# "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:** 264
**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:** [November 7, 2025, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/5261 "2025-11-07T11:28:04Z")
Wordle 1,602 2/6\* β¬›πŸŸ¨πŸŸ©πŸŸ¨β¬› 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Girly Peril ---
**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:** [November 7, 2025, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/5262 "2025-11-07T12:33:57Z")
Wordle 1,602 4/6 ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨 ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟨🟩🟨⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 SLATE BROWN LEPER PERIL After Slate I spent some time and thought of 32 fitting words (see discussion below). Peril was _not_ one of the 32 words I came up with, (and guessing there were several others I missed) I picked Brown as a β€œsleuth word.” I wanted the B to distinguish Bowel/Vowel. After that, Leper was the only fitting word left on my list. Of course the final putt for Par was a β€œGimme.” Comments about Wardle words that don’t spoil #1602: After #1 I compiled a list of 32 words that fit. (I knew the list was incomplete; it was just a preliminary survey.) But of those 32 words, 9 were not Wardle words. And among the 23 Wardle words, no less than 18 had already been used. At some point anecdote becomes statistic: I think NY Times removes some of the Wardle words from contention, perhaps day-by-day when they decide a randomly-drawn word is inappropriate. Felon was among the 5 fitting unused Wardle words I thought of – might they have rejected it out of respect for the man convicted of 34 felonies? πŸ™‚ Among the 9 non-Wardle words I thought of were Lured, Filed, Riled, Loved and Lowed. Just as the Wardle list omits most 3rd-person present verb inflections, I think it omits many past tense inflections as well. ---
**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:** [November 7, 2025, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/5263 "2025-11-07T12:45:43Z")
Wordle 1,602 4/6 πŸŸ©β¬›β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¨ β¬›πŸŸ¨β¬›β¬›β¬› β¬›πŸŸ¨πŸŸ¨β¬›β¬› 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 PASTE CLOUD GRIMY PERIL ---
**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:** [November 7, 2025, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/5264 "2025-11-07T14:03:27Z")
Damn 2 minute Eagle Wordle 1,6 **03** 2/6 🟨⬜🟨🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 πŸŽ‡ πŸ˜‡ no Ai 🦘 ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2025, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/5265 "2025-11-07T14:40:21Z")
> **Wordle 1,602 3/6\* 11/7/2025** > > ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨 > ⬜🟨🟨🟨🟨 > 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 > > GU_I_S_E_ β†’ Good luck with the vowels. I’ll try them with three of the four remaining WoFcons > T_ILER_ β†’ Good luck here too. It took me a while to think through the different permutations of one blank with the four known letters, but I knew what it had to be once I saw > **PERIL** > > And I was right; that was the only nonbogus word left. Scoredle makes a tap-in par; it turns out that eliminating T beats D and N hands down. Scoredle says it had six nonbogus (and two marginal) out of 31 words total after that second guess. ---
**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:** [November 7, 2025, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/5266 "2025-11-07T15:38:48Z")
Wordle 1,602 3/6 ⬜🟩⬜🟨⬜ 🟨🟩⬜⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 HEART LEVER PERIL ---
**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:** [November 7, 2025, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/5267 "2025-11-07T15:41:00Z")
Wordle 1,602 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨 ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨 ⬜🟩🟩🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 BUYER ORATE SERIF PERIL ---
**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:** [November 7, 2025, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/5268 "2025-11-07T16:11:29Z")
Wordle 1,602 3/6\* ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟩 ⬜⬜🟩🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 STEAL MOREL PERIL ---
**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:** [November 7, 2025, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/5269 "2025-11-07T16:32:18Z")
Wordle 1,602 4/6 ⬜🟦⬜⬜🟦 ⬜⬜🟦⬜⬜ 🟦🟦⬜🟦⬜ 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧 CRANE HOIST RIVER PERIL ---
**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:** [November 7, 2025, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/5270 "2025-11-07T20:56:56Z")
Wordle 1,602 2/6 πŸŸ§πŸŸ¦πŸŸ¦β¬›πŸŸ¦ 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧 PRICE PERIL No skill involved here. I drew a very lucky start word from the random generator. Saw PIKER, PILER, and PINER, and decided they were all unlikely, so I went with PERIL. I did _not_ see PIPER, due to my blind spot for reusing placed letters, so I got lucky again. ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2025, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/5271 "2025-11-08T05:24:30Z")
Wordle 1,603 3/6 🟨🟨⬜🟨⬜ ⬜🟨🟨🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 RATIO VIRAL ARISE ---
**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:** [November 8, 2025, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/5272 "2025-11-08T05:38:21Z")
Wordle 1,603 4/6 🟩⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟩⬜🟩⬜🟩 🟩⬜🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 AUDIO AGILE AMINE ARISE ---
**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:** [November 8, 2025, 9:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/5273 "2025-11-08T09:53:47Z")
Wordle 1,603 3/6\* \begin{aligned} &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt H} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \\ &\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 I} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt K} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \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 S} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \\ \end{aligned} ---
**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:** [November 8, 2025, 10:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/5274 "2025-11-08T10:25:16Z")
**Wordle 1,603 4/6 β€” Sat 07 Nov 2025-11-07** πŸŸ¨β¬›πŸŸ¨πŸŸ¨β¬› β¬›β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¨β¬› β¬›β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¨β¬› 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 **STEAK** **COLIN** **UPDRY** **ARISE** ---
**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:** [November 8, 2025, 10:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/5275 "2025-11-08T10:35:14Z")
Wordle 1,603 2/6 🟨⬜🟨⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 SLATE ARISE Have I gloated about Slate being the perfect start? S,l,a,t,e are not only only common letters but are in their commonest positions. (R is common but will take care of itself.) Only 7 words occurred to me for #2 (I wonder how many I missed), but 4 were already used and 1 (Anise) wasn’t a Wardle word. Among the 7, I outnumbered O 4 to 1 so I went with Arise instead of Arose. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2025, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/5276 "2025-11-08T11:27:16Z")
Wordle 1603 4/6 🟨⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟩 ⬜🟨🟨🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 SLANT CHORE PARSE ARISE Was sure I had the 3, but nope. RAISE would have also been possible at that point if it hadn’t already been used. Looks like I didn’t post yesterday: Wordle 1602 4/6 ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨 🟨🟩🟨⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 SLANT CHORE LEPER PERIL ---
**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:** [November 8, 2025, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/5277 "2025-11-08T12:19:41Z")
Wordle 1,603 2/6 β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¨πŸŸ©πŸŸ© 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 PHASE ARISE ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2025, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/5278 "2025-11-08T14:20:05Z")
> **Wordle 1,603 5/6\* 11/8/2025** > > ⬜🟨🟨🟨⬜ > ⬜🟨⬜🟨🟨 > 🟨⬜🟩🟨🟩 > 🟨🟨🟩🟩🟩 > 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 > > P_ERI_L β†’ That’s a nice start. If I use an -ER ending and put the I where the E was, I can try > N_I_T_ER_ β†’ Hmmm. Maybe that should be an -IRE ending, so > _S_H **I** _R_ **E** β†’ All WoFcons accounted for. RSI?E goes nowhere, but if I use A it’ll be > _RA_ **ISE** β†’ or perhaps > **ARISE** > > Scoredle starts guessing the answer after my second guess, which means I took what could have been a birdie and made it into a bogey. Which made me feel really bad, until I saw that from my start, Scoredle gets into a trap and _loses_, choosing a word on its last guess that is bogus simply because it’s similar to another bogus word, and thus ignores the solution. ---
**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:** [November 8, 2025, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/5279 "2025-11-08T14:52:14Z")
Wordle 1,603 4/6 ⬜🟨🟨🟨⬜ ⬜🟩🟨🟨⬜ 🟩🟩⬜⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 HEART BREAK ARGUE ARISE ---
**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:** [November 8, 2025, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/5280 "2025-11-08T15:29:18Z")
Wordle 1,6 **04** 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 🟩⬜🟨⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 πŸ˜‡ no Ai 🦘 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451.md?page=263) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451.md?page=265)