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

Wordle 1,285 5/6

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Wordle 1,285 2/6

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It’s a Christmas miracle!

The word was actually my first choice, but I thought nah, already used.
Coulda had a 1.
I wondered if it would have something to do with christmas.
It does!

Wordle 1285 3/6 Merry Christmas!

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Could’ve also been SPARE.

Merry Christmas everyone!

Wordle 1,285 2/6 — 2024-12-25
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STAREcould be share spare; already used = scare snare
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Wordle 1,285 6/6*

\begin{aligned} &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt P} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt N} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt C} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt H} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \\ \end{aligned}

Bah humbug !

Wordle 1,285 3/6*

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LEAST
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Merry Christmas and Happy Happy to everyone!

Wordle 1,285 3/6

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PAEON
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If I’d used one of my usual starting words, this would have been a two.

Wordle 1,285 2/6

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Wordle 1,285 4/6* Christmas Day 2024

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EAGLE → OK, A is probably in the middle. Let’s try a word with three WoFcons
STARE → It’s a Christmas trap! Wordle is Scrooging me. OK, C, H, N, P, if that’s all I think I’m safe. Wish I had a used words list to consult. OK, let’s try alphabetical order
SCARE → Nope. Next!
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Scoredle goes right to it on its third guess (it gets a two from its own start!)

Wordle 1,285 3/6

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YEAST (Nice start. Let’s get a WoFcon.)
SPARE (Cool. SNARE, SHARE or SNARE.)
SHARE (Well, the other two had already been used.)

PINCH would have been a perfectly valid sleuth word that would guarantee a par without vulnerability to a bogie. Still, I’m glad you pulled it out.

The asterisk after the score shows us that SunUp plays in hard mode, meaning sleuth words not allowed. But yeah, that is a remarkably good sleuth word. You don’t often get to check four specific consonants in a single word.

I’m playing hard mode, but that would be a good sleuth word. Maybe it I had a trifle more foresight, I could have tried PEACH with my second guess, and then had a good shot at a birdie.

ETA: Ninja’ed by @EllisDee

Gotta replay the green, though.

Oh. I hadn’t noticed that about the asterisk. I decided to ditch Hard Mode about a year ago, when it came clear to me that Wordlebot never restricts itself to that limitation. Well, fuck you, Wordlebot. I’m not trying to impress you; I’m trying to beat you.

Wordle 1,285 4/6

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ADIEU
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HEART
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I went all around this one before finally zeroing in.

Wordle 1,285 2/6*

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Wordle 1,286 4/6

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Wordle 1,286 5/6

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This one was really hard. I chose a word I knew was wrong on three just to rule out letters then could not see the answer.