Wordle 1,271 5/6 — 2024-12-11
STARE
DOILY
PUNCH
PLUMP — oh well, flip a coin
PLUMB
Wordle 1,271 5/6
RATIO
LUNES
PLUCK
PLUMP
PLUMB
Wordle 1,271 3/6
HEART
SPOIL know it has to be a U with P and L. All I can think of is…
PLUMB
Wordle 1271 4/6
167
5
2
SLANT
CLIME
PLUMP
PLUMB
Lost the metaphorical coin toss after 2.
Wordle 1,271 3/6*
LEAST
BROIL
PLUMB
Wordle 1,271 3/6
CRANE - bummer
POINT - well, that leaves only ‘u’ for a vowel, and a word starting with ‘pu’ is not apparent (to me, anyway), so. . .
PLUMB - came to mind immediately
From a jack to a king. Interesting puzzle.
Wordle 1,271 4/6* 12/11/2024
PATIO → Looked great there for a second. As it is, not bad. There’s a great word with two WoFcons and two remaining vowels, so let’s try
PURSE → Not an E, but a U. And it pretty much has to be in the middle. L and N are still out there from the WoFcons, so I’ll try
PLUCK → I could repeat the P here, but I’d rather trust the B.
PLUMB
I was glad I didn’t have to flip a coin after 3. As it was, I differed from Scoredle in only one letter (Scoredle goes for both remaining WoFcons after 2, which I could have seen myself, even though it makes no difference in the end).
But my Scoredle doesnt work that way. It asks for the answer of the day, and then I input my answers. At the bottom it uses whatever start word it wants, followed by its own guesses.
Wait. I reread your explanation and I see what you mean, now.
Wordle 1,271 3/6
YEAST (Whiff.)
CURIO (A single U. I’m gonna decide to put it in the middle, and insist on a WoFcon.)
PLUMB (Nice!)
Wordle 1,271 3/6*
\begin{aligned} &\bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \bbox[silver,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 C} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt M} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt P} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt M} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \\ \end{aligned}
Wordle 1,271 3/6
PLANT
IMBED
PLUMB
Disappointed with myself that I didn’t trust the B. I definitely considered it but ultimately didn’t love plumb as an answer. Also, imbed (apparently a valid alternate spelling) was such a perfect sleuth word to guarantee a 3 from the choices I could see: plush, plume/plumb/plump, plied/plier.
Still salty about my streak ending yesterday that I couldn’t resist forcing a new streak, hard mode be damned.
Wordle 1,272 4/6
RATIO
SHINE
BLINK
VYING
Wordle 1,272 4/6*
Manic
Inlet
Nippy
Vying
Wordle 1,272 4/6 — 2024-12-12
STARE
DOILY
PUNCH
VYING
Wordle 1,272 5/6*
\begin{aligned} &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \bbox[silver,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 Q} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt C} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt H} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt N} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt K} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt P} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt N} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt Y} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt V} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt Y} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt N} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt G} \\ \end{aligned}
Wordle 1,272 4/6
HEART
SPOIL
CUBIC
VYING
Wordle 1272 3/6
210
5
SLANT
GRODY to the max!
VYING
This was the first Wordle in a few weeks that was really fun. Seems I’d hit a stretch where every day was another slog to a 4. But this one made up for it.
Having that green N on 1 narrows things down surprisingly well, and I’d already made up a list of unused prospects for when that one green is all I get on 1. Most of them either end in Y or in ING, and it turns out that all the prospects with a G at all, end in ING. So a G anywhere in a sleuth word would be a proxy for an ING ending, so why not find a sleuth word that had a G and ended in Y?
I thought of GRIMY first, but I wasn’t in a lot of prospects; the most frequent vowel by far was O. Also, M was in only one of the possibles. So anything with GROxY? And that bit of 1980s slang popped into my head, and it was a really terrific sleuth word if Wordle accepted it. And it did, and it narrowed things down to the solution.
Now if the solution had been BONNY, NINNY, or PENNY, I’d have had to do a sleuth word on 3, or risk a 5. But that was about as bad as it might’ve gotten.
Wordle 1,272 6/6* 12/12/2024
PLUMB → Whiff. Granted, not much there. Time for a good first word second
STARE → Another whiff? Oh my. Two vowels left, plus Y, and one WoFcon. A word popped into my head that exercises all three and does some doubling up for likely placement, which seems too good to pass up
ONION → And I place only the letter that appears only once. Figures. At least I’m Ivory Soap purity sure that the N goes fourth. Hmm. CHINK? It’s a dreadful slur, but I looked at it for five minutes and couldnt really see anything else. So I decided to sleep on it, and after getting up I saw
WHINY → A non-terminal Y? That’s gotta be a clue. And about the only thing that can go last would be D or G (or the aforementioned K). Assuming it’s G, and I can check the other with
DYING → I am dying out here! Oh, wait - the V
VYING
DINGY as a third guess was key to Scordle getting this one in four - from flat nothing to four yellows and the other main possibility eliminated. Scoredle also shows ICING as a possible answer for me after three, which I never considered. I think I will have a brutal game that day when it comes up.
Wordle 1,272 4/6*
LEAST
IDIOM
JUICY
VYING
Wordle 1,272 3/6
YEAST [I want to see more vowels, and maybe a WoFcon.]
DOILY [Gotta be xYING. And DYING, EYING, LYING and TYING are out.]
VYING (Not bad!)