Wordle 1,260 3/6
STARE
DOILY
DOGMA
In my second guess, once I got the first 2 letters I figured, what the hell?, and I went for it.
Wordle 1,260 4/6
PLANT
RACES
AVOID
DOGMA
Who needs greens?
Wordle 1260 4/6
1,191
58
1
SLANT
CHORE
DUMPY
DOGMA
Wordle 1,260 4/6*
\begin{aligned} &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \\ &\bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt M} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \\ &\bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt M} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt Y} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt G} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt M} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \\ \end{aligned}
Wordle 1,260 4/6
YEAST (Not much to go on. Hunt for vowels.)
HAIKU (No joy. Try the last vowel and an extra A.)
AGORA (Now we’re getting somewhere!)
DOGMA. (My best guess and it paid off for par.)
Wordle 1,260 3/6*
Naive
Glamp
Dogma
Wordle 1,260 4/6
HEART
CLOAK
OASIS
DOGMA
Wordle 1,260 4/6
CRANE
SALVO
WOMAN
DOGMA
Wordle 1,260 3/6*
LEAST
ADORN
DOGMA
Whoops, forgot to post yesterday! I blame an overdose of tryptophan.
Wordle 1,259 4/6* 11/29/2024
CHOCK → Well I certainly don’t have to worry about any Cs. Hmm. I don’t think I’ll be exhausting WoFcons this time out, but I can check two; one should be S in case of an SH ending. Throw in another vowel for
HOURS → In retrospect, probably should have been HORSE. But now we can try the E, along with another (doubled) WoFcon
HELLO → And that double L led me to another double letter word that fits
HIPPO
HIMBO was another possibility? Really, Scoredle? At least the algorithm also gets a par.
Wordle 1,260 4/6* 11/30/2024
HIPPO → Slow start. Three WoFcons and an E, please
SOLER → At least I placed the O. Seeing one word because I have a friend from there (plus, the remaining WoFcons and an A); I didn’t really expect the proper noun to work but it did
TONGA → Getting a placed A is a coup. But what now? Saw VODKA early, but that has no G. GOUDA isn’t in the list (but TONGA was? Odd.) Ended up sleeping on it, and had no epiphanies when I got up. Tried a Python script to enumerate the 400 or so possibles, and naturally felt like an idiot when it spat out
DOGMA
So I turned a small word puzzle into a programming problem. Scoredle finishes in four, but has a tough choice on the last guess between the answer and the distilled spirit.
Wordle 1,260 4/6
ALIEN
ROAST
MOCHA
DOGMA
I’m in quite a rut; that’s six fours in a row.
And my Wheel of Start Words hasn’t hit on more than a single unplaced letter in the last five.
I’m due for a little luck.
Wordle 1261 4/6
1,191
50
1
SLANT
CHORE
DUMPY
MAUVE
Wordle 1,261 5/6
Wordle 1,261 4/6
RATIO
LANES
CADGE
MAUVE
Wordle 1,261 5/6
STARE
DOILY
PUNCH
GAUGE
MAUVE
Wordle 1,261 5/6*
\begin{aligned} &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[yellow,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 L} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt X} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt P} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[lime,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[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt G} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt Z} \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 A} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt V} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \\ \end{aligned}
Wordle 1,261 4/6*
LEAST
CHEAP
WAVER
MAUVE
Wordle 1,261 5/6
HEART
ANGEL
SPEAK
MAYBE
MAUVE
Wordle 1,261 4/6* 12/1/2024
DOGMA → Not bad. Let’s move them to start, add two WoFcons and an E to get
MATER → Not many MAE words, so I’ll add in a couple more WoFcons and try it at the end
MANSE → Is this a trap? MATTE is out, of course. I can see a couple words with odd consonants; each has a different vowel, though, since I saw MAIZE last I’ll first try
MAUVE
MAYBE was also out there unseen. Scoredle finishes in six, because it really uses its double-up strategy in a big way on the second guess, which gets it no closer and fewer eliminations than mine, then makes the wrong guess on the 50/50 play at the end.
Wordle 1,261 5/6
YEAST (Let’s try xAxxE with more WoFcons.)
LANCE (Well, I placed my vowels. Ona more WoFcon.)
CADRE (Nope. Time for a sleuth word with some unused vowels.)
MIXUP (Well, that only leaves MAUVE)
MAUVE (…like I said)