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

Wordle 1,272 4/6

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CRANE
POINT
SLING
VYING

Wordle 1,272 5/6

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PLANT
SCONE
WRING
DYING
VYING

Voluntary hard mode kicked my ass this time.

Wordle 1,272 3/6*

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PLATE
NOISY
VYING

Luckily I didn’t see DYING

Wordle 1,273 6/6

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RATIO
SHONE
LONER
COWER
BUMPY
BOXER

Horrible trap today. Had to try to eliminate as many choices as possible. The sleuth word helped but it still could have been BORER. Also I was thinking that BOXER had been used before. Just happy to survive today.

Wordle 1,273 5/6

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Wordle 1,273 4/6*

\begin{aligned} &\bbox[lime,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[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt N} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \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 R} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt X} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \\ \end{aligned}

Wordle 1,273 5/6 β€” 2024-12-13
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STARE
DOILY
PUNCH
GUMBO β€” to eliminate letters because it could be (borer boxer gofer mover mower roger rower)
BOXER β€” it was either BORER or BOXER

This was a fun puzzle.

Wordle 1,273 3/6

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HEART
LOSER
BOXER

Wordle 1,273 4/6*

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According to Wordlebot, only 70% of folks are getting this in 6 or less. Lots of streaks going down today.

ORATE
ROPER
SOBER
BOXER

Wordle 1273 4/6

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SLANT
CHORE
ROWDY
BOXER

Could’ve also been MOVER; JOKER and POKER had already been played.

Another fun one; narrowed it down to seven or eight possibles after 2 (DOPER was on the borderline IMO) but came up with a good sleuth word again today.

Wordle 1,273 5/6

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YEAST [Vowel hunt]
LOUIE [xOxEx Use another WoFcon]
WOMEN [last WoFcon]
ROBED [BORER or BOXER]
BOXER [Streak still alive]

Wordle 1,273 6/6

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Whew! Thought my streak was gonna end.

INEPT
REACH
LOWER
JOKER
FOYER
BOXER

Wordle 1,273 5/6* 12/13/2024

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VYING β†’ I’ve started with a whiff three of the last four days. Quite a little streak I’ve got going! Yet another chance for a good first word second.
LEAST β†’ Unplaced E after two guesses. I wanted to KO the vowels here, but in retrospect I should have gone ROGUE
COUPE β†’ Not that this is too bad. I played around with five letter words that included an R and found a slangy one that Wordle took
FOREX β†’ And that X made the solution easy
BOXER
I guess it’s a good day to hear what you want to hear and disregard the rest.
Looking at the trap and Scoredle’s list of possibles on my fourth guess, I got very lucky with the guess I made. Scoredle makes a six from my start; ironically it does better than with its own start, which ends in a fail.

I saw what you did there.

Wordle 1,273 4/6

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CRANE
POISE
BORED
BOXER

I feel fortunate to have gotten in in four.

Wordle 1,273 4/6*

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LEAST
COVEN
GOOEY
BOXER

Wordle 1,273 5/6

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STONE
LOWER
PICKY
HOVER
BOXER

Another day, another trap.
I scored a six yesterday (didn’t have time to post here); BEING, GOING, DYING, and VYING were the last four. Grrr.

Wordle 1,273 4/6*

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PLATE
DINER
SOBER
BOXER

Wordle 1,273 4/6

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PLANT
SCORE
MOVER
BOXER

Saturday, December 14th

Wordle 1,274 4/6

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PLANT
ROLES
BROIL
DROOL

Back to back pedestrian 4s.