Wordle Discussion Daily Spoilers

[storrsroars]

I overthought this one. I immediately thought "write" on line 4, not thinking of trite. Then I figured Wordle wouldn't use such a common word. So I was going to go with "liter", but then thought which spelling, US or UK, as both are legal Scrabble words. So I looked for something else, and "inter" was of no help whatsoever. If I went with my first instinct, it's a 5.

 

[iri10]

 

[storrsroars]

Was sure I had a 4. Nope.

 

[uconn1999]

 

[storrsroars]

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Impressive. Especially given recent weather... "humid" would've been top of mind for me.

 

[8893]

 

[HuskyHawk]

Hardest 4 I can recall. I had good guesses. Burned my second because I was drawing a blank after one. Getting that I in that spot was actually unhelpful.

 

[iri10]

One of my bad habits is entering the first decent guess that comes to mind, instead of waiting a bit longer to see if there's a better guess that would eliminate more words. But then you get a time like this, where the first word to come to mind ends up working, and the bad habit is reinforced.

 

[storrsroars]

I always choose against double letters if there are other reasonable options. I’m gonna have to rethink that.

After the first two misses, I thought to myself, "What's the weirdest word that works here?" And it worked.

 

[storrsroars]

Xordle down today?

It's back, but new domain, xordle.org. Unfortunately all game histories are lost for now.

 

[uconn1999]

 

[8893]

Actually was going use “tryst” as my third guess but thought “troop” was more likely. Wrong.

 

[HuskyHawk]

Seems like a trend today. When all other vowels are gone, Y it is.

 

[iri10]

 

[storrsroars]

I thought of midge for line 4 and figured it too obscure for them to use. Silly me.

 

[8893]

Never heard of this word

 

[storrsroars]

Never heard of this word

No swamps where you grew up? Only reason I know it.

 

[uconn1999]

 

[8893]

No swamps where you grew up? Only reason I know it.

Tons of them. And I spent a lot of time in them.

 

[HuskyHawk]

Today’s excellent 3 brought to you by Agub’s trip to Scotland. Summer in Scotland is full of them.

 

[HuskyHawk]

Today’s excellent 3 brought to you by Agub’s trip to Scotland. Summer in Scotland is full of them.
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Ugh. Typo. @8893 I’d never heard the word used here. But in Scotland they are a menace.

 

[8893]

Ugh. Typo. @8893 I’d never heard the word used here. But in Scotland they are a menace.

There’s no question that the NYT has significantly increased the potential obscurity of the words it uses since it purchased it; but what’s maddening is that they are just as inconsistent as they are with the words they accept for the Spelling Bee. What they consider common enough for use is definitely skewed towards their bias.

Perfect example was the Bot scoffing as my use of “fidge,” which I also never heard of before. But looking up the definitions of each they are equally obscure, yet they allow one but not the other as a potential solution.

I don’t get that part at all. If it recognizes the word it should be allowed as a potential solution.

 

[iri10]

 

[8893]

I’ll take it

 

[uconn1999]