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

The Game Room
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Wordle 1,258 4/6*

\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[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \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 C} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt K} \\ &\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 C} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt K} \\ \end{aligned}

122

Wordle 1258 4/6

:white_large_square::white_large_square::white_large_square::white_large_square::white_large_square: 1,713
:green_square::green_square::green_square::white_large_square::white_large_square: 10
:green_square::green_square::green_square::white_large_square::white_large_square: 8
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SLANT
CHORE
CHOMP
CHOCK

Lost the coin toss on 3. Lots of blanks on starting words so far!

Happy Thanksgiving, y’all!

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Wordle 1,258 4/6*

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LEAST
HYDRO
CONCH ← Should have been “the conch”! *
CHOCK

*A Feud reference.

Happy Thanksgiving, America!

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Wordle 1,258 4/6

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HEART
SHINY
WHOOP
CHOCK

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Wordle 1,258 4/6

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CRANE
CLOTH
CHOMP
CHOCK

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Wordle 1,258 4/6* Thanksgiving Day (US) 2024

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SLANG → Whiff. Time for a good first guess second… with E & I this time.
REIST → Another whiff. All WoFcons gone. O & U still out there, I can use them both with three fairly good consonants
POUCH → OK. O to the middle, probably ends in CK, H?OCK goes nowhere, couldn’t figure how ?HOCK works until I realized there coud be a repeat letter
CHOCK

Scoredle looking smug again with a birdie. After that start, I was thrilled just to save par.

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Wordle 1,258 4/6

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YEAST (Whiff.)
CURIO (This looks promising. COxxx?)
CONCH (Nope. But it does only leave CHOCK.)
CHOCK (So I get par.)

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I went from my usual start of TRACE to SHOCK and then got stuck trying to think of words that ended in the same four letters. I usually don’t immediately guess on the same letter appearing twice in the word.

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Wordle 1,258 4/6

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PIANO
STORE
BLOCK
CHOCK

Not a bad par save after a slow start.
Although Scordle showed me a bunch of _OO_Y words after two, which I hadn’t considered. I might have been in trouble if it had been one of those.

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Wordle 1,259 4/6

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RATIO
LINGO
DISCO
HIPPO

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Wordle 1,259 3/6

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PLANT
SPORE
HIPPO

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Wordle 1,259 4/6

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STARE
DOILY
PUNCH
HIPPO

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Wordle 1,259 4/6*

\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[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt W} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt M} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt P} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt Y} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt H} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt P} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt P} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \\ \end{aligned}

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Wordle 1259 4/6

:white_large_square::white_large_square::white_large_square::white_large_square::white_large_square: 1,713
:white_large_square::yellow_square::yellow_square::white_large_square::white_large_square: 23
:white_large_square::white_large_square::white_large_square::green_square::white_large_square: 1
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SLANT
CHORE
DUMPY
HIPPO

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Wordle 1,259 2/6

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HEART no As or Es, let’s see if it has an I or O
HIPPO yippee!

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Wordle 1,259 3/6

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CRANE
MOIST
HIPPO

Took forever to see anything after two, then a lot of luck to get the right answer.

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Wordle 1,259 5/6

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YEAST (Whiff!)
CURIO (Got an unplaced I an a final O. Try for a WoFcon.)
LIMBO (Only placed the I. Another WoFcon?)
JINGO (Got squat. HIPPO, KIDDO or ZIPPO.)
HIPPO (I did terribly today!)

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Wordle 1,259 4/6*

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LEAST
MOUND
CROOK
HIPPO

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Wordle 1,259 4/6

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ALONE
ROIST
BIMBO
HIPPO :hippopotamus:

I was stuck for quite a while after two.
All I could see was BIMBO and WIDOW, both with repeat letters, so I gave in and wasted two spots on B’s. That did, however, lead me to the one I didn’t see, with a pair of P’s.
Not mad at this par.

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Wordle 1,260 4/6

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RATIO
CLOAK
OMEGA
DOGMA