z")
Wordle 1,291 5/6\* \begin{aligned} &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[silver,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 P} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt C} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt H} \\ &\bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt F} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt N} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt V} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \\ &\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 M} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \\ \end{aligned} ---
**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 31, 2024, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/550 "2024-12-31T12:09:13Z")
**Wordle 1,291 3/6 β€” 2024-12-31** πŸŸ©πŸŸ©β¬›β¬›β¬› β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¨β¬›β¬› 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 **LEAST** **BOUND** **LEMUR** ---
**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 31, 2024, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/551 "2024-12-31T15:21:34Z")
Wordle 1,291 4/6 ⬜🟩⬜🟨⬜ 🟨🟩⬜⬜⬜ 🟨🟩⬜⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 HEART REIGN METER LEMUR ---
**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 31, 2024, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/552 "2024-12-31T15:41:03Z")
Wordle 1,291 2/6\* 🟩🟩⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 LEAST LEMUR For a second there, I thought I had it in one! ---
**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 31, 2024, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/553 "2024-12-31T16:10:15Z")
Wordle 1,291 3/6 ⬜🟦⬜⬜🟦 ⬜🟦⬜⬜⬜ 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧 SLATE CROWD LEMUR - With 17 words to apparently choose from, this was very lucky. ---
**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 31, 2024, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/554 "2024-12-31T17:21:15Z")
Wordle 1,291 3/6 β¬›πŸŸ¦β¬›πŸŸ¦πŸŸ¦ πŸŸ¦πŸŸ¦β¬›πŸŸ¦πŸŸ¦ 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧 ARIEL RUBLE LEMUR A nice recovery from yesterday’s debacle. ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2024, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/555 "2024-12-31T17:21:15Z")
> **Wordle 1,291 3/6\* New Year's Eve 2024** > > ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨 > 🟩⬜⬜🟨🟩 > 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 > > STA_RE_ β†’ Two vowels and two WoFcons - gone. Two more vowels and two more WoFcons to go with my one yellow gets me > **L** ON_E_ **R** β†’ E pretty much has to be in second now, in which case I need another vowel - U or Y? If it’s U, I could see > **LEMUR** > > Scoredle, not having my WoFcon obsession, makes the wrong guess on a 50/50 for birdie, because it tried doubling up on the known letter from the first guess. On the other hand, had it been anything other than the actual answer, I’d have been screwed because the answer was the only valid word after my second guess, meaning my second guess probably left some large β€œbins” of words that I might have had to sort through if today’s solution had been different. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2025, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/556 "2025-01-01T01:25:21Z")
Wordle 1291 4/6 ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ 640 ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨 44 ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ 1 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 SLANT CHORE GIMPY LEMUR Solved this early this morning, but got distracted before I could post. Anyway: after 2, I came up with a list of 17 possible solutions, and only 5 of them turned out to have been used. And none of the remaining 12 did a particularly good job of narrowing things down, but GIMPY did, so I went with that on 3 to get a sure 4. ---
**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:** [January 1, 2025, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/557 "2025-01-01T01:32:55Z")
Wordle 1,291 3/6 β¬›πŸŸ¨β¬›β¬›β¬› πŸŸ¨β¬›πŸŸ¨πŸŸ¨β¬› 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 PLANT ROLES LEMUR I found this to be exceedingly difficult. Finally I managed to see lemur. I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that was the only possibility after 2. ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2025, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/558 "2025-01-01T05:42:51Z")
Wordle 1,292 5/6 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜ ⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 RATIO CRUEL MERGE SERVE NERVE ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2025, 7:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/559 "2025-01-01T07:08:07Z")
> [@EllisDee](#): > > I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that was the only possibility after 2. I’d be leery of making that supposition - I certainly wouldn’t bet too much lucre on it. 😁 ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2025, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/560 "2025-01-01T07:09:40Z")
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