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Friday Fun Thread for December 23, 2022

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Saturday 12/24 Wordle:

⬜⬜🟩⬜🟩 CHIME (150)

🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ PLANK (7)

⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ FUDGY (6)

🟩⬜🟩⬜🟩 PRIZE (2)

⬜🟩⬜🟨🟨 VOTES (1)

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 POISE

Vocabulary time! For once, Scoredle had a lot of decently popular words for me: prize, poise, pride, prise, peise, peize, poire. Here's the obscure ones:

  • prise: use force in order to move, move apart, or open something.

  • peise, peize: to weigh something down; to poise it for measuring on a balance scale). Pronounced "peese".

  • poire: French for pear, also pear-shaped things, also pear brandy or a beef cut. You can pair poire with poire for dinner, then have poire for dessert, right before things go poire. Like my fourth guess.

I don't do these too often because they get extremely boring after a while and I eventually stop putting effort into guessing the word, but here's my attempt at Saturday's Wordle. Couldn't get my formatting to look like yours, but I've done my best:

Wordle 553 4/6

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⬛🟨🟩⬛⬛

🟨⬛🟩⬛🟩

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

My guesses, in chronological order:

ADIEU

WEIGH

SLIME

POISE

Image for proof:

https://imgur.com/a/S3dnt98

The tool I use is https://scoredle.com with the Discord formatting (to the right of Reddit formatting). It also shows how many of the 15k 5-letter English words remain possible when certain letters are eliminated. Here’s yours:

Scoredle 4/6*

14,855

⬜⬜🟩🟨⬜ ADIEU (200)

⬜🟨🟩⬜⬜ WEIGH (94)

🟨⬜🟩⬜🟩 SLIME (7)

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 POISE

The seven words left after your third guess were poise, noise, prise, brise, crise, frise, toise.

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