# "Wordle," a strangely compelling word game (Part 3) **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [November 19, 2024, 10:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451 "2024-11-19T10:57:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 122
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2025, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/2421 "2025-05-14T15:16:24Z")
Wordle 1,425 5/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟦⬜ ⬜🟧⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟧🟦🟦⬜ 🟦🟧🟧⬜🟧 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧 CRANE HOIST MOONY GONZO BONGO ---
**Author:** ![MacDoc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/macdoc/32/18696_2.png) [@MacDoc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacDoc)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2025, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/2422 "2025-05-14T15:25:44Z")
Wordle 1,4 **26** 4/6 ⬜⬜🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 quick solution 🦘 πŸ₯± ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2025, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/2423 "2025-05-14T15:36:40Z")
Wordle 1,425 4/6 β¬›β¬›β¬›β¬›πŸŸ§ β¬›β¬›πŸŸ§β¬›πŸŸ§ β¬›β¬›πŸŸ§πŸŸ§πŸŸ§ 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧 RADIO LENTO FUNGO BONGO I wanted BENTO at two, then I saw that I had a chance to use three WoFcons and did LENTO instead. BENTO would have given me a birdie. (Which I might have gotten anyway if not for my damn blind spot for repeated vowels.) ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2025, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/2424 "2025-05-14T17:22:45Z")
Wordle 1,425 4/6\* ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 > **Summary** > > LEAST > COUCH > ROWDY > BONGO > > GOING was gone. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2025, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/2425 "2025-05-14T19:02:59Z")
Wordle 1425 5/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 SLANT CHORE DUMPY BINGO BONGO Since the beginning of April, I’ve had seven 5s and two 6s. That’s more of each than I’d had in the preceding _10 months_ (6 and 1, respectively). Grumble, grumble. ---
**Author:** ![Gr8Kat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gr8kat/32/18668_2.png) [@Gr8Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gr8Kat)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2025, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/2426 "2025-05-14T19:55:47Z")
Wordle 1,425 5/6 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ β¬›β¬›β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¨ β¬›πŸŸ¨β¬›πŸŸ¨β¬› β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ©β¬›β¬› 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 steam ripen union conch bongo ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2025, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/2427 "2025-05-15T04:21:07Z")
Wordle 1,426 X/6 🟨🟩⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 🟨🟩⬜🟩🟩 RATIO LASER CAPER MAKER WAFER GAZER I pretty much knew I was doomed when I hit the trap. Even with sleuth words I don’t think I would have gotten it. ---
**Author:** ![Kimble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kimble/32/19185_2.png) [@Kimble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimble)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2025, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/2428 "2025-05-15T05:33:20Z")
Wordle 1,426 3/6\* ⬜🟨🟨⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 CRANE EARTH EAGER I normally try the Wordlebot-approved RESET when I get an answer to CRANE that could be The Trap, but the extra A had me thinking on my own without enough sleep. Only 80 out of 99 skill for EARTH (it preferred jumping head-first into The Trap with LATER), but there was only one reasonable guess for clue 3. ---
**Author:** ![MacDoc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/macdoc/32/18696_2.png) [@MacDoc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacDoc)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2025, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/2429 "2025-05-15T05:55:56Z")
PsychoBunny Are you on the difficult setting…my answer different. ---
**Author:** ![Gr8Kat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gr8kat/32/18668_2.png) [@Gr8Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gr8Kat)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2025, 8:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/2430 "2025-05-15T08:31:55Z")
Wordle 1,426 X/6 β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¨πŸŸ¨πŸŸ¨ πŸŸ¨πŸŸ¨πŸŸ¨β¬›β¬› β¬›πŸŸ¨πŸŸ¨πŸŸ¨β¬› β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ¨πŸŸ¨πŸŸ¨ β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŸ© β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŸ© snare reach break large pager wager I blew it. ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2025, 9:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/2431 "2025-05-15T09:12:00Z")
> **Wordle 1,426 4/6 5/15/2025** > > ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ > 🟨🟨🟨⬜⬜ > 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟨 > 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 > > BON_G_O β†’ G is nice. I really need some vowels, though - I can try A & E with two WoFcons via > _GEA_TS β†’ Good choice on the vowels. L & R are left of the WoFcons, upon reflection I might have tried LAGER, but instead I worried about another E and went with > **EAG** L_E_ β†’ which was an exceptionally good pickup and got me out of a tough trap, so the birdie pickup was easy > **EAGER** > > This could have gone bad in a hurry. Scoredle finishes in five, and could taken a miss, given that there were at least three and maybe five possibles when it sank the bogey. Ironically, after my second guess, it would have picked the answer for a birdie, out of 13 nonbogus possibles. ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2025, 9:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/2432 "2025-05-15T09:19:52Z")
I don’t strictly play hard mode but I didn’t feel like listing a hundred possibilities, adding up the frequency of each letter and coming up with sleuth words to hopefully get the answer. So I randomly tried consonants. If you are asking about the answer, I played standard Wordle and had the same answer as the rest here EAGER ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2025, 9:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/2433 "2025-05-15T09:27:18Z")
Wordle 1,426 6/6\* \begin{aligned} &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt C} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt K} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt W} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt F} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt P} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt G} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt G} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \\ \end{aligned} Phew. > [@MacDoc](#): > > my answer different. psychobunny and Gr8Kat didn’t get the answer, hence the X/6. Hard mode would be shown with an asterisk eg, X/6\* ---
**Author:** ![MacDoc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/macdoc/32/18696_2.png) [@MacDoc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacDoc)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2025, 10:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/2434 "2025-05-15T10:36:16Z")
Thanks my friend who plays also did not get it. Felt happy with a par. 🦘 ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2025, 10:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/2435 "2025-05-15T10:41:13Z")
**Wordle 1,426 X/6 β€” 2025-05-15 Thu** β¬›πŸŸ¨πŸŸ¨β¬›β¬› β¬›πŸŸ¨β¬›β¬›β¬› ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ β¬›β¬›πŸŸ©β¬›β¬› β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŸ© β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŸ© **LEAST** **CRIMP** **BOUND** β€” _It might be arear eager faker freak gazer grave graze hazer rager raker rarer raver rawer razer rewax wager waker waver waxer; and letters to eliminate are F G H K V W X Z_ **VUGHY** β€” _It might be eager rager wager_ **WAGER** **RAGER** β€” _ **DAMMIT!!!** _ _poor process on my part! After VUGHY I should have worked to eliminate E R W_ _ **DAMMIT!!!** _ I join @ **psychobunny** and @ **Gr8Kat**. Maybe also @ **MacDoc** too? Our streaks end and we’re back to 0. Beware the Ides of May. ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2025, 10:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/2436 "2025-05-15T10:41:59Z")
Wordle 1,426 6/6\* β¬›β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¨β¬› πŸŸ¨β¬›β¬›β¬›β¬› β¬›πŸŸ¨πŸŸ¨β¬›β¬› β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ¨β¬›β¬› β¬›πŸŸ©β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ© 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Splat Annoy Braid March Water Eager Blurf ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2025, 11:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/2437 "2025-05-15T11:00:39Z")
Wordle 1,426 3/6 ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 SPACE EARTH EAGER ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2025, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/2438 "2025-05-15T11:35:39Z")
Wordle 1,426 5/6 ⬜🟨🟨🟨⬜ ⬜🟨🟨🟨⬜ ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 HEART BREAD RACER LASER EAGER ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2025, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/2439 "2025-05-15T12:03:50Z")
Wordle 1426 3/6 ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 SLANT CHORE EAGER _Extremely_ lucky this morning, there were a **lot** of other possibilities, only a few of which I saw. Didn’t even think about there being a trap until I came here and saw the carnage. ---
**Author:** ![MacDoc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/macdoc/32/18696_2.png) [@MacDoc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacDoc)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2025, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/2440 "2025-05-15T14:10:18Z")
Wordle 1,4 **27** 5/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟩⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩⬜🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Quick off the mark 🦘 πŸ₯± [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451.md?page=121) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451.md?page=123)