# "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:** [October 23, 2025, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/5001 "2025-10-23T13:54:02Z")

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Wordle 1,587 3/6

⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜  
⬜🟩⬜🟨🟩  
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

HEART  
BROIL  
DRILL

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**Post date:** [October 23, 2025, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/5002 "2025-10-23T14:43:33Z")

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Wordle 1,587 4/6

⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨  
⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜  
🟨⬜🟨🟨⬜  
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

BUYER  
VIRGO  
RADII  
DRILL

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**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 23, 2025, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/5003 "2025-10-23T15:27:36Z")

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Wordle 1,587 5/6

⬜🟧⬜⬜⬜  
⬜⬜🟧⬜⬜  
⬜🟧🟧⬜⬜  
⬜🟧🟧🟧🟧  
🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧

CRANE  
HOIST  
PRIOR  
GRILL  
DRILL

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**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2025, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/5004 "2025-10-23T16:12:08Z")

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> [@Bullitt](#):
>
> Thread #2 was started by @RTFirefly.

I also had the last post in Thread #2. The alpha and the omega, that’s me. 😉

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**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 23, 2025, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/5005 "2025-10-23T17:33:39Z")

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Wordle 1,5 **88** 3/6

⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨  
🟨⬜🟨🟩🟩  
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🎇 😇 no Ai 🦘

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**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:** [October 23, 2025, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/5006 "2025-10-23T17:46:50Z")

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Wordle 1,587 4/6\*

⬜⬜🟩🟨⬜  
⬜🟨🟩⬜⬜  
🟩⬜🟩🟨⬜  
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

SNIDE  
IDIOT  
DAIRY  
DRILL

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**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2025, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/5007 "2025-10-23T18:58:41Z")

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Wordle 1587 3/6

⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜  
⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜  
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

SLANT  
CHORE  
DRILL

There were several possibilities after 2; the solution was the choice that would guarantee a 4 if it didn’t turn out to be the solution. Nice when that happens. 🙂

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**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 23, 2025, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/5008 "2025-10-23T23:42:54Z")

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Wordle 1,587 5/6\*

🟨⬛⬛⬛⬛  
⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛  
⬛⬛🟩🟨🟩  
⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩  
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Racer  
Morph  
Swirl

Grill  
Drill

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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:** [October 24, 2025, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/5009 "2025-10-24T04:10:11Z")

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Wordle 1,588 4/6

🟨⬜🟨⬜⬜  
🟩🟨🟨⬜🟨  
🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩  
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

RATIO  
TRUCE  
TUNER  
TUBER

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**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 24, 2025, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/5010 "2025-10-24T04:25:24Z")

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Wordle 1,588 2/6

⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜  
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

AUDIO  
TUBER

Quite pleased with myself…

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**Post date:** [October 24, 2025, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/5011 "2025-10-24T07:13:12Z")

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Wordle 1,588 3/6

🟩⬜⬜🟩🟩  
🟩⬜⬜🟩🟩  
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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**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 24, 2025, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/5012 "2025-10-24T07:13:34Z")

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TONER  
TIGER  
TUBER

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**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 24, 2025, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/5013 "2025-10-24T07:19:15Z")

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**Wordle 1,588 5/6 — Fri 24 Oct 2025-10-24**  
⬛🟨🟨⬛⬛  
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛  
🟨⬛⬛🟨⬛  
🟩⬛🟨🟩🟩  
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩  
 **STEAK**  
 **COLIN**  
 **UPDRY**  
 **TRUER**  
 **TUBER**

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**Post date:** [October 24, 2025, 8:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/5014 "2025-10-24T08:29:25Z")

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Wordle 1,588 3/6\*

\begin{aligned} &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt H} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \\ \end{aligned}

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**Post date:** [October 24, 2025, 10:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/5015 "2025-10-24T10:48:11Z")

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Wordle 1,588 4/6\*

⬛🟩⬛⬛⬛  
⬛🟩⬛⬛⬛  
🟨🟩⬛🟩⬛  
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Audio  
Mulch  
Runes  
Tuber

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**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 24, 2025, 11:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/5016 "2025-10-24T11:08:14Z")

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Wordle 1,588 5/6

⬛🟦⬛⬛🟦  
⬛⬛⬛🟧🟧  
⬛⬛⬛🟦⬛  
🟧⬛⬛🟧🟧  
🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧

FRAME  
LONER  
WIDTH  
TIGER  
TUBER

Grrr. Stuck in the damn -ER trap with too many possibilities.

Depending on which figures you use, the percentage of Wordle solutions ending in -ER is about 1-2% higher than the percentage of all five-letter words with that ending. I would have suspected even more; they seem to go to that well a lot.

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**Post date:** [October 24, 2025, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/5017 "2025-10-24T12:25:22Z")

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Wordle 1,588 5/6

⬛⬛⬛⬛🟩  
⬛⬛⬛🟨🟩  
🟨⬛⬛🟩🟩  
⬛🟩⬛🟩🟩  
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

CHAIR  
FLOUR  
UNDER  
SUPER  
TUBER

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**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2025, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/5018 "2025-10-24T13:35:19Z")

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> **Wordle 1,588 5/6\* 10/24/2025**
>
> ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜  
> ⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜  
> 🟩🟨⬜⬜🟨  
> 🟩⬜🟨🟩⬜  
> 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
> 
> D_R_ILL → Need vowels, so try a pair along with two WoFcons.  
> N_E_A_R_S → That worked OK, but I think I need at least one more. Unfortunately, in an attempt to get both T and O, I erred by repeating the R placement  
> **T** _R_OP_E_ → At least I got a placed T. With two spots left for the R, I abandoned by vowel hunt and tried to go for one of them  
> **T** H_R_ **E** W → And with that, there was but one word left  
> **TUBER**
> 
> Even though I erred with my third guess, Scoredle says it brought the number of possible guesses from 150 down to five, so it was still a positive. Scoredle, though, gets its guess count on the third guess from 102 down to three, then guesses right on a 50-50 for the par.

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**Post date:** [October 24, 2025, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/5019 "2025-10-24T13:47:40Z")

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> [@SunUp](#):
>
> I erred by repeating the R placement

Huh. I’d been under the impression that Hard Mode didn’t allow that.

So, if I’m not mistaken, you have to use a placed letter in its place, and you have to use an unplaced letter _somewhere._ Is that correct?

But apparently it’s OK to use an unplaced letter where you already know it doesn’t go.

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**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2025, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/5020 "2025-10-24T14:16:02Z")

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Wordle 1588 4/6

⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨  
⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨  
🟩⬜⬜🟩🟩  
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

SLANT  
CHORE  
TIMER  
TUBER

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