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

Wordle 1,253 2/6

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YEAST (A placed E and a Y that’s probably on the end.)
JELLY (BINGO!)

Wordle 1,253 2/6*

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LEAST
JELLY

What??? Two 2s in a row. That was just a wild guess!

Wordle 1,253 4/6

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PLANT
ROLES
BULGE
JELLY

Happy to escape with a 4.

Wordle 1,254 3/6

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CHORE
STINK
TWIST

Wordle 1,254 4/6

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RATIO
SPILT
HEIST
TWIST

Wordle 1,254 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[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt J} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \\ &\bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt W} \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 S} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt W} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \\ \end{aligned}

Wordle 1254 4/6

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SLANT
CHORE
VISIT
TWIST

Had the devil of a time coming up with any words after 2. Saw MIDST first, but that had already been used. Then gave up and used Scoredle with MIDST as my bogus solution to find my last two guesses. Since those were the only two legit words still out there, a 4 was my max score regardless (so I don’t really feel like I cheated even by my own personal standards, which exclude online aids), but it saved me from a lot of wracking my brains today on the way to that 4.

Wordle 1,254 4/6* 11/24/2024

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JELLY → Whiff. Time for a good first guess second
ROAST → Hmm. And only U & I to go for vowels. I can’t think of many ??UST that are still out there (TRUST & JOUST are gone) but I can see one archaic word that I could use
WHIST → Aw, darn, should have doubled up
TWIST
MUIST
is Scoredle’s recommendation for my third guess, a word I’m not sure I’ve ever heard before. Despite being an anagram of my second guess, Scoredle’s second guess allows it to finish with a birdie, since it places the first letter. Still, I feel better about this than about going the distance with JELLY yesterday.

Wordle 1,254 4/6

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HEART
FLINT
MOIST
TWIST

Wordle 1,254 3/6

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CRANE - Ugh
HOIST - A really lucky guess for vowel elimination, and leaves only. . .
TWIST

Wordle 1,254 3/6

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YEAST (No vowels. xxxST. shouldn’t be too hard.)
HOIST (xxIST. WRIST is gone. Doesn’t leave a lot.)
TWIST (A birdie is good.)

Wordle 1,254 4/6

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STARE
DOILY
PUNCH
TWIST

Catching up on my posting:

Wordle 1,252 3/6

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STAIR
LEARN
PEARL

One of the easiest birdies I can remember!

Wordle 1,253 4/6

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SNAIL
LUCRE
BELLY
JELLY

I thought of JELLY first. Shoulda gone with my gut!

Wordle 1,254 3/6

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ROAST
CHEST
TWIST

This one took way more brain power than it should have.

What do you mean by birdie?

Wordle 1,254 4/6*

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LEAST
BURST
GHOST
TWIST

Par is 4, birdie is 3. It’s a golf term adapted for here, I believe.

My preference would be to avoid golf terms. What’s wrong with with just saying, “I solved it in two/three/four/five guesses”?

Wordle 1,254 4/6

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PLANT
ROSET
SWIFT
TWIST

Lost the coin toss between swift and twist.

Wordle 1,255 6/6

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RATIO
SHORE
FLOUR
CROWD
GROWN
BROWN

Wordle 1,255 4/6

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CLEAR
SNORT
GROWN
BROWN