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

Wordle 1,295 2/6

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YEAST (A placed E and an A. Add some WoFcons.)
RELAX. (Easy peasy!)

Wordle 1,295 4/6

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SLATE
REGAL - Heart skips a beat
RELAY - Was sure I had it now
RELAX

Wordle 1,295 5/6

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HEART
AERIE went for the oddball word
REPAY
REGAL
RELAX

Wordle 1,295 4/6* 1/4/2025

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CHEAP → I thnk I’m out of vowels. Lets try three WoFcons
RENAL → RELA?, I think I’m about to birdie
RELAY → Ooooh, didn’t see the X word
RELAX

Tough miss on the 50/50. Scoredle gets it right to make the birdie putt. It also liked my second word so much that was its guess as well…

Wordle 1,295 5/6

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ABOUT
SNARE
PALER
RELAY
RELAX
Don’t do it.

I went for -ER before RE-, then lost the coin toss.
Frankie say bad luck bogey.

Wordle 1,295 2/6*

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LEAST
RELAX

Sweet!

Wordle 1,295 4/6

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PLANT
LASER
RELAY
RELAX

Doh!

Wordle 1,295 4/6*

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PLATE
LAGER
RELAY
RELAX

It looks like a number of us in the RELAY before RELAX club

Wordle 1,296 4/6

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SNAIL
COWER
CRYER
CYBER

Wordle 1,296 4/6

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PLANT
SCORE
CRIED
CYBER

Happy with a 4 after starting with a goose egg.

Wordle 1,296 6/6* 1/5/2025

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RELAX → Hey, no sweat. Two letters already! Add WoFcons, an O, and stir.
STORE → OK, that wasn’t great now. I’ll do the Scoredle thing and double up on the E. Can’t think of a way to use N, so I’ll defer it for now.
CHEER → Nice pickup on the C! But I’m halfway gone and this looks a little trappy. It’s time to exercise the I
CIDER → Nothing doing there. Perhaps a second R? CURER, or…
CRYER → Nope - but that Y was very lucky for me.
CYBER

Not really sure this should count as a standalone word. Scoredle finishes with a bogey, which gives me some hope that my play wasn’t as bad as the score indicated - on my fourth guess, though, Scoredle goes right to the correct answer. Alas, so far from par.

Wordle 1,296 5/6*

\begin{aligned} &\bbox[yellow,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[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt M} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \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 C} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt Y} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \\ \end{aligned}

Wordle 1,296 4/6

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RATIO
CRUEL
CHEER
CYBER

Wordle 1296 4/6

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SLANT
CHORE
BIPED
CYBER

Lucky, lucky, lucky. :slightly_smiling_face: After 2, I saw CRIER and the mini-trap of CREE(D/K/P), but I didn’t see the solution at all. I went with a sleuth word on 3 which was intended to use the I,D, and P to choose among those, but if my sleuth word hadn’t by chance had a B, I might still be looking.

Wordle 1,296 3/6*

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LEAST
CRUDE
CYBER

Wordle 1,296 6/6*

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Alter
Diner
Mower
Super
Fever
Cyber

Phew!

Wordle 1,296 5/6*

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ALONE
SHERD
MERCY
CRYER
CYBER

sherd?

Wordle 1,296 6/6

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Sheesh.

Wordle 1,296 4/6 — 2025-01-05
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LEAST
BOUND
CRISP
CYBER

Wordle 1,296 4/6

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HEART
LONER
WISER
CYBER