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Mystery solved - I had a wrong word going down. Change the initial "e" to an "i" and you'll be able to fill in the missing letters.
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Lessee, does this work?

Wordle 206 4/6

🟩🟩⬛⬛⬛
🟩🟩⬛⬛🟨
🟩🟩⬛🟩🟩
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Yep
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Nice job Frelga! I got it in 4 today too. But my 3rd guess was 2 green 1 yellow so I was lucky.
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Got it!
Wordle 206 4/6

🟨⬜🟩🟩⬜
⬜🟩🟩🟩⬜
⬜🟩🟩🟩🟨
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Jude wrote: Tue Jan 11, 2022 5:49 pm Mystery solved - I had a wrong word going down. Change the initial "e" to an "i" and you'll be able to fill in the missing letters.
In what I have filled? Which initial "e"?
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Where I thought it was "ecity"/"empty". The initial "e" is an "i". Which gives you
Hidden text.
"icily" / "imply"
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Jude, are you speaking of the crossword puzzle or Wordle? Because I got a different word for Wordle. In three guesses ***preens***
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Jude is talking about The Split Choice crossword.
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The thing that makes Wordle difficult is that one's guesses cannot be random letters but must be a word in their database. One has to get lucky with their first and second word choices.
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Jude wrote:What about Italian words that are used by English musicians, like "lento"?
So that was acceptable?

ETA: ignore. Got it.
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Progress:

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Do you want hints for any of the others?
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Yes, please.
First, am I wrong anywhere?
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Assuming all my answers are correct, the ones you have are also correct.
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A lot of Irish people very unhappy with today’s Wordle!!!


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Inanna wrote: Tue Jan 11, 2022 10:03 pm Progress:

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The extreme bottom left -
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[ENT] should fill in those letters, I think.
Alatar wrote: Wed Jan 12, 2022 12:47 pm A lot of Irish people very unhappy with today’s Wordle!!!


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ooh nice, thanks elengil.

I haven't looked at the new wordle yet... or was the comment for yesterday's? Which I've forgotten what the answer was.
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Is that a bad word in Gaelic or something?

Wordle 207 4/6

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Is it because it's the U.S. spelling instead of the real spelling? :whistle:
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