"Wordle," a strangely compelling word game (Part 3)

Wordle 1,269 5/6

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SLATE
CLOUD
PLUMB
FLUNK
FLUNG - So apparently, they’re resorting to not only verbs, but the past tense of same.

Wordle 1,269 3/6

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FABLE
FLING
FLUNG

Wordle 1,269 4/6*

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LEAST
BROIL
CLUMP
FLUNG

Wordle 1,269 3/6

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PLANT
BASIC
FLUNG

Had to bail on hard mode to try and keep the 3-streak going.

Wordle 1,270 2/6

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RATIO
PATIO

Wordle 1,270 3/6 — 2024-12-10
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STARE
DOILY
PATIO

Wordle 1,270 3/6

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CRAVE
SATIN
PATIO

Wordle 1,270 4/6*

\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 G} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt M} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt P} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \\ \end{aligned}

Stupid 3rd guess…

Wordle 1270 4/6

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SLANT
CHORE
DUMPY
PATIO

Would have gone with TOPAZ (the only other possibility) on 4, but it had already been used.

Wordle 1,270 3/6

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HEART
PASTY
PATIO

Wordle 1,270 3/6

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CRANE
SPILT - Using three letters from my other starting word paid off
PATIO

Wordle 1,270 4/6* 12/10/2024

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FLUNG → Whiff. First guess second, time - and two WoFcons down, too!
ROAST → Hmmm. Am I out of vowels? How do I shuffle this up? I could really trust the B…
ABBOT → Noped right out of there - tried the T in last again?!? Ugh. OK, sleep on it. Looks like A & O are separated, which pretty much means ?A??O, TATTO ain’t it, TA??O isn’t TABOO, ?AT?O isn’t RATIO but could be
PATIO
MATZO and OCTAD
were both still out there, along with a few words of bogus dreck. Scoredle makes a better (but unluckier) guess on 2, which leads it to a solid 4 (though with a 50/50 shot at a bogey).

Wordle 1,270 3/6

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YEAST (I wanna look for the rest of the vowels)
QUOTA (That’s nice, but I said the REST of the vowels.)
PATIO (Better.)

Wordle 1,270 3/6*

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LEAST
TANGO
PATIO

I’m confused. You often mention Scoredle’s scores, but they never match mine. For a while I thought you were talking about WordleBot’s scores, but that really didn’t add up either.

So what gives? Do different people get different answers?

For example, today I put LEAST TANGO PATIO, and Scoredle’s answers were SLANT TAROT PATIO. A birdie 3/6, not the par 4/6 you mention.

Are there different Scoredles?

Oh, right.

When I cite Scoredle’s scores against mine, I do so after having given my start word (yesterday’s solution) as Scoredle’s first guess, and making each subsequent guess according to its “best guess to make next”. So Scoredle’s puzzle for today in this way was FLUNG TARES PATCH PATIO .

I apologize for the confusion! I sometimes try to make it clear that’s how I’m going up against Scoredle, but it’s not something I do every time.

Wordle 1,270 4/6

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PLANT
PASTE
PATCH
PATIO

A frustrating end to my 3-streak.

Wordle 1,270 3/6*

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PLATE
PATCH
PATIO

Wordle 1,271 4/6

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ATONE
MUSIC
CLUMP
PLUMB