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

Well, don’t I just look like an idiot.

Wordle 1,290 5/6

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Wordle 1,290 5/6

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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!

Got my third 1/6 today. Now have to think of a new starting word. Just bragging :slight_smile:

Wordle 1,290 2/6*

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PLATE
STARE

Wordle 1,291 3/6

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PEACH
MELON
LEMUR

Wordle 1,291 3/6

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RATIO
CRUEL
LEMUR

Wordle 1,291 2/6*

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Least
Lemur

After getting my one, changed my opening word. For a split second, I had visions of consecutive ones.

Wordle 1,291 5/6

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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.

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}

Wordle 1,291 3/6 — 2024-12-31
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LEAST
BOUND
LEMUR

Wordle 1,291 4/6

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HEART
REIGN
METER
LEMUR

Wordle 1,291 2/6*

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LEAST
LEMUR

For a second there, I thought I had it in one!

Wordle 1,291 3/6

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SLATE
CROWD
LEMUR - With 17 words to apparently choose from, this was very lucky.

Wordle 1,291 3/6

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ARIEL
RUBLE
LEMUR

A nice recovery from yesterday’s debacle.

Wordle 1,291 3/6* New Year's Eve 2024

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STARE → Two vowels and two WoFcons - gone. Two more vowels and two more WoFcons to go with my one yellow gets me
LONER → 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 “bins” of words that I might have had to sort through if today’s solution had been different.

Wordle 1291 4/6

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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.

Wordle 1,291 3/6

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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.

Wordle 1,292 5/6

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RATIO
CRUEL
MERGE
SERVE
NERVE

I’d be leery of making that supposition - I certainly wouldn’t bet too much lucre on it. :grin:

Wordle 1292 3/6

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SLANT
CHORE
NERVE