# "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:** 242
**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:** [October 13, 2025, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/4821 "2025-10-13T11:19:02Z")
Wordle 1,577 2/6 🟩⬜⬜🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 BUYER BEARD ---
**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:** [October 13, 2025, 11:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/4822 "2025-10-13T11:34:39Z")
Wordle 1,577 2/6 ⬜🟩🟩🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 HEART BEARD ---
**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:** [October 13, 2025, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/4823 "2025-10-13T12:20:21Z")
Wordle 1,577 5/6 β¬›πŸŸ§πŸŸ§β¬›β¬› πŸŸ¦πŸŸ§πŸŸ§β¬›β¬› β¬›πŸŸ§πŸŸ§πŸŸ§β¬› β¬›πŸŸ§πŸŸ§πŸŸ§β¬› 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧 MEANT REACH PEARL WEARY BEARD My bogey streak continues. Hitting the EA combo seemed like a good thing, as did avoiding the \_EACH trap. But once the R showed up, there were three possible words left, and yep, I went through all of β€˜em… ---
**Author:** ![Gordon\_G](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3da27b/32.png) [@Gordon\_G](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gordon_G)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2025, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/4824 "2025-10-13T13:46:20Z")
Wordle 1,577 2/6 ⬜⬜🟩⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 I see that two others have already reported Two on #1577 This dampens my feeling of glory somewhat. After SLATE – my new starting word – I made a list of the words I could think of that fit that clue. peach, ready, reach, weary, heard ALL appeared on the wordle-past-answers list. rearm and beany work but seem like possible omissions from NYT’s ordinary word list. I next thought of beard and – since fitting words seemed hard to come by – entered that without further ado. Is it unethical to use the wordle-past-answers list? Wheelz, posting just before me, might have scored Two if he’d used that list. I’ll bet that over half of the words on the word list have been used already. Expect NY Times to announce, before too long, that it’s reusing old words ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2025, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/4825 "2025-10-13T13:50:31Z")
Wordle 1,577 4/6 β¬›β¬›β¬›β¬›πŸŸ© β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¨πŸŸ¨πŸŸ¨ πŸŸ¨πŸŸ¨β¬›πŸŸ¨πŸŸ© 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 CLOUD SHEAR RATED BEARD ---
**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:** [October 13, 2025, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/4826 "2025-10-13T14:36:57Z")
Wordle 1,5 **78** 3/6 ⬜🟩⬜🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 πŸ˜‡ πŸŽ‡ no Ai 🦘 ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2025, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/4827 "2025-10-13T14:49:45Z")
Wordle 1,577 3/6\* ⬜🟨🟨🟨🟩 TREAD 🟨🟨⬜🟨🟩 RATED (stupid choice, T had already been discarded) 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 BEARD ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2025, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/4828 "2025-10-13T15:20:07Z")
> **Wordle 1,577 4/6\* 10/13/2025** > > ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 > ⬜🟨⬜🟨🟩 > ⬜🟨🟨🟨🟩 > 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 > > WOUN **D** β†’ Thought it was going to be a whiff. Past tense verb? Well, I’ll try one of them, to exercise A & E and two WoFcons > L_A_S_E_ **D** β†’ Not a past tense verb, but it looks like A & E go together. Last two WoFcons come off the table with > T_REA_ **D** β†’ ?EARD, I’ll trust the B > **BEARD** > > Nice par. Scoredle also makes a tap-in par, rather than my 50-50. Scoredle’s algorithm has an affinity for the solution; with my first two guesses, it starts calling for the solution immediately - so a hybrid approach might have meant a birdie. Also, from its own start, it wins with a two - impressive! ---
**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:** [October 13, 2025, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/4829 "2025-10-13T15:27:08Z")
Wordle 1,577 3/6 ⬜🟦🟧⬜🟦 ⬜⬜🟧🟧🟦 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧 CRANE - two vowels at the start eliminates my usual #2 word SPARE BEARD - dumb luck strikes again ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2025, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/4830 "2025-10-14T01:04:49Z")
> [@Gordon\_G](#): > > Is it unethical to use the wordle-past-answers list? Different people have different feelings about that. This thread has no official rules about things like that, thank goodness, so you’re free to do whatever you personally feel comfortable with. > [@Gordon\_G](#): > > I’ll bet that over half of the words on the word list have been used already. > Expect NY Times to announce, before too long, that it’s reusing old words I’d been expecting that for a year (I really expected it to be announced at the beginning of this year), and I’m past being surprised that it hasn’t happened yet; I just don’t think about it anymore. It’ll have to happen sometime, unless they just drop the game altogether, which I doubt they’d do. There were just over 2300 words on Josh Wardle’s original solutions list. The NYT may have added a few words, but they’ve also definitely subtracted some, e.g. PENIS. So we’ve probably used about 2/3 of the solutions list already. My starting word hasn’t been used yet, and at this point I’m rooting for them to not start re-using solutions until after I get my 1, dammit! ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2025, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/4831 "2025-10-14T04:25:23Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > Different people have different feelings about that. Personally, I wouldn’t do it, but everyone is allowed to have fun in their own way in these games, I think. Tuesday Wordle 1,578 3/6 ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨 ⬜🟩🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 AUDIO JOULE FORUM ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2025, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/4832 "2025-10-14T05:09:11Z")
Wordle 1,578 5/6 🟨⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜ ⬜🟩⬜⬜🟨 ⬜🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 RATIO SHORE DOLOR CORNY FORUM ---
**Author:** ![Gordon\_G](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3da27b/32.png) [@Gordon\_G](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gordon_G)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2025, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/4833 "2025-10-14T08:12:26Z")
Wordle 1,578 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟨🟩🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 SLATE GROIN FUROR FORUM After GROIN I spent a few minutes thinking of six words that fit (FORUM was not one of them.) The three with W and Y were all on the already-used list. The three with double-R and U were not. Asking RUMOR would have been a blunder since JUROR and FUROR would give the same response. I preferred FUROR to JUROR because it was much more likely I’d overlooked an F word than a J word. I hope nobody reads my boring treatises for each Wordle I play. Are they a symptom of autism, or of some other psychological disorder? ---
**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:** [October 14, 2025, 8:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/4834 "2025-10-14T08:31:29Z")
**Wordle 1,578 4/6 β€” Tue 14 Oct 2025-10-14** ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ β¬›πŸŸ©β¬›β¬›β¬› πŸŸ¨β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¨β¬› 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 **STEAK** **COLIN** **UPDRY** **FORUM** β€” _rough was already a Wordle_ ---
**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:** [October 14, 2025, 9:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/4835 "2025-10-14T09:55:11Z")
Wordle 1,578 3/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟩 ⬜🟨🟨⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ---
**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:** [October 14, 2025, 9:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/4836 "2025-10-14T09:55:33Z")
CHARM GROOM FORUM ---
**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:** [October 14, 2025, 10:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/4837 "2025-10-14T10:12:33Z")
Wordle 1,578 2/6\* β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¨πŸŸ©πŸŸ¨ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Demur Forum ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2025, 10:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/4838 "2025-10-14T10:57:50Z")
Wordle 1578 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜ ⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 SLANT CHORE DUMPY FORUM ---
**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:** [October 14, 2025, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/4839 "2025-10-14T11:33:59Z")
Wordle 1,578 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟨🟩🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 HEART PRICK ROUND FORUM ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2025, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/4840 "2025-10-14T11:58:15Z")
Wordle 1,578 4/6 β¬›πŸŸ¨β¬›β¬›β¬› πŸŸ¨πŸŸ©πŸŸ¨β¬›β¬› β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŸ©β¬› 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 BRAID ROUGH TORUS FORUM Two possible words after 2 and I picked the wrong one again. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451.md?page=241) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451.md?page=243)