# "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:** 124
**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 17, 2025, 10:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/2461 "2025-05-17T10:17:20Z")
Wordle 1,428 5/6\* \begin{aligned} &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[silver,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[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt C} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt W} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt N} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt F} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt W} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt N} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt G} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt W} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt N} \\ \end{aligned} ---
**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 17, 2025, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/2462 "2025-05-17T12:07:59Z")
I’m confused …normally I kick off the next days puzzle at midnight Australia time which is many hours ahead of most players on this board My last puzzle was **1427** now I see **1428** already out… tho not available here in Aus yet .. 🀨 What’s going on? thanks ---
**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 17, 2025, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/2463 "2025-05-17T13:01:53Z")
πŸ€”πŸ€·β€β™€οΈ Wordle 1,428 4/6\* ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ β¬›β¬›πŸŸ©β¬›πŸŸ¨ β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŸ© 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Elate Scour Drown Grown ---
**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 17, 2025, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/2464 "2025-05-17T13:05:03Z")
No idea ! Maybe the date/time on your gadget is screwed ? Or you forgot ! Should be on **1429** for you by now ! ---
**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 17, 2025, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/2465 "2025-05-17T13:13:27Z")
### May 17, 2025 No. 1429 is not out for another 50 minutes. But yes appears I did 1428 last night…getting old sucks. 🦘 πŸ€ͺ πŸ‘΄ ---
**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 17, 2025, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/2466 "2025-05-17T14:33:15Z")
Back on track Wordle 1,4 **29** 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨🟨🟩 🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🦘 πŸ₯± ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2025, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/2467 "2025-05-17T14:46:25Z")
> **Wordle 1,428 4/6\* 5/17/2025** > > ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ > ⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜ > 🟩🟨🟩⬜⬜ > 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 > > FIFTH β†’ Whiff. Next? > L_O_A_N_S β†’ I’m glad I didn’t go with LEANS - not sure why it didn’t occur to me. Would like to try that E, though, and I see one word that can do it > **G** _N_ **O** ME β†’ Oops, should have tried the R sooner as it turns out. > **GROWN** > > My mistakes didn’t cost me today - they were a plus. So that par could have been a lot worse. Scoredle makes a good 1 out of 3 guess for par, which saved it from the first-letter trap. ---
**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 17, 2025, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/2468 "2025-05-17T15:00:37Z")
Wordle 1,428 4/6 ⬜🟧⬜🟦⬜ ⬜🟦⬜⬜⬜ 🟧🟧🟧⬜🟧 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧 CRANE HOIST GROAN - Stupid; the β€˜A’ was eliminated in the first word GROWN ---
**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 17, 2025, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/2469 "2025-05-17T15:47:42Z")
Wordle 1,428 3/6\* ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 > **Summary** > > LEAST > DRUNK > GROWN ---
**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 17, 2025, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/2470 "2025-05-17T16:11:16Z")
Wordle 1,428 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜🟩🟩⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟩🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 HEART BROIL CROWD GROWN ---
**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 17, 2025, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/2471 "2025-05-17T16:44:32Z")
Wordle 1,428 3/6 β¬›πŸŸ§β¬›β¬›β¬› πŸŸ§πŸŸ§πŸŸ§β¬›β¬› 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧 ARIEL GROUT GROWN Now that’s more like it! ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2025, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/2472 "2025-05-17T17:57:33Z")
Wordle 1,428 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨 🟨⬜🟩🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 YEAST CURIO WHORL GROWN ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2025, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/2473 "2025-05-17T20:31:09Z")
Wordle 1428 3/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜🟩🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 SLANT CHORE GROWN Could’ve also been DROWN; BROWN, FROWN, and GROIN had already been used. Yesterday was a busy day from morning on, and somehow Wordle got lost in the shuffle. And then when I woke up at 1:30 a.m. and thought about starting today’s Wordle, it hit me that I hadn’t done yesterday’s. So I pulled the changing-time-zones trick to put me on Pacific rather than Eastern time so I still had an hour and a half to do it, and not break my streak just due to forgetfulness. And so: Wordle 1427 3/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 SLANT CHORE FIFTH Could’ve also been WIDTH; PITHY had been used. ---
**Author:** ![AppallingGael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9bd4f/32.png) [@AppallingGael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AppallingGael)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2025, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/2474 "2025-05-18T01:46:44Z")
[spoiler]This text will be blurredWordle 1,428 3/6 β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŸ© ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 I always start with β€œcrown”, followed usually by β€œfaked, light, bumps”. Sometimes varying if it seems prudent. I like the fact that the arrangement makes syntactical sense if not actual sense. I did play the day β€œcrown” was the answer, so that was nice. ---
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Wordle 1,429 6/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜ 🟨🟩⬜🟩⬜ ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ---
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Wordle 1,429 3/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜ ⬜⬜🟨🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 RATIO PULIS LIVID I really wanted to try CIVIL second but my brain said check for more vowels and better consonants. I would have ended up with the three either way. ---
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I did 1,428 but forgot to post it. **Wordle 1,429 4/6 β€” 2025-05-18 Sun** πŸŸ©β¬›β¬›β¬›β¬› β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¨β¬›β¬› β¬›β¬›β¬›β¬›πŸŸ© 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 **LEAST** **CRIMP** **BOUND** **LIVID** ---
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Wordle 1,429 4/6 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ β¬›πŸŸ¨β¬›πŸŸ©β¬› β¬›πŸŸ¨β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ© 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 store claim fluid livid ---
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Wordle 1,429 3/6\* \begin{aligned} &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt C} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt V} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \\ \end{aligned} ---
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Wordle 1429 4/6 ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 SLANT CHORE DUMPY LIVID [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451.md?page=123) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451.md?page=125)