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

@Newtosite — nice going!

Wordle 1,324 4/6 — 2025-02-02
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LEAST
BOUND
CRIMPIt could be chore cover cower; and previous Wordles have been cover cower
CHORE

Wordle 1324 2/6

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SLANT
CHORE

Easiest 2 ever - the solution is my standard second word, which I use any time my starting word doesn’t give me enough info to go with something different. IOW, probably about 3/4 of the time/ (And definitely any time my starting word draws a blank, duh!)

Have a 2-2-3-2 streak over the past four days. :smiley:

Especially glad this morning to see you’re still using the starting combo as I am!

Wordle 1,324 3/6*

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

Wordle 1,324 3/6

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HEART
SHORE well the 12 year old in me wants to try WHORE, but more likely is…
CHORE

Wordle 1,324 4/6* Groundhog Day 2025

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RIVET → Kinda well-balanced start. Leads well into a good first word, so I’m pretty satisfied with it
LEARN → With the R placed, where should the E go? I’ll try the end, and O is the next vowel to try, and S is the last WoFcon, and I could try SCORE or
SHORE → So there are two possibles here, but I’m pretty sure the NYT will never make one a Wordle answer, so
CHORE

Scoredle works overtime to place the R on its second guess, but ends up with the same par in the end. Fun, not too challenging, quick solve.

I would have had a 2 for #1324, except that I guessed D instead of E .

Wordle 1,324 3/6*

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LEAST
DRONE
CHORE

Wordle 1,324 4/6

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YEAST
OURIE
GROPE
CHORE

Wordle 1,324 3/6*

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Drift
Scour
Chore

Wordle 1,324 2/6

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CRANE
CHORE

My starter word finally pays off.

Wordle 1,324 3/6

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LOUSE
TRONE
CHORE

I stumbled upon TRONE quite some time ago (it’s a type of scale) and enjoy pulling it out from time to time. It came in handy today; I really should add it to my starter list.

It sure paid off this time! :slight_smile:

Wordle 1,325 3/6

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RATIO
RULES
REVUE

Wordle 1,325 4/6

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DRAIN
COURT
RECAP
REVUE

Wordle 1,325 5/6 — 2025-02-03
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LEAST
BOUND
CRIMP
VUGHY
REVUE

Wordle 1,325 6/6*

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

Few.

Wordle 1,325 4/6

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HEART
RESIN
REUSE knowing there’s no S, fishing for letters
REVUE

Wordle 1,325 4/6* 2/3/2025

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CHORE → Darn, I was hoping for a whiff so I could try SLANT as a second word. After thinking a while, I couldn’t figure out a word with two other WoFcons here, so I went with one and an A
TRADE → That was no help. Try the R in the middle, and something with a I… or maybe a U. Yeah, U.
PURSE → Process of elimination finds the R. Good luck on the U! ROUGE is out - only thing I can think of with R?U?E, but R??UE gives us
REVUE

I was a little luckier than Scoredle, though we both finished at par. The algorithm had nine possibles to choose between on the last guess, though seven were thoroughly bogus and one was rather archaic.

Wordle 1,325 5/6

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SLATE
CRIME
HORDE
PRUNE
REVUE

Well, that took forever to see.

Wordle 1,325 4/6

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YEAST (Vowel hunt)
GEOID (Either two Es or a U. Or both)
VENUE (That settles it.)
REVUE (Yep.)