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The opening poem contains all the words (or variations of them) from today's Jumble.
Comments are welcomed! And couching them in Poetry is definitely NOT required.
Do not explicitly reveal any of the actual answer words until after closing time, but embedding them surreptitiously in comment sentences is encouraged.
Explanatory note: The hints I share for Wordle are the ONLY hints I use myself.
ReplyDeleteToday’s Wordle hint: A noun; “As my agent, he acted in my ______.”
Wordle 385 1/6
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Each of today’s haiku title words refers to something that became of a tasty load consigned to a vulnerable freighter:
”Squat. Stow. Crunch.”
The wharf rats pounced, as
cargo adjusters left it
all to their mercy.
~ OMK
I tried K,M before D Wordle 385 6/6
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Perhaps BAKED at #4 as insurance. But D was, fortunately, the only workable letter left
WC
"Gentle Greeting"
ReplyDeleteIt was a mercy that he saw her on the wharf,
looking lovely in her brand new scarf.
He approached her slowly and did not pounce,
needing first his presence to announce.
It was their first-time meeting
and he gave her a warm greeting.
Their hands did gently touch,
both careful not to say too much.
They needed time to adjust
before they could each other trust.
And so they took the time, and tarried,
and a year later they were married.
Thank you, thank you for your hint, Ol' Man Keith! I could not have gotten the Wordle without your help:
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Woohoo!
Glad your wharf rats had a good day!
Wilbur, your comment helped me also--many thanks to you too!
Your tarrying couple, Misty, put me in mind of youthful times of cautious love. Of natural, normal hesitation we all experienced, fearful of allowing desire free rein lest it be taken for a cruder kind of lust.
ReplyDeleteThank you for reminding us of such shared romance.
WC ~ Studying your Wordle pattern, I could practically grind it out along each of your steps. Thank you for letting us sweat it out with you—and glad to see you worked it through, even though the hard way.
The only thing I could not understand was your cryptic mention of BAKED. You suggest that as a possible #4, but that isn’t likely, given that 4 is where you hit upon the first four letters of the answer. Can you expand?
~ OMK
And I thought I had a great start with my first word!
ReplyDeleteWho would have thought there were so many possibilities for that last letter.
WC- I went through R,L,K,M, before I got to D. I toyed with P, but it uses double Es.
Wordle 385 5/6*
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But you did it, CanadianEh!. And we give you lots of extra credit for getting those first four from the very beginning!
ReplyDeleteI saw it as a Wordle trap, CanadianEh!
ReplyDeleteContext made all the difference among those six potential endings (five if we eliminate the "R" as belonging to a compound form), hence the value of today's hint.
IMO the version chosen by Wordle is the least common one today. Good for you for hitting it at last.
~ OMK.
Well, ... maybe the "N" ending is less common, as it seems to be dialectical UK English usage. Wordle wouldn't dare.
ReplyDelete~ OMK
According to Maestro Owen's last posting, this may well have been the final installment of the Jumble site.
ReplyDeleteIf this is indeed the end, I would like to say we had a great run. We never reached more than a handful of contributors, but for the five or six of us who spent so many hours here, it was a regular home.
We few, we happy few--we owe a great debt to Owen for making it possible, and I know we all appreciate his tireless support, even with occasional computer problems and his serious health issues.
Despite so many obstacles he kept the pages turning for us.
Bravo to the Master!
~ OMK
Me too. Thanks, Owen.
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