# "Wordle," a strangely compelling word game (Part 3)

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451>\
**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\
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**Post date:** [July 30, 2025, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/3601 "2025-07-30T16:19:45Z")

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Wordle 1,502 4/6

🟨⬛⬛⬛⬛  
⬛⬛🟩⬛🟩  
⬛🟨⬛🟨🟩  
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

storm  
husky  
pansy  
assay

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**Post date:** [July 30, 2025, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/3602 "2025-07-30T17:32:35Z")

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Wordle 1,502 4/6

⬜⬜🟦⬜⬜  
⬜⬜⬜🟦⬜  
🟦⬜⬜🟧🟧  
🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧

CRANE  
HOIST  
SPLAY  
ASSAY

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**Post date:** [July 30, 2025, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/3603 "2025-07-30T18:03:12Z")

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Scoredle 2/6\*

14,855  
🟩⬜⬜🟨⬜ ARISE (95)  
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ASSAY

I wanted to try a double A, just in case, and decided on a double-S as well. The “Y” then fit so naturally in a Wordle-like manner that it wasn’t entirely surprising when the word was correct.

One of those super rare times when I get it in two with a lucky guess. I have never done it in one though.

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**Post date:** [July 30, 2025, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/3604 "2025-07-30T19:10:57Z")

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Wordle 1,502 4/6\*

⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 PIETY (May be my new favourite wordle word, two vowels (one of them the most common one) and the final y that so many words have)  
⬜🟨⬜⬜🟩 BARFY (humorous note, there’s a brand of frozen patty in Argentina with that name, it tastes as you’d expect, but is very cheap, in my younger and poorer days my tabletop RPG group would chip in to buy them to eat while we played)  
🟩⬜⬜⬜🟩 ALLOY  
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ASSAY (I was stumped for a good 15 minutes until I thought of this one)

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**Post date:** [July 31, 2025, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/3605 "2025-07-31T04:28:21Z")

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Wordle 1,503 5/6

⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜  
⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨  
⬜🟩🟩⬜⬜  
⬜🟩🟩⬜⬜  
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

AUDIO  
GIVER  
BRINY  
TRICK  
FRILL

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**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2025, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/3606 "2025-07-31T05:21:38Z")

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Wordle 1,503 6/6

🟨⬜⬜🟨⬜  
⬜⬜🟩🟨⬜  
⬜🟩🟩⬜⬜  
⬜🟩🟩⬜⬜  
🟩🟨⬜⬜⬜  
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

RATIO  
SHIRE  
BRICK  
WRING  
FLAPS  
FRILL

Had too many options and needed a sleuth word (looking at DRILL, FRILL, PRIMP and probably some others) but at least could get the starting letter.

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**Post date:** [July 31, 2025, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/3607 "2025-07-31T07:14:31Z")

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**Wordle 1,503 4/6 — Thu 31 Jul 2025-07-31**  
🟨⬛⬛⬛⬛  
⬛🟩🟩⬛⬛  
⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩  
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩  
 **LEAST**  
 **CRIMP**  
 **GRILL**  
 **FRILL**

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**Post date:** [July 31, 2025, 9:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/3608 "2025-07-31T09:37:09Z")

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Wordle 1,503 4/6\*

\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[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 I} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt M} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt P} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt G} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt F} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \\ \end{aligned}

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**Post date:** [July 31, 2025, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/3609 "2025-07-31T11:39:20Z")

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Wordle 1503 4/6

⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜  
⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜  
🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜  
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

SLANT  
CHORE  
FUDGY  
FRILL

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**Post date:** [July 31, 2025, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/3610 "2025-07-31T12:40:44Z")

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Wordle 1,503 5/6\*

⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ WEARY  
🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ ROUST (All vowels and Y eliminated, except for I)  
⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 GRILL (Damn!)  
⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 DRILL (DAMN!)  
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 FRILL

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**Post date:** [July 31, 2025, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/3611 "2025-07-31T13:52:56Z")

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Wordle 1,503 6/6\*

⬛⬛⬛⬛🟩  
⬛⬛⬛🟩🟩  
⬛⬛🟩🟩🟩  
⬛⬛🟩🟩🟩  
⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩  
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Annul  
Dwell  
Chill  
Still  
Grill  
Frill

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**Post date:** [July 31, 2025, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/3612 "2025-07-31T14:08:40Z")

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Wordle 1,503 3/6

⬛⬛⬛🟨⬛  
⬛⬛⬛🟩⬛  
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

AUDIO  
STYLE  
FRILL

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**Post date:** [July 31, 2025, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/3613 "2025-07-31T14:10:14Z")

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> **Wordle 1,503 6/6\* 7/31/2025**
>
> ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜  
> 🟨⬜⬜⬜🟨  
> ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩  
> ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩  
> ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩  
> 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
> 
> ASSAY → Whiff. Good first guess second is  
> _L_ONE_R_ → Well, that’s something. U, I and Y remain of the vowels, I’ll try the I, and double up to try and place the L  
> T **RILL** → Uh, oh. I think we’ve had one of these recently, but I cannot for the life of me remember which one. I think it wasn’t  
> D **RILL** → No, got that wrong. G or… F?  
> G **RILL** → Must be F  
> **FRILL**  
> KRILL was out there too, so it didn’t have to be my final guess. Phew is right. Scoredle gets it in five, deftly avoiding the trap by getting the first three letters on the fourth guess, leaving a tap-in bogey.

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**Post date:** [July 31, 2025, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/3614 "2025-07-31T14:38:32Z")

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```auto
Wordle 1,503 6/6

🟨⬜🟨⬜⬜
🟨⬜🟨🟨⬜
⬜🟩⬜🟨🟩
⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩
⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
```

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**Post date:** [July 31, 2025, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/3615 "2025-07-31T14:52:01Z")

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Wordle 1,503 4/6

⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜  
⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨  
🟨🟨⬜⬜⬜  
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

HEART  
SCOUR  
RIGID  
FRILL

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**Post date:** [July 31, 2025, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/3616 "2025-07-31T14:53:14Z")

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RELAY  
LURID  
BROIL  
GRILL  
TRILL  
FRILL

From my last entry.

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**Post date:** [July 31, 2025, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/3617 "2025-07-31T15:41:51Z")

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Wordle 1,503 4/6

⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛  
🟦🟧⬛⬛⬛  
⬛🟧🟧⬛⬛  
🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧

DEATH  
IRONY  
CRISP  
FRILL

KRILL and GRILL were still on the table, not to mention FRIZZ, so I feel fortunate here.

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**Post date:** [July 31, 2025, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/3618 "2025-07-31T16:20:45Z")

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Wordle 1,503 6/6

⬜🟧⬜⬜⬜  
⬜⬜🟧⬜⬜  
⬜🟧🟧⬜⬜  
⬜🟧🟧🟧🟧  
⬜🟧🟧🟧🟧  
🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧

CRANE  
HOIST  
PRIVY  
GRILL  
DRILL  
FRILL

At least I didn’t try

“krill”

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**Post date:** [July 31, 2025, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/3619 "2025-07-31T16:25:22Z")

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Wordle 1,503 4/6\*

🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜  
⬜🟨🟩⬜⬜  
⬜⬜🟩🟩🟩  
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

LEAST  
BLIND  
QUILL  
FRILL

I beat the Wordle-bot so bad he doffed his cap to me!

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**Post date:** [July 31, 2025, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/3620 "2025-07-31T21:54:23Z")

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Wordle 1,5 **04** 4/6

⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜  
🟨⬜🟨🟨⬜  
🟩🟩⬜🟨🟨  
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🦘 Ai assist

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