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Friday 12/30 Wordle
Remaining word count by Scoredle, par 4.
14,855
β¬β¬β¬π¨β¬CHIME (577)
β¬β¬β¬β¬β¬FUDGY (227)
β¬π¨π¨β¬β¬PRONK (17) - only 4 were realistic guesses
π©π©π¨π©π¨MORAL (1) - darn
π©π©π©π©π©MOLAR
I switched my third guess fromPLANK on a whim. Got the same number of right letters, oddly. It would have gone something like this:
β¬β¬β¬π¨β¬CHIME (577)
β¬β¬β¬β¬β¬FUDGY (227)
β¬π¨π¨β¬β¬PLANK (25)
π¨π¨π¨β¬β¬LAMBS (5)
π©π©π¨π©π¨MORAL (1)
π©π©π©π©π©MOLAR
Saturday 12/31 Wordle
Remaining word count by Scoredle, par 3.
Scoredle 4/6
14,855
β¬β¬β¬π¨β¬CHIME (577)
β¬π¨π¨π¨β¬PLANK (3)
π©β¬π©π¨π¨MONAL (1)
π©π©π©π©π©MANLY
Vocab words for the two wrong guesses:
Sunday 1/1/23 Wordle
Remaining word count by Scoredle, par 3.
Scoredle 4/6, and my first all-green!
14,855
β¬π©π©β¬π©CHIME (9)
β¬β¬β¬π©β¬PRONK (3)
π©π©β¬β¬β¬WHATS (1) - eliminate 2 of those 3 in one guess
π©π©π©π©π©WHINE
Well, time to devise a new tagline. Iβm committing to using βyesterdayβsβ solution as my first guess through January 31, FYI. Chime has served me well, especially today, but itβs sucked a but of fun out of the game.
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Monday 1/2 Wordle
Remaining word count by Scoredle, which graded it as par 4.
Chain Wordle: I made par 4 today, playing yesterday's solution as my first guess:
β¬β¬π©β¬β¬ (433)
β¬β¬β¬β¬π¨CLUBS (45)
π©π¨π¨β¬β¬STROP (1)
π©π©π©π©π©SKIRT
Of the 45 words remaining after guess 2, words I know:agist, agism, skirt, moist, foist, joist, prism, frisk, daisy, smirk, spiky, grist, stiff, skimp, skiff
Words I think I recognize but can't define off the top of my head:ovist, ovism, spirt, roist, stirp, spiff, spitz, stirk, skirr
Words I don't know at all:odist, odism, zoist, zoism, saist, frist, maist, trist, spiry, apism, stimy, grisy, stivy, stipa, aviso, skimo, smirr, paisa, saiga, asity, skivy
Tuesday 1/3 Wordle
Remaining word count by Scoredle, which graded it as par 3.
Chain Wordle: I missed par today and got it on the sixth and final guess, playing yesterday's solution as my first guess:
β¬β¬π¨β¬π¨ (227)
π¨π¨β¬β¬β¬TIMED (37)
π¨π¨π¨β¬β¬ITCHY (12) - vocab below
π¨β¬β¬β¬β¬COULD (3)
β¬π¨π©π¨β¬PATCH (2)
π©π©π©π©π©ANTIC
Words I recognized and knew:optic, antic
Words I could have recognized:
Wednesday 1/4 Wordle
Remaining word count by Scoredle, which graded it as par 3.
Chain Wordle: I missed par today by one, playing yesterday's solution as my first guess:
π¨β¬β¬β¬β¬ (2,192)
β¬β¬β¬β¬β¬WOMBS (484)
β¬π¨π¨π¨π¨FLARE (17)
π©π©π©π©π©LAYER
Thursday 1/5 Wordle
Remaining word count by Scoredle, which graded it as par 3.
Chain Wordle: I missed par today by two, playing yesterday's solution as my first guess:
π¨β¬β¬π©β¬ (200)
β¬β¬β¬β¬β¬WOUND (73)
β¬π©β¬π©π¨PLIES (2)
π©π©π©π©β¬SLEET (1)
π©π©π©π©π©SLEEK
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1/2
Scoredle 3/6*
14,855
β¬π¨π©π¨β¬ARISE (29)
π©β¬π©π©β¬SWIRL (15)
π©π©π©π©π©SKIRT
I'll trySKIRT as an opener tomorrow and see how it goes.
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β¬β¬π¨β¬β¬TEARS
π¨π©π©β¬π©LANKY
π©π©π©π©π©MANLY
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Typical third automatic guess is GLYPH (because I also do quordle and things get tight!).
14,855
π¨π¨β¬β¬β¬ARISE (379)
π©π©β¬β¬β¬MOUNT (9)
π©π©π©π©π©MOLAR
14,855
π¨β¬β¬β¬β¬ARISE (1,010)
π©β¬β¬π¨β¬MOUNT (9)
π©π©π©π©π©MANLY
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